Walking onto the grounds of the all-boys Bolton School on his first day of school in September 2007, Hadley Stewart knew things would be different for him. Quietly coming to terms with his sexuality at the time, he had gone from being surrounded by friends to standing out amongst the crowd for his ‘effeminate’ nature.
Hadley, now a freelance journalist and broadcaster, said he was bullied relentlessly for being gay - even before he had pieced together the fact for himself.
“It was name-calling and people using ‘gay’ as a slur,” Hadley, 26, told the M.E.N.
