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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.
And Joel Grey, who won the same tegory for 1972’s “Cabaret, ” did not e out as gay until 2015.
It's way past time for a gay actor to w an Amy Award! * gay oscar winning movies *
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.
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.
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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. Philip Seymour Hoffman domated the awards season 2005 for his role as openly gay, larger-than-life wrer Tman Capote as he stggl to wre his masterpiece, “In Cold Blood.