On the ABC edy's 40th anniversary, Michael Montlack reflects on how he learned to be gay om a straight actor playg a straight character pretendg to be gay.
Contents:
- THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY
- 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
- DALLAS ROBERTS’ B – IS HE MARRIED TO WIFE OR GAY? NET WORTH
- IS JOHN RTER GAY?
- IS JOHN RTER GAY?
- EXPLORE TYLER RTER'S MARRIAGE TO LEILA PARMA. IS THE 'MCCARTHY' ACTOR GAY?
THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY
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Who would show me the gay way? But that imagery led to an even more alien notn: Were those the only kd of gay people the world?
Jack Tripper appeared on the screen 1977 (the 40th anniversary of the first episo is this March): boyishly handsome, adorably clumsy and generally ordary most ways, except one -- he was pretendg to be gay orr to live wh two female roommat. This was certaly "a step that was new" but not pletely unfaiar to a boy pretendg to be straight orr to live peacefully an unwelg (and John Rter, who played him, for that matter) wasn't queer, but the fact that he had the dacy to even label himself gay was astoundg. ) that we did fact exist and uld even fd zy hom for ourselv: sunny beach muni wh fun sisterly iends and zany, if often backward, landlords who might actually prefer a gay tenant over a straight one.
20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
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MICHAEL MONTLACK is the edor of My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (Universy of Wisns Prs). In the past, celebri who were gay would tend to keep to themselv, not wantg their personal life aired out for the public to have an opn on. Here are 20 straight characters who were played by actors so amazgly, we didn’t know they’re gay real life.
Mart has been open about beg gay sce the 2000s. Knight officially me out of the closet when was revealed that a star lled him a homophobic slur.
DALLAS ROBERTS’ B – IS HE MARRIED TO WIFE OR GAY? NET WORTH
In 2007, Miller actually nied the fact that he was gay InStyle magaze and didn’t e out of the closet until 2013. Zachary Quto is known for playg the famo character of Spock the Star Trek reboots and while his character is straight, Quto himself me out as gay 2011 and before then was an active supporter of gay rights and gay anizatns. In 2015, he was honored by the Pot Foundatn for beg a “trailblazer” the gay muny.
Guillermo Diaz, the actor who played Huck has been openly gay his entire reer Hollywood.
He was named one of OUT magaze’s “100 most fluential gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr people” 2013.
IS JOHN RTER GAY?
Not a lot of people know that Robert Reed, who played the famo Mike Brady The Brady Bunch, was gay real life.
IS JOHN RTER GAY?
"Rter says his allyship wh the LGBTQ+ muny began while workg at his parents' bety supply store the 1960s at a time when most gay people were eher flamboyantly out of the closet or firmly hidg Rter's personal say below about the meang and importance of dghter Mia was 17 when she me out.
I felt on behalf of other parents of gays and lbians. And as social media grew, I was proud of publicly talkg about beg an ally, proud of Mia for standg up for her rights, and not silent about beg worried about our untry for not protectg the rights of Mia and all gays or lbians.
I also beme aware of somethg else -- somethg some parents felt about their gay children the years before scientific advancements like IVF and donor eggs beme available on a mass sle. Some parents told me that while they supported their children who me out, they were aware typilly meant that, many stat, they uld not have children or adopt children as a gay or lbian uple. I worked there several days a week after school and, when I was old enough to drive, livered on the weekends to hair of which is to say that, the 1960s, I grew up teractg wh lots of people who were gay at a time when most gay people were eher flamboyantly out of the closet -- or firmly hidg .
EXPLORE TYLER RTER'S MARRIAGE TO LEILA PARMA. IS THE 'MCCARTHY' ACTOR GAY?
Parents were not activists by any stretch, but when they talked about their ctomers -- many of whom were gay -- they ma clear to their two sons that jt as Ain Amerins had a lack of civil rights, so too did gay people large part bee so many had to keep a secret about who they really, when I beme an anti-Vietnam war activist, the gay liberatn movement was unrway.
And gay and lbian activists who were part of the anti war movement were que vol about discrimatn agast I grew up, I beme more aware of the toll life the closet tak on gays and lbians.