It's way past time for a gay actor to w an Amy Award!
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- 12 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE THAT HAVE WON AN OSR
- A GROUNDBREAKG QUEER OSR WNER AND ITS VERY, VERY COMPLITED LEGACYIN 1986 WILLIAM HURT BEME THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER. DID HE START ONE OF THE OSRS’ WORST TRENDS? BY KATEY RICHJUNE 8, 2023FROM ISLAND ALIVE PICTUR / EVERETT COLLECTNSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S HARD TO TELL IF WILLIAM HURT FELT THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY WHEN HE TOOK THE OSR STAGE. AT THE BEGNG OF A STRG OF HS THAT WOULD MAKE HIM ONE OF THE FIVE STARS OF THE ’80S, HE WON THE BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, AN UNLIKELY DIE H. IT MA HIM THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER, TABLISHG A TEMPLATE THAT HAS NOW BEE SOMETHG OF A CLICHé: STRAIGHT ACTOR PLAYS GAY, WS OSR. A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWBUT 1986—THE SAME YEAR THAT RONALD REAGAN DARED TO SAY AIDS FOR THE FIRST TIME—KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN WAS A UNIQUE PHENOMENON, AND HURT’S PERFORMANCE A E FOR GENUE CELEBRATN. “A [GAY] AND A MIE A JAIL CELL, WHAT A MARKETG NIGHTMARE” IS HOW PRODUCER DAVID WEISMAN FACETLY SCRIBED THE FILM’S PREMISE, ADAPTED OM ARGENTEAN THOR MANUEL PUIG’S NOVEL BY UP-AND-G BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR HéCTOR BABEN. WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE 2010, AHEAD OF THE FILM’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL, THAT “ WAS A PROJECT SIGNED TO EVERYONE’S REER.” WEISMAN AND BABEN SPENT YEARS GETTG THE FILM OFF THE GROUND, CLUDG A LONG PERD OF VELOPMENT WH ’50S AND ’60S IN BURT LANSTER. EVENTUALLY THEY WENT TO PRODUCTN WH HURT AS MOLA, A GAY MAN IMPRISONED ALONGSI LEFTIST REVOLUTNARY VALENTíN, PLAYED BY RL JULIA. THE FILM IS LARGELY A SERI OF NVERSATNS BETWEEN THE TWO, TERSPERSED WH CLIPS OM A FICTNAL NAZI PROPAGANDA MOVIE, WHICH MOLA RETELLS TO VALENTíN AS A WAY TO PASS THE TIME AND PE SOMEWHERE ELSE. AS JA MASL WROTE HER RAVE REVIEW, “WHAT STARTS OUT AS A MPY, FACET TALOGUE OF HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA BE AN EXTRAORDARILY MOVG FILM ABOUT MANHOOD, HEROISM AND LOVE.”THE DIE FILM WORLD WAS A PERD OF TRANSFORMATN THE MID-1980S, WH THE EXPLODG HOME VIO MARKET SPURRG MAND FOR ALMOST ANYTHG THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SO UPSTART DISTRIBUTOR ISLAND ALIVE PICKED UP SPIR WOMAN AT CANN, WHERE HURT WON THE BT-ACTOR AWARD, AND RELEASED FOR AN EXCEPTNAL BOX OFFICE N THE SUMMER OF 1985, EVENTUALLY GROSSG $17 LN. (FOR NTEXT, THAT’S HOW MUCH THE WHALE AND THE FABELMANS HAVE MA DOMTILLY, WHOUT ADJTG FOR FLATN.) YEARS BEFORE MIRAMAX WOULD PERMANENTLY OPEN THE DOOR FOR DIE FILMS AT THE OSRS, SPIR WOMAN WAS THE UPSTART THE 1986 RACE, NOMATED FOR BT PICTURE ALONGSI MASSIVE STUD EFFORTS LIKE OUT OF AI AND THE COLOR PURPLE. HURT’S SPEECH, WHICH REX REED SNIPED WAS “MERCIFULLY” SHORTER THAN SOME OF THE MORE LONG-WD TERVIEWS HE’D GIVEN THAT SEASON, BEGAN WH A SIMPLE SENTENCE: “I SHARE THIS WH RL.” JULIA, WHO, LIKE HURT, HAD GOTTEN HIS START NEW YORK THEATER, SHARED A BT-ACTOR AWARD WH HIS STAR OM THE NATNAL BOARD OF REVIEW AND A GOLN GLOBE NOMATN, BUT WAS LEFT OUT AT THE OSRS. BUT HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE THE BIGGT REVELATN TO A MORN DIENCE. SIMMERG WH RAGE AND TRATN AS VALENTíN WATCH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS LEFTIST MOVEMENT BROUGHT TO THE PRISON, JULIA REFULLY TRACKS VALENTíN’S GRADUAL