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• CROWE BE GAY IN
• RSELL {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ACTOR RSELL CROWE WON AN OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE THE 2000 BLOCKBTER 'GLADIATOR' AND A NOMATN FOR HIS 2001 ROLE 'A BETIFUL MD.'{LOR:#323232;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: JAN 6, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{LE-HEIGHT:1;MARG-TOP:0.3125REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0;}}{LOR:#595959;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}GETTY {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}(1964-){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHO IS RSELL CROWE?BORN ON APRIL 7, 1964, WELLGTON, NEW ZEALAND, RSELL CROWE FIRST MA A NAME FOR HIMSELF ACTG ATRALIAN CEMA. HE EVENTUALLY BEME AN TERNATNAL STAR WH PROJECTS LIKE L.A. CONFINTIAL, THE INSIR, GLADIATOR (FOR WHICH HE WON AN OSR), A BETIFUL MD AND CRELLA MAN, WHILE ALSO BEG KNOWN FOR HIS BTIBLE BEHAVR. LATER FILMS CLUD A SCREEN ADAPTATN OF L MISéRABL, MAN OF STEEL, NOAH AND THE NICE GUYS.MOVI'BLOOD OATH,' 'THE CROSSG,' 'PROOF,' 'ROMPER STOMPER'A ROLE THE STAGE MIL BLOOD BROTHERS 1989 LED TO CROWE'S FIRST FEATURE FILM, BLOOD OATH (1990, RELEASED THE U.S. AS PRISONERS OF THE SUN). HIS OTHER EARLY FILMS CLUD THE CROSSG (1990), WHICH MARKED HIS FIRST LEADG ROLE, AND THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT (1991, RELEASED THE U.S. AS SPOTSWOOD), WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ANTHONY HOPKS AND TONI COLLETTE. HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROL SHOWSED TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIS OF CROWE— 1992’S PROOF, HE PLAYED A GENTLE, GULLIBLE DISHWASHER, EARNG AN ATRALIAN FILM INSTUTE AWARD FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTOR; HE WON THE BT ACTOR STATUE THE NEXT YEAR, FOR HIS TURN AS A BTAL NAZI SKHEAD THE NTROVERSIAL FILM ROMPER STOMPER. HIS NEXT AND EQUALLY INOCLASTIC ROLE WAS AS A GAY PLUMBER LIVG WH HIS WIDOWED FATHER THE SUM OF US (1994).'THE QUICK AND THE DEAD,' 'VIRTUOSY'IN 1995, CROWE MA HIS AMERIN FILM BUT, APPEARG WH SHARON STONE, GENE HACKMAN AND LEONARDO DICAPR THE OFFBEAT WTERN THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. THAT SAME YEAR, HE PLAYED SID 6.7, A VIRTUAL REALY OUTLAW CREATED AS A POSE OF MORE THAN 150 SERIAL KILLERS WHO IS HUNTED BY DENZEL WASHGTON THE SCI-FI THRILLER VIRTUOSY. HE ALSO TOOK THE ROMANTIC LEADS THE LTLE-SEEN FILMS ROUGH MAGIC (1995), OPPOSE BRIDGET FONDA, AND BREAKG UP (1997), WH SALMA HAYEK.'L.A. CONFINTIAL'THOUGH SOME SIRS PEGGED HIM AS "ONE TO WATCH," CROWE DIDN'T TLY PTURE THE ATTENTN OF AMERIN MOVIE-GOERS