Dafydd has short blonde hair, and often wears tight fitting clothes, usually made of lycra or PVC vinyl. He also wears a few pieces of jewelery.

I was talking to the gay community about what they liked, what they wanted to listen to musically, and what was their dream, their fantasy. One day [producer Jacques Morali and I] were walking in the streets of New York. I remember clearly it was down in the Village, and we saw an Indian walking down the street and heard the bells on his feet. We followed him into a bar. He was a bartender — he was serving and also dancing on the bar. And while we were watching him dancing and sipping our beer, we saw a cowboy watching him dance. Outside of support groups, the most common LGBTQ+ community hubs are bars, though these are becoming increasingly few and far between. What makes this particularly hilarious is that around the same time the Navy was allowing a group representing certain facets of gay culture to sing aboard a Navy frigate about the navy being a place “Where you can find pleasure…”- with original intent to use this music video in Navy recruitment ad campaigns- they were spending millions of dollars attempting to route out any gay people from their ranks… These efforts included a hilariously inept search for a woman named Dorothy, who they were convinced knew every gay person in the military.

The residents of Llandewi Breffi, for the most part are usually shown to be either bisexual or full out gays. As such, although Dafydd claims otherwise, the villagers will always treat him with tolerance and understanding. It is usually Thomas that takes on the aggressive or villainous role. Whilst Dafydds antics will sometimes annoy his fellow villagers, most of the time they will usually ignore them or turn a blind eye to his behaviour. From the start I have been keen that Not A Phase is not just a charity for London people”, says Dani. “We have things that happen here because I am based here, but I have always been adamant about the fact we will go wherever we are needed. I have no qualms in funding Not A Phase workshops anywhere. If someone came to me and said ‘we really loved your safe space workshop in Manchester, but we would really benefit from having them in Bolton.” As our lives continue to rapidly transform, shift to digital spaces, and new ways of living and working, we have the perfect opportunity to evaluate what happiness and prosperity look like for LGBTQ+ people, whether we want it to continue to be determined by where we live, and whether this is antithetical to the goal of queer liberation for all. Especially with my industries being very much based in London, there is no point in moving somewhere else in the UK – if I am going to work it will have to be here. It has changed a little bit with Covid, but not hugely.”

Basically, I wouldn’t make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I’d do now,’ Matt told Big Issue in 2017. ‘Society has moved on a lot since then and my own views have evolved. Others, like Ibby, feel they have less of a choice to return to rural environments if they want to pursue a career. Daffyd comes from a very large family and has made reference to several aunts and uncles. It is never specified how many of these are related to him by blood. Homosexuality seems to run in the Thomas family, with many of his family members confirmed as being gay. This includes: Slovenia; coming out; gay infrastructure; homophobic violence; rural gays and lesbians; rural/urban divide; same-sex partnerships.As a community that resists binaries, we are still internalising and – often unintentionally – perpetuating a harmful dichotomy: be miserable in the countryside, or come to the city and thrive. Both of these are not only gross simplifications of the diverse queer experiences that exist, but also serve to reinforce classist and ableist notions of success. Rural environments are not inherently harmful to LGBTQ+ people in the same way that urban environments are not inherently welcoming by sheer virtue of having a greater population density and number of buildings. Photography by Meg McGrady for their project on queers and rurality, Away With The Fairies He refused to accept that a new arrival to the village was a gay. He presented him with two questions, thinking that only a real gay man would know the answers to them. The man (and the rest of the pub patrons) answered the questions flawlessly. In an ironic twist, Dafydd had got one of the answers wrong. Alice, a disabled illustrator and full-time wheelchair user felt first-hand how London’s inaccessibility impacted their connection with the queer community as their health worsened. We didn’t start as a gay group, and not everyone in the group was gay — that’s an incorrect notion… The Village People was a mixture of ethnicity, races, lifestyles, sexualities, sexual orientations, it was a true village. It was a mixture of everything…