Ian McKellen was the first openly gay actor nomated for an Amy Award—and 20 years after his ‘Lord of the Rgs’ nomatn, he remas the last.
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- WHY ARE THE OSRS SO BAD AT NOMATG GAY ACTORS?IAN MCKELLEN WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTOR NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD—AND 20 YEARS AFTER HIS LORD OF THE RGS NOMATN, HE REMAS THE LAST.BY DAVID CANFIELDJANUARY 13, 2022FACEBOOKTWTEREMAILSAVE STORYAT THE 2002 OSRS, IAN MCKELLEN WAS THE ONLY ACTOR NOMATED OM LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RG, WHICH HAD 13 TOTAL NOMATNS.BY STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT THE 74TH AMY AWARDS 2002, IAN MCKELLEN GAVE A VICTORY SPEECH. FACG THE BLACK-TIE DIENCE THE KODAK THEATRE, HE DITED A HISTORY-MAKG TRIUMPH TO THE MANY YOUNG GAY ACTORS, OUT AND NOT, WHO FELT UNWELE THE DTRY.BUT MCKELLEN WASN’T HOLDG AN OSR, OR EVEN STANDG ON THE STAGE. HISTORY HAD NOT BEEN MA—AND HE WAS BEG SARSTIC. NOMATED FOR HIS SUPPORTG TURN THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RG, THE ACTOR HAD LOST THAT NIGHT, AND OM HIS SEAT THE ONT ROW WAS READG ALOUD THE FAL WORDS OF THE SPEECH HE’D WRTEN, A MORE EARNT MOOD, FOR HIS GROUNDBREAKG GODS AND MONSTERS NOMATN 1999. “I’LL NEVER FET ,” SAYS THAT MOVIE’S DIRECTOR, BILL CONDON, WHO WAS WH MCKELLEN THAT NIGHT AND WHO KNEW THE WHOLE SPEECH WELL. “IT WAS ABOUT ALL THE WARNGS HE RECEIVED WHEN HE WAS CIDG TO E OUT, ALL THE THGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN.”A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWGODS AND MONSTERS MA MCKELLEN THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTOR TO BE OSR-NOMATED, AND, AFTER THAT 2002 FELLOWSHIP NOMATN, HE REMAS THE LAST. ONLY TWO QUEER-INTIFYG ACTORS HAVE SCE BEEN NOMATED FOR AMY AWARDS—MEGASTARS LADY GAGA AND ANGELA JOLIE, BOTH OF WHOM ARE BISEXUAL. (OTHERS, SUCH AS ELLT PAGE AND QUEEN LATIFAH, ME OUT YEARS AFTER THEIR NOMATNS.) COMPARE THAT TO THE NUMBER OF OUTWARDLY LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS WHO’VE EARNED THEIR PORTRAYERS OSR NOMATNS SCE 2002, WHICH STANDS AT A STAGGERG THREE DOZEN, AT LEAST. THAT’S AN AVERAGE OF NEARLY TWO PER YEAR—AND NONE OF THEM WERE PLAYED BY OPENLY LGBTQ+ ACTORS.THIS DISMAL TRACK RERD “SPEAKS TO HOLLYWOOD’S LONG HISTORY OF TOLERANCE AND BIGOTRY,” SAYS JEREMY BLACKLOW, DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAMENT MEDIA AT GLAAD. “LGBTQ+ ACTORS HAVE LONG FACED BLATANT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AND HAVE FELT FORCED TO HI THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND/OR GENR INTY IF THEY HOPED TO WORK AT ALL.” THE SUNDAY TIM RECENTLY ASKED POSE STAR BILLY PORTER IF HE EXPECTED HIS SUCCS. “NO, BEE I’M GAY,” PORTER SAID. “I WAS TOLD MY QUEERNS WOULD BE A LIABILY.”FOR ACTORS OF PORTER’S GENERATN, THERE WEREN’T MANY LGBTQ+ ROL TO PLAY MOVI. AS THAT HAS CHANGED, THE NVERSATN HAS EVOLVED TO ONE OF OPPORTUNY AND EQUALY, OFTEN FOCG ON WHETHER STARS WHO DO NOT BELONG TO A MARGALIZED INTY GROUP SHOULD PLAY CHARACTERS WHO DO—STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY, OR CIS ACTORS PLAYG TRANS. “THE PERFORMANC THAT QUEER ACTORS LIVER WHEN THEY’RE ALLOWED TO PLAY QUEER CHARACTERS HAVE AN THENTICY THAT IS UNNIABLE,” SAYS ACTOR WILSON CZ, WHO’S ACHIEVED A S-LONG REER AS AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR ON TV SHOWS SUCH AS MY SO-CALLED LIFE AND STAR TREK: DISVERY. “I THK THAT STUDS AND AGENCI AND POWER PLAYERS BELIEVE THAT THE QUEER ROL PLAYED BY CISGENRED, STRAIGHT PEOPLE IS FERTILE GROUND FOR ATTENTN AND AWARDS.”WHEN A QUEER ACTOR PLAYS A QUEER CHARACTER, N BE PERCEIVED AS MORE “THENTIC,” AND THEREFORE LS CHALLENGG. “THE NOTN THAT A QUEER ACTOR IS GIVG A LS MANDG PERFORMANCE BEE HE’S G TO OM A LIVED EXPERIENCE JT DON’T HOLD WATER FOR ME,” CZ NTU. “I’M NOT GIVG MORE CRED TO ANYONE WHEN THEY PLAY THE ROL, WHETHER THEY’RE GAY OR THEY’RE STRAIGHT. I DON’T UNRSTAND WHY ANYBODY ELSE DO. WE’RE ALL ACTORS, WE’RE ALL PLAYG ROL.”INED, BASED ON THE SHEER DISCREPANCY BETWEEN LGBTQ+ ROL NOMATED AND ACTORS NOMATED, THE PROBLEM EXTENDS WELL BEYOND ANY CHARACTER’S INTY. (FOR ONE THG, NSIR HOW RARE REMAS FOR A-LISTERS TO BE OPENLY LGBTQ+.) “ONCE THEY E OUT, LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ACTORS HAVE RARELY BEEN NSIRED FOR STRAIGHT LEADG ROL,” BLACKLOW SAYS, “AND THEY HAVEN’T BEEN ST FOR LEADG LBIAN, GAY, OR BISEXUAL ROL EHER.” THE ISSUE OF CISGENR ACTORS PLAYG TRANS HAS BEE MORE CLEAR-CUT, AT LEAST: SAYS BLACKLOW, “TODAY, IF A CISGENR ACTOR IS ST A TRANSGENR ROLE, THE SIGNIFINT OUTCRY OM TRANSGENR PEOPLE AND THEIR ALLI MAK THE PROJECT UNTENABLE.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHCONDON, WHO IS GAY, ADDS THAT—EVEN AN ERA WHERE THERE’S GREAT SCTY ON THENTIC STG—FANCIAL MANDS AND GENERATNAL SETBACKS PLITE THE PROCS. “I’VE BEEN TRYG TO ST A MOVIE WH A MIDDLE-AGED, 50-ISH GAY LEAD…AND YOU WANT TO WORK WH A GAY ACTOR AND SIST ON ,” HE SAYS. “BUT ’S GOT TO BE AN ACTOR WHO N DRAW FANCG. I N LIST THOSE PEOPLE NOW THEIR 20S OR 30S—STARS—BUT THIS WAS THE LAST GENERATN WHERE THEY STAYED MOSTLY THE CLOSET.”IN ONE PART OF HOLLYWOOD, AT LEAST, THAT GENERATNAL CHANGE IS ALREADY HAPPENG ONSCREEN. “BY THE TIME THERE’S AN OUT GAY ACTOR WNG AN OSR, ’LL BE A LTLE B OF A YAWN,” CONDON SAYS. “BEE, TELEVISN, THE L ARE ALREADY BEG BROKEN.”WHEN MICHAELA JAé RODRIGUEZ BEME THE FIRST TRANS LEAD-ACTG EMMY NOMEE LAST YEAR, SHE TOLD ME WAS ONLY THE BEGNG: “I HAVE SO MUCH MORE WORK TO DO. I’M READY TO DO , AND I’M READY TO BE THE EXAMPLE FOR SO MANY OUT THERE.” PORTER, HER POSE STAR, HAD ALREADY MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ+ MAN TO W THE DRAMA-LEAD-ACTOR AWARD 2019, AND BOTH WERE AMONG A SIGNIFINT CROP OF QUEER NOME 2021, CLUDG HACKS STAR CARL CLEMONS-HOPKS. “WHENEVER WE HEAR A ‘FIRST’ OF ANYTHG, ’S E FOR CELEBRATN,” SAYS CLEMONS-HOPKS, THE FIRST OPENLY NONBARY EMMY