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- 12 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE THAT HAVE WON AN OSR
- IS SAM SMH REALLY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER?THE SPECTRE SONGWRER WON FOR ORIGAL SONG.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 28, 2016FROM GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN SAM SMH TOOK THE STAGE ON SUNDAY NIGHT TO ACCEPT HIS OSR FOR BT ORIGAL SONG, FOR THE SPECTRE THEME HE -WROTE WH JAM NAPIER, HE RRECTLY PARAPHRASED A STATEMENT IAN MCKELLEN MA ABOUT THE LACK OF OPENLY GAY OSR WNERS. DURG HIS SPEECH, SMH SAID THAT HE HEARD MCKELLEN MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE AMY AWARDS NEVER BEFORE REGNIZG AN OPENLY GAY MAN, NFSG THAT HE WAS NOT SURE WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS TE. EHER WAY, SMH NTUED, “I STAND HERE TONIGHT AS A PROUD GAY MAN AND I HOPE WE N ALL STAND TOGETHER AS EQUALS ONE DAY.”WH SENDS, THE TWTER-SPHERE EPTED, WONRG WHETHER OR NOT AN OPENLY GAY MAN HAD WON THE AWARD. THE ANSWER TO THAT IS Y, AN EXAMPLE BEG DT LANCE BLACK, WHO WON THE 2009 ORIGAL-SCREENPLAY AWARD FOR MILK. BUT SMH ALSO MISHEARD MCKELLEN’S QUOTE.LAST MONTH, THE ACTOR TOLD THE GUARDIAN THAT HE SYMPATHIZED WH BLACK ACTORS BEE, “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.” REFERRG TO THE ACTG TEGORI, MCKELLEN POTED OUT THAT STRAIGHT ACTORS HAVE WON THE AWARD FOR PLAYG GAY—LIKE TOM HANKS, JARED LETO, SEAN PENN, AND PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. “HOW CLEVER, HOW CLEVER,” MCKELLEN SAID. “WHAT ABOUT GIVG ME ONE FOR PLAYG A STRAIGHT MAN?”MCKELLEN, WHO HAS BEEN NOMATED TWICE—FOR GODS AND MONSTERS AND THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RGREVEALED THE SAME TERVIEW THAT HE PLANNED ON ADDRSG THAT FACT IF HE HAD WON.“MY SPEECH HAS BEEN TWO JACKETS. . .‘I’M PROUD TO BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W THE OSR.’ I’VE HAD TO PUT BACK MY POCKET TWICE.”WHILE SMH’S STATEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN SCERE, WAS NOT ENTIRELY TTHFUL. THREE OPENLY-GAY SGER/SONGWRERS WON SMH’S TEGORY CLUDG MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ELTON JOHN, AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM. AS FOR THE ACTG TEGORI, SEVERAL GAY WNERS HAVE WON, BUT BEFORE G OUT CLUDG JOEL GREY AND JODIE FOSTER.OSRS 2016 BT-DRSED CELEBRI1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM GETTY IMAG.CATE BLANCHETT ARMANI. SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THIS DRS AND NOT GASP AND THEN REMA SPEECHLS FOR AT LEAST 10 SENDS.MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULIE MILLER
- SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER
- OSRS: SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W
- PNEERG GAY OSR WNER OFFERS SAM SMH A HISTORY LSON (GUT COLUMN)
- SAM SMH FENDS HIMSELF AFTER ‘FIRST GAY OSR WNER’ MISTAKE
12 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE THAT HAVE WON AN OSR
Sam Smh has ed ntroversy durg his Osrs victory speech by claimg he was the first openly gay man to get a nod. * first gay person to win an oscar *
In the end, the famo gay in and Tim Rice won for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight? Smh, who intifi as gay and non-bary, wrote a song lled "Wrg's on the Wall" for the 2015 Jam Bond movie, "Spectre, " wh fellow songwrer Jimmy Nap.
