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Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: WHY SO MANY ACTRS CAN COME OUT, BUT YOUNG ACTORS STAY THE CLOSET
- WHY CELEBRY CHILDREN GROW UP GAY OR TRANSGENR
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
HOLLYWOOD’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: WHY SO MANY ACTRS CAN COME OUT, BUT YOUNG ACTORS STAY THE CLOSET
In an age of "Call Me by Your Name" and "I'm like, so gay" Kristen Stewart, young leadg men still fear g out of the closet. * why are so many celebrities gay *
The “Roseanne” reboot has a genr-nonnformg child, and “Love, Simon, ” the first major stud film about a gay teenager, is playg 2, 402 theaters natnwi. This week livered a stark remr of the real state of affairs, when Jam Ivory gave a no-holds-barred terview The Guardian lamentg the lack of full-ontal male nudy “Call Me By Your Name, ” the gay awards film of last year, which earned the Hollywood legend his first Osr for Bt Adapted Screenplay.
“Star Trek” actor John Cho is straight, but played Billy Eichner’s boyiend “Difficult People, ” as well as the latt eratn of Sulu “Star Trek, ” who is revealed as gay the third stallment.
WHY CELEBRY CHILDREN GROW UP GAY OR TRANSGENR
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The same logic do not apply to straight actors, like “Call Me by Your Name” stars Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, for whom playg gay (albe a prtig film) actually bolstered their reers. “As a producer, as someone who’s creatg a role for TV, they’re gog to want to have their lead actor, or actrs believably play the role, ” said the talent manager, who is openly gay. In that se, the solutn may be to wre fewer heterosexual romanc altogether — which might not be a bad thg for actrs, straight or gay, as Hollywood attempts to reckon wh s history of sexualizg women.
Zachary Quto, Alan Cummg, and Neil Patrick Harris have ma no secret of beg gay, but they eher waed until later life to e out, or did not reach the height of their fame until later life. Greg Berlanti, who directed “Love, Simon” and is pretty much sgle-handly rponsible for the proliferatn of gay supportg characters on televisn, has been around long enough to be more optimistic.
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.
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
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. 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.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
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.
29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
' 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.
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.