The 12 Greatt Female Gay Ins of All Time; Also: Nathan & Matthew back together on Broadway

Contents:

• 10 FEMALE MOVIE AND TV CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOW GAY INS
• THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
• THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

10 FEMALE MOVIE AND TV CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOW GAY INS

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THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’

Judy's vulnerabily ma her a quiverg gay in, as did the fact that for years, she kept on gog, able to belt out one more song spe the rigors of the bs that always tried to squeeze more juice out of her brilliance. Beyonce Gays love a pop diva wh full-throttle sexualy and great mov, and Beyonce remas the queen, cementg that when she played Diana--sorry, Deena-- Dreamgirls.

But I have to give a special shout out to Kylie Mogue, who's more cerebral than sexual, and who is a long-nng gay bar favore, whether vios or the MnelliJudy's dghter has a lot of the same pip, vulnerabily, and love of gays as mama, though she's rved her own niche of "tly terrific, absolutely te" mil them bells for Liza. Gays tton to her ftive spir ("Cabaret"), her undrenchable sense of hope ("Maybe This Time"), her big-town mania ("New York, New York"; "Cy Lights"), and her lash. MadonnaA straight man's fantasy as the Material Girl, she was also a gay man's dream, seeg as she appreciated her rabow-clive fan base, dulged "vogug, " and had some closerthanthis lbian gal pals.

I'm sred a GagaMore than a Madonna mi-me, Gaga has taken advantage of the social workg skills and overall ankns of her generatn to not only sg about gay rights, but to speak about them and really make a difference the procs. Her lbian dghter is now her son, and her fans clu so many LGBTs that, if you're at a Cher ncert and the people to eher si of you are straight, then you're fely DeGener, Rosie O'Donnell, Jodie Foster, Rachel Maddow, Gert SteI recently wrote about how gay men and lbians don't seek each other's opns enough, but when to the above ins, the gay guys notice and bow down. It’s easy to see why so many gay viewers found themselv drawn to strong, funny female characters, who got to live the liv they wanted to live and not suffer as much for .

THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME

Thanks to their fierce humor, great strength, termatn to own their sexualy, and some s, some credibly obv queer dg, the 10 female characters ronated wh LGBTQ viewers and beme gay ins. A sultry vixen tight black leather, Catwoman already has nsirable mpy charms and sexual prows, but add to that the fact that Catwoman was portrayed by gay ins like Julie Newmar and Eartha Kt, and you have an in adored by the entire LGBTQ muny.

Kt even said an terview wh the Wdy Cy Tim that the gay muny saved her reer, statg, “When I was trouble wh the ernment and Lady Bird Johnson, was the gay guys who kept my name alive bee they kept lookg for my rerds and they were imatg me. Many viewers pot to Xena’s relatnship wh her “travelg partner, ” Gabrielle, as beg overtly homoerotic, wh the two nstantly sharg looks and recg l that are totally sexual nuendos. Gay characters were seldom seen on televisn the ’80s, unls was a news program verg the AIDS crisis, so they unrstood the feelg of beg phed asi and heavily related to this group of olr women.

The show was also super queer-iendly throughout s n and even featured numero gay characters, cludg one powerful storyle where Blanche disvers her brother is gay and is gettg married. Wh so many gay men at the time havg mothers who didn’t accept them, watchg Rose, Dorothy, Sophia, and Blanche embrace the muny helped give many of them a sense of maternal love they weren’t feelg at home. ” The 2002 film adaptn really brought out the role’s homoeroticism when Queen Latifah played the role, and a few scen, she even touch some of the mat a way that suggts the favors she exchang might be sexual.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Throughout Chigo‘s long n on Broadway, the role has been played by tons of gay ins, like Bebe Nwirth, Jennifer Holiday, drag queen Jkx Monsoon, and even Wendy Williams. Garten is also nstantly vg all her gay bti over for bnch (they ually arrive wearg Veyard V and holdg a lorful flower arrangement), and the fal scene of each episo ually volv them all spillg the tea while sippg cktails and nibblg on Ina’s simple 12-pan, five-pot, 45-gredient recip. Many gay men had never had a supportive iend like Karen, so her relatnship wh Will and Jack was an important moment turng the cultural ti about how the LGBTQ muny was accepted mastream society.

Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign.

But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg. Ed Bianchi’s 1981 “The Fan, ” meanwhile, livered perhaps the greatt gift to gay film fans of a certa era stg Lren Ball as an agg actrs stgglg to hold onto her legacy while beg stalked by, what else but, a psychotic gay fan.