Phillip Schofield's statement is 'huge moment' for gay community

Attitudes to gay people have undergone massive change since 1980s when presenter made his TV debutIn 1985, the year Phillip Schofield made his debut on British children’s TV, the Sun reported that a Liverpool publican had banned gay people from his establishment. “A lot of ordinary people are going to catch something from the glasses,” he told the paper, according to a contemporaneous report in the Gay Times. “We don’t want gays on the premises.”Two years late