Comedian Stephen Fry has backed a gay pride campaign based in Devon with a video message which has now gone viral.
The actor and author recorded a YouTube clip in support for the Totnes campaign Proud2Be LGBT, which has received 60,000 hits in two days.
He candidly tells the world how he really feels about being gay, encouraging anyone unsure of their sexuality to follow their hearts and their "glands"
"It seems funny to me to have to say that I'm proud to be gay but goodness I am...and I won't ever apologise for being born the way I was and feeling the way I do," he adds.
The campaign was launched two years when gay identical twin brothers, Mat and Jon Price sat in front of their web cam and recorded a short video explaining their pride. "In truth we had been ashamed to be gay before that moment," said Mat.
"After years of messages from our school, church, the media and certain members of our family, that being gay was wrong, we had internalised those messages and started to believe them.
"When a friend asked us if we were proud to be gay we both said no. But that was the catalyst for our change in attitude and three years later the Proud2Be Project was born."