IS SAM SMH REALLY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER?THE SPECTRE SONGWRER WON FOR ORIGAL SONG.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 28, 2016FROM GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN SAM SMH TOOK THE STAGE ON SUNDAY NIGHT TO ACCEPT HIS OSR FOR BT ORIGAL SONG, FOR THE SPECTRE THEME HE -WROTE WH JAM NAPIER, HE RRECTLY PARAPHRASED A STATEMENT IAN MCKELLEN MA ABOUT THE LACK OF OPENLY GAY OSR WNERS. DURG HIS SPEECH, SMH SAID THAT HE HEARD MCKELLEN MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE AMY AWARDS NEVER BEFORE REGNIZG AN OPENLY GAY MAN, NFSG THAT HE WAS NOT SURE WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS TE. EHER WAY, SMH NTUED, “I STAND HERE TONIGHT AS A PROUD GAY MAN AND I HOPE WE N ALL STAND TOGETHER AS EQUALS ONE DAY.”WH SENDS, THE TWTER-SPHERE EPTED, WONRG WHETHER OR NOT AN OPENLY GAY MAN HAD WON THE AWARD. THE ANSWER TO THAT IS Y, AN EXAMPLE BEG DT LANCE BLACK, WHO WON THE 2009 ORIGAL-SCREENPLAY AWARD FOR MILK. BUT SMH ALSO MISHEARD MCKELLEN’S QUOTE.LAST MONTH, THE ACTOR TOLD THE GUARDIAN THAT HE SYMPATHIZED WH BLACK ACTORS BEE, “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.” REFERRG TO THE ACTG TEGORI, MCKELLEN POTED OUT THAT STRAIGHT ACTORS HAVE WON THE AWARD FOR PLAYG GAY—LIKE TOM HANKS, JARED LETO, SEAN PENN, AND PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. “HOW CLEVER, HOW CLEVER,” MCKELLEN SAID. “WHAT ABOUT GIVG ME ONE FOR PLAYG A STRAIGHT MAN?”MCKELLEN, WHO HAS BEEN NOMATED TWICE—FOR GODS AND MONSTERS AND THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RGREVEALED THE SAME TERVIEW THAT HE PLANNED ON ADDRSG THAT FACT IF HE HAD WON.“MY SPEECH HAS BEEN TWO JACKETS. . .‘I’M PROUD TO BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W THE OSR.’ I’VE HAD TO PUT BACK MY POCKET TWICE.”WHILE SMH’S STATEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN SCERE, WAS NOT ENTIRELY TTHFUL. THREE OPENLY-GAY SGER/SONGWRERS WON SMH’S TEGORY CLUDG MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ELTON JOHN, AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM. AS FOR THE ACTG TEGORI, SEVERAL GAY WNERS HAVE WON, BUT BEFORE G OUT CLUDG JOEL GREY AND JODIE FOSTER.OSRS 2016 BT-DRSED CELEBRI1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM GETTY IMAG.CATE BLANCHETT ARMANI. SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THIS DRS AND NOT GASP AND THEN REMA SPEECHLS FOR AT LEAST 10 SENDS.MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULIE MILLER
The film's historic w at the 89th annual Amy Awards giv hope to the black and gay muni. * first gay person to win an oscar *
"I stand here as a proud, gay man and I hope one day we n all stand as equals, " Smh said their speech. While acceptg the Amy Award, Smh wrongly said they were the first gay person to w an Osr, which was met wh backlash on social media. Ball, an openly gay man, wrote "Amerin Bety, " which follows a suburban father who be terted his dghter's bt iend.
SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER
Sam Smh recieved backlash after suggtg he was the first openly gay man to recieve an Osr after wng bt al song for “Wrg’s on the Wall.” * first gay person to win an oscar *
Black wrote the 2008 movie "Milk, " which starred Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, a lol polician San Francis who fought for gay rights before beg assassated.
"To all the gay and lbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are ls than by their church or by ernment or by their fai, you are betiful, wonrful creatur, " he add. The openly gay filmmaker won another Amy Award 2003 for bt origal screenplay for his film "Talk to Her.
In 1985, Epste won the Amy Award for directg "The Tim of Harvey Milk, " a documentary that follows the gay polician's life before his assassatn.
OSRS: SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W
* first gay person to win an oscar *
Sam Smh has ed ntroversy durg his Osrs victory speech by claimg he was the first openly gay man to get a nod. The movie told the story of Harvey Milk, a gay in who served openly polics and was eventually assassated.
PNEERG GAY OSR WNER OFFERS SAM SMH A HISTORY LSON (GUT COLUMN)
Pickg up the bt director Osr 1964 for ‘My Fair Lady’, featurg Audrey Hepburn, he was openly gay. In a bgraphy of his life, he was scribed as headg a gay subculture Hollywood durg the 1930s. “But if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man.
“It was never easy beg a homosexual”, he said an terview 1998. Crilly-acclaimed movi like "Milk, " "Brokeback Mounta, " "Boys Don't Cry, " and "Philalphia" all told stori of LGBTQ characters — some real, some fictnal — who fought agast or suffered om of the LGBTQ nome ever snagged the Bt Picture award, though three of the four mentned above rulted actg awards for straight actors who took on gay or transgenr rol.
SAM SMH FENDS HIMSELF AFTER ‘FIRST GAY OSR WNER’ MISTAKE
Olson said she was "sadned" to see Cate Blanchett lose the Bt Actrs award, notg that was rare to see a leadg Hollywood actrs portray a lbian character who don't die at the end of the only do "Moonlight" end on an upliftg note, the film breaks barriers by prentg the largely tobgraphil story of a livg, black, gay man told his own words. Tarell Alv McCraney, whose script "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" was the basis for the film, also took an Amy Award for Bt Adapted Screenplay on Alv McCraney (right) livers a speech on stage next to Barry Jenks after they won the Bt Adapted Screenplay Osr for "Moonlight" at the 89th annual Amy Awards on Febary 26, 2017Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagIn October, McCraney told NBC Out "Moonlight" isn't jt a "gay film" or a "black film, " that would be "disgenuo" to lim the story to jt one tegory. "It is a queer story, is a gay story, is a poverty story — you know what I mean?
"For so long people thought bee the story is black or gay then that means 's not mastream, " Onuorah said. Sunday night's diverse crop of wners — along wh the Amy's recent vatn to hundreds of women and people of lor to jo s homogeno ranks last year — uld potentially help overe that reputatn.
Mahershala Ali livers a speech on stage after wng the Osr bt supportg actor "Moonlight" at the 89th Adamy Awards on Febary 26, 2017 Los Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagFor Bahamian-born filmmaker Sekiya Dorsett, 's important to intify "Moonlight" as the barrier-burstg black, gay film that is, bee that means the stori of queer people of lor have a reach like never before.