Lily Morton | Contemporary Gay Romance

Contents:

• LILY GAY OBUARY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

LILY GAY OBUARY

But while our society often tends to label people as eher "straight" or "gay, " 's important to regnize that sexualy isn’t always fed that way. Ahead are 26 celebri who fall outsi of the strict gay or straight bary.

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

She has sce bee outspoken about bisexualy on the ImagEzra MillerThe Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them actor may have played a gay high school stunt The Perks of Beg A Wallflower, but he told Out magaze he intifi as queer. "Getty ImagRowan BlanchardThe 15-year-old star of Girl Meets World tweeted about her sexualy January 2016, statg that she don’t want to label herself “as straight gay or whateva” and that she intifi as ImagAsia Kate DillonThe Billns star is bt-known for playg the first-ever nonbary character on TV, and ma history by choosg whether to pete for Bt Actor or Bt Actrs for the Emmys this year for their role.

When BuzzFeed News analyzed her sexualy a judgmental way, she rpond wh a seri of (sce-leted) tweets, begng wh "Well @buzzfeed sorry I'm not gay enough for you. But the fay’s reactn was right out of a handbook, bee beg gay is still related to shame most South Asian South Asian fai the Wt still fd difficult to even talk about sex, and would rather have believe babi are born om holdg hands, let alone discs sexualy outsi of a tradnal heterosexual relatnship. It was around this time she actually found Sgh’s vios and even though they weren’t anythg to do wh beg gay, they were about self-love—exactly what Hunter need at the time.

And that’s ually what a lot of LGBTQI South Asians also discs among themselv—how to e out when they’re unsure whether their parents even know what beg gay Nagra, a 34-year-old Canadian wh Punjabi herage, me out to her parents 10 years ago. The Vanuver illtrator scrib her g out as an “impactful experience”, a nversatn which fished wh her mother givg her the tightt hug of her gay is almost a taboo the subntent—lack of tn, awarens, and the fact that no South Asian public figure, at least no one wh Sgh’s profile, has acknowledged their sexualy. Nagra relled her iend’s g out to his mother, who thought he wanted a sex change when he told her he was Bollywood, which produc hundreds of movi watched by lns around the world, until as recently as this year has never openly clud homosexualy as a part of s ma storyle, but rather only picted facetly through movi like Dostana, starrg the middle of such tightly packed silence, when a world popular role mol like Lilly Sgh forward, she’s almost forcg people to have a much need nversatn.

A recent high school graduate India, who intifi herself as queer and gay, has been followg Sgh’s vios sce 2013. “If and when I e out, I’ll be able to show my parents that… beg gay don’t stop me om havg all—I n be succsful and have a full life, ” the 18-year-old told, too, thks Sgh’s public acceptance of her bisexualy is “huge” for the muny bee will help give nfince to people tryg to e out to their fai and they n show her as an example of someone livg a pletely normal and succsful life. I didn’t know any other Indian Punjabi gay person then, ” she s ago, Canadian-Indian Director, Deepa Mehta’s movie, Fire, about two women fallg love, was met by vlence and vandalism India.

But thgs are fely improvg for the LGBTQI muny through yearly gay pri march across the untry and the fact that a recently released movie, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Lagha, about a lbian g out to her fay, starrg a popular Bollywood face, was met wh zero year, the Indian Supreme Court stck down a lonial era law crimalisg gay sex, a historic moment for gay rights the largt South Asian untry. Lily Toml never officially me out as gay. For much of her reer, Lily Toml's homosexualy was the worst-kept secret Hollywood, sce she and wife/creative partner Jane Wagner (they married on New Year's Eve of 2013) have visibly been a uple sce the early 1970s.

As Wdy Cy Tim reported, Toml told a gay newspaper 1999 that "I never officially me out any kd of really public way... Thirty-five years after workg together "9 to 5, " Lily Toml rned wh Jane Fonda for the Netflix edy "Grace and Frankie, " playg longtime enemi who bond when their secretly gay hbands (played by Mart Sheen and Sam Waterston) leave them for each other. Dpe hts here and there about the sexuali of other characters, cludg Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hser), Clara is Yellowstone's first openly gay character.

The sual approach that Kay scrib beg taken to set up the same-sex kiss sequence dit that the seri' creators are supportive of rporatg more LGBTQ+ elements to the show, which uld lead to more openly gay characters future stallments. It is wh great sadns that we announce the ath of Lily Gay of Chandler, Arizona, leavg to mourn fay and iends.