All the openly gay male celebri Hollywood who are out and proud: Chris Appleton, Dan Levy, Andrew Stt, Kal Penn, and more.
Contents:
- ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- DO GAY LEADG MEN STILL FACE BIAS IN HOLLYWOOD?
ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
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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. 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. 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.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
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.". 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.". 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. The show will leave a legacy of thentic pictns of sexualy — cludg scen volvg gay character Lnel (DeRon Horton), moled after Simien himself. 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. The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap 2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
After 45 seasons, 's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Night Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock 2019 as the st's first Che Amerin stmember and only s third openly gay male. But wasn’t until they were shootg the send season that Rubste began to ask Silva, who is openly gay: “Hey, how was for you to e out to your fay, to your iends? “When there’s so few rol that are for a gay character out there, let have an opportuny to play the rol that are about our liv today....
DO GAY LEADG MEN STILL FACE BIAS IN HOLLYWOOD?
Bragman reprented actor Isaiah Washgton after Washgton faced public cricism for reportedly llg his Grey’s Anatomy -star, gay actor T. Bragman, who’s legally married to the prizewng horse traer Chuck O’Donnell, handl the terview wh an easy nfince: His parents were “tolerant and acceptg” when he me out of the closet his 20s; Proposn 8 was “extremely paful”; gays and lbians need to “ll people on their sh. Sce 1991, when Bragman helped actor Dick Sargent — who starred oppose Elizabeth Montgomery as the send Darr, the irascible but lovg hband the hugely popular 1960s and ’70s fay show Bewched — e out to a somewhat stunned Amerin public on Entertament Tonight, the publicist has assisted numero gay and lbian celebri navigatg this tricky and, for s, risky terra.
“What [Howard] was really good at, ” says Amaechi, who, 2007, me out as the first openly gay pro basketball player but didn’t want to be turned to a poster boy for the gay-rights movement, “was that he ma sure I stayed thentic to myself. Anrson, who wanted to make a statement to the entertament dtry that gay actors n play straight leadg-man rol, says, “Howard helped me foc on the msage a way that I wanted to liver . “As far as I know, ” says Dale Reynolds, a Los Angel–based actor and journalist who found a gay actors support group the late 1970s, “he’s the only one dog this.