NOMEE. “BUT ’S ALSO JT A REMR OF HOW FAR WE HAVE TO GO FOR ACTUAL EQUALY.”CZ, WHO WORKED AT GLAAD OM 2012 TO 2014, LLABORATG WH TV WORKS AND MOVIE STUDS ON IMPROVG LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN, FOUND THE TV SI OF THE EQUATN MORE AMENABLE TO PROGRS. “NETWORKS REALIZED QUICKLY THAT THEY WERE LEAVG MONEY ON THE TABLE WHEN THEY DIDN’T CLU LGBTQ+ PEOPLE THEIR STORYTELLG,” HE SAYS, CG THE MERCIAL (AND CLIVE) SMASH OM SHOWNNERS LIKE SHONDA RHIM AND RYAN MURPHY. “I DON’T THK THAT LIGHT BULB EVER TURNED ON FOR STUDS.”TO THE STUDS’ CRED, SOME OF THIS YEAR’S STRONGT OVERALL OSR NTENRS, CLUDG NETFLIX’S THE POWER OF THE DOG AND SONY CLASSICS’ PARALLEL MOTHERS, EXPLORE NUANCED LGBTQ+ THEM. BUT THEY WILL LIKELY STILL YIELD MORE NOMATNS FOR STRAIGHT, CIS ACTORS PLAYG QUEER ROL. A-LISTER KRISTEN STEWART, WHO IS ENGAGED TO A WOMAN, IS A STRONG LEAD-ACTRS NTENR FOR SPENCER. BUT THE STRETCH OF YEARS WHOUT AN LGBTQ+ MALE ACTOR NOMATED SEEMS LIKELY TO NTUE, AND THERE ARE ONCE AGA NO TRANS PERFORMERS THE NVERSATN.DETERMG A PERSON’S INTY IS, OF URSE, TRICKY. GLAAD’S BLACKLOW NOT THAT REMAS ILLEGAL TO ASK ABOUT ONE’S LGBTQ+ INTIFITN AT A JOB TERVIEW OR DN, AND THAT SOME QUEER ACTORS LIKELY “DON’T FEEL READY TO DISCLOSE THEIR GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE WORKPLACE.” BUT THE NTUED LACK OF OSR REGNN FOR OPENLY LGBTQ+ ACTORS MONSTRAT THAT HOLLYWOOD HAS FURTHER TO GO THAN SOME WOULD LIKE TO THK. AS CZ ARGU, “THE WAY PEOPLE VIEW THE WORK OF OPENLY QUEER ACTORS OPENLY QUEER ROL NEEDS TO CHANGE.”IN 2016, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE #OSRSSOWHE MOVEMENT HOLLYWOOD, IAN MCKELLEN WRYLY TOLD THE GUARDIAN, “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.” THE MORE THE YEARS ADD UP, AND THE FURTHER WE GET OM HIS HISTORIC SPEECH THAT WASN’T, THE CLEARER THE ANSWER APPEARS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— CARíONA BALFE’S CELTIC CONQUT, FROM OUTLANR TO BELFAST— WHAT VIVIAN VANCE DIDN’T LOVE ABOUT I LOVE LUCY— INSECURE’S NATASHA ROTHWELL CAN DO IT ALL— INSI THE LOST DGHTER’S HYPNOTIC, SUBVERSIVE CEMATOGRAPHY— HOW THE WHE LOT’S LOATHABLE ENSEMBLE CAME TOGETHER— SIGN UP FOR THE “AWARDS INSIR” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE.DAVID CANFIELD
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- WHY DO THE OSRS LOVE CIS STRAIGHTS PLAYG QUEER PSYCHOS, VICTIMS, OR CLOSET CAS?IT’S AS IF A HAPPY, VICTOR GAY WOULD NOT BE WORTH THE SCREEN (OR PODIUM) {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOFEBARY 18, 2019/12:39 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:998PX;WIDTH:1500PX;}FOC FEATUR/FOXBY MICHAEL MTOFEBARY 18, 2019 / 12:39 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHY DO THE OSRS LOVE CIS STRAIGHTS PLAYG QUEER PSYCHOS, VICTIMS, OR CLOSET CAS?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-02-18T17:39:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-02-18T17:39:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"OSRS, MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WARNG: SOME SPOILERS BELOW! {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TO W AN OSR FOR A QUEER ROLE, YOU PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO HAVE AIDS (TOM HANKS PHILALPHIA, JARED LETO DALLAS BUYERS CLUB), BE A PSYCHO (CHARLIZE THERON MONSTER), BE THE VICTIM OF A PSYCHO (SEAN PENN MILK), BE A GRANDSE CRIMAL (WILLIAM HURT THE KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN), BEE UNHGED (NATALIE PORTMAN BLACK SWAN), BE A DOOMED BISEXUAL EP NIAL (LIZA MNELLI CABARET), OR BE A CLOSET SE WHO ALSO IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}Y, THERE ARE EXCEPTNS—PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN WON BT ACTOR FOR THE 2005 FILM CAPOTE, ABOUT FAMED THOR TMAN CAPOTE, WHO WAS NEHER NUTJOB NOR VICTIM—BUT GENERALLY, HELPS TO BE A BADDIE OR BE A BAD WAY TO GET THE AWARDS’ ATTENTN. IT SURELY HELPED THE BRILLIANT HOFFMAN’S CHANC THAT CAPOTE WAS FAIRLY SEXUALIZED THE FILM; THE VERY SAME YEAR, NEHER HEATH LEDGER NOR JAKE GYLLENHAAL WON FOR BROKEBACK MOUNTA, WHICH ALSO LOST BT PICTURE, REPORTEDLY BEE A LOT OF OSR VOTERS WERE TOO SQUEAMISH TO AL WH THE PHYSIL TERACTN BETWEEN THE TWO MAL. SOME OF THEM SUPPOSEDLY ULDN’T EVEN GET UP THE NERVE TO WATCH THE DVD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, LET ME UPDATE MY THIS AND SAY THAT THE OSRS LOVE WHEN YOU'RE A WEIRDO, A VICTIM, OR NTERED. IN GYLLENHAAL’S SE, HIS CHARACTER’S SEVERE VICTIMHOOD ULDN’T TMP THE FACT THAT HE HAD GAY SEX ONSCREEN, AND AS A RULT, WE NOW KNOW THE OSRS’ PECKG ORR OF GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THOSE ARE NOT THE ONLY SYMPATHETIC QUEER CHARACTERS WHO DIDN’T PROVI OSR GOLD FOR THE ACTORS. ALSO NOMATED BUT WENT HOME EMPTY-HAND WERE DANIEL MASSEY FOR STAR!, ESTELLE PARSONS FOR RACHEL, RACHEL, PETER FCH FOR SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, CHER FOR SILKWOOD, TOM COURTENAY AS THE EFFEMATE TLE CHARACTER THE DRSER, WHOOPI GOLDBERG AND MARGARET AVERY FOR THE COLOR PURPLE (SPIELBERG RCED THEIR RELATNSHIP TO ONE KISS, BUT WHOOPI SAID SHE GOT GRIEF FOR ), JAM CO FOR ONLY WHEN I LGH, ROBERT PRTON FOR VICTOR/VICTORIA, VANSA REDGRAVE FOR THE BOSTONIANS, GREG KNEAR FOR AS GOOD AS IT GETS (A VICTIM, BUT THE TWO OSR WNG STRAIGHTS HELP HIM GET BACK ON HIS FEET), JAVIER BARM BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (HE PLAYED A WRER WHO’S REPEATEDLY IMPRISONED AND DI OF AIDS—I’M SURPRISED HE DIDN’T W), JULIANNE MOORE FOR THE HOURS, CHLOë SEVIGNY FOR BOYS DON’T CRY, CATHERE KEENER FOR CAPOTE, EDDIE REDMAYNE FOR THE DANISH GIRL (HE HAD ALREADY WON), COL FIRTH FOR A SGLE MAN (HE'S A SAD PROFSOR, BUT HE DO CI AGAST KILLG HIMSELF), SALMA HAYEK FOR FRIDA, KATHY BAT FOR PRIMARY COLORS, ROONEY MARA FOR THE GIRL WH THE DRAGON TATTOO, CATE BLANCHETT AND ROONEY MARA FOR CAROL (SAD, BUT NOT TRAGIC ENOUGH), RICHARD JENKS FOR THE SHAPE OF WATER (NOT TRAGIC AT ALL), ANTE BENG FOR THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (DTO), AND TIMOTHEE CHALAMET FOR CALL ME BY YOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOME OF THOSE CHARACTERS WERE VICTIMIZED FOR THEIR SEXUALY, WHICH, OF URSE, IS A LARGE PART OF WHY THE ACTORS GOT THE NOMATN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT SURELY WASN’T ENOUGH FOR THE W. IN CHALAMET’S SE, HIS CHARACTER HAD SEX WH A GUY, AND NO ONE THE FILM SEEMED ALL THAT UPSET ABOUT . EL (CHALAMET) WAS ONLY DISTURBED WHEN WAS OVER! AND EVEN THAT LED TO A G-OF-AGE! THE SAME-SEX RELATNSHIP WAS PRETTY MUCH WONRFULLY OKAY, WHICH WAS SO REHG, THOUGH SIMPLY IS NOT THE KD OF THG THAT GETS THE ACTG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEANWHILE, OUT GAYS PLAYG GAY (RUPERT EVERETT MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG) UALLY DON'T EVEN GET NOMATED, AND IF THEY DO (IAN MCKELLEN FOR GODS AND MONSTERS), THEY DON’T W. BUT IF YOU’RE A STRAIGHT PERSON DOG A LBIAN/GAY/BI ROLE, THAT HELPS YOUR OSR CHANC BEE YOU’RE MEND FOR YOUR ALLEGED URAGE TACKLG THE ASSIGNMENT, AS IF TAK SO MUCH BRAVERY TO ACCEPT A GREAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIARLY, IF YOU’RE CIS PLAYG TRANS, YOU’RE REWARD FOR YOUR CREDIBLE FEARLSNS DOG SO—CHRIS SARANDON WAS NOMATED FOR 1975’S DOG DAY AFTERNOON, WHEN REALLY WAS DARG (AND HE WAS GREAT), JOHN LHGOW WAS UP FOR THE WORLD ACRDG TO GARP, AND FELICY HUFFMAN GOT A NOM FOR 2005’S TRANSAMERI—THOUGH THE ONLY REAL BRAVERY VOLVED THE DAYS IS DODGG ALL THE EVABLE PLATS ABOUT YOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HILARY SWANK, OF URSE, WON BT ACTRS FOR PLAYG REAL-LIFE TRANS MAN BRANDON TEENA 1999’S HEART-WRENCHG BOY’S DON’T CRY. SHE WAS POWERFUL, BUT LET’S NOT FET THAT BRANDON WAS ULTIMATELY RAPED AND MURRED, WHICH PROVID A HORRIFYG CX FOR THE FILM’S DRAMA. (A REEE TRANS CHARACTER SIMPLY DON’T W.) AND THE LURE OF THE GENR-SWCH ALWAYS APPEALS TO OSR. IN CISGENR PLAY, LDA HUNT (WHO WAS NOT AN OUT LBIAN AT THE TIME) WON FOR PLAYG A MAN THE YEAR OF LIVG DANGEROLY, GWYH PALTROW WON FOR PLAYG A WOMAN WHO’S DISGUISED AS A MAN SHAKPEARE IN LOVE, AND GLENN CLOSE AND JA MCTEER WERE NOMATED FOR THE SAME ALBERT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TTH IS THAT THE OSRS LOVE CIS HETEROS PLAYG QUEER TYP—BOTH GOOD AND BAD ON—AND THE PROCS, THEY’RE PROJECTG THE WAY THEY WANT TO SEE . THEY ALSO LIKE HEAVY EMOTG, AND SOME PEOPLE ARGUE, “WHERE’S THE DRAMA A STORY IF YOU DON’T GO TO THOSE EXTREME ROUT?” WELL, FILMS LIKE CALL ME BY YOUR NAME AND THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT MANAGED TO FD DRAMA WHOUT RELYG ON FAIAR TROP OF CLOSETED PSYCHO VICTIMHOOD. AND STRAIGHT CHARACTERS HAVE CERTALY WON ACTG OSRS WHOUT RORTG TO ANY OF THAT—WHOUT DYG, BEG MURRED, BEG RCERATED, BEG BEATEN, OR KILLG PEOPLE. COL FIRTH, EMMA STONE, GEOFEY RH, JANE FONDA, VLA DAVIS, HELEN MIRREN, BARBRA STREISAND, KATHARE HEPBURN, AND PLENTY MORE PPED TROPHI FOR PLAYG CENT HETEROSEXUALS WHO OVERME OBSTACL. AND FLAT OUT HERO LED TO OSRS FOR JULIA ROBERTS, JODIE FOSTER, GARY OLDMAN, GARY COOPER, ANNE BANCROFT, GREGORY PECK, SALLY FIELD, SIDNEY POIER, AND ON AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT AGA AND AGA, THEY NOMATE ACTORS PLAYG ROL THAT FALL TO FAVORED GENR—LIKE THE POSSIBLE PEDOPHILE PRIT DOUBT, PLAYED BY—HIM AGA—PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. MAYBE HOFFMAN WOULD HAVE WON HIS SEND OSR IF THE PRIT WAS FELY PROVEN TO BE A PERV. AFTER ALL, 2015’S SPOTLIGHT, ABOUT SAME-SEX MOLTATN BEG EXPOSED THE BOSTON ARCHDCE, GLID TO BT PICTURE. THE NEXT YEAR’S BT PICTURE WAS MOONLIGHT, ABOUT A BLACK BOY’S VERY ROUGH G OF AGE AS GAY, BUT WHILE MAHERSHALA ALI WON BT SUPPORTG ACTOR FOR PLAYG A DG-ALG FATHER FIGURE, THE ACTORS PLAYG GAY WEREN’T EVEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OTHER EXCEPTN TO THE LE WAS CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER WNG FOR BEGNERS, WHICH HE WAS A LATE-BLOOMG GAY WHO BEME MORE HONT WH HIMSELF (THOUGH, NATURALLY, HE HAD TO DIE). BUT LET’S THK BACK ON ANOTHER BT SUPPORTG WNER, GEE SANRS AS ACID-TONGUED SCRIBE ADDISON DEWT THE 1950 BACKSTAGE, BACKSTABBG-CLASSIC ALL ABOUT EVE. ADDISON IS HARDLY PRENTED AS GAY, BUT ALWAYS SEEMED OBV TO ME THAT HE IS. HE’S VOLVED WH RISG STAR EVE HARRGTON, BUT THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY PASSNATELY LT; ’S A BATTLE OF WILLS, WH ADDISON PULLG OUT ALL THE VIC STOPS ALONG THE WAY TO OWN AND CRIPPLE HER. HE OFF LIKE A BIG, OLD NASTY CLOSET QUEEN, AND ’S NO WONR HE WON THE OSR, IF NOT THE SARAH SIDDONS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO NOMATED THROUGH THE YEARS WERE JUDH ANRSON FOR THE EVIL, LBIANIC MRS. DANVERS REBEC, CLIFTON WEBB FOR THE PRISSY VILLA LRA, VICTOR BUONO FOR THE CREEPED OUT MAMA’S BOY WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, AND TOMMY LEE JON FOR A SISTER GAY JFK. AND OTHER SUGGTIVE VELOPMENTS, CHARLTON HTON WON BT ACTOR FOR 1959’S CHART-RACG EPIC BEN-HUR, THOUGH ANY GAY NTENT WAS ONLY THE SUBTEXT, SNUCK THERE BY DIRECTOR WILLIAM WYLER AND GAY WRER GORE VIDAL WHOUT THE HEAVG-CHTED HTON EVEN KNOWG. IF THE GAYNS HAD BEEN WI OPEN, DO YOU REALLY THK THIS HUR WOULD HAVE WON BT PICTURE AND ACTOR?