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Contents:

• MATT DAMON ADDRS MENTS ABOUT GAY ACTORS
• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL
• MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET
• MATT DAMON HAS BACKED HIMSELF TO A RNER WH HYPOCRIL GAY MENTS
• IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS
• MATT DAMON SUGGTS BEG OUT HURTS GAY ACTORS' CAREERS
• MATT DAMON CLARIFI REMARKS ON GAY ACTORS: ‘IT’S PAFUL WHEN THGS GET SAID THAT YOU DON’T BELIEVE’
• MATT DAMON FENDS MENTS ON GAY ACTORS AFTER BACKLASH
• AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR
• MATT DAMON SAYS COMMENTS ABOUT GAY ACTORS WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT
• SHUT UP, MATT DAMON: THE ACTOR ARGU GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET
• MATT DAMON DISCS OPENLY GAY ACTORS HOLLYWOOD

MATT DAMON ADDRS MENTS ABOUT GAY ACTORS

In his latt attempt to clarify somethg cendiary he’s said an terview, Matt Damon sisted that he misspoke when he recently told the Sunday Tim he only stopped g an anti-gay slur “months ago, ” and only bee his dghter explaed to him that was offensive. Notably, Damon got trouble 2015 for what some viewed as his suggtg that gay actors stay closeted.

“Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL

Damon claimed that the gossip put him and Affleck the posn of havg to ny they were gay, a suatn that he said was “really eply offensive. ” Damon explaed they didn’t want people to falsely assume they were gay bee they knew would hurt their reers. “But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out.

He went on “The Ellen DeGener Show” and said his remarks were ma “ the ntext of when Ben (Affleck) and I first started, and people wrote all the articl, when ‘Good Will Huntg’ me out, that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote the script. Matt Damon Viss Ellen DeGener to Correct His Remarks About Gay Actors: WATCH.

“And somebody picked up and said I said gay actors should get back the closet. Instead, he lnched to “the sort of anecdote people make headl about” — the story about how he stopped g the slur for gay people.

MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET

He said he apparently ma a joke, g “the ‘f-slur for a homosexual, '” which he explaed “was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Damon is currently promotg his new film The Martian, which he plays an astront strand on MarsActor Matt Damon has told Ellen DeGener that ments he ma a recent terview, sayg gay actors should keep their sexualy a secret, were taken out of ntext.

MATT DAMON HAS BACKED HIMSELF TO A RNER WH HYPOCRIL GAY MENTS

"Whether you're straight or gay, people shouldn't know anythg about your sexualy bee that's one of the mysteri that you should be able to play, " he told the Brish newspaper.

'Not that guy'Damon had been addrsg mours he and Ben Affleck were gay, which he said surfaced as they tried to get their 1997 Osr-wng film Good Will Huntg ma. "But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy - more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor - 's tough to make the argument that he didn't take a h for beg out.

"Image source, APImage ptn, Damon had ially been talkg about mours he and Ben Affleck were gay when he ma the mentsDamon later addrsed his ments durg a pre-taped terview on The Ellen DeGener Show, which is due to air on Tuday. " he told DeGener, "and somebody picked up and said I said 'gay actors should get back the closet'. "DeGener, who is openly gay, told Damon: "I know you and I know you're not that guy.

IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

Matt Damon found himself more hot water this weekend when his take on mors that he and Ben Affleck were gay turned to a discsn of gay actors , about that ponytail he was sportg over the summer: It wasn’t real. “When Ben and I first me on the scene, there were mors that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote a script together, ” he said. ”That revelatn was ma while Damon, who has four kids wh wife Luciana Barroso, said he believ openly gay actors have a more difficult time Hollywood.

“At the time [of the Affleck mors], I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out. ”Though he believ attus are changg, he champns same-sex marriage and he played Liberace’s gay lover HBO’s 2013 film “Behd the Canlabra, ” the actor took some heat for his next quote, which several outlets terpreted as him sayg that gay actors should not e out. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

MATT DAMON SUGGTS BEG OUT HURTS GAY ACTORS' CAREERS

The gay remarks me soon after he was cricized for “Damonsplag” diversy an episo of HBO’s “Project Greenlight. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

Damon, who has four children wh wife Luciana Barroso, said he was unfortable when mors were spread years ago that he and Good Will Huntg -wrer Ben Affleck might be a gay relatnship together. “But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay, and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out, ” the Martian actor add. Damon explaed the ments durg Monday’s episo of The Ellen DeGener Show, sayg that his remarks were ma “ the ntext of when Ben [Affleck] and I first started, and people wrote all the articl, when Good Will Huntg me out, that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote the script.

"And somebody picked up and said I said gay actors should get back the closet.

