This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years.
Contents:
- ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
- 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- TOP 51 BT GAY ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD OF ALL TIME
- GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
- FAMO GAY PEOPLE
ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
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You n also e this list of notable gay Brs to start your own people Freebase / Public domaFreddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a Brish sger, songwrer, rerd producer, and lead volist of the rock band Queen. In addn to lnchg the New York chapter of the lbian anizatn, Dghters of Bilis (which she ran form 1958 to 1963), she eded their natnal magaze and was known for standg ont and center picket l prottg anti-gay discrimatn.
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30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
All the openly gay male celebri Hollywood who are out and proud: Chris Appleton, Dan Levy, Andrew Stt, Kal Penn, and more. * well known gay men *
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TOP 51 BT GAY ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD OF ALL TIME
January 29, 2023 We see a ee and liberal Hollywood today where many gay actors, cludg the old actors as well as the new generatn of actors, are openly * well known gay men *
Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny. After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny.
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.
GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
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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.
' 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.
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are. * well known gay men *
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.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
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. “Some people know straight away, I didn’t and took me a mute to unrstand that and accept that and then e out, ” he told longtime iend and client Kim Kardashian for Gay Tim.
Talkg to Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen 2020, Dan said that his parents, fellow actor and star Eugene Levy and Deborah Dive, knew Dan was gay before he me out. ” “We have to show up for each other, bee there’s still young trans, nonbary, gay, lbian, pan, bisexual people who are artists that are not gettg their opportuni, ” he told Out Magaze.
Former The Bachelor lead Colton Unrwood me out as gay on Good Morng Ameri April 2021, a year after his 2020 breakup wh Cassie Randolph, whom he met on the show, and to whom he apologized this new terview for the ighteng behavr that led her to file a rtrag orr agast him after their spl.
11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
Atralian sger and actor Troye Sivan me out as gay to his fans 2013 via YouTube vio, and he’s been open about what ’s like navigatg fame as a young gay man ever sce.
By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was remend by major LGBT groups and style guis to scribe people attracted to members of the same sex, although is more monly ed to refer specifilly to men. Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anizatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s biggt. Goronwy was scribed as the “most perceptive member of the mtee”, and the one who succsfully argued that the mtee should take evince directly om homosexual men.
In 2019 he received France’s hight civilian award, the Legn d’honnr, by Print Emmanuel Macron, who lled him one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT muny. He and his partner David Furnish were among the first upl the UK to get a civil partnership 2005, when the law was changed to allow gay relatnships to be legally regnized.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
In 1978, he helped troduce the cy’s first LGBTQ+ rights ordance, which Milk referred to as “the most strgent gay rights law the untry, ” acrdg to The Tim. Jt Fashanu was Bra’s first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top tiers.
Lambda is an Amerin civil rights anizatn that foc on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muni as well as people livg wh HIV/AIDS (PWAs) through impact ligatn, societal tn, and public policy work. Through fellow soldier and poet Siegied Sassoon, Owen was troduced to a sophistited homosexual lerary circle which broaned his outlook and creased his nfince rporatg homoerotic elements to his work.
We see a ee and liberal Hollywood today where many gay actors, cludg the old actors as well as the new generatn of actors, are openly accepted by their peers and their fans. Sir Ian is also an outspoken gay rights activist and me out durg a BBC 3 Rad terview while discsg a law that uld hamper gay rights and alienate homosexualy society. However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola.
THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly.
It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women. "When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet. " In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter.
After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat.
FAMO GAY PEOPLE
" Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol. Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life.