All the Openly Gay Male Celebs Who Are Out, Proud & Smok’ Hot – SheKnows

Contents:

• GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• TOP 51 BT GAY ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD OF ALL TIME
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

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ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

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.

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.

TOP 51 BT GAY ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD OF ALL TIME

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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. 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.

She then was tapped to direct an episo of “Unr the Banner of Heaven, ” gay Osr wner Dt Lance Black’s FX te-crime limed seri. The actor (the “Harold & Kumar” movi, “The Namake”) me out as gay October advance of his memoir, “You Can’t Be Ser, ” announcg he was engaged to his partner, Josh.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

Always a low-key provotr, Carmichael summed up the experience by simply sayg, “If you say you’re gay New York, you n ri the b for ee and they jt give you pizza. Next, Corr topl Amazon’s queer romantic drama “My Policeman” as a woman whose hband, played by Harry Styl, is secretly gay.

One challenge facg gay rappers is that most are solo acts — as a founr of Brockhampton, a rare hiphop group, Abstract had the support of his bandmat when he me out 2016. Nas’ first album, “Montero, ” buted last fall to wi acclaim and certified platum sal, as he ntued to leverage his image as an unabashedly sexual gay man wh breathtakg self-assurance. In the procs, the Asie actor — an out gay alumn of “Lookg” — gave viewers a poignant portra of one man’s need for the dopame h of approval.