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She has lost the sisters’ ancestral home to overdue mortgage payments and death duties, she has slid into alcoholism in reaction to her gay husband’s suicide and she has been fired from her teaching job.

And Polyneices being gay and Eteocles being something of a philander would be of more interest in an “Oedipus” limited series.

I’m gay as a valentine and I’d still kiss that man, with tongue, right this very second.

“My uncle struggled with, I think, feeling what he thought was normality as a gay person,” says Sykes.

“I was attached to play Cherry. Everyone had experience with the core material. Most of us were actually gay. It’s part of why I stayed in acting.”