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'50 SHAS OF GREY' GAY FLAP
FIFTY SHAS’ MARCIA GAY HARN OPENS UP ‘SEXUAL UNLEASHG’ IN FANDOM AND WHY BEG IN THE THICK OF IT WAS ‘FASCATG’
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FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?
GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
'FIFTY SHAS OF GREY' STS MARCIA GAY HARN AS CHRISTIAN'S MOTHER

'50 SHAS OF GREY' GAY FLAP

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Matt Bomer isn't right for Christian Grey bee he is openly gay. Can an openly gay actor nvcgly portray a straight character on screen? In 2010, Newsweek wrer Ram Setooh igned a furor when he explaed that he uldn't appreciate Sean Hay' performance the play Promis, Promis, primarily bee "'s weird seeg [the openly gay] Hay play straight.

" In 2009, Rupert Everett was so trated by Hollywood's abily to see anythg past his own sexualy that he urged young gay actors to stay the closet if they wanted to enjoy any real mastream succs. "It means that we've moved beyond stereotyp and that gay is hot…" I uldn't image a more misguid terpretatn of that feedback.

FIFTY SHAS’ MARCIA GAY HARN OPENS UP ‘SEXUAL UNLEASHG’ IN FANDOM AND WHY BEG IN THE THICK OF IT WAS ‘FASCATG’

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Another explanatn: women are not threatened by the ia of gay men. Apparently, that male illn is plited when the man portrayg that hero is gay. " Unrstandg Ellis' reactn is important to appreciatg the hypocrisy when the on-screen sexual orientatn scenar is reversed: Was Tom Hanks ls believable playg a gay man Philalphia bee the dience uldn't rolve the role wh his real-life marriage to Ra Wilson?

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iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. Which prents a real problem when to discrimatn: Where do you draw the le? * gay fifty shades of grey *

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FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?

3, 183, 590 views | iO Tillett Wright • TEDxWomen 2012iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. IO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY

Maybe I'm an ialist, but when I first heard that Bret Easton Ellis had taken to Twter to personally embargo openly gay actor Matt Bomer om beg st as Christian Grey Fifty Shas of Grey, the film adaptatn of E. After the uproar two years ago, when Newsweek wrer Ram Setooh (himself a gay man) claimed that Sean Hay was too "queeny" to play a straight man Promis, Promis, I didn't thk someone would so publicly "go there" aga.

But this isn't for the reason you'd expect, and the actual reason disprov Setooh's (and Ellis') homophobic views on the subject: Dpe wi speculatn that Tom Cise is "hidg somethg, " dienc don't seem to re much whether or not Cise is a gay man; stead, they re that he's "crazy, " as the fervor over his relign and marriage have domated his late reer.

It's bee the public jt don't like him anymore, gay or straight.