Is Martha plimpton gay? - Answers

Contents:

• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: MARTHA PLIMPTON
• MARTHA PLIMPTON ON ‘THE REAL O’NEALS,’ BEG A GAY IN AND MORE [INTERVIEW]
• IS MARTHA PLIMPTON GAY

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: MARTHA PLIMPTON

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" I'm very nerdy and role do gay fans rpond to the most? I'm like, "So, you have sex wh gay men, but you're not gay... My circle of gay iends also enjoys your harried party hosts 1999's 200 know, at some pot the '80s, a gay man me up to me and said, "Oh, honey, the gays love you.

[Lghs]Growg up on Manhattan's Upper Wt Si, what was your troductn to the gay muny? It's like, the sky is blue, and there are gay people everywhere.

MARTHA PLIMPTON ON ‘THE REAL O’NEALS,’ BEG A GAY IN AND MORE [INTERVIEW]

Have you ever fallen for a gay man? There was a guy , a dancer, who was super-duper, uld not be gayer -- obvly 100-percent gay. The Seventi saw many women's rights, gay rights, and environmental movements.

HBO MaxIn TV and movi that feature a teen g out story, we’ve gotten ed to seeg certa kds of are the on who, like, Jennifer Garner’s character Love, Simon, are the platonic ial, who know the exact right thg to say about acceptance, liverg a betiful monologue that any gay teenager would hope to hear om after g out. Her blown-out hair, rdigan, and pearls move fortably om church servic to backyard margaras wh the gay uple she’s been iends wh sce high school, pleased that their nnectn signals publicly that she’s, perhaps, a “ol” nservative. ”Jtice Smh Fally Gets to Be ‘Gay as F*ck’ on ‘Genera+n’People tung to the queer-posive show may not have expected for Plimpton’s Megan—whose stggle to accept Nathan is one of the seri’ recurrg threads—to be a favore character.

IS MARTHA PLIMPTON GAY

”That’s what mak this relatnship so different om what we’re ed to seeg, even on a s like The Real O’Neals, on which Plimpton played the Catholic mother of a teenage gay son. ”That Megan n accept her gay iends and Nathan’s queer classmat but not her own son isn’t hypocrisy, at least not her ey. In TV and movi that feature a teen g out story, we’ve gotten ed to seeg certa kds of are the on who, like, Jennifer Garner’s character Love, Simon, are the platonic ial, who know the exact right thg to say about acceptance, liverg a betiful monologue that any gay teenager would hope to hear om after g out.

As the reigng matriarch on ABC's The Real O'Neals, Plimpton might not be the mom every young gay boy wants, but she is certaly close to the mom a lot of  had. One of the thgs that's really movg me and touchg me week after week is hearg particularly om young gay men on Twter and out the world who say how much this relatnship between Eileen and Kenny remds them of their own relatnships wh their moms, and how much means to them to see that relatnship on televisn and to see those negotiatns and those fights and those moments of reckong played out as normal reali of life. I've also found movg when I've heard om some moms of gay sons who really relate to Eileen and feel like some bizarre way we're sort of strangely offerg a mol and helpg them feel like they're not alone too this stggle, this readjtment, this realizatn that perfectn is not what you thk is all the time.

As much as our show is foced on tellg the very normal g-of-age story of a young, gay man, I thk our wrers are also not jt wrg for gay kids out there.