Stephen Fry has revealed he hated the gay scene when he got to London and felt like “an undesirable person”. The actor and TV star, 62, grew up in Norfolk but arrived in London in the early 80s.
Stephen Fry presenting the 2019 Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, at Dovecot Studio in Edinburgh. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images) Speaking on the Homo Sapiens podcast, Fry said he wasn’t a fan of “dance places” and found it tough walking into nightspots where people looked him up and down and turned away. “I always hated what was called ‘the scene’ when I arrived in London – I arrived in London at a bad time for any gay person to arrive, in 1981, it was exactly the same time as the HIV virus,” he said. “I remember hearing about