Today's Newsround goss page includes this story:

Celeb Big Brother was kicking off a new series on Wednesday. The final line-up is being kept a secret but the contestants are rumoured to include Ian 'H' Watkins, who used to be in a pop band called Steps.

But there's a big story in the newspapers about Ian 'H' Watkins - he has come out publicly as gay. He told The Sun: I come from a small valley in Wales and it just wasn’t the thing to do to be gay. It’s a bit of a cliche - but I was the only gay in the village.

I've always felt a bit different, even as a very small child. At school people would tease me and call me names — 'queer' and that — and I started to question whether that was right. I can’t really pinpoint when exactly I knew I was gay.

Ideally a person coming out should never be a news story. But attitudes need to change so that lgbt people are accepted as part of the human race. Unfortunately Newsround's de facto discrimination policy has done nothing to help.