How 'Strange World' troduc the first out gay teenager a Disney animated film

Contents:

• DENNIS QUAID.S TROUBLOME GAY LOVE SCENE
• IS DENNIS QUAID GAY?
• HERE'S HOW 'STRANGE WORLD' TRODUC THE FIRST OUT GAY TEENAGER A DISNEY ANIMATED FILM: 'IT WAS A BETIFUL THG TO BE A PART OF'

DENNIS QUAID.S TROUBLOME GAY LOVE SCENE

durg filmg - while performg a gay love scene. While “Strange World” explor a fantastil environment full of myster creatur and flora, cludg flyg fish and walkg rock lumns, the actn-adventure film also clus a first for Walt Disney Animatn Studs: a gay teen romance. The animated feature troduc viewers to Ethan Cla, a biracial, openly gay teenager who gets pletely tongue-tied when he’s near his csh, Diazo.

“His gayns is one part of him. 1 untry hs the ’90s, me out as gay 2014 and began producg the show the followg year as the rult of a sire to show how much of the Nashville muny publicly stands behd the LGBTQ muny. It follows Quaid and Moore as a 1950s uple whose marriage falls apart when Quaid's character reveals he is gay and is forced to unrgo nversn therapy.

IS DENNIS QUAID GAY?

9 (UPI) -- Gettg to character for his latt screen enavor of a married, closeted homosexual the 1950s "Far From Heaven" wasn't difficult says actor Dennis Quaid, not even the kiss scene wh his on screen lover. Bis, he knows what 's like to have troubl and feel you're not beg te to yourself even if he n't intify wh the homosexual aspect of the character.

"We all have our secrets and feel we're not livg an thentic life om time to time and, although the character is gay, I n relate to what he's gog through, " says a tired but relaxed Quaid between pulls on his cigarette durg an terview. Moore plays Cathy Whaker, the perfect hoewife who velops a relatnship wh her black garner Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) to the horror of the town's gossipmongers, while her hband Frank is grapplg wh his homosexualy. Mimickg the 1950s style of domtic melodramatic movie makg particularly that of director Douglas Sirk ("All that Heaven Allows"), "Far From Heaven" not only explor the theme of homosexualy, but that of racial prejudice wh a well-to-do suburban home durg the post-World War II era.

Taylor Ksch and Mark Ruffalo play gay activists tryg to raise awarens of the AIDS epimic the early 1980s HBO's film adaptatn of The Normal Heart. Ruffalo's openly gay ma character Ned Weeks is based on playwright Larry Kramer while Ksch plays closeted vtment banker Bce Nil.

HERE'S HOW 'STRANGE WORLD' TRODUC THE FIRST OUT GAY TEENAGER A DISNEY ANIMATED FILM: 'IT WAS A BETIFUL THG TO BE A PART OF'

Ruffalo rells: “I said to Ryan [Murphy, who directs], ‘Aren’t we at the age when a gay actor should be playg this? Simon Bishop (Knear) is a stgglg gay artist livg New York Cy, where he is asslted and nearly killed. In this remake of the 1978 French film La Cage x Foll, Williams plays the gay owner of a South Beach drag club, whose newly engaged son asks him to pretend to be straight orr to imprs his fiancée's ultra-nservative father (Gene Hackman), an Oh Republin senator.

After the ath of his wife, Hal (Plummer) out to his son (Ewan McGregor) and, spe his advanced age, begs to explore his life as an openly gay man, while simultaneoly retablishg a relatnship wh his son. Frank (Dennis Quaid) is a succsful advertisg exec 1950s suburban Connecticut, whose wife (Julianne Moore) disvers that Frank is havg several homosexual extramaral affairs. The 1965 film is generally regnized as one of the early pictns of a gay or bisexual character Amerin cema.

After his release, Mola is eventually shot and left for ad by a homophobic police chief, who believed Mola to be a member of a leftist revolutnary group. This 2008 bgraphil feature se Penn play real-life polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who 1977 beme the first openly gay person to be elected to California public office. Andrew Beckett (Hanks) is an associate at a rporate Philalphia law firm who, spe livg wh his long-term partner, is not open wh his -workers about his homosexualy or his AIDS.

Smh plays a real-life, gay n artist David Hampton, who ns an Upper East Si fay to believg that he is a close iend of their Ivy-league children. She fac two of the most credible taboos that existed at that time: homosexualy (which was a mystery to everyone) and a woman's nnectn to a man of a different race (though entirely nocent).

Nowadays, there is no answer to the issue -Dennis Quaid is gay? Neverthels, speculatns over whether Dennis Quaid is gay or not are still prent certa rners of the tabloids and on var webs, once aga whout any solid foundatn. Celebri such as Dennis Quaid never have admted they're homosexual, this is sce they're fely not gay or sce they're and don't want to go public.