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS YEAR, THERE ARE SEVEN QUEER CHARACTERS CLUD OUT OF 20 ACTG NOMATNS—AND MOST OF THEM ARE PRETTY CRACKED! AS I’VE WRTEN BEFORE, ’S OKAY THAT THERE ARE NEGATIVE AND/OR TEXTURED CHARACTERIZATNS OF QUEERS, SEEG AS WE NOW HAVE MORE DIVERSY OF REPRENTATN, AND THE WIR PALETTE ALLOWS FOR VARIETY. BUT THE AWARDS PALETTE STILL STAYS FOCED ON CERTA TYP OF CHARACTERS. MAHERSHALA ALI IS THE ONTNNER TO W FOR GREEN BOOK, WHO IS WONRFUL, ALBE AS A CLOSET-Y CHARACTER WHO'S VICTIMIZED. ALSO: ROCKER FREDDIE MERCURY, PLAYED BY RAMI MALEK BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, WAS AMBIGUOLY CLOSETED AND HAD AIDS (AND THE FILM STUDLY STAYS AWAY OM GAY SEX); QUEEN ANNE (OLIVIA COLMAN THE FAVOURE) IS PORTRAYED AS A FAIRLY MENTED WOMAN WHO LBIAN SEX—WH CHARACTERS PLAYED BY EMMA STONE-AND RACHEL WEISZ—FOR POWER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEE ISRAEL(MELISSA MCCARTHY CAN YOU EVER FIVE ME?) WAS A MISANTHROPIC LAWBREAKER WHO ULDN’T KEEP A RELATNSHIP BEE SHE REFED TO SHOW HER GIRLIEND ANY NICENS OR TIMACY; AND JACK HOCK (RICHARD E. GRANT THE SAME FILM) IS PORTRAYED AS A SLEAZY GRIFTER WHO’S TOTALLY DOWN AND OUT AND GAME FOR ANYTHG. TIME SAYS THE REAL-LIFE HOCK LIVED A NICE APARTMENT, BUT THE MOVIE MAK HIM HOMELS. LIKE I SAID, A MORE PATHETIC GAY IS ALWAYS BETTER TO MOVIELAND—AND HE’S A CRIMAL, TOO. FORTUNATELY, THE CRACKLG SCRIPT AND GRANT’S PERFORMANCE MANAGE TO BRG OUT WHAT’S APPEALG ABOUT THE GUY. WHEN ISRAEL TENDS TO HIS BIS, YOU SEE HUMANY BOTH OF THEM. (SI NOTE: I’M SURPRISED WILL SMH WASN’T NOMATED FOR PLAYG A QUEER N MAN 1993’S SIX DEGRE OF SEPARATN. PERHAPS SMH SHOULDN’T HAVE OPENLY REFED TO DO THE GAY KISS THE MOVIE. IT’S HARD TO BE GRANTED OSR POTS FOR URAGE WHEN YOU’RE SO OBVLY NNG SRED OM THE JOB.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAST YEAR, THE CHILEAN DRAMA A FANTASTIC WOMAN WON BT FOREIGN FILM, AND THOUGH THE FILM WAS RIVETGLY DONE, WAS ABOUT A TRANS SGER WHO FACED OPPRSN VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE SHE TURNED. SHE AND THE MOVIE WERE ED FANTASTIC, BUT I WONR IF THE OSRS PECIALLY LOVED THE FACT THAT HER PLIGHT WAS RELENTLS. ONCE THE SGER’S LOVG BOYIEND DIED, ALMOST EVERY MOMENT SEEMED TO BE ABOUT HER BEG TRANS AND THE MELODRAMATIC REPERCSNS OF THAT FACT (TERSPERSED WH SOME GIDDY FANTASY MOMENTS).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOMEDAY I HOPE WE N HONOR FILMS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE BASILLY PEOPLE, AND WHO JT HAPPEN TO BE TRANS. I ALSO HAVE TO WONR IF THE FILM’S GREAT STAR, DANIELA VEGA, WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A BT ACTRS NOMATN IF SHE WERE CIS. AND WHILE I’M WONRG: I BET THE OSRS WISH THEY ULD GO BACK TIME AND AWARD A FIRST TROPHY TO SHIRLEY MACLAE FOR PLAYG A TEACHER WHO IS NVCED BY GOSSIP THAT SHE IS A LBIAN AND AS A RULT KILLS HERSELF THE HORRIFYG THE CHILDREN’S HOUR (1961). IT SEEMS LIKE A QUTSENTIAL OSR MOMENT, THOUGH SHIRLEY WASN’T EVEN NOMATED. I GUS THEY MA UP FOR THAT BY NOMATG JUDI DENCH AS A BTER AND PREDATORY LBIAN TEACHER 2006’S NOT ON A SNDAL, ANOTHER OVER-THE-TOP MOVIE THAT I FOUND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS FOR FILMS THAT LOOK BACK ON AIDS’ GRISLIER DAYS, THEY GO THE OPPOSE WAY OF TRANS MOVI; THEY TEND TO WATER THGS DOWN, NOT HYPE THGS UP. I’M ALL FOR REPRENTG AIDS POIGNANCY IF ’S GOG TO BE TTHFUL, NOT JT A TOKEN EXPRSN OF MORE “VICTIMHOOD." BUT SOME OF THE POST-PHILALPHIA FILMS THAT TOUCH ON CHARACTERS WH AIDS DOWNPLAY THE EFFECTS OF THE DISEASE, NO DOUBT TO PLATE THE SAME VIEWERS THAT WERE OFFEND BY BROKEBACK MOUNTA. SO THEY TRY TO HAVE BOTH WAYS—THEY SHOW THE CHARACTERS’ TRAGIC END WHOUT REALLY SHOWG THE CHARACTERS’ TRAGIC END. BUT OTHERS HAVE MANAGED TO BE BOTH TOUGH AND TENR, GARNERG EVABLE NOMS FOR DYG BCE DAVISON (LONGTIME COMPANN) AND ED HARRIS (THE HOURS).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BISEXUALY? IN OSR’S EY, “BI” TOO OFTEN MEANS “BATTY." I’VE ALREADY MENTNED SOME EXAMPL, BUT ALSO, NILE KIDMAN WON BT ACTRS FOR PLAYG WRER VIRGIA WOOLF THE HOURS (2002), WHICH SHE KISS HER SISTER VERY HARD AND IS NSTANTLY HAVG NERVO BREAKDOWNS AND DROWNS HERSELF. PENELOPE CZ WON BT SUPPORTG ACTRS FOR VICKY CRISTA BARCELONA (2008), WHICH SHE WAS A SUICIDAL BISEXUAL WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE EXTREMELY TRIGGER HAPPY. BUT THEN THERE’S 2001’S IRIS, WHICH GRABBED NOMATNS FOR JUDI DENCH AND KATE WSLET AS NOVELIST IRIS MURDOCH AT DIFFERENT AG. IRIS WAS BRILLIANT—AND SHE HAD A BILATG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I’M NOT STG ASPERSNS ON ANY OF THE ACTORS’ TALENTS, BUT ON THE KDS OF ROL AND STG THAT W TROPHI. I ALSO AM NOT RIDG THE WAY HOMOPHOBIA AND THE RULTG TRAGEDI ARE ADDRSED FILMS—THAT HEO PART OF WHAT WE’VE ALWAYS GONE THROUGH SHOULD NOT BE ERASED—I’M SIMPLY SAYG THAT MOVI AND AWARDS SEEM TO FETISHIZE THAT TRAJECTORY. IT’S AS IF A HAPPY, VICTOR GAY WOULD NOT BE WORTH THE SCREEN (OR PODIUM) TIME. AT LEAST MONSTER, WAS CLEAR THAT WAS EXTREME HOMOPHOBIA, AMONG OTHER THGS, THAT HELPED DRIVE AILEEN WUORNOS TO PSYCHOSIS— WASN’T JT THAT QUEER TOMATILLY EQUALS LOONEY—BUT WHY NOT ALSO HAVE CHARLIZE THERON PLAY A QUEER HERO LIKE EDIE WDSOR AND P SOME AWARDS FOR THAT, TOO?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, WE’RE NSTANTLY MAKG BABY STEPS TOWARD HAVG THE FULL BREADTH OF OUR MUNY AND S HISTORY SHOWN, SO HERE’S TO A BRIGHTER, FULLER FUTURE THAT DON’T ALWAYS GIVE ACLAS TO THE AFFLICTED. AND CHEERS TO THIS YEAR’S OSR NOME, WHO ALL HAPPEN TO BE VERY GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO. JT LIKE THE HAMMY ACTOR WHO GOT BOOED FOR HIS HAMLET, THEY N ALWAYS SHOUT BACK, “HEY! I DIDN’T WRE THIS SH!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}OSRSMTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
