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Celebrating 25 years of broadcasting, Graham Norton is Attitude magazine’s Person of the Year 2024.
One of the undisputed kings of television and radio in the UK, Norton leads Attitude’s annual list of LGBTQ+ trailblazers that represents just some of the many game-changers from diverse business and creative fields. The Attitude 101, brought to you in partnership with our friends at Bentley, celebrates the people that are redefining their industries, pushing boundaries outward and raising the bar upward.
Following notable past Attitude Persons of the Year like Pete Buttigieg, Lil Nas X and Alice Oseman, Norton is utterly deserving of the accolade. Charming, kind, humble and easygoing in real life, the on-screen jovial nature of the man was equally abundant off-screen during his Attitude magazine cover shoot. There are no pretentious airs and graces with our Graham — during a shoot break, he joins the crew for lunch, and then throws himself back into the photography with the gusto of a man who’s just been cast in his first big screen role. It’s a masterclass in professionalism and what it means to be a decent human being.
Across his 25 years in broadcasting, Norton has been a radiant example of out-and-proud queer excellence in a radically changing world. When he first appeared on British television screens in 1996 in three episodes of Father Ted, the UK was a starkly different place. The age of consent was unequal — 16 for opposite-sex fornication, but 18 for same-sex bonking — and gays were still banned in the military. Those discriminatory laws would finally come to an end in 2001 and 2000, respectively. Yet, here on television was a man being his utmost authentic, unapologetic self. As role models go, he wasn’t the on