MATT DAMON CLARIFI REMARKS ON GAY ACTORS: ‘IT’S PAFUL WHEN THGS GET SAID THAT YOU DON’T BELIEVE’

”Damon had spoken hontly to the Guardian about past gay mors he and Ben Affleck faced when they first started actg Hollywood, referrg specifilly to their film "Good Will Huntg. "The veteran actor, 44, was promotg his new movie, "The Martian, " and told The Guardian an terview that ran on Monday that "When Ben and I first me on the scene there were mors that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote a script together. "Damon, who supports same-sex marriage, add that he believ mt be hard for talented, gay actors.

MATT DAMON FENDS MENTS ON GAY ACTORS AFTER BACKLASH

But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy – more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor – ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out.

""Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play, " Damon said. Ironilly enough, as the Daily Beast’s Kev Fallon lls out his impassned sayed rponse to Damon’s ments, the majory of the terview fds Damon disclosg tails on his home life (wh his wife and four dghters), his “really solid childhood”, and his personal opn on Barack Obama’s performance as wrote: “By argug that gay actors should keep their sexualy secret, Damon is sence turng homosexualy to some sort of event or cur that should matter when an actor is beg nsired for a role.

”HFix’s Louis Virtel lled Damon’s ments disuragg his rmed takedown tled: 7 Ugly Implitns of Matt Damon’s Comments About Out Gay Actors. “Beg a celebry requir some ndor; puttg prsure on gay celebri to shut up dit that they’re not ved to the same fame as their straight ntemporari, ” he actor ma no apology durg an appearance on Ellen DeGener’s US daytime talk show on Monday, clarifyg that he had not tend to e across as homophobic, but once aga strsg that “actors are more effective when they’re a mystery” vg Damon to rpond to the cricism, DeGener ma an exce for him by placg the blame on the prs: “When you do terviews, you say somethg and people wre and gets twisted around. It’s also bafflg and dishearteng to see DeGener, a public figure who’s openly gay, rally to Damon’s fense.

AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR

(This is a woman who disclosed her sexualy 1997 and proved you be n be openly gay Hollywood and still be massively succsful. Asked directly, durg the Observer terview, if ’s harr for actors to be openly gay Hollywood, Damon said: “I’m sure, ” then explibly lnched to the mors that he and Ben Affleck were gay durg the perd the pair beme well-known Hollywood after wrg the Osr-wng screenplay for 1997’s Good Will Huntg. If he were to live by his da, Damon would rather his own sexualy wasn’t public knowledge, so he uld nvcgly read as gay the dience’s ey when playg a homosexual character.

Instead of echog the valu of Old Hollywood, which actors’ private liv were kept private by the stud that employed them, Damon should offer his take on how the dtry n evolve to better serve openly gay actors. To date, his only major rol stud pictur were as gay bt iends to Julia Roberts My Bt Friend’s Weddg, and Madonna The Next Bt Thg. Matt Damon has at last spoken out about old mors that he and his actor pal Ben Affleck have had a gay star of the "Bourne" movi was the foc of speculatn early his reer, the "Good Will Huntg" days, that he and Affleck had a romantic relatnship, but they seem to have died down recent a new terview wh Playboy magaze, Damon -- who has been married to Luciana Barroso for seven years -- speaks to those mors, addrsg why he never dignified them wh a nial:“I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn’t want to offend my iends who were gay, ” the actor told Playboy, “as if beg gay were some kd of f--kg disease.

”But unfortunately, Damon not, Liberace's time was not one which was nsired acceptable for stars to be openly gay. "The two men were eply love and a real relatnship—a marriage—long before there was gay marriage.

MATT DAMON SAYS COMMENTS ABOUT GAY ACTORS WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT

After g unr fire for ments he ma about diversy film earlier this month, the star of The Martian suggted a new terview that beg out hurts gay actors’ reers bee “you’re a better actor the ls people know about you. ” Damon also poted to the reer of Rupert Everett, the English actor who told the BBC that beg openly gay ma more difficult for him to get rol and that he “would not advise any actor necsarily, if he was really thkg of his reer, to e out. ” “I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy—more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor—’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out, ” Damon said.

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. Ruffalo rells: “I said to Ryan [Murphy, who directs], ‘Aren’t we at the age when a gay actor should be playg this?

SHUT UP, MATT DAMON: THE ACTOR ARGU GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET

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.

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MATT DAMON DISCS OPENLY GAY ACTORS HOLLYWOOD

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.

“The Martian” star Matt Damon explas his remarks about gay actors on “The Ellen DeGener Show. ” (Niklas Halle’n / AFP/Getty Imag) Get ready for another round of “Damonsplag” -- Matt Damon is aga fdg himself wh a need to clarify his star of “The Martian, ” who gave an terview to the Guardian that the blogosphere terpreted as him tellg gay actors to stay closeted, taped an appearance on “The Ellen DeGener Show” on Monday to promote his upg films (and imprsively do the Whip and the Nae Nae to raise money for). DeGener, who is openly gay, said she believed his remarks were twisted and taken out of ntext, offerg him a fom to addrs his crics.