'Love, Simon' is the gay rom- you wish you had growg up: Review | Mashable

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• SIMON COWELL IS GAY, ACRDG TO UNRVER FOOTAGE SHOWN AT TULISA TRIAL
• GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
• IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!
• 'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL

SIMON COWELL IS GAY, ACRDG TO UNRVER FOOTAGE SHOWN AT TULISA TRIAL

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GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

Simon Cowell is gay, acrdg to unrver footage played at the trial of former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos. "Mr Mahmood said: "How do you know he's gay? Shrk at the Movi: Lovg “Love, Simon” om a Gay Men’s Mental Health Perspective.

In my work as a licensed psychotherapist and life/bs ach specializg gay men and therapy for gay male upl for over 26 years, I blog equently on topics on LGBTQ+ mental health general, and gay men’s therapy particular, as the founr and director of GayTherapyLA, seeg clients my office Los Angel (Wt Hollywood) but also via phone or webm to gay male clients for therapy or achg California, all over the untry, or the world. “Love, Simon” chang that – and ’s a bellwether tt of whether mastream movi wh lead gay characters n “make ” the mastream Hollywood mercial film market.

IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!

At the (long) ncsn stand l, there was a mix of teens, olr adults, straight and gay patrons (many wh enuragg – and hot – public displays of affectn), gog to all the movi of the multiplex, but many streamg om the ncsn le to the dorium (the ma, largt one of the plex) where “Love, Simon” was butg. While “Brokeback Mounta” certaly broke ground as another mastream, big-stud, highly-publicized movie wh gay them and well-known stars, still had a b of the stigma that gay characters have had film history for a very long time – eher beg the butt of jok many s, or the “tragic figur” who end up ad or alone or unhappy due to circumstanc (as [SPOILER] “Brokeback Mounta” do). One of the many thgs that’s groundbreakg about “Love, Simon” is that ’s not tragic nor lghg at the gay characters; we are sympathetic wh them, whether ’s the genr-nformg gay Simon, or the genr non-nformg gay (man of lor) Ethan.

'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL

His character beg 17 but the actor beg 22 keeps om beg creepy for an olr gay man like me (and so many others that dience) who I’m sure found Robson nsistently charmg and cute a certa PG-13 sexs that so many teen romanc have (anyone remember the hottie “Sixteen Candl”?

Our empathy wh Nick-as-Simon marks a far cry om the days of Frankl Pangborn, Edward Everett Horton, and Clifton Webb playg gay (or wk-and-nod gay) characters that as dienc we liked but always seemed to lgh “at”, not “wh”, even to some extent Nathan Lane a film as recent as “The Birdge”, or s French precsor, “La Cage x Foll”. We’re also a far cry, the history of film, om the days of tragic or sry gay characters as “Cisg”, “Silence of the Lambs”, “The Children’s Hour” (lbian-themed), and so many others (each of those films had protts for s negative portrayals of LGBT characters). Nick Robson, his Type-O, broad likeabily factor, mak film history by blowg past all of those (even classic) gay characters and danc (kda badly, one fantasy sequence, breakg the stereotype of gay men as good dancers) to his own place as a “new kd of gay” character, the Teen Romantic Lead.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda, is a noteworthy pot. This story don’t e om a gay man wh an tobgraphil ax to grd (not that there’s anythg wrong wh that), but om a mastream, extremely popular genre of entertament the YA novel world (thk “Twilight” seri on film, or “Vampire Diari” on televisn). “Love, Simon” and Gay Men’s Mental Health.

That’s why ’s heartwarmg to image all the gay teens seeg “Love, Simon” and experiencg that sense of mirrorg when they see themselv empathetilly Simon.

One of my iends, Jam De Mason (who is the out son of Go-Go’s lead sger Belda Carlisle and grandson of Hollywood legend Jam Mason, who is also nng for Cy Council the Cy of Wt Hollywood), scribed this feelg on Facebook his own reactn to “Love, Simon”, mentng how he would have loved, as a teen at 14, to see a movie like this and experience that feelg that he’s not alone as a gay teen.

When our Amerin gay teens experience so much validatn the days by all the anti-gay (and anti-LGBT) msag g om Tmp and nsistently ALL of his bet and lleagu, is up to , as The People, and to our popular culture, to n terference wh those negative msag (that n drive LGBT teens to prsn or suici! Gay Visibily Through Prence. Legendary gay activist and polician Harvey Milk, of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, murred by lleague Dan Whe the 70’s, enuraged LGBT people to e out.

” In makg “Love, Simon”, the creators do more than make a “good movie”, they create a vehicle of visibily that leads to -mystifyg the LGBT experience general, and young gay men particular, that certaly n soften hearts and mds toward a more tolerant, equal society. That’s not a lecture nor a polil speech, but the fictnal pictn of a story like Simon’s that is actually que realistic, multiplied by lns of young gay men throughout our world, and throughout time.

Simon is the Gay Teen Everyman who be a certa “cultural ambassador of tolerance” that even a good polician n’t achieve.

The ia of sympathetic gay characters that socialize Amerins to the existence of gay men and gay teens isn’t really new. Sympathetic gay characters have been seen prime time on “All the Fay” early 70’s, “Soap” 1977 (when Fundamentalist Christians protted the cln of a gay character, played by Billy Crystal, before the show even premiered on ABC), “Dynasty” the 80’s wh gay son “Stephen” (lled “Sensive Steve” some episo summari) who was a b groundbreakg until they ma Stephen impregnate a woman), and of urse the former-and-prent “Will & Grace, ” which balanced “straight-actg” Will wh a flamboyant stereotype, “Jack”, played by the gay actor Sean Hay, who had a ridiculoly flamboyant (offensively played, I believe) across the dial wh “Cam” om “Morn Fay”, played by (straight) Eric Stontreet. Also today, Berlanti do an excellent job of LGBT cln havg a lbian character as sister to “Supergirl”, and also excellent gay characters on his former “Brothers and Sisters”, among others.