Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
- THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
- 20 CARTOON CHARACTERS WE TOTALLY FOT WERE GAY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
Gay characters have ma their way to mastream movi, but there's yet to be a lead gay actn hero. * gay action characters *
Why Hasn't There Been a Gay Actn Hero Yet? The fact that 2023 there is not a sgle actn movie wh a gay guy as a lead character is utterly ridiculo. While the plete absence of gay men actn films for the longt time is unrstandable, though disappotg, om a historil perspective, the perd for unrstandg end s ago.
THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
In honor of Pri Month, here are some of the bt gay characters across a number of mastream vio gam, a list that will hopefully ntue to grow every year. * gay action characters *
There’s no exce for such a arth of gay men across the actn genre the year 2023. The lack of gay actn stars through the '70s and '80s should e as no surprise, nsirg gay people were classified as havg a “psychiatric disorr” by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn om 1952-1973 (at which pot "gay" was downgrad to mere "sexual orientatn disturbance. That’s right, up until the year after John Waters’ Pk Flamgos me out the ncept of “gay” was still nsired a bra trouble.
There were certaly gay ins and hero the real world sense before beg gay was given the stamp of sany early ‘70s (Waters’ himself surely earned that signatn), but nothg when to onscreen man of actn kd of reprentatn. The '90s, which fally saw some gay acceptance/tolerance bee mastream, appeared to get thgs movg the right directn.
20 CARTOON CHARACTERS WE TOTALLY FOT WERE GAY
Dan Ferriegel, the hunky actor om 'Spartac: War of the Damned,' talks about playg one of TV’s first gay actn hero * gay action characters *
There were gay guys all over the place when pared to the kd of screen time prevly available. Another gone, still no gay men of actn. But the new lennium surely had to brg wh at least one garish, over the top Die Hard on Gay Cise that’d be looked back on as very problematic one day.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
As the world ntu to adapt to diversy, fans fet that gay character have been a part of rtoons for s now. * gay action characters *
It’s been a quarter-century sce that end, however, and there’s still not a sgle actn movie wh a gay lead. Gay Automatilly Means Non-Lead. Sure, there are exampl of gay supportg characters actn movi, but they eher be the dt before creds roll, need to be rcued, or, if they’re lucky, get to putter around the background and say somethg clever.
There are several others to choose om, too, but the gist is clear — gay guys don’t get to be the hero. It might not even necsarily be the dienc themselv at this pot, but more an stance where stud brass refe to accept that tim have changed enough for a gay man to save the day.
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There’s a fairly standard dumb jock character throughout ParaNorman who is only revealed to be gay the last few mut, and not any way where he’s the joke of the suatn. It wouldn’t be difficult at all to ntrive a circumstance where some Jason Statham-que badass pummels his way through 90 mut of opponents before gog home to his lovg hband or poppg to a gay bar.
By that pot, if the hypothetil filmmakers are any good at their jobs, the dience would be sold on his actn hero chops to the pot that even the most reluctant viewer would e around on the ia that gay guys n save the plane om terrorists, too. Closer To A Gay Hero, But Still Not Que. Stuff like Glass Onn and Our Flag Means Death have done well at utilizg the eventual reveal approach, the former by wag until the sequel to slip a quick scene of gay domticy and the latter by lettg the dience assume they’re watchg jt another se of queer-bag before actually havg Steed (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Wai) profs their feelgs for one another and kiss.
Once upon a time, studs were wary of all thgs gay bee turng away possible ticket buyers was the number one no-no, probably still is, except that world is kd of over. There’s an dience for everythg and this age of untls streamg servic should, theory, be an easy enough time to get a gay actn hero on screen.