WHY ARE THE OSRS SO BAD AT NOMATG GAY ACTORS?IAN MCKELLEN WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTOR NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD—AND 20 YEARS AFTER HIS LORD OF THE RGS NOMATN, HE REMAS THE LAST.BY DAVID CANFIELDJANUARY 13, 2022FACEBOOKTWTEREMAILSAVE STORYAT THE 2002 OSRS, IAN MCKELLEN WAS THE ONLY ACTOR NOMATED OM LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RG, WHICH HAD 13 TOTAL NOMATNS.BY STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT THE 74TH AMY AWARDS 2002, IAN MCKELLEN GAVE A VICTORY SPEECH. FACG THE BLACK-TIE DIENCE THE KODAK THEATRE, HE DITED A HISTORY-MAKG TRIUMPH TO THE MANY YOUNG GAY ACTORS, OUT AND NOT, WHO FELT UNWELE THE DTRY.BUT MCKELLEN WASN’T HOLDG AN OSR, OR EVEN STANDG ON THE STAGE. HISTORY HAD NOT BEEN MA—AND HE WAS BEG SARSTIC. NOMATED FOR HIS SUPPORTG TURN THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RG, THE ACTOR HAD LOST THAT NIGHT, AND OM HIS SEAT THE ONT ROW WAS READG ALOUD THE FAL WORDS OF THE SPEECH HE’D WRTEN, A MORE EARNT MOOD, FOR HIS GROUNDBREAKG GODS AND MONSTERS NOMATN 1999. “I’LL NEVER FET ,” SAYS THAT MOVIE’S DIRECTOR, BILL CONDON, WHO WAS WH MCKELLEN THAT NIGHT AND WHO KNEW THE WHOLE SPEECH WELL. “IT WAS ABOUT ALL THE WARNGS HE RECEIVED WHEN HE WAS CIDG TO E OUT, ALL THE THGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN.”A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWGODS AND MONSTERS MA MCKELLEN THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTOR TO BE OSR-NOMATED, AND, AFTER THAT 2002 FELLOWSHIP NOMATN, HE REMAS THE LAST. ONLY TWO QUEER-INTIFYG ACTORS HAVE SCE BEEN NOMATED FOR AMY AWARDS—MEGASTARS LADY GAGA AND ANGELA JOLIE, BOTH OF WHOM ARE BISEXUAL. (OTHERS, SUCH AS ELLT PAGE AND QUEEN LATIFAH, ME OUT YEARS AFTER THEIR NOMATNS.) COMPARE THAT TO THE NUMBER OF OUTWARDLY LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS WHO’VE EARNED THEIR PORTRAYERS OSR NOMATNS SCE 2002, WHICH STANDS AT A STAGGERG THREE DOZEN, AT LEAST. THAT’S AN AVERAGE OF NEARLY TWO PER YEAR—AND NONE OF THEM WERE PLAYED BY OPENLY LGBTQ+ ACTORS.THIS DISMAL TRACK RERD “SPEAKS TO HOLLYWOOD’S LONG HISTORY OF TOLERANCE AND BIGOTRY,” SAYS JEREMY BLACKLOW, DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAMENT MEDIA AT GLAAD. “LGBTQ+ ACTORS HAVE LONG FACED BLATANT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AND HAVE FELT FORCED TO HI THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND/OR GENR INTY IF THEY HOPED TO WORK AT ALL.” THE SUNDAY TIM RECENTLY ASKED POSE STAR BILLY PORTER IF HE EXPECTED HIS SUCCS. “NO, BEE I’M GAY,” PORTER SAID. “I WAS TOLD MY QUEERNS WOULD BE A LIABILY.”FOR ACTORS OF PORTER’S GENERATN, THERE WEREN’T MANY LGBTQ+ ROL TO PLAY MOVI. AS THAT HAS CHANGED, THE NVERSATN HAS EVOLVED TO ONE OF OPPORTUNY AND EQUALY, OFTEN FOCG ON WHETHER STARS WHO DO NOT BELONG TO A MARGALIZED INTY GROUP SHOULD PLAY CHARACTERS WHO DO—STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY, OR CIS ACTORS PLAYG TRANS. “THE PERFORMANC THAT QUEER ACTORS LIVER WHEN THEY’RE ALLOWED TO PLAY QUEER CHARACTERS HAVE AN THENTICY THAT IS UNNIABLE,” SAYS ACTOR WILSON CZ, WHO’S ACHIEVED A S-LONG REER AS AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR ON TV SHOWS SUCH AS MY SO-CALLED LIFE AND STAR TREK: DISVERY. “I THK THAT STUDS AND AGENCI AND POWER PLAYERS BELIEVE THAT THE QUEER ROL PLAYED BY CISGENRED, STRAIGHT PEOPLE IS FERTILE GROUND FOR ATTENTN AND AWARDS.”WHEN A QUEER ACTOR PLAYS A QUEER CHARACTER, N BE PERCEIVED AS MORE “THENTIC,” AND THEREFORE LS CHALLENGG. “THE NOTN THAT A QUEER ACTOR IS GIVG A LS MANDG PERFORMANCE BEE HE’S G TO OM A LIVED EXPERIENCE JT DON’T HOLD WATER FOR ME,” CZ NTU. “I’M NOT GIVG MORE CRED TO ANYONE WHEN THEY PLAY THE ROL, WHETHER THEY’RE GAY OR THEY’RE STRAIGHT. I DON’T UNRSTAND WHY ANYBODY ELSE DO. WE’RE ALL ACTORS, WE’RE ALL PLAYG ROL.”INED, BASED ON THE SHEER DISCREPANCY BETWEEN LGBTQ+ ROL NOMATED AND ACTORS NOMATED, THE PROBLEM EXTENDS WELL BEYOND ANY CHARACTER’S INTY. (FOR ONE THG, NSIR HOW RARE REMAS FOR A-LISTERS TO BE OPENLY LGBTQ+.) “ONCE THEY E OUT, LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ACTORS HAVE RARELY BEEN NSIRED FOR STRAIGHT LEADG ROL,” BLACKLOW SAYS, “AND THEY HAVEN’T BEEN ST FOR LEADG LBIAN, GAY, OR BISEXUAL ROL EHER.” THE ISSUE OF CISGENR ACTORS PLAYG TRANS HAS BEE MORE CLEAR-CUT, AT LEAST: SAYS BLACKLOW, “TODAY, IF A CISGENR ACTOR IS ST A TRANSGENR ROLE, THE SIGNIFINT OUTCRY OM TRANSGENR PEOPLE AND THEIR ALLI MAK THE PROJECT UNTENABLE.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHCONDON, WHO IS GAY, ADDS THAT—EVEN AN ERA WHERE THERE’S GREAT SCTY ON THENTIC STG—FANCIAL MANDS AND GENERATNAL SETBACKS PLITE THE PROCS. “I’VE BEEN TRYG TO ST A MOVIE WH A MIDDLE-AGED, 50-ISH GAY LEAD…AND YOU WANT TO WORK WH A GAY ACTOR AND SIST ON ,” HE SAYS. “BUT ’S GOT TO BE AN ACTOR WHO N DRAW FANCG. I N LIST THOSE PEOPLE NOW THEIR 20S OR 30S—STARS—BUT THIS WAS THE LAST GENERATN WHERE THEY STAYED MOSTLY THE CLOSET.”IN ONE PART OF HOLLYWOOD, AT LEAST, THAT GENERATNAL CHANGE IS ALREADY HAPPENG ONSCREEN. “BY THE TIME THERE’S AN OUT GAY ACTOR WNG AN OSR, ’LL BE A LTLE B OF A YAWN,” CONDON SAYS. “BEE, TELEVISN, THE L ARE ALREADY BEG BROKEN.”WHEN MICHAELA JAé RODRIGUEZ BEME THE FIRST TRANS LEAD-ACTG EMMY NOMEE LAST YEAR, SHE TOLD ME WAS ONLY THE BEGNG: “I HAVE SO MUCH MORE WORK TO DO. I’M READY TO DO , AND I’M READY TO BE THE EXAMPLE FOR SO MANY OUT THERE.” PORTER, HER POSE STAR, HAD ALREADY MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ+ MAN TO W THE DRAMA-LEAD-ACTOR AWARD 2019, AND BOTH WERE AMONG A SIGNIFINT CROP OF QUEER NOME 2021, CLUDG HACKS STAR CARL CLEMONS-HOPKS. “WHENEVER WE HEAR A ‘FIRST’ OF ANYTHG, ’S E FOR CELEBRATN,” SAYS CLEMONS-HOPKS, THE FIRST OPENLY NONBARY EMMY NOMEE. “BUT ’S ALSO JT A REMR OF HOW FAR WE HAVE TO GO FOR ACTUAL EQUALY.”CZ, WHO WORKED AT GLAAD OM 2012 TO 2014, LLABORATG WH TV WORKS AND MOVIE STUDS ON IMPROVG LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN, FOUND THE TV SI OF THE EQUATN MORE AMENABLE TO PROGRS. “NETWORKS REALIZED QUICKLY THAT THEY WERE LEAVG MONEY ON THE TABLE WHEN THEY DIDN’T CLU LGBTQ+ PEOPLE THEIR STORYTELLG,” HE SAYS, CG THE MERCIAL (AND CLIVE) SMASH OM SHOWNNERS LIKE SHONDA RHIM AND RYAN MURPHY. “I DON’T THK THAT LIGHT BULB EVER TURNED ON FOR STUDS.”TO THE STUDS’ CRED, SOME OF THIS YEAR’S STRONGT OVERALL OSR NTENRS, CLUDG NETFLIX’S THE POWER OF THE DOG AND SONY CLASSICS’ PARALLEL MOTHERS, EXPLORE NUANCED LGBTQ+ THEM. BUT THEY WILL LIKELY STILL YIELD MORE NOMATNS FOR STRAIGHT, CIS ACTORS PLAYG QUEER ROL. A-LISTER KRISTEN STEWART, WHO IS ENGAGED TO A WOMAN, IS A STRONG LEAD-ACTRS NTENR FOR SPENCER. BUT THE STRETCH OF YEARS WHOUT AN LGBTQ+ MALE ACTOR NOMATED SEEMS LIKELY TO NTUE, AND THERE ARE ONCE AGA NO TRANS PERFORMERS THE NVERSATN.DETERMG A PERSON’S INTY IS, OF