Olly Alexander: Schools should teach more queer history Olly Alexander (Ian West/PA) Olly Alexander has said it would “make everybody’s lives better” if queer history was taught more extensively in schools. The musician and actor starred in Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin earlier this year, which tells the story of a group of young friends living through the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s. Alexander, 30, told Cosmopolitan UK he had “seen a lot of different responses” to the hit show. Olly Alexander starred in Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin (Ian West/PA) He added there were “quite a few younger people that had no idea… that this happened to a community not that long ago”.