SOFTENG, NOT JT WILLG TO PE TO MOLA’S STORYTELLG BUT FD FORT—AND MAYBE A SPARK OF ROMANCE— HIS CELLMATE’S PRENCE. AND FOR MORN VIEWERS BRACG FOR IMPACT WATCHG HURT—WHOSE REPUTATN FOR TENSY AND DAMAGG BEHAVR ONLY GREW MORE PRONOUNCED AFTER THIS—HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE A SURPRISE AS WELL. MOLA IS A FLAMBOYANT CHARACTER, SPIRED BY THE ’40S SCREEN SIRENS WHOSE PHOTOS ARE PASTED ON HIS WALL, A MAN WHO SOMEHOW HAS A LLECTN OF SILK ROB SI A PRISON. YOU MIGHT FD, AS SOME OF THE HOSTS ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN DID, THAT HURT ERRS ON THE SI OF UNRPLAYG MOLA. BUT THERE’S A REASON THAT HIS PERFORMANCE SO PTIVATED DIENC AND OSR VOTERS; MOV PAST MOLA’S THEATRILY TO FD A MAN LOOKG FOR LOVE AND PURPOSE, AND RIGHT ON THE BRK OF FDG . IN AN ERA WH SO, SO LTLE QUEER REPRENTATN EVEN DIE FILMS, MOLA RONATED. AS WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE OF HURT’S PERFORMANCE, “IF HE AND THE FILM HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PULL OFF TO GAY DIENC, THEN WOULD HAVE CERTALY DIED.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST, CHRIS MURPHY JOS TO DISCS KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, WHICH MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT FILM TO SHOW A GROUP A FIRE ISLAND RENTAL HOE—WHICH IS WHAT CHRIS ACTUALLY DID!—BUT HAS SURPRIS STORE NEARLY 40 YEARS SCE S RELEASE. THE SUPERSIZE EPISO ALSO CLUS A NVERSATN WH CHRIS, RICHARD LAWSON, AND GUTS ESTHER ZUCKERMAN AND JACKSON MCHENRY TAKG A LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S TONY NOMATNS, AND MAKG THEIR PREDICTNS ABOUT WHO WILL PREVAIL AT SUNDAY’S AWARDS. LISTEN TO VANY FAIR’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST NOW.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)KATEY RICH
- SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY
- IS SAM SMH REALLY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER?THE SPECTRE SONGWRER WON FOR ORIGAL SONG.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 28, 2016FROM GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN SAM SMH TOOK THE STAGE ON SUNDAY NIGHT TO ACCEPT HIS OSR FOR BT ORIGAL SONG, FOR THE SPECTRE THEME HE -WROTE WH JAM NAPIER, HE RRECTLY PARAPHRASED A STATEMENT IAN MCKELLEN MA ABOUT THE LACK OF OPENLY GAY OSR WNERS. DURG HIS SPEECH, SMH SAID THAT HE HEARD MCKELLEN MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE AMY AWARDS NEVER BEFORE REGNIZG AN OPENLY GAY MAN, NFSG THAT HE WAS NOT SURE WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS TE. EHER WAY, SMH NTUED, “I STAND HERE TONIGHT AS A PROUD GAY MAN AND I HOPE WE N ALL STAND TOGETHER AS EQUALS ONE DAY.”WH SENDS, THE TWTER-SPHERE EPTED, WONRG WHETHER OR NOT AN OPENLY GAY MAN HAD WON THE AWARD. THE ANSWER TO THAT IS Y, AN EXAMPLE BEG DT LANCE BLACK, WHO WON THE 2009 ORIGAL-SCREENPLAY AWARD FOR MILK. BUT SMH ALSO MISHEARD MCKELLEN’S QUOTE.LAST MONTH, THE ACTOR TOLD THE GUARDIAN THAT HE SYMPATHIZED WH BLACK ACTORS BEE, “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.” REFERRG TO THE ACTG TEGORI, MCKELLEN POTED OUT THAT STRAIGHT ACTORS HAVE WON THE AWARD FOR PLAYG GAY—LIKE TOM HANKS, JARED LETO, SEAN PENN, AND PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. “HOW CLEVER, HOW CLEVER,” MCKELLEN SAID. “WHAT ABOUT GIVG ME ONE FOR PLAYG A STRAIGHT MAN?”MCKELLEN, WHO HAS BEEN NOMATED TWICE—FOR GODS AND MONSTERS AND THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RGREVEALED THE SAME TERVIEW THAT HE PLANNED ON ADDRSG THAT FACT IF HE HAD WON.“MY SPEECH HAS BEEN TWO JACKETS. . .‘I’M PROUD TO BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W THE OSR.’ I’VE HAD TO PUT BACK MY POCKET TWICE.”WHILE SMH’S STATEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN SCERE, WAS NOT ENTIRELY TTHFUL. THREE OPENLY-GAY SGER/SONGWRERS WON SMH’S TEGORY CLUDG MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ELTON JOHN, AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM. AS FOR THE ACTG TEGORI, SEVERAL GAY WNERS HAVE WON, BUT BEFORE G OUT CLUDG JOEL GREY AND JODIE FOSTER.OSRS 2016 BT-DRSED CELEBRI1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM GETTY IMAG.CATE BLANCHETT ARMANI. SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THIS DRS AND NOT GASP AND THEN REMA SPEECHLS FOR AT LEAST 10 SENDS.MOST POPULARINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLJULIE MILLER
- SAM SMH IS NOT ACTUALLY THE FIRST GAY MAN TO W AN OSR
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
12 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE THAT HAVE WON AN OSR
Sam Smh has ed ntroversy durg his Osrs victory speech by claimg he was the first openly gay man to get a nod. * gay to win oscar *
Sam Smh has ed ntroversy durg his Osrs victory speech by claimg he was the first openly gay man to get a nod.
The movie told the story of Harvey Milk, a gay in who served openly polics and was eventually assassated. Pickg up the bt director Osr 1964 for ‘My Fair Lady’, featurg Audrey Hepburn, he was openly gay. In a bgraphy of his life, he was scribed as headg a gay subculture Hollywood durg the 1930s.
A GROUNDBREAKG QUEER OSR WNER AND ITS VERY, VERY COMPLITED LEGACYIN 1986 WILLIAM HURT BEME THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER. DID HE START ONE OF THE OSRS’ WORST TRENDS? BY KATEY RICHJUNE 8, 2023FROM ISLAND ALIVE PICTUR / EVERETT COLLECTNSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S HARD TO TELL IF WILLIAM HURT FELT THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY WHEN HE TOOK THE OSR STAGE. AT THE BEGNG OF A STRG OF HS THAT WOULD MAKE HIM ONE OF THE FIVE STARS OF THE ’80S, HE WON THE BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, AN UNLIKELY DIE H. IT MA HIM THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER, TABLISHG A TEMPLATE THAT HAS NOW BEE SOMETHG OF A CLICHé: STRAIGHT ACTOR PLAYS GAY, WS OSR. A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWBUT 1986—THE SAME YEAR THAT RONALD REAGAN DARED TO SAY AIDS FOR THE FIRST TIME—KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN WAS A UNIQUE PHENOMENON, AND HURT’S PERFORMANCE A E FOR GENUE CELEBRATN. “A [GAY] AND A MIE A JAIL CELL, WHAT A MARKETG NIGHTMARE” IS HOW PRODUCER DAVID WEISMAN FACETLY SCRIBED THE FILM’S PREMISE, ADAPTED OM ARGENTEAN THOR MANUEL PUIG’S NOVEL BY UP-AND-G BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR HéCTOR BABEN. WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE 2010, AHEAD OF THE FILM’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL, THAT “ WAS A PROJECT SIGNED TO EVERYONE’S REER.” WEISMAN AND BABEN SPENT YEARS GETTG THE FILM OFF THE GROUND, CLUDG A LONG PERD OF VELOPMENT WH ’50S AND ’60S IN BURT LANSTER. EVENTUALLY THEY WENT TO PRODUCTN WH HURT AS MOLA, A GAY MAN IMPRISONED ALONGSI LEFTIST REVOLUTNARY VALENTíN, PLAYED BY RL JULIA. THE FILM IS LARGELY A SERI OF NVERSATNS BETWEEN THE TWO, TERSPERSED WH CLIPS OM A FICTNAL NAZI PROPAGANDA MOVIE, WHICH MOLA RETELLS TO VALENTíN AS A WAY TO PASS THE TIME AND PE SOMEWHERE ELSE. AS JA MASL WROTE HER RAVE REVIEW, “WHAT STARTS OUT AS A MPY, FACET TALOGUE OF HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA BE AN EXTRAORDARILY MOVG FILM ABOUT MANHOOD, HEROISM AND LOVE.”THE