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Contents:
- IS TOM HARDY GAY?
- GAY UK MAGAZE PUT STRAIGHT, WHE BEN HARDY ON COVER OF ISSUE ON RACE AND MEDIA
- HOW GAY WERE THE HARDY BOYS?
- GAY HARDY (SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA)
- TIFF: ‘LEGEND’ STAR TOM HARDY FIR BACK AFTER REPORTER’S GAY QUERY
- GAY HARDY FOUND 19 PEOPLE ALABAMA, FLORIDA AND 12 OTHER STAT
IS TOM HARDY GAY?
Tom Hardy is known for many thgs: His lead rol Inceptn and Mad Max: Fury Road; his embrace of femism; his tense love for dogs; his shape-shiftg beard; his pillowy lips. But among his (many) gay fans, the 37-year-old Brish actor is perhaps bt known for somethg very different: Admtg, and later nyg he admted, that he ed to have sex wh men. * gay hardy *
On Sunday, at a prs nference at the Toronto Internatnal Film Ftival for Hardy’s new movie Legend, which Hardy plays a gay man, reporter Graeme Coleman om the LGBT news outlet Daily Xtra asked Hardy: “Do you fd hard for celebri to talk to media about their sexualy? There is nothg embarrassg about beg gay. Askg someone if he or she is gay is the equivalent of askg if they are married, if they were raised Christian, of if they have a bachelor’s gree.
Jt bee beg gay affects who a person has sex wh, this is not a qutn about his or her sex life. The reason why some people don’t want to ask—both at prs nferenc and at cktail parti—is bee there is still that ltle lgerg doubt the back of their mds that there is somethg wrong wh homosexualy.
GAY UK MAGAZE PUT STRAIGHT, WHE BEN HARDY ON COVER OF ISSUE ON RACE AND MEDIA
Tom Hardy has never officially e out as gay or spoken openly about his sexualy. He is currently married to Charlotte Riley, wh whom he has two betiful children. * gay hardy *
If you ask someone whether he or she is gay, and he or she is not, they should not feel badly about themselv or about you. Gay people are, most s, happy to tell you that they are gay.
Straight people hardly ever get asked whether they’re straight or gay and might be taken aback by the qutn, but they seem to never have a problem settg the rerd straight. In 2008, while Hardy was promotg another movie which he played a gay man, Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu quoted him sayg “I’ve played wh everythg and everyone. Ronnie is known to have been gay, and recent reports claim that both brothers were bisexual.
HOW GAY WERE THE HARDY BOYS?
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Those who are celebratg Hardy’s rponse seem to thk that keepg people om askg about sexual orientatn is helpg end homophobia.
GAY HARDY (SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA)
He may be engaged to a woman now, but "Inceptn" heartthrob Tom Hardy says he had a number of gay flgs the past. * gay hardy *
It further nvc people that beg gay (or even askg if someone is gay) is somethg shameful that needs to be hidn.
It jt shows how obssed we are, as a culture, wh gay people and gay sex. But among his (many) gay fans, the 37-year-old Brish actor is perhaps bt known for somethg very different: Admtg, and later nyg he admted, that he ed to have sex wh 2008—ancient Hollywood history—Hardy posed for the December ver of the gay Brish magaze Attu as part of a publicy tour for the “crime edy” RocknRolla, which Hardy played a closeted London gangster named Handsome Bob.
TIFF: ‘LEGEND’ STAR TOM HARDY FIR BACK AFTER REPORTER’S GAY QUERY
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Now, ’s not unmon for ostensibly straight men to pose for gay publitns Bra; Daniel Radcliffe, for example, has graced the ver of Attu at least twice. But an acpanyg terview wh Attu’s Simon Gage, Hardy let on that he wasn’t always one thoand percent ’s the relevant part:It’s such a tradn of London gangsters, the gay thg, what wh the Krays...
I love the form and the physily but the gay sex b do nothg for me.
But there’s plenty of stuff a relatnship wh another man, pecially gay men, that I need my life.
GAY HARDY FOUND 19 PEOPLE ALABAMA, FLORIDA AND 12 OTHER STAT
A lot of gay men get my thg for sho. I have fe feme quali and a lot of gay men are credibly ’s enough text and subtext here to fill several doctoral dissertatns queer theory.
Ined, Hardy is prentg a fairly nuanced view of how sexual behavr transforms wh particular social settgs, and how sire self n be tricky to make sense of: “I love the form and the physily but the gay sex b do nothg for me. While mastream entertament outlets treated the terview as breakg news, gay blogs happily highlighted the ndor of the actor’s did Hardy actually say he had sex wh men?