Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE AND THE ‘SLIPPERY SLOPE’
- SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
- BEWARE OF THE GAY MARRIAGE SLIPPERY SLOPE
GAY MARRIAGE AND THE ‘SLIPPERY SLOPE’
People agast gay marriage sometim e the "slippery slope" argument, that basilly says that if we legalize gay marriage, that will lead to a whole bunch of other thgs such as polygamy, polyandry, polygyny and other "poly" varieti. Moreover, California has e to regnize that lbian and gay upl -- like our clients Del Mart and Phyllis Lyons, who have waed 56 years to marry -- “are entled to the same legal rights and the same rpect and digny” afford everyone else, and that they should not face discrimatn based on their “lovg and endurg” mted relatnship.
Instead, did s job of upholdg the rights of liberty and equaly for all, cludg Ain Amerins then and gay people now. Davidson is the legal director of Lambda Legal, a nonprof legal anizatn dited to protectg the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and those livg wh HIV. “One of the thgs that’s always been said the LGBT muny is, if you jt get to know your gay iend, your gay neighbor, your trans iend, your trans neighbor, whatever, you will beg to humanize them, ” she be harr to talk about and normalize LGBTQ people, she adds, “ jt mak easier for people to thk of queer people as ls existent, I gus, and therefore ls need of fendg.
Republin lawmakers passed the Parental Rights Edutn law, dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibs discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty lower gras, and bans “age appropriate” discsn through high school. Crics have labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” law. “The same is not te for gay marriage or LGBT issu general, ” he wr.
SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
“Amerins now support gay marriage regnn. In early December, Netflix dropped s highly anticipated mil edy “The Prom, ” starrg Meryl Streep, Nile Kidman, Andrew Rannells and Jam Corn as fadg Broadway stars who set out to help a lbian teen take her girliend to the film, helmed by out director Ryan Murphy, got mixed reviews, but some lambasted as “homophobic” and “offensive” bee of the stg of Corn, a straight actor, what they saw as an “aggrsively flamboyant” riture of a gay character, Barry Glickman, is a narcissistic theater actor who dons sparklg tuxedo jackets, talks wh a stereotypil gay lisp while flailg his hands around and scrib himself as “gay as a bucket of wigs. "Melda Sue Gordon / NetflixErik Anrson, who ns the film se Awards Watch, lled “The Prom” a “geo and vibrant productn” but tweeted that Corn’s “performance is gross and offensive, the worst gayface a long, long time.
BEWARE OF THE GAY MARRIAGE SLIPPERY SLOPE
”The ntroversy threw fuel on an already simmerg bate: Should non-LGBTQ actors still be st lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rol? "Rafy PhotographyBefore actor Wilson Cz starred as the openly gay Dr. Hugh Culber on CBS All Accs' “Star Trek: Disvery, ” he ma history playg gay high school stunt Ricky the ‘90s show “My So Called Life.
” It was the first time an openly gay actor played a gay character a leadg role a TV part “helped fluence a whole generatn of people who beme wrers and actors and ntent creators, who wanted to see more people like Ricky, more LGBTQ people of lor, and I thk we're seeg the benef of that today, ” said Cz, who served as executive producer of Apple TV’s "Visible: Out on Televisn, ” a 2020 doceri about the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of Amerin Cz ma his but “My So Called Life, ” televisn has been creasgly hirg LGBTQ actors to play LGBTQ characters.
In 2020 alone, queer actor Kristen Stewart played a lbian Hulu’s Christmas rom- “Happit Season, ” out actors Sarah Plson and Cynthia Nixon played love terts Ryan Murphy’s Netflix seri “Ratched, ” gay actor Dan Levy played a queer character the Emmy-wng Canadian show “Scht’s Creek"and several openly gay actors starred the Netflix adaptn of the Tony Award-wng queer play “The Boys the Band.