DIE FILM WORLD WAS A PERD OF TRANSFORMATN THE MID-1980S, WH THE EXPLODG HOME VIO MARKET SPURRG MAND FOR ALMOST ANYTHG THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SO UPSTART DISTRIBUTOR ISLAND ALIVE PICKED UP SPIR WOMAN AT CANN, WHERE HURT WON THE BT-ACTOR AWARD, AND RELEASED FOR AN EXCEPTNAL BOX OFFICE N THE SUMMER OF 1985, EVENTUALLY GROSSG $17 LN. (FOR NTEXT, THAT’S HOW MUCH THE WHALE AND THE FABELMANS HAVE MA DOMTILLY, WHOUT ADJTG FOR FLATN.) YEARS BEFORE MIRAMAX WOULD PERMANENTLY OPEN THE DOOR FOR DIE FILMS AT THE OSRS, SPIR WOMAN WAS THE UPSTART THE 1986 RACE, NOMATED FOR BT PICTURE ALONGSI MASSIVE STUD EFFORTS LIKE OUT OF AI AND THE COLOR PURPLE. HURT’S SPEECH, WHICH REX REED SNIPED WAS “MERCIFULLY” SHORTER THAN SOME OF THE MORE LONG-WD TERVIEWS HE’D GIVEN THAT SEASON, BEGAN WH A SIMPLE SENTENCE: “I SHARE THIS WH RL.” JULIA, WHO, LIKE HURT, HAD GOTTEN HIS START NEW YORK THEATER, SHARED A BT-ACTOR AWARD WH HIS STAR OM THE NATNAL BOARD OF REVIEW AND A GOLN GLOBE NOMATN, BUT WAS LEFT OUT AT THE OSRS. BUT HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE THE BIGGT REVELATN TO A MORN DIENCE. SIMMERG WH RAGE AND TRATN AS VALENTíN WATCH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS LEFTIST MOVEMENT BROUGHT TO THE PRISON, JULIA REFULLY TRACKS VALENTíN’S GRADUAL SOFTENG, NOT JT WILLG TO PE TO MOLA’S STORYTELLG BUT FD FORT—AND MAYBE A SPARK OF ROMANCE— HIS CELLMATE’S PRENCE. AND FOR MORN VIEWERS BRACG FOR IMPACT WATCHG HURT—WHOSE REPUTATN FOR TENSY AND DAMAGG BEHAVR ONLY GREW MORE PRONOUNCED AFTER THIS—HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE A SURPRISE AS WELL. MOLA IS A FLAMBOYANT CHARACTER, SPIRED BY THE ’40S SCREEN SIRENS WHOSE PHOTOS ARE PASTED ON HIS WALL, A MAN WHO SOMEHOW HAS A LLECTN OF SILK ROB SI A PRISON. YOU MIGHT FD, AS SOME OF THE HOSTS ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN DID, THAT HURT ERRS ON THE SI OF UNRPLAYG MOLA. BUT THERE’S A REASON THAT HIS PERFORMANCE SO PTIVATED DIENC AND OSR VOTERS; MOV PAST MOLA’S THEATRILY TO FD A MAN LOOKG FOR LOVE AND PURPOSE, AND RIGHT ON THE BRK OF FDG . IN AN ERA WH SO, SO LTLE QUEER REPRENTATN EVEN DIE FILMS, MOLA RONATED. AS WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE OF HURT’S PERFORMANCE, “IF HE AND THE FILM HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PULL OFF TO GAY DIENC, THEN WOULD HAVE CERTALY DIED.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST, CHRIS MURPHY JOS TO DISCS KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, WHICH MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT FILM TO SHOW A GROUP A FIRE ISLAND RENTAL HOE—WHICH IS WHAT CHRIS ACTUALLY DID!—BUT HAS SURPRIS STORE NEARLY 40 YEARS SCE S RELEASE. THE SUPERSIZE EPISO ALSO CLUS A NVERSATN WH CHRIS, RICHARD LAWSON, AND GUTS ESTHER ZUCKERMAN AND JACKSON MCHENRY TAKG A LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S TONY NOMATNS, AND MAKG THEIR PREDICTNS ABOUT WHO WILL PREVAIL AT SUNDAY’S AWARDS. LISTEN TO VANY FAIR’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST NOW.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)KATEY RICH
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 to win oscar *
“But if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man. “It was never easy beg a homosexual”, he said an terview 1998. Wanda Syk promised – and therefore me, specifilly – a gay Osrs show.
SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY
* gay to win oscar *
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. 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. 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.