URSE, TRICKY. GLAAD’S BLACKLOW NOT THAT REMAS ILLEGAL TO ASK ABOUT ONE’S LGBTQ+ INTIFITN AT A JOB TERVIEW OR DN, AND THAT SOME QUEER ACTORS LIKELY “DON’T FEEL READY TO DISCLOSE THEIR GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE WORKPLACE.” BUT THE NTUED LACK OF OSR REGNN FOR OPENLY LGBTQ+ ACTORS MONSTRAT THAT HOLLYWOOD HAS FURTHER TO GO THAN SOME WOULD LIKE TO THK. AS CZ ARGU, “THE WAY PEOPLE VIEW THE WORK OF OPENLY QUEER ACTORS OPENLY QUEER ROL NEEDS TO CHANGE.”IN 2016, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE #OSRSSOWHE MOVEMENT HOLLYWOOD, IAN MCKELLEN WRYLY TOLD THE GUARDIAN, “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.” THE MORE THE YEARS ADD UP, AND THE FURTHER WE GET OM HIS HISTORIC SPEECH THAT WASN’T, THE CLEARER THE ANSWER APPEARS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— CARíONA BALFE’S CELTIC CONQUT, FROM OUTLANR TO BELFAST— WHAT VIVIAN VANCE DIDN’T LOVE ABOUT I LOVE LUCY— INSECURE’S NATASHA ROTHWELL CAN DO IT ALL— INSI THE LOST DGHTER’S HYPNOTIC, SUBVERSIVE CEMATOGRAPHY— HOW THE WHE LOT’S LOATHABLE ENSEMBLE CAME TOGETHER— SIGN UP FOR THE “AWARDS INSIR” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE.DAVID CANFIELD
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OSRS 2022: AMY SCHUMER, REGA HALL AND WANDA SYK SG THE WORD ‘GAY’ DIG AT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
‘For you people Florida, we’re gog to have a gay night,’ said Syk * why is oscar gay *
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'GAY, GAY, GAY': WHY OSR HOSTS TOOK A DIG AT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLWHAT IS THE PROPOSED 'DON'T SAY GAY BILL'? WE EXPLA. MYTHREYEE RAMHUPDATED: 28 MAR 2022, 6:12 PM ISTGENR3 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
The word 'gay' was repeated multiple tim by Osrs 2022 hosts Wanda Sky, Amy Schumer, and Rega Hall – seen to be a not-so-thly-veiled dig at the ntroversial 'Don't Say Gay' bill passed earlier this month US state of Florida. * why is oscar gay *
“No, bee I’m gay, ” Porter said. As that has changed, the nversatn has evolved to one of opportuny and equaly, often focg on whether stars who do not belong to a margalized inty group should play characters who do—straight actors playg gay, or cis actors playg trans. “The performanc that queer actors liver when they’re allowed to play queer characters have an thenticy that is unniable, ” says actor Wilson Cz, who’s achieved a s-long reer as an openly gay actor on TV shows such as My So-Called Life and Star Trek: Disvery.
THE FIVE GAYT MOMENTS IN AMY AWARDS HISTORY (SO FAR...)
The Amy Awards are great gay viewg — here are five of our favore moments om the ceremoni. * why is oscar gay *
“I’m not givg more cred to anyone when they play the rol, whether they’re gay or they’re straight. ) “Once they e out, lbian, gay, and bisexual actors have rarely been nsired for straight leadg rol, ” Blacklow says, “and they haven’t been st for leadg lbian, gay, or bisexual rol eher.
”Condon, who is gay, adds that—even an era where there’s great scty on thentic stg—fancial mands and generatnal setbacks plite the procs.
WHY DO THE OSRS LOVE CIS STRAIGHTS PLAYG QUEER PSYCHOS, VICTIMS, OR CLOSET CAS?IT’S AS IF A HAPPY, VICTOR GAY WOULD NOT BE WORTH THE SCREEN (OR PODIUM) {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOFEBARY 18, 2019/12:39 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:998PX;WIDTH:1500PX;}FOC FEATUR/FOXBY MICHAEL MTOFEBARY 18, 2019 / 12:39 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHY DO THE OSRS LOVE CIS STRAIGHTS PLAYG QUEER PSYCHOS, VICTIMS, OR CLOSET CAS?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-02-18T17:39:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-02-18T17:39:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"OSRS, MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WARNG: SOME SPOILERS BELOW! {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TO W AN OSR FOR A QUEER ROLE, YOU PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO HAVE AIDS (TOM HANKS PHILALPHIA, JARED LETO DALLAS BUYERS CLUB), BE A PSYCHO (CHARLIZE THERON MONSTER), BE THE VICTIM OF A PSYCHO (SEAN PENN MILK), BE A GRANDSE CRIMAL (WILLIAM HURT THE KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN), BEE UNHGED (NATALIE PORTMAN BLACK SWAN), BE A DOOMED BISEXUAL EP NIAL (LIZA MNELLI CABARET), OR BE A CLOSET SE WHO ALSO IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}Y, THERE ARE EXCEPTNS—PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN WON BT ACTOR FOR THE 2005 FILM CAPOTE, ABOUT FAMED THOR TMAN CAPOTE, WHO WAS NEHER NUTJOB NOR VICTIM—BUT GENERALLY, HELPS TO BE A BADDIE OR BE A BAD WAY TO GET THE AWARDS’ ATTENTN. IT SURELY HELPED THE BRILLIANT HOFFMAN’S CHANC THAT CAPOTE WAS FAIRLY SEXUALIZED THE FILM; THE VERY SAME YEAR, NEHER HEATH LEDGER NOR JAKE GYLLENHAAL WON FOR BROKEBACK MOUNTA, WHICH ALSO LOST BT PICTURE, REPORTEDLY BEE A LOT OF OSR VOTERS WERE TOO SQUEAMISH TO AL WH THE PHYSIL TERACTN BETWEEN THE TWO MAL. SOME OF THEM SUPPOSEDLY ULDN’T EVEN GET UP THE NERVE TO WATCH THE DVD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, LET ME UPDATE MY THIS AND SAY THAT THE OSRS LOVE WHEN YOU'RE A WEIRDO, A VICTIM, OR NTERED. IN GYLLENHAAL’S SE, HIS CHARACTER’S SEVERE VICTIMHOOD ULDN’T TMP THE FACT THAT HE HAD GAY SEX ONSCREEN, AND AS A RULT, WE NOW KNOW THE OSRS’ PECKG ORR OF GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THOSE ARE NOT THE ONLY SYMPATHETIC QUEER CHARACTERS WHO DIDN’T PROVI OSR GOLD FOR THE ACTORS. ALSO NOMATED BUT WENT HOME EMPTY-HAND WERE DANIEL MASSEY FOR STAR!, ESTELLE PARSONS FOR RACHEL, RACHEL, PETER FCH FOR SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, CHER FOR SILKWOOD, TOM COURTENAY AS THE EFFEMATE TLE CHARACTER THE DRSER, WHOOPI GOLDBERG AND MARGARET AVERY FOR THE COLOR PURPLE (SPIELBERG RCED THEIR RELATNSHIP TO ONE KISS, BUT WHOOPI SAID SHE GOT GRIEF FOR ), JAM CO FOR ONLY WHEN I