UNTIL L.A. CONFINTIAL, THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 1997 NEO-NOIR FILM THAT PROBED THE DARK UNRSI OF LOS ANGEL THE 1950S. CROWE PLAYED THE BTAL, FORTHRIGHT P BUD WHE, ONE OF A TR OF VERY DIFFERENT POLICEMEN—THE FILM ALSO STARRED KEV SPACEY AND FELLOW ATRALIAN GUY PEARCE—WHO STUMBLE UPON A TWISTED AND MURRO NSPIRACY. CROWE’S SIMMERG PERFORMANCE, CLUDG STEAMY LOVE SCEN WH -STAR KIM BASGER, EARNED HIM RAVE REVIEWS.'THE INSIR'CROWE’S FIRST STARRG ROLE OF 1999 ME MYSTERY, ALASKA, A POORLY RECEIVED EDY WRTEN BY DAVID E. KELLEY AND -STARRG BURT REYNOLDS. HE HAD A GOOD AL MORE SUCCS WH HIS NEXT FILM, THE INSIR, BASED ON THE TE STORY OF AN EX-TOBAC PANY EXECUTIVE, JEFEY WIGAND, WHO IS NVCED BY A TV NEWS PRODUCER TO BLOW THE WHISTLE ON THE POWERFUL TOBAC DTRY. DPE MEDCRE RETURNS AT THE BOX OFFICE, THE INSIR, WHICH WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MANN AND ALSO STARRED AL PACO, GARNERED MAJOR CRIL PRAISE. CROWE’S TENSE, OSR-NOMATED PERFORMANCE AS THE RELUCTANT WIGAND WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST REMARKABLE ASPECT OF THE FILM; THE ACTOR GAED 35 POUNDS FOR THE ROLE AND WAS NEARLY UNREGNIZABLE A THNG GRAY WIG.OSR W FOR 'THE GLADIATOR'IN 2000, CROWE VLTED TO A-LIST HOLLYWOOD STARDOM WH HIS CHARISMATIC PERFORMANCE AS A ROMAN GENERAL TURNED VENGEFUL SLAVE GLADIATOR, THE AMB ROMAN EPIC AND BLOCKBTER SUMMER H DIRECTED BY RIDLEY STT AND -STARRG JOAQU PHOENIX. THE FILM GARNERED 12 AMY AWARD NOMATNS, CLUDG A SEND STRAIGHT BT ACTOR NOD FOR CROWE. ON OSR NIGHT MARCH 2001, CROWE BEAT OUT HOLLYWOOD STALWART TOM HANKS, AMONG OTHERS, TO TAKE HOME THE OSR. GLADIATOR WON FIVE TEGORI, CLUDG THE NIGHT'S BIGGT HONOR, BT PICTURE.ALSO 2000, CROWE STARRED THE ROMANCE/ADVENTURE PROOF OF LIFE, AS A HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR WHO BE ROMANTILLY ENTANGLED WH HIS CLIENT, PLAYED BY MEG RYAN, AFTER HER HBAND IS KIDNAPPED. (THE FILM, LIKE THE INSIR, WAS BASED ON AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED VANY FAIR.)'A BETIFUL MD'IN 2001, RSELL CROWE STARRED A BETIFUL MD, AN ACCLAIMED BPIC ABOUT THE NOBEL PRIZE-WNG MATHEMATICIAN JOHN NASH. THE FILM, DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD, -STARRED ED HARRIS AND JENNIFER CONNELLY. FOR THE THIRD YEAR A ROW, CROWE'S BRAVURA PERFORMANCE EARNED HIM AN AMY AWARD NOMATN FOR BT ACTOR.'MASTER AND COMMANR,' 'CRELLA MAN'AFTER CROWE'S LEAD ROLE MASTER AND COMMANR: THE FAR SI OF THE WORLD (2003), HE AND HOWARD TEAMED UP AGA FOR THE BOXG DRAMA CRELLA MAN (2005) ABOUT JIM BRADDOCK, THE DEPRSN-ERA PUGILIST WHO FEATED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP MAX BAER A 15-ROUND BOUT. OTHER RELEAS FOR THE CLUD