From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot?
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- 'ABBOTT ELEMENTARY' STAR TYLER JAM WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S 'NOT GAY' RPONSE TO MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY — AND EXPLAS WHY SUCH SPECULATN IS 'VERY DANGERO'
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
- THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
'ABBOTT ELEMENTARY' STAR TYLER JAM WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S 'NOT GAY' RPONSE TO MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY — AND EXPLAS WHY SUCH SPECULATN IS 'VERY DANGERO'
"I’m not gay; but I thk the culture of tryg to ‘fd’ some kd of hidn tra or behavr that a closeted person ‘let slip’ is very dangero," the actor wrote. * superstar not gay *
Back the days of the Hays Co om the 1930s to the 1960s, movi pictg gay love terts were censored by studs. Even today, movi featurg gay sex or LGBTQ+ characters are typilly rated more strictly than movi wh straight characters. Look no further than Old Hollywood actor Rock Hudson, whose homosexualy remaed a tightly guard secret durg the height of his fame.
Jt look at Billy Eichner vyg for more overtly gay characters TV and film. "I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " Cook said. However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Carl Nassib this week beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. And wh his announcement, the Las Vegas Rairs fensive end jos a small group of openly gay men profsnal sports. * superstar not gay *
Y, Paddgton himself is gay! " He discsed g out as gay 2014, after enterg a civil partnership wh poser Mark Bradshaw, llg public reactns "surprisgly lovely. Ma history as the first openly gay player to play a Canadian Football League regular-season game, playg for the Montreal Alouett.
THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
'The View' star Alyssa Farah Griff revealed why she agre wh the Supreme Court's lg favor of a signer who do not support gay marriage. * superstar not gay *
Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart. " He also beme the first openly gay Black man to w bt lead actor a drama at the Emmys for the role. " Quto me out publicly as gay 2011, followg the suici of gay teenager Jamey Romeyer.
The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly. " Rannells has said he's known he was gay sce high school.
THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women. Prr to 2014, he'd not spoken publicly about his gay inty. Helpg to change that is former NBA player Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay man to play one of the four major profsnal team sports.
"When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet. " In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter. After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat.
" Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol. Carver performed on Broadway "The Boys the Band, " which tails the gay experience 20th-century Ameri before the Stonewall Rts occurred.