It's way past time for a gay actor to w an Amy Award!
Contents:
- IN REBE OF FLORIDA BILL, OSRS HOSTS ARE FEELG ‘GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY’
- OSRS 2022: AMY SCHUMER, REGA HALL AND WANDA SYK SG THE WORD ‘GAY’ DIG AT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
- OSRS 2022 HOSTS AND AWARD WNERS COMMENT ON CONTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
- OSRS HOSTS TAKE ON FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AND GOLN GLOB NTROVERSY
IN REBE OF FLORIDA BILL, OSRS HOSTS ARE FEELG ‘GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY’
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Wanda Syk promised – and therefore me, specifilly – a gay Osrs show. And we certaly got a wele gay-as-n-be moment on the Osrs DeBose pped a stunng awards season by wng the bt supportg actrs award for her role as Ana "Wt Si Story" – beg the first openly queer Ao-Lata to w an actg Osr.
OSRS 2022: AMY SCHUMER, REGA HALL AND WANDA SYK SG THE WORD ‘GAY’ DIG AT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
In their openg speech, Osrs -hosts Amy Schumer, Wanda Syk and Rega Hall slammed Florida legislatn known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill. * gay oscar winners 2022 *
And for you people Florida, we're gog to have a gay night, " Syk, who is a lbian, said at the top of the Osrs show, directly mockg Florida's legislatn. Syk' -hosts Amy Schumer and Rega Hall echoed her, sayg "gay, gay, gay. "While sayg "gay" solidary is certaly wele, wouldn't have been enough to ll this night any kd of gay succs if a queer person didn't w.
OSRS 2022 HOSTS AND AWARD WNERS COMMENT ON CONTROVERSIAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
‘For you people Florida, we’re gog to have a gay night,’ said Syk * gay oscar winners 2022 *
But Ian McKellen is still the only out gay male actor ever nomated for an Hudson was nomated for bt actor 1957, but remaed closeted until he died 1985 of AIDS; two-time Osr wner Kev Spacey announced he was livg as a gay man only after he was acced of sexually harassg a teenage boy; and Jodie Foster is still the only bt actrs wner to e out (and years after her w, at that). I uldn't help but feel the grand, gay gravy of the moment. Gay person to gay person.
Brg on the mic:Beyoncé serv an ace Osrs performance wh assist om Serena and Ven WilliamsIn se you missed:Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill sparked natnal backlash. The former, Ang Lee's adaptatn of the Annie Proulx story about a tortured gay affair between two wboys, earned three Osrs and was favoure for bt picture, before beg ntroversially pipped to the post by Crash.
OSRS HOSTS TAKE ON FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AND GOLN GLOB NTROVERSY
Amy Awards personali ment on Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill: "GAY GAY GAY." * gay oscar winners 2022 *
The latter, a bpic of San Francis's first openly gay mayor Harvey Milk, won Sean Penn bt actor, and the pre-ement gay wrer Dt Lance Black bt adapted screenplay.
Then 2016, Barry Jenks' Moonlight provid another pivotal moment regnn for LGBTQ+ stori, when beme the first movie wh a gay protagonist – whose lifelong stggle wh his sexualy is the central narrative – to w bt picture. Sce Sir Ian McKellen's 2002 nod for wieldg Gandalf's staff The Lord of the Rgs: The Fellowship of the Rg, no openly gay man has been nomated any performance tegory.
The qutn of whether straight actors should be so often tsted wh gay rol, and whether that is to the triment of LGBTQ+ performers, is one that has been creasgly bated recent years, but particularly flar up whenever the Osrs roll around. No openly gay male actor has been nomated for an Osr sce Ian McKellen for playg Gandalf Lord of the Rgs: The Fellowship of the Rg (Cred: Alamy)On the one hand, an argument put forward by the lik of leadg gay screenwrer Rsell T Davi is that LGBTQ+ rol are bt taken by LGBTQ+ performers bee lived experience lends an abundance of thenticy, But a mon unterpot to this view is that 's an actor's job to fill the sho of characters different to themselv – 's lled actg, after all. The problem wh that, crics suggt, is that isn't a two-way street: straight actors will get the awards kudos for gay rol, but gay actors aren't given the opportuny to play straight major – and award-wng – movi.