A GOOD YEAR (2006), AMERIN GANGSTER (2007), BODY OF LI (2008)—ALL THREE OF WHICH WERE DIRECTED BY RIDLEY STT AS WELL—AND STATE OF PLAY (2009).'ROB HOOD,' 'L MISéRABL'CROWE RNED WH STT FOR THE FIFTH TIME THE DIRECTOR’S 2010 ADAPTATN OF ROB HOOD, WHICH -STARRED CATE BLANCHETT. AFTER BEG FEATURED 2012’S MARTIAL ARTS FLICK THE MAN WH THE IRON FIST, THE ACTOR PUT HIS SGG CHOPS TO E THE MIL L MISéRABL, RELEASED DECEMBER. THE OSR-NOMATED TOM HOOPER FILM, -STARRG HUGH JACKMAN, ANNE HATHAWAY AND AMANDA SEYIED, SAW CROWE PORTRAYG OBSSED NSTABLE JAVERT.'MAN OF STEEL,' 'NOAH,' 'THE WATER DIVER'CROWE’S NEXT MAJOR ROL ME 2013 WH THE WTER RELEASE OF BROKEN CY, WHICH HE PORTRAYED A MAYOR UP FOR REELECTN, AND THE SUMMER RELEASE OF MAN OF STEEL. DIRECTED BY ZACK SNYR, STEEL RETELLS THE STORY OF SUPERMAN, STARRG HENRY CAVILL THE TLE ROLE AND CROWE AS HIS KRYPTONIAN FATHER, JOR-EL.IN 2014, CROWE DOVE BACK TO BIG-BUDGET FARE WH THE BIBLIL NOAH, BEFORE DOG AN ABOUT-FACE WH THE WATER DIVER, HIS DIRECTG BUT, ABOUT A FATHER SEARCHG FOR HIS SONS EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR I. FATHERS AND DGHTERS (2015), WH SEYIED, ALSO SHOWSED THE ACTOR A PLEX ROLE.'THE NICE GUYS,' 'THE MUMMY,' 'THE LOUST VOICE'CROWE'S NEXT EFFORT, AS AN ENFORCER ALONGSI RYAN GOSLG THE ACTN EDY THE NICE GUYS (2016), WAS GENERALLY WELL RECEIVED. HE WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH TO HELP THE REBOOT OF THE MUMMY (2017), THOUGH THE ACTOR FARED BETTER WH BOY ERASED (2018), AS THE FATHER OF A TEENAGER PLACED TO GAY-NVERSN THERAPY.TURNG TO THE SMALL SCREEN, CROWE TOOK ON THE ROLE OF FOX NEWS FOUNR ROGER AIL THE SUMMER 2019 SHOWTIME SERI THE LOUST VOICE. ALTHOUGH THE SERI DREW MIXED REVIEWS, CROWE IMPRSED ENOUGH TO CLAIM THE SEND GOLN GLOBE W OF HIS REER.EARLY YEARS AND CAREERRSELL CROWE WAS BORN ON APRIL 7, 1964, WELLGTON, NEW ZEALAND. HIS FAY MOVED TO SYDNEY, ATRALIA, WHEN CROWE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD. HE SPENT A GOOD AL OF TIME ON THE SETS OF VAR FILM AND TELEVISN PRODUCTNS, WHERE HIS PARENTS WORKED AS TERERS; AT AGE SIX, CROWE WAS ST AS AN ORPHAN THE TV SERI SPYFORCE, THE FIRST OF HIS MANY SMALL PARTS AS A CHILD ACTOR. HIS FAY RETURNED TO NEW ZEALAND 1978, AND CROWE BEGAN PERFORMG AS A ROCK SGER, BILLG HIMSELF AS R LE ROC AND RERDG THE PROPHETILLY TLED 1980 SGLE “I WANT TO BE LIKE MARLON BRANDO.” DURG THIS PERD, HE AND A IEND FORMED ROMAN ANTIX, WHICH LATER EVOLVED TO 30 ODD FOOT OF GNTS, A ROCK BAND FOR WHICH CROWE SERVED AS A SGER, GUARIST AND SONGWRER. CROWE RETURNED TO ATRALIA THE EARLY 1980S TO PURSUE HIS ACTG REER, WNG A ROLE A PRODUCTN OF THE MIL GREASE 1983. FROM 1986 TO 1988, HE STARRED A TOURG PRODUCTN OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. ALTERTNS AND BAD BOY REPUTATNWISPREAD MORS ABOUT CROWE’S BRASH PERSONALY CREASED WH HIS GROWG FAME THE 1990S. IN LATE 1999, HE WAS REPORTEDLY VOLVED A BRAWL OUTSI A BAR NEW SOUTH WAL, ATRALIA. THE OWNER OF THE BAR, WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE A SECURY VIOTAPE THAT SHOWED THE ACTOR HAD IATED THE BRAWL, WAS SUBSEQUENTLY CHARGED WH BLACKMAIL AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTG TO EXTORT MONEY OM CROWE EXCHANGE FOR THE VIO.CROWE'S BAD BOY REPUTATN AND SMOLRG ON-SCREEN TENSY SPIRED PARISONS TO THE YOUNG BRANDO. HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH HE IS REPORTEDLY MANDG WHILE WORKG ON SET, A NUMBER OF -STARS HAVE PUBLICLY PRAISED HIM FOR HIS CHARMG, PROFSNAL MEANOR.ON THE MORE BIZARRE SI, NEWS BROKE EARLY 2001 THAT THE FERAL BURE OF INVTIGATN HAD LNCHED AN VTIGATN TO A MORED PLOT TO KIDNAP CROWE. HE ATTEND THE JANUARY GOLN GLOB CEREMONY FLANKED BY FBI AGENTS TUXEDOS AND WAS GUARD BY STLAND YARD AT THE LONDON PREMIERE OF PROOF OF LIFE THE FOLLOWG MONTH. IN ADDN TO THE 1999 BAR FIGHT ATRALIA, CROWE WAS REPORTEDLY VOLVED A BATHROOM BRAWL A TRENDY LONDON RTRANT 2002. THREE YEARS LATER, HE WAS ARRTED AND CHARGED WH SEND-GREE ASSLT AFTER THROWG A TELEPHONE AT A HOTEL EMPLOYEE NEW YORK CY.RELATNSHIPSCROWE BEGAN A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH ATRALIAN SGER/ACTRS DANIELLE SPENCER WHILE THE TWO WERE FILMG THE CROSSG LATE 1989.DURG THE SUMMER OF 2000, CROWE BEME ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH HIS PROOF OF LIFE -STAR, MEG RYAN, AND WAS MENTNED AS A FACTOR HER SEPARATN OM HER HBAND OF NE YEARS, ACTOR DENNIS QUAID. HOWEVER, CROWE AND RYAN SPL LATE DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR.CROWE LATER REIGNED HIS ROMANCE WH SPENCER. THEY MARRIED APRIL 2003 AND HAD TWO SONS, CHARL AND TENNYSON, BEFORE ANNOUNCG THEIR SPL 2012.IN APRIL 2018, BEFORE HIS LEGAL SEPARATN OM SPENCER WAS FALIZED, CROWE HELD HIS "THE ART OF DIVORCE" CTN TO RID HIMSELF OF "ABOUT 3 ROOMS FULL OF THGS I WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO RE FOR, DOCUMENT, CLEAN, TUNE AND SURE." LIVE-STREAMED ON FACEBOOK, AND CLUDG SUCH SOUGHT-AFTER EMS AS THE ACTOR'S GRO-PROTECTOR OM CRELLA MAN AND A DOSR SKULL PURCHASED OM DICAPR, THE CTN REPORTEDLY TED CROWE A OL $2.8 {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• RSELL CROWE PLAYG GAY BEFORE LEAVG FOR THE US “THE SUM OF US”