IS SAM SMH REALLY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER?THE SPECTRE SONGWRER WON FOR ORIGAL SONG.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 28, 2016FROM GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN SAM SMH TOOK THE STAGE ON SUNDAY NIGHT TO ACCEPT HIS OSR FOR BT ORIGAL SONG, FOR THE SPECTRE THEME HE -WROTE WH JAM NAPIER, HE RRECTLY PARAPHRASED A STATEMENT IAN MCKELLEN MA ABOUT THE LACK OF OPENLY GAY OSR WNERS. DURG HIS SPEECH, SMH SAID THAT HE HEARD MCKELLEN MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE AMY AWARDS NEVER BEFORE REGNIZG AN OPENLY GAY MAN, NFSG THAT HE WAS NOT SURE WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS TE. EHER WAY, SMH NTUED, “I STAND HERE TONIGHT AS A PROUD GAY MAN AND I HOPE WE N ALL STAND TOGETHER AS EQUALS ONE DAY.”WH SENDS, THE TWTER-SPHERE EPTED, WONRG WHETHER OR NOT AN OPENLY GAY MAN HAD WON THE AWARD. THE ANSWER TO THAT IS Y, AN EXAMPLE BEG DT LANCE BLACK, WHO WON THE 2009 ORIGAL-SCREENPLAY AWARD FOR MILK. BUT SMH ALSO MISHEARD MCKELLEN’S QUOTE.LAST MONTH, THE ACTOR TOLD THE GUARDIAN THAT HE SYMPATHIZED WH BLACK ACTORS BEE, “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.” REFERRG TO THE ACTG TEGORI, MCKELLEN POTED OUT THAT STRAIGHT ACTORS HAVE WON THE AWARD FOR PLAYG GAY—LIKE TOM HANKS, JARED LETO, SEAN PENN, AND PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. “HOW CLEVER, HOW CLEVER,” MCKELLEN SAID. “WHAT ABOUT GIVG ME ONE FOR PLAYG A STRAIGHT MAN?”MCKELLEN, WHO HAS BEEN NOMATED TWICE—FOR GODS AND MONSTERS AND THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RGREVEALED THE SAME TERVIEW THAT HE PLANNED ON ADDRSG THAT FACT IF HE HAD WON.“MY SPEECH HAS BEEN TWO JACKETS. . .‘I’M PROUD TO BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W THE OSR.’ I’VE HAD TO PUT BACK MY POCKET TWICE.”WHILE SMH’S STATEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN SCERE, WAS NOT ENTIRELY TTHFUL. THREE OPENLY-GAY SGER/SONGWRERS WON SMH’S TEGORY CLUDG MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ELTON JOHN, AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM. AS FOR THE ACTG TEGORI, SEVERAL GAY WNERS HAVE WON, BUT BEFORE G OUT CLUDG JOEL GREY AND JODIE FOSTER.OSRS 2016 BT-DRSED CELEBRI1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM GETTY IMAG.CATE BLANCHETT ARMANI. SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THIS DRS AND NOT GASP AND THEN REMA SPEECHLS FOR AT LEAST 10 SENDS.MOST POPULARINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLJULIE MILLER
Peter Fch was the first to be regnized by the Amy for his role as a gay doctor the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday and the groundbreakg nomatn paved the way for dozens of straight thpians to receive nods for takg on gay, lbian and transgenr rol. Before the 94th annual Amy Awards take place on Sunday March 27, here’s a look back at 10 standout performanc of LGBTQ+ characters that won Osr gold. * gay to win oscar *
Sger remarked that he might be the first openly gay man to ever w an Osr while acceptg the award for Bt Origal Song.
SAM SMH IS NOT ACTUALLY THE FIRST GAY MAN TO W AN OSR
The film's historic w at the 89th annual Amy Awards giv hope to the black and gay muni. * gay to win oscar *
The Brish sger misquoted an terview wh Sir Ian McKellen earlier this year which he stated, “No openly gay man has ever won the Osr; I wonr if that is prejudice or chance. ” That led an elated Smh to misnste the ia and believe he might be the first openly gay Osr wner the history of the Amy Awards, which he claimed to be durg his teary acceptance speech for Bt Origal Song. To regnize those who were openly gay Osr wners, here are 11 notabl to take home a statue before Smh.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
A rare EGOT wner, Gielgud is nsired one of the greatt actors of the 20th century, and he was the first openly gay actor to w an Osr, and he did for his turn the Brish edy starrg Dudley Moore and Liza Melli. He was a eply private man and after his ath 2000 at the age of 96, letters were published that revealed he was threatened and blackmailed wh beg exposed as homosexual the 1950s.