LGH, ROBERT PRTON FOR VICTOR/VICTORIA, VANSA REDGRAVE FOR THE BOSTONIANS, GREG KNEAR FOR AS GOOD AS IT GETS (A VICTIM, BUT THE TWO OSR WNG STRAIGHTS HELP HIM GET BACK ON HIS FEET), JAVIER BARM BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (HE PLAYED A WRER WHO’S REPEATEDLY IMPRISONED AND DI OF AIDS—I’M SURPRISED HE DIDN’T W), JULIANNE MOORE FOR THE HOURS, CHLOë SEVIGNY FOR BOYS DON’T CRY, CATHERE KEENER FOR CAPOTE, EDDIE REDMAYNE FOR THE DANISH GIRL (HE HAD ALREADY WON), COL FIRTH FOR A SGLE MAN (HE'S A SAD PROFSOR, BUT HE DO CI AGAST KILLG HIMSELF), SALMA HAYEK FOR FRIDA, KATHY BAT FOR PRIMARY COLORS, ROONEY MARA FOR THE GIRL WH THE DRAGON TATTOO, CATE BLANCHETT AND ROONEY MARA FOR CAROL (SAD, BUT NOT TRAGIC ENOUGH), RICHARD JENKS FOR THE SHAPE OF WATER (NOT TRAGIC AT ALL), ANTE BENG FOR THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (DTO), AND TIMOTHEE CHALAMET FOR CALL ME BY YOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOME OF THOSE CHARACTERS WERE VICTIMIZED FOR THEIR SEXUALY, WHICH, OF URSE, IS A LARGE PART OF WHY THE ACTORS GOT THE NOMATN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT SURELY WASN’T ENOUGH FOR THE W. IN CHALAMET’S SE, HIS CHARACTER HAD SEX WH A GUY, AND NO ONE THE FILM SEEMED ALL THAT UPSET ABOUT . EL (CHALAMET) WAS ONLY DISTURBED WHEN WAS OVER! AND EVEN THAT LED TO A G-OF-AGE! THE SAME-SEX RELATNSHIP WAS PRETTY MUCH WONRFULLY OKAY, WHICH WAS SO REHG, THOUGH SIMPLY IS NOT THE KD OF THG THAT GETS THE ACTG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEANWHILE, OUT GAYS PLAYG GAY (RUPERT EVERETT MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG) UALLY DON'T EVEN GET NOMATED, AND IF THEY DO (IAN MCKELLEN FOR GODS AND MONSTERS), THEY DON’T W. BUT IF YOU’RE A STRAIGHT PERSON DOG A LBIAN/GAY/BI ROLE, THAT HELPS YOUR OSR CHANC BEE YOU’RE MEND FOR YOUR ALLEGED URAGE TACKLG THE ASSIGNMENT, AS IF TAK SO MUCH BRAVERY TO ACCEPT A GREAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIARLY, IF YOU’RE CIS PLAYG TRANS, YOU’RE REWARD FOR YOUR CREDIBLE FEARLSNS DOG SO—CHRIS SARANDON WAS NOMATED FOR 1975’S DOG DAY AFTERNOON, WHEN REALLY WAS DARG (AND HE WAS GREAT), JOHN LHGOW WAS UP FOR THE WORLD ACRDG TO GARP, AND FELICY HUFFMAN GOT A NOM FOR 2005’S TRANSAMERI—THOUGH THE ONLY REAL BRAVERY VOLVED THE DAYS IS DODGG ALL THE EVABLE PLATS ABOUT YOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HILARY SWANK, OF URSE, WON BT ACTRS FOR PLAYG REAL-LIFE TRANS MAN BRANDON TEENA 1999’S HEART-WRENCHG BOY’S DON’T CRY. SHE WAS POWERFUL, BUT LET’S NOT FET THAT BRANDON WAS ULTIMATELY RAPED AND MURRED, WHICH PROVID A HORRIFYG CX FOR THE FILM’S DRAMA. (A REEE TRANS CHARACTER SIMPLY DON’T W.) AND THE LURE OF THE GENR-SWCH ALWAYS APPEALS TO OSR. IN CISGENR PLAY, LDA HUNT (WHO WAS NOT AN OUT LBIAN AT THE TIME) WON FOR PLAYG A MAN THE YEAR OF LIVG DANGEROLY, GWYH PALTROW WON FOR PLAYG A WOMAN WHO’S DISGUISED AS A MAN SHAKPEARE IN LOVE, AND GLENN CLOSE AND JA MCTEER WERE NOMATED FOR THE SAME ALBERT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TTH IS THAT THE OSRS LOVE CIS HETEROS PLAYG QUEER TYP—BOTH GOOD AND BAD ON—AND THE PROCS, THEY’RE PROJECTG THE WAY THEY WANT TO SEE . THEY ALSO LIKE HEAVY EMOTG, AND SOME PEOPLE ARGUE, “WHERE’S THE DRAMA A STORY IF YOU DON’T GO TO THOSE EXTREME ROUT?” WELL, FILMS LIKE CALL ME BY YOUR NAME AND THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT MANAGED TO FD DRAMA WHOUT RELYG ON FAIAR TROP OF CLOSETED PSYCHO VICTIMHOOD. AND STRAIGHT CHARACTERS HAVE CERTALY WON ACTG OSRS WHOUT RORTG TO ANY OF THAT—WHOUT DYG, BEG MURRED, BEG RCERATED, BEG BEATEN, OR KILLG PEOPLE. COL FIRTH, EMMA STONE, GEOFEY RH, JANE FONDA, VLA DAVIS, HELEN MIRREN, BARBRA STREISAND, KATHARE HEPBURN, AND PLENTY MORE PPED TROPHI FOR PLAYG CENT HETEROSEXUALS WHO OVERME OBSTACL. AND FLAT OUT HERO LED TO OSRS FOR JULIA ROBERTS, JODIE FOSTER, GARY OLDMAN, GARY COOPER, ANNE BANCROFT, GREGORY PECK, SALLY FIELD, SIDNEY POIER, AND ON AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT AGA AND AGA, THEY NOMATE ACTORS PLAYG ROL THAT FALL TO FAVORED GENR—LIKE THE POSSIBLE PEDOPHILE PRIT DOUBT, PLAYED BY—HIM AGA—PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. MAYBE HOFFMAN WOULD HAVE WON HIS SEND OSR IF THE PRIT WAS FELY PROVEN TO BE A PERV. AFTER ALL, 2015’S SPOTLIGHT, ABOUT SAME-SEX MOLTATN BEG EXPOSED THE BOSTON ARCHDCE, GLID TO BT PICTURE. THE NEXT YEAR’S BT PICTURE WAS MOONLIGHT, ABOUT A BLACK BOY’S VERY ROUGH G OF AGE AS GAY, BUT WHILE MAHERSHALA ALI WON BT SUPPORTG ACTOR FOR PLAYG A DG-ALG FATHER FIGURE, THE ACTORS PLAYG GAY WEREN’T EVEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OTHER EXCEPTN TO THE LE WAS CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER WNG FOR BEGNERS, WHICH HE WAS A LATE-BLOOMG GAY WHO BEME MORE HONT WH HIMSELF (THOUGH, NATURALLY, HE HAD TO DIE). BUT LET’S THK BACK ON ANOTHER BT SUPPORTG WNER, GEE SANRS AS ACID-TONGUED SCRIBE ADDISON DEWT THE 1950 BACKSTAGE, BACKSTABBG-CLASSIC ALL ABOUT EVE. ADDISON IS HARDLY PRENTED AS GAY, BUT ALWAYS SEEMED OBV TO ME THAT HE IS. HE’S VOLVED WH RISG STAR EVE HARRGTON, BUT THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY PASSNATELY LT; ’S A BATTLE OF WILLS, WH ADDISON PULLG OUT ALL THE VIC STOPS ALONG THE WAY TO OWN AND CRIPPLE HER. HE OFF LIKE A BIG, OLD NASTY CLOSET QUEEN, AND ’S NO WONR HE WON THE OSR, IF NOT THE SARAH SIDDONS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO NOMATED THROUGH THE YEARS WERE JUDH ANRSON FOR THE EVIL, LBIANIC MRS. DANVERS REBEC, CLIFTON WEBB FOR THE PRISSY VILLA LRA, VICTOR BUONO FOR THE CREEPED OUT MAMA’S BOY WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, AND TOMMY LEE JON FOR A SISTER GAY JFK. AND OTHER SUGGTIVE VELOPMENTS, CHARLTON HTON WON BT ACTOR FOR 1959’S CHART-RACG EPIC BEN-HUR, THOUGH ANY GAY NTENT WAS ONLY THE SUBTEXT, SNUCK THERE BY DIRECTOR WILLIAM WYLER AND GAY WRER GORE VIDAL WHOUT THE HEAVG-CHTED HTON EVEN KNOWG. IF THE GAYNS HAD BEEN WI OPEN, DO YOU REALLY THK THIS HUR WOULD HAVE WON BT PICTURE AND ACTOR?