DC fally sts gay Green Lantern — but rais new qutns |

Contents:

• FROM SEAN CONNERY TO HARRISON FORD: ACTORS WHO SECRETLY PLAYED ROL GAY
• 10 MOVIE CHARACTERS WHO ARE SECRETLY GAY
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• 20 CARTOON CHARACTERS WE TOTALLY FOT WERE GAY
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

FROM SEAN CONNERY TO HARRISON FORD: ACTORS WHO SECRETLY PLAYED ROL GAY

The Shape of Water, a film featurg a gay character and many queer them took home the awards for Bt Picture and Bt Director. And last year, Moonlight, the story of a gay black man’s journey through poverty, toxic masculy, and his sexual inty won Bt Picture.

I learned more about my inty rentextualizg the characters the X-Men films and ic books than I did om seeg straight actors play gay Brokeback year, wh this ia md, I created a show lled Queer Film Theory 101 to explore how heteronormative media fluenced the inti of LGBTQ wrers, edians, and anizers. I didn’t realize until much later that was sort of a piece of gay Taggart, ComedianWeirdly, I would say that Mulan was first thg I watched and felt like, “Oh, I n relate to this.

The first character I ever saw who I knew was gay, you know, where I was like “oh, that's gay” was Nil, the butler om The Nanny and Jefey, the butler om Frh Prce. However, the former relatnship of the two is never revealed an episo bee is aired some untri where homosexualy is still illegal.

10 MOVIE CHARACTERS WHO ARE SECRETLY GAY

Have you ever watched a TV show or movie and thought to yourself, "This would be better if was gayer"? Straightwashg n occur advertisg — for example, alterg trailers, posters, or other promotnal materials to make a movie about a gay relatnship appear like 's about a straight one — or wh the narrative self.

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny. That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history.

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years. My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy.

20 CARTOON CHARACTERS WE TOTALLY FOT WERE GAY

That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist. Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them. You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light.

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band. Most recently, the ter explod wh behd-the-scen photos of Harry Styl om the shoot of new film My Policeman, an adaptatn of Bethan Roberts's 2012 novel starrg the pop superstar as a closeted gay man the 1950s.

However, as a way of explag the mystery surroundg why Harry left behd everythg he knew, Gale imaged a suatn which he was forced to leave as a rult of a gay affair beg exposed. Crystal Jeans's latt novel is The Inverts, which tells the story of two bt iends – one a lbian, the other a gay man – who enter to a fake marriage the 1920s.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

This was another reason I wrote The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle; I wanted to tell the story of one ordary young gay man tryg to exprs his love for another at a time when this would not have been accepted. But I also wanted to ntrast this disturbg, sometim horrifyg picture wh what life n be like for a gay man wh today’s much more acceptg society the UK – and celebrate how much progrs we’ve ma.

My spiratn was a seri of terviews I nducted wh olr gay men whilst I was Edor--Chief of Attu magaze, as part of our celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the start of crimalisatn. Pop star Harry Styl is starrg new film My Policeman as a closeted gay officer the 1950s (Cred: Getty Imag)"What we see all through history is that people are nied their past as part of a way to ntrol them, " says Hornby. But as the world ntu to adapt to diversy, we fet that some of our favore character have been gay all along.

South Park is a dangero show to talk about when referrg to gay rtoon characters bee of how they have been portrayed. This might e as a shock to you but one of the characters om Disney's blockbter film, Frozen, jt might be gay.