Ian McKellen: 'Half of Hollywood is gay,' only recently 'disvered that there were black people' - Washgton Tim

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IAN MCKELLEN: ‘HALF OF HOLLYWOOD IS GAY,’ ONLY RECENTLY ‘DISVERED THAT THERE WERE BLACK PEOPLE’

Actor Ian McKellen says at least 50 percent of his Hollywood peers are gay. * percentage actors gay *

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I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "As much reprentatn as there is, there are very few big gay love stori. It was a gay Gus Who's Comg to Dner.

He was a talented black, gay workg actor who was pavg the way for the '80s the streets Hollywood. Sudnly, a clever, funny, kd, hot gay man on TV, that's still rare.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF HOLLYWOOD IS ACTUALLY GAY?

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And when 's jt a movie about a love story and not a gay love story. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud.

I'VE FOUND COMMUNITY DURING QUARANTINE BY "Watchg gay guys dog home workouts on Instagram. Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual.

GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

More than 1 10 prime-time scripted characters this season is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. One group se a need to double that. * percentage actors gay *

I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN "An openly gay man beme a te ntenr as a printial ndidate.

Broadst TV's first openly gay chief exec has ed his new post atop WarnerMedia's direct-to-nsumer bs to she a spotlight. Lee's sophomore film, perd lbian love story Ammone, starrg Kate Wslet and Saoirse Ronan, is due out late 2020 om Neon.

SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'

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Levy, who -created the show wh dad Eugene, earned legns of admirers fans and crics alike for craftg a same-sex love story a seri that was ee of homophobia. Watchg Rickie Vasquez, a gay character played by an openly gay actor, Wilson Cz, certaly felt like the most hont and rpectful portrayal of a gay teen I had ever seen. But was erased om much of history bee he was gay.

Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * percentage actors gay *

I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "When 'gay actor, ' 'gay director, ' 'gay wrer, ' 'gay story, ' et cetera, are no longer labels even worth mentng.

It was vigoratg and a ltle ighteng — well, ighteng to this sweet, gay, Southern boy who shi away om nontatn. In addn to speakg, and sgg, publicly about his own gay relatnships, Platt plays bi on The Polician — acuntg for several of the seri' many entangled LGBTQ romanc. The Pose star beme the first openly gay black man to w the dramatic lead actor Emmy 2019, the year he turned heads for butg genr-ntral red rpet looks.

Sean was the openly gay Ain Amerin hband of stmate Pedro Zamora.

The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * percentage actors gay *

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LGBTQ STORY I'D LOVE TO SEE ONSCREEN "A pictn of black gay men that is neher tragic nor ialized. The 'gay black spir' driv so much popular culture, through slang, mic, fashn, meme culture, dance and all manners of 'the arts.

' Yet, is still all too rare to fd — or produce Hollywood — stori where the humany of gay black men is not qutn, but is a given and is central to the story. LGBTQ STORY I'D LOVE TO SEE ONSCREEN "Would feature gay women of lor livg and lovg a three-dimensnal way, whout the imposn of polics. In 2019, the bisexual actor uld be seen as French New Wave in Jean Seberg Venice premiere tle Seberg, as a secret agent Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot and on a particularly gay episo of SNL.

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