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Contents:

• IS BLAKE RSON’S OSR VAN RHIJN GAY THE GILD AGE?
• WAS OSR WIL GAY?
• IS GOTHAM KNIGHT STAR OSR MAN GAY? BOYIEND RUMORS SURROUND HIM AS HE KISSED MISIA BUTLER
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• AN O TO OSR, THE REHGLY BORG GAY VILLA OF THE GILD AGE
• OSRS HOSTS TAKE ON FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AND GOLN GLOB NTROVERSY

IS BLAKE RSON’S OSR VAN RHIJN GAY THE GILD AGE?

The Gild Age is tellg a different story about a closeted gay man than Downton Abbey but Osr van Rhijn has a better life than Thomas Barrow. Barrow was a footman who was wily disliked by Downton's other servants for beg llo and cel, but he was also hidg the secret that he was gay.

WAS OSR WIL GAY?

Barrow was eply unhappy and hated his life as a closeted homosexual, pecially when his few attempts to nnect wh other men were met wh risn and revulsn. In Ellis, Barrow ma a te iend who was also gay, and he realized that he didn't have to be alone and unhappy any longer.

IS GOTHAM KNIGHT STAR OSR MAN GAY? BOYIEND RUMORS SURROUND HIM AS HE KISSED MISIA BUTLER

The Gild Age's premiere episo, "Never The New, " revealed that Osr van Rhijn is gay, which no one but his lover, John Adams (Claybourne Elr), is aware of. Th, Osr has dited himself to accumulatg money by fdg an heirs to marry while matag his private life as a gay man.

There's no possibily Osr n live openly as a gay man The Gild Age's 1882 New York, pecially not nsirg who his mother is, yet Osr seems to be makg the bt of his lot even if he's not pecially happy about .

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

But stead of repeatg Barrow's Downton Abbey story The Gild Age, Julian Fellow, who created both seri, is wisely explorg a different kd of life for a closeted gay man 1882 New York Cy. It’s te: Levant’s paful, eply homoerotic iendship wh the “Rhapsody Blue” poser seems to have equally spired and tortured him.

“This is the first of my plays where there isn’t an explicly gay character, ” Wright explas. “But bee I’m gay, the director of the play [Lisa Peterson] is a lbian, and Sean Hay is an out-gay actor, was impossible not to nsir Osr om that perspective. “I do thk his relatnship wh Gershw was somewhat homoerotic.

If you are wonrg whether Osr is gay ‘The Gild Age, ’ we got you vered.

AN O TO OSR, THE REHGLY BORG GAY VILLA OF THE GILD AGE

A pre-Stonewall gay bar at the rner of Christopher Street and Gay Street was lled The Flower Pot. Notably, a group of seven gay male wrers who met up regularly New York Cy 1980 and 1981 named themselv “The Vlet Quill.

As Looby not Flowers of Manhood, “daisy, ” “buttercup, ” and pecially “pansy, ” as well as the generalized “horticultural lad” were early twentieth century terms for “flamboyant gay men. The police eventually shut them all down, cludg a 1939 one Harlem that end a 70-year annual tradn (for more, see Gaylaw: Challengg the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. “Chncey pots out that while the pansy craze often drew on or reproduced the most meang stereotyp of male homosexuals, did, at tim, provi a space for some gay performers to speak about, to rist, and even to unter heterosexist prumptns about fairi and other queers, ” the film scholar Mark Lynn Anrson wr his 2011 book Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Scienc 1920s Ameri.

” This phrase, “the love that dare not speak s name, ” was later brought to promence as reference to homosexualy Wil’s gross cency trial 1895. The Lavenr Sre was a 1950s wch hunt for homosexual feral employe, much like the Red Sre was one for munists, as tailed “The Lavenr Sre and Empire: Rethkg Cold War Antigay Polics” by the historian Naoko Shibawa.

OSRS HOSTS TAKE ON FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AND GOLN GLOB NTROVERSY

“Was Osr Wil gay? Was Wil homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, or what? In other words, he had jt about everythg a homosexual man uld possibly want.

The vast majory says that Wil was homosexual, and that he was merely reprsg his feelgs toward men for the sake of marryg Constance and makg an attempt at a “normal” fay for that era time. A few rearchers claim he was bisexual, but wh strong homosexual leangs (about a 5. Benedict Cumberbatch is a Bt Actor nomee this year for his fe turn as Alan Turg, the brilliant gay cryptologist who broke the Nazis' Enigma , helped the Alli to w World War II, and vented what we now ll the puter, The Imatn jos a long le of actors who've been Osr-nomated for playg LGBT characters, cludg Peter Fch, who was the first to be nomated, for his role as a gay doctor the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday, and William Hurt, who was the first to w, for his performance as an rcerated gay man 1985's Kiss of the Spir the 44 years sce Fch's tone nomatn, 37 actors have been nomated for LGBT rol and 11 of them have won.

Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters (1998)Before the brilliant Br beme a hoehold name as Mago and Gandalf, McKellen starred as Jam Whale, the gay film director behd Frankenste, whose last days ( this fictnal tellg) were nsumed by an obssn wh his hunky garner (Brendan Fraser). Robert Prton Victor/Victoria (1982)The Mic Man himself earned his only Osr nomatn as a flamboyantly gay nightclub entertaer 1930s Paris who transforms Julie Andrews's starvg songstrs to a drag queen superstar.