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- 2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
- 20 INIC GAY & LGBT ANIME CHARACTERS: THE ULTIMATE LIST
- ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
- PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * gay characters 2020 *
Knight as an uptight gay dad, but Shane is clearly the fun one. Not only did “The Old Guard” liver a badass Charlize Theron dog her “Mad Max: Fury Road” thg, Ga Prce-Bythewood’s smart sci-fi thriller featured the kd of tenr and mted gay relatnship rarely seen on film — much ls an actn movie. Out and proud om episo one, Eric is so far beyond a hackneyed “gay bt iend” archetype; he driv the narrative wh his own hop, dreams, and romanc.
20 INIC GAY & LGBT ANIME CHARACTERS: THE ULTIMATE LIST
* gay characters 2020 *
“It’s really nice to have a gay character, a black character, be at the foreont of this story on a show like this that has the reach do on Netflix, ” Gatwa told IndieWire earlier this year. "Clive is a gay man who tri to supprs his homosexualy Edwardian-era England. "Roger Ebert wrote: "He plays the role not as a man pretendg to be a woman, and not as a woman trapped a man's body, and not as a parody of a woman, and not as a gay man, but as a drag queen, perd: Lola, a tall, athletic performer thigh-high red boots who l the stage of a drag club as if she were born there, and is a pretty good sger, too.
ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
In Pixar’s new animated movie, Lena Wahe plays Officer Spector, the first openly gay character the stud’s movi. Disney’s history of LGBTQ reprentatn is spotty, and the pany needs to do more. * gay characters 2020 *
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, were both Osr-nomated for their performanc (Ledger lead, Gyllenhaal supportg) this film about two men fallg love and ntug their affair for film sred 87% on Rotten Tomato, wh the se's cril nsens readg: "A betifully epic Wtern, 'Brokeback Mounta''s gay love story is imbued wh heartbreakg universaly, helped by the movg performanc of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Sean Penn played gay activist Harvey Milk 2008's 'Milk. Harvey Milk is one of the most important gay activists history, and straight actor Sean Penn won an Osr for playg him.
Director Joe Mantello, who first revamped the play on Broadway three years ago wh an all-star st of out-gay male actors, brgs that exact same troupe and sensibily to his new film adaptatn. The gayed-up “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf?” surmounts the challeng typilly faced by stage-to-screen adaptatns, specifilly the utter nfement to a sgle space. It’s hard to thk of a better premise for a documentary than a gay porn shop n by a straight Jewish uple, but throw to the mix that their dghter is the filmmaker and you have one of the most surprisg films of the year.
Filmmaker Rachel Mason follows the footsteps of hybrid documentarian Kirsten Johnson, but throws a heapg dose of Borscht belt humor, Jewish tradn, and gay history. Her lovg acunt of her parents Barry and Karen Mason, and how they me to n one of LA’s most popular gay cisg spots, is the perfect blend of personal exvatn and engagg storytellg. He rri his gay soul searchg well, playg an expat returng to his roots Vietnam.
PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
Some viewers may groan that the straight Goldg is playg a gay character, but what’s most quietly revolutnary about “Monsoon” is that mak no show out of gayns at all. The Kelly gang don women’s drs to terrorize Brish lonists, and the film otherwise has an sistent sensualy that’s blatantly homoerotic. David France’s urageo and guttg documentary portra of the Rsian ernment’s stutnal homophobia and enablg of hate crim s terrori ign a necsary look to the global war on gays.
2020 was a bummer of a year, but when to all-ag animatn, was a culmatn of the many small steps buildg up to the current state of queer reprentatn: a glor gay celebratn that was unheard of jt five years ago. I thk that optimism, that expectatn where every time, ’s like, ‘Look, here’s this thg, this character, this relatnship, ’ ’s gay, they’re like ‘Cool, do more now, do better. ) It’s a small moment, but a fundamental one an dtry that until recently only acknowledged gay characters wh the fatt shadg and dg.