Meet Steve Howey, the Straight Actor Who Came Out as Gay

Contents:

• GAY LYON
• OMAR LTLE ON ‘THE WIRE’ WAS ONE OF TV’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
• GAY LYON
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LYON
• GAY LYON · BYGUI
• TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE
• GAY PRI EVENTS FRANCE
• GAY LYON · HOTELLER

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For Shamels star Steve Howey, speakg out for what he knows is right has bee an art form, one that is unpredictable but always strik a December, the Texas-born actor me out on Twter, he says, to fight the stigma behd sayg the words "I'm gay. " His tweet, which read simply "I'm gay and proud, " sparked dialogue and a fair amount of nfn about the straight, married father of tws -- but he isn't bothered by fans thought Howey, who plays gay Netflix's Game Over, Man!, might have been textg character, but he sists, "My whole pot was to be a champn, a supporter, of the movement.

OMAR LTLE ON ‘THE WIRE’ WAS ONE OF TV’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO

Howey plays Rich, a "bad guy and a goon" who happens to be gay and works alongsi his lover (Mac Brandt), another eccentric thug.

"The fact that he and Brandt both play agast type -- hypermascule bad guys who happen to be gay -- is part of the movie's charm.

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Movg forward, he hop to tackle more challengg rol that brg awarens to stori ls told -- like that of his bt iends, Nick and Jim, a gay uple, whose kids go to the same school as Howey's tws. Fally, LGBTQ+ travelers will want to note the gay/nu beach and around Nice, like St Lrent d’Eze, Co Beach and Castel Plage. The small towns and villag around the Alps mounta range bee ski rort hotspots, wh annual gay ski weeks takg place like the European Gay Ski Week.

France was one of the first untri to legalize homosexualy 1791 and has long had place proactive anti-discrimatn legislatn for employment, genr inty and hate speech. Stefan and Sebastien are a gay uple who met London 2009 and have been travelg extensively together Asia, Lat Ameri, North Ameri and Europe. Heartened, Hakeem took to the stage and rapped wh the girl group he’d been was the openly gay Jamal who helped shore up Hakeem’s self image is signifint.

In fact, this episo, we learned that Empire has tried to market Jamal as a “gay artist”—a label that the sger fds limg, but that also shows Luc is no longer tryg to ny who his son has been wrten about how the Jamal storyle is pecially signifint the show’s broar social ntext. Which means the battle for safety probably isn't over, and the Lyons—male and female, gay and straight—are gog to once aga have to prove their toughns. "I've played a lot of gay characters, but I haven't really played a gay character that is gay a way that is the gay that I feel like I am, if that mak sense, " said Duvall, who directed the film.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

I remember readg articl (that’s what we ed to ll thkpiec, child) the queer prs eagerly applyg that sipid and blandly normalizg phrase “who happens to be gay” to Omar, as if were a prize medal. In season one, for example, dg-aler Avon Barksdale puts a price on Omar’s head – and upon learng that Omar is gay, promptly doubl .

It was that the show never treated the outward signs of gayns as somethg Rickie should be ashamed of, or as thgs the dience should take as symbols for gayns wr-large.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LYON

There was a specificy to the character that allowed him to move beyond the kd of didacticism "very special episos" featurg gay characters had long been rced to. Buffy The Vampire Slayer didn't portray her as broken or wicked bee she was gay, but bee she was pa, and a pa that dienc uld unrstand stead of judge. When Ellen Man says, "I'm gay" to an airport gate microphone, what she was really sayg was, "You loved me five mut ago, and I'm still the same person.

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For me, Jack's refal to be anythg but himself, to give anyone the power to huiate him, was credibly powerful to watch not only as a small gay child, but as a medium-sized gay adult too. Hall Episos: 63 (2001 - 2005) "David was one of the first three-dimensnal portrayals of a gay man on mastream televisn. Uptight, fty, and exceptnally private, David's gay inty certaly rmed his character, but wasn't the entirety of -- a rary for the early days of prtige televisn.

Williams, Omar reprents the transn om the sexls sats of gay TV past to the flawed, plited characters who n simply exist. Kurt Hummel Show: Glee Performer: Chris Colfer Episos: 121 (2009 - 2015) Ryan Murphy's visn for Glee clud, among many (MANY) other thgs, takg on issu of gay acceptance and teen bullyg, and while not the only gay character on the show, Kurt was the vsel through which Murphy's msag were most often livered.

TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

Kurt's teen romance wh Blae (Darren Criss) was the first full-blown gay teen romance that fans uld 'ship the same way they did for Joey/Pacey and Seth/Summer. That Tumblr-iendly fan-thiasm for a gay uple would have been unfathomable on a work seri even five years prr, makg Kurt a bean of changg tim. Jodie Dallas Show: Soap Performer: Billy Crystal Episos: 76 (1977 - 1981) As the first long-nng gay character televisn, Jodie Dallas paved the way for every other character on this list.

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Jodie's creatn was ght wh cricism om both sis, though, as relig and gay rights groups objected to Soap's handlg of gay them. Still, Soap kept up a "tell, don't show" pictn of Jodie's sexualy throughout his many years on televisn, makg sure that viewers always knew he was gay...

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Lafayette Reynolds Show: Te Blood Performer: Nelsan Ellis Episos: 81 (2008 - 2014) Wh the stereotyp of Sassy Black Friend and Sassy Gay Friend still alive and well popular culture, the character of Lafayette was ripe for tokenism. Max Blum Show: Happy Endgs Performer: Adam Pally Episos: 57 (2011 - 2013) It's a shame Happy Endgs only held on for three seasons, bee Adam Pally's gmpy, lazy, and slouchy gay man was unlike any other gay character a work s. Jt Suarez Show: Ugly Betty Performer: Mark Inlito Episos: 85 (2006 - 2010) That work televisn featured a tweenage (and later teenage) gay kid a way that never felt like he was beg ma fun of was a great step forward.