While studyg photography for an MFA at Yale, Tommy Kha began to explore his upbrgg and what was like to grow up gay and Asian Memphis,...
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GROWG UP GAY AND ASIAN MEMPHIS
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While studyg photography for an MFA at Yale, Tommy Kha began to explore his upbrgg and what was like to grow up gay and Asian Memphis, Tennsee, where he often felt like an outsir.
TOM HANKS FANS PROBABLY NEVER KNEW THIS CHARACTER IS GAY
Tom Hanks says he "rightly so" would not be able to play a gay character 'Philalphia' or a disabled character 'Forrt Gump' today. * tom kha gay *
In addn to stgglg to fd his place Memphis as a gay and Asian man, Kha said a lot of his fay didn’t unrstand his pursu of an arts reer. While speakg to The New York Tim about two of his award-wng turns — as a gay lawyer wh AIDS the 1993 legal drama Philalphia and as a man wh disabili the 1994 edy-drama Forrt Gump — Hanks took the posn that, the prent, straight actors shouldn’t be playg gay characters. The actor, who is next slated to appear Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, noted that “the whole pot of Philalphia was don’t be aaid” and that part of how dienc of that time were able to engage wh that movie was bee s leadg character wasn’t played by a gay actor.
“One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man.