It's way past time for a gay actor to w an Amy Award!
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IN REBE OF FLORIDA BILL, OSRS HOSTS ARE FEELG ‘GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY’
In honor of LGBT Pri Month, we have piled a viewg list of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr themed movi that won Osrs. * gay oscar winning movies *
Perhaps surprisgly, only ne performers have won actg Osrs for playg gay rol, begng wh William Hurt‘s Bt Actor w for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spir Woman.
No gay performer has won an actg Osr while out of the closet.
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And Joel Grey, who won the same tegory for 1972’s “Cabaret, ” did not e out as gay until 2015. Followg that Osr ceremony, many crics and fans acced amy voters of homophobia, and would be another 11 years before a film featurg a lead LGBT character would be named Bt Picture.
Sam Smh remarked that he might be the first openly gay man to ever w an Osr while acceptg the award for Bt Origal Song * gay oscar winning movies *
Hollywood has been slow to embrace the stori of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, but over the years a number of LGBT-themed films have neverthels won the dtry’s hight honor: Osr. William Hurt beme the first actor to w an Osr for playg a gay role, wng for playg an imprisoned wdow drser 1985’s “Kiss of the Spir Woman.
The film's historic w at the 89th annual Amy Awards giv hope to the black and gay muni. * gay oscar winning movies *
Barry Jenks’s hntg film about a young boy stgglg to accept his sexualy sred a stunng upset for Bt Picture, beg the first wner this tegory to have a gay character as s protagonist. Benedict Cumberbatch stars this historil drama as Alan Turg, the Brish cryptanalyst who was nvicted of cency bee of his homosexualy. Mike Mills’s semi-tobgraphil film stars Ewan McGregor as a man whose elrly father (Christopher Plummer) out as gay his 70s.
Sean Penn plays the tle role G Van Sant’s bgraphil film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California.