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS YEAR, THERE ARE SEVEN QUEER CHARACTERS CLUD OUT OF 20 ACTG NOMATNS—AND MOST OF THEM ARE PRETTY CRACKED! AS I’VE WRTEN BEFORE, ’S OKAY THAT THERE ARE NEGATIVE AND/OR TEXTURED CHARACTERIZATNS OF QUEERS, SEEG AS WE NOW HAVE MORE DIVERSY OF REPRENTATN, AND THE WIR PALETTE ALLOWS FOR VARIETY. BUT THE AWARDS PALETTE STILL STAYS FOCED ON CERTA TYP OF CHARACTERS. MAHERSHALA ALI IS THE ONTNNER TO W FOR GREEN BOOK, WHO IS WONRFUL, ALBE AS A CLOSET-Y CHARACTER WHO'S VICTIMIZED. ALSO: ROCKER FREDDIE MERCURY, PLAYED BY RAMI MALEK BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, WAS AMBIGUOLY CLOSETED AND HAD AIDS (AND THE FILM STUDLY STAYS AWAY OM GAY SEX); QUEEN ANNE (OLIVIA COLMAN THE FAVOURE) IS PORTRAYED AS A FAIRLY MENTED WOMAN WHO LBIAN SEX—WH CHARACTERS PLAYED BY EMMA STONE-AND RACHEL WEISZ—FOR POWER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEE ISRAEL(MELISSA MCCARTHY CAN YOU EVER FIVE ME?) WAS A MISANTHROPIC LAWBREAKER WHO ULDN’T KEEP A RELATNSHIP BEE SHE REFED TO SHOW HER GIRLIEND ANY NICENS OR TIMACY; AND JACK HOCK (RICHARD E. GRANT THE SAME FILM) IS PORTRAYED AS A SLEAZY GRIFTER WHO’S TOTALLY DOWN AND OUT AND GAME FOR ANYTHG. TIME SAYS THE REAL-LIFE HOCK LIVED A NICE APARTMENT, BUT THE MOVIE MAK HIM HOMELS. LIKE I SAID, A MORE PATHETIC GAY IS ALWAYS BETTER TO MOVIELAND—AND HE’S A CRIMAL, TOO. FORTUNATELY, THE CRACKLG SCRIPT AND GRANT’S PERFORMANCE MANAGE TO BRG OUT WHAT’S APPEALG ABOUT THE GUY. WHEN ISRAEL TENDS TO HIS BIS, YOU SEE HUMANY BOTH OF THEM. (SI NOTE: I’M SURPRISED WILL SMH WASN’T NOMATED FOR PLAYG A QUEER N MAN 1993’S SIX DEGRE OF SEPARATN. PERHAPS SMH SHOULDN’T HAVE OPENLY REFED TO DO THE GAY KISS THE MOVIE. IT’S HARD TO BE GRANTED OSR POTS FOR URAGE WHEN YOU’RE SO OBVLY NNG SRED OM THE JOB.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAST YEAR, THE CHILEAN DRAMA A FANTASTIC WOMAN WON BT FOREIGN FILM, AND THOUGH THE FILM WAS RIVETGLY DONE, WAS ABOUT A TRANS SGER WHO FACED OPPRSN VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE SHE TURNED. SHE AND THE MOVIE WERE ED FANTASTIC, BUT I WONR IF THE OSRS PECIALLY LOVED THE FACT THAT HER PLIGHT WAS RELENTLS. ONCE THE SGER’S LOVG BOYIEND DIED, ALMOST EVERY MOMENT SEEMED TO BE ABOUT HER BEG TRANS AND THE MELODRAMATIC REPERCSNS OF THAT FACT (TERSPERSED WH SOME GIDDY FANTASY MOMENTS).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOMEDAY I HOPE WE N HONOR FILMS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE BASILLY PEOPLE, AND WHO JT HAPPEN TO BE TRANS. I ALSO HAVE TO WONR IF THE FILM’S GREAT STAR, DANIELA VEGA, WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A BT ACTRS NOMATN IF SHE WERE CIS. AND WHILE I’M WONRG: I BET THE OSRS WISH THEY ULD GO BACK TIME AND AWARD A FIRST TROPHY TO SHIRLEY MACLAE FOR PLAYG A TEACHER WHO IS NVCED BY GOSSIP THAT SHE IS A LBIAN AND AS A RULT KILLS HERSELF THE HORRIFYG THE CHILDREN’S HOUR (1961). IT SEEMS LIKE A QUTSENTIAL OSR MOMENT, THOUGH SHIRLEY WASN’T EVEN NOMATED. I GUS THEY MA UP FOR THAT BY NOMATG JUDI DENCH AS A BTER AND PREDATORY LBIAN TEACHER 2006’S NOT ON A SNDAL, ANOTHER OVER-THE-TOP MOVIE THAT I FOUND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS FOR FILMS THAT LOOK BACK ON AIDS’ GRISLIER DAYS, THEY GO THE OPPOSE WAY OF TRANS MOVI; THEY TEND TO WATER THGS DOWN, NOT HYPE THGS UP. I’M ALL FOR REPRENTG AIDS POIGNANCY IF ’S GOG TO BE TTHFUL, NOT JT A TOKEN EXPRSN OF MORE “VICTIMHOOD." BUT SOME OF THE POST-PHILALPHIA FILMS THAT TOUCH ON CHARACTERS WH AIDS DOWNPLAY THE EFFECTS OF THE DISEASE, NO DOUBT TO PLATE THE SAME VIEWERS THAT WERE OFFEND BY BROKEBACK MOUNTA. SO THEY TRY TO HAVE BOTH WAYS—THEY SHOW THE CHARACTERS’ TRAGIC END WHOUT REALLY SHOWG THE CHARACTERS’ TRAGIC END. BUT OTHERS HAVE MANAGED TO BE BOTH TOUGH AND TENR, GARNERG EVABLE NOMS FOR DYG BCE DAVISON (LONGTIME COMPANN) AND ED HARRIS (THE HOURS).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BISEXUALY? IN OSR’S EY, “BI” TOO OFTEN MEANS “BATTY." I’VE ALREADY MENTNED SOME EXAMPL, BUT ALSO, NILE KIDMAN WON BT ACTRS FOR PLAYG WRER VIRGIA WOOLF THE HOURS (2002), WHICH SHE KISS HER SISTER VERY HARD AND IS NSTANTLY HAVG NERVO BREAKDOWNS AND DROWNS HERSELF. PENELOPE CZ WON BT SUPPORTG ACTRS FOR VICKY CRISTA BARCELONA (2008), WHICH SHE WAS A SUICIDAL BISEXUAL WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE EXTREMELY TRIGGER HAPPY. BUT THEN THERE’S 2001’S IRIS, WHICH GRABBED NOMATNS FOR JUDI DENCH AND KATE WSLET AS NOVELIST IRIS MURDOCH AT DIFFERENT AG. IRIS WAS BRILLIANT—AND SHE HAD A BILATG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I’M NOT STG ASPERSNS ON ANY OF THE ACTORS’ TALENTS, BUT ON THE KDS OF ROL AND STG THAT W TROPHI. I ALSO AM NOT RIDG THE WAY HOMOPHOBIA AND THE RULTG TRAGEDI ARE ADDRSED FILMS—THAT HEO PART OF WHAT WE’VE ALWAYS GONE THROUGH SHOULD NOT BE ERASED—I’M SIMPLY SAYG THAT MOVI AND AWARDS SEEM TO FETISHIZE THAT TRAJECTORY. IT’S AS IF A HAPPY, VICTOR GAY WOULD NOT BE WORTH THE SCREEN (OR PODIUM) TIME. AT LEAST MONSTER, WAS CLEAR THAT WAS EXTREME HOMOPHOBIA, AMONG OTHER THGS, THAT HELPED DRIVE AILEEN WUORNOS TO PSYCHOSIS— WASN’T JT THAT QUEER TOMATILLY EQUALS LOONEY—BUT WHY NOT ALSO HAVE CHARLIZE THERON PLAY A QUEER HERO LIKE EDIE WDSOR AND P SOME AWARDS FOR THAT, TOO?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, WE’RE NSTANTLY MAKG BABY STEPS TOWARD HAVG THE FULL BREADTH OF OUR MUNY AND S HISTORY SHOWN, SO HERE’S TO A BRIGHTER, FULLER FUTURE THAT DON’T ALWAYS GIVE ACLAS TO THE AFFLICTED. AND CHEERS TO THIS YEAR’S OSR NOME, WHO ALL HAPPEN TO BE VERY GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO. JT LIKE THE HAMMY ACTOR WHO GOT BOOED FOR HIS HAMLET, THEY N ALWAYS SHOUT BACK, “HEY! I DIDN’T WRE THIS SH!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}OSRSMTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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