• SO, HOW GAY IS THOR: LOVE AND THUNR, REALLY?NATALIE PORTMAN CLAIMED THAT THE ANCHISE’S LATT STALLMENT IS “SO GAY”—BUT IS SHE RIGHT?BY CHRIS MURPHYJULY 8, 2022BY JAS BOLAND/MARVEL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN NATALIE PORTMAN SAYS THAT SOMETHG IS “SO GAY,” I WANT TO BELIEVE HER. AFTER ALL, SHE’S A QUEER IN BY VIRTUE OF STARRG PABLO LARRAíN’S JACKIE, MANY MISS DR MERCIALS, AND, FIRST AND FOREMOST, WNG THE OSR FOR THE BLACK SWAN, A PSYCHOSEXUAL PAS UX BETWEEN TWO WARRG BALLERAS. SO WHEN PORTMAN SWORE DURG A Q&A AT THE LONDON PREMIERE OF HER LATT FILM, THOR: LOVE AND THUNR, THAT MARVEL’S NEWT OFFERG IS “SO GAY,” MY TERT WAS IMMEDIATELY PIQUED—AND WHILE I HADN’T SEEN A MARVEL FILM SCE 2018’S BLACK PANTHER, I HAD TO KNOW WHETHER THOR 4 WOULD BE AN ENTRY TO THE QUEER CEMATIC NON à LA MOONLIGHT, CAROL, AND THE NILE KIDMAN AMC AD.SO OFF TO THE CEPLEX I WENT, TSTG NATALIE PORTMAN SPE MORS THAT THOR: LOVE AND THUNR MIGHT NOT BE AS GAY AS SHE CLAIMED. BUT STILL, I HAD FAH. THOR: LOVE AND THUNR WAS DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAI, WHOSE QUEER, PIRATE HBO MAX SHOW, OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH, CERTALY CROSS THE THRHOLD OF “SO GAY.” BISEXUAL ACTOR TSA THOMPSON WENT ON RERD AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON SAYG THAT SHE WANTED TO FD HER CHARACTER VALKYRIE, THE FEMALE KG OF ASGARDS, A QUEEN THE NEXT FILM. PL, THERE WAS GOG TO BE A RA ORA MEO. ALL POSIVE SIGNS!WHAT I FOUND…WELL I’M STILL TRYG TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND. BELOW IS A LIST OF THE GAY MOMENTS, SUBTEXT, AND ENERGY THAT I ULD FD THOR: LOVE AND THUNR, RANKED BY THEIR LEVEL OF GAYNS. BE WARNED: SPOILERS ABOUND.NOT GAY (AND SORT OF RUDE)CHRIS PRATT’S STAR-LORD IS PRETTY HEAVILY FEATURED THE FIRST 15 MUT OF THE FILM. THERE’S A FIGHT SCENE WHERE THOR FENDS OFF TWO MONSTERS WHILE A RSIAN SPL, AND STAR-LORD DRAMATILLY ROLLS HIS EY (WHICH GOT A BIG LGH OM THE DIENCE, BY THE WAY). SHAMG ANOTHER MAN FOR BEG SUPER FLEXIBLE AND A “B MUCH”? SORRY; THAT’S ANTI-QUEER BEHAVR, I’M AAID.CHRISTIAN BALE’S PERFORMANCE AS GORR THE GOD BUTCHER WAS GIVG VOLMORT VIB, WHICH MA ME THK OF HARRY POTTER, WHICH MA ME THK OF J.K. ROWLG—WHO IS ACTUALLY HARMFUL TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND TO MY PSYCHE. ALSO, FOR THE ENTIRE FILM I THOUGHT HE WAS PL BETTANY.THERE’S A B WHERE HEIMDALL’S SON, AXL (KIERON L. DYER), RENAM HIMSELF, AND THOR SISTS THAT AXL E HIS PREV NAME, ASTRID. EVENTUALLY, THOR ACQUIC AND LLS AXL BY HIS CHOSEN NAME…BUT ’S LEFT A WEIRD TASTE SOME LGBTQ+ FANS’ MOUTHS.SIMPLY NOT GAYTHERE’S A SHORT MONTAGE OF THOR, PLAYED BY CHRIS HEMSWORTH, AND HIS MANY LOVERS…ALL OF WHOM ARE WOMEN. TECHNILLY, HE KISS A “WOLF WOMAN” WHILE RIDG “A WOMAN WOLF,” BUT THE ENERGY OF ALL IS OVERWHELMGLY STRAIGHT LOTHAR.THE MONTAGE THAT PICTS NATALIE PORTMAN’S DR. JANE FOSTER AND THOR’S RELATNSHIP IS BASILLY JT A 10-MUTE VERSN OF THE BREAKUP (2006) STARRG JENNIFER ANISTON AND VCE VGHN, PL A MAGIC HAMMER. DECIDLY NOT GAY.MATT DAMON AND MELISSA MCCARTHY BOTH APPEAR A PERFORMG TROUPE ASGARD, ACTG OUT THE LEGEND OF THOR. LATER ON, DAMON APPEARS AGA AND ASKS VALKYRIE IF HE SHOULD WRE A PLAY TO HELP SAVE THE TOWN, WHICH HAS BEEN RAVAGED BY VOLGORR THE GOD BUTCHER. WHILE THE SHEER AMOUNT OF SURPRISE CELEBRY REVEALS THE FILM IS SOMEWHAT GAY (WHO DON’T LOVE A RUVEAL!), THE MOCKERY OF STAGE ACTG IS NOT GAY AT ALL.SLIGHTLY GAYTHE FILM OPENS WH A PREFACE THAT FEATUR THE GOD DNYS (SIMON RSELL BEALE)—SHIRTLS A FIELD OF GIGGLG FLOWERS AND WEARG A SPARKLY GOLN CROWN AND STATEMENT NECKLACE, BRAGGG ABOUT HOW MANY FOLLOWERS HE HAS. FLOWERS, STATEMENT NECKLAC, AND BEG OBSSED WH FOLLOWERS? DEFELY A B GAY!K MISTAKENLY LLS JANE FOSTER “JANE FONDA.” THE VOTN OF MISS FONDA, ’80S AEROBICS AND 9 TO 5 QUEEN, IS FELY SLIGHTLY GAY!THE FIRST NEEDLE DROP OF THE FILM IS, QUE RANDOMLY, ENYA’S “ONLY TIME.” THIS FEELS WEIRDLY APPROPRIATE GIVEN THE RECENT RURGENCE OF WCHY FORMER POP STARS WHO NOW LIVE STL PLETELY OFF THE GRID. AGA, NOT EXPLICLY GAY ANY WAY, BUT I FELY UGHT QUEER VIB.THOR’S CLOTH ACCINTALLY GET STRIPPED OM HIM, LEAVG HIM STANDG A ROOM FULL OF GODS THE NU. WHILE NOTHG SALAC IS SEEN (THE MOVIE IS ONLY PG-13, AFTER ALL), I BELIEVE THAT IMAGG CHRIS HEMSWORTH NAKED WILL RULT A QUEER AWAKENG FOR SOME OF THE YOUTH (AND, LET’S FACE , THE ADULTS) THE DIENCE. BON POTS: K SAID, “IT LOOKED LIKE A LTLE URGETTE,” I.E. A ZUCCHI—WHICH IS A HOP, SKIP, AND A JUMP AWAY OM THE EGGPLANT EMOJI.GAYTHOR, JANE, AND VALKYRIE MORE OR LS EXCLIVELY TRAVEL BY RIDG SCREAMG YAKS WHO N ON A SUPERCHARGED RABOW. WHILE RABOWS ARE NONILLY GAY (SEE: THE PRI FLAG, “SOMEWHERE OVER THE”), THIS IS SORT OF THE LOWT POSSIBLE BAR YOU ULD PASS FOR HAVG QUEER NTENT. BUT, I GUS UNTS.THE SHEER NUMBER OF FIERCE PANTSUS VALKYRIE WEARS AS KG OF ASGARD. SERVG LEWKS IS GAY!VALKYRIE BRGS A PORTABLE SPEAKER WH HER ON THE RABOW GOAT SHIP AND PLAYS A SNIPPET OF “FAY AFFAIR” BY MARY J. BLIGE. THAT’S A BOP, AND GAYS LOVE BOPS!MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDRSELL CROWE GIV THE WORST VOL PERFORMANCE OF HIS REER SCE L MISéRABL (2012). HIS BLOWHARD ZS SOUNDS LIKE THE FIRST DRAFT OF AN ITALIAN ACCENT, BUT ZS IS FAMOLY GREEK. IT WAS NFG AND NFOUNDG AND REMD ME OF HIS JAVERT, AND THERE’S SOMETHG HERENTLY QUEER ABOUT THAT.GAY??THE SO-LLED GAYNS OF VALKYRIE IS (TENTNALLY) NFG. AT ONE POT SHE TELLS DR. JANE FOSTER—WH WHOM SHE CLEARLY HAS NO ROMANTIC CHEMISTRY—THAT SHE MISS HER “SISTERS.” DO SHE MEAN SISTERS LIKE RELATIV, SISTERS LIKE GIRLIENDS (PLATONIC), OR SISTERS LIKE GIRLIENDS (ROMANTIC)? WE NEVER FD OUT. VALKYRIE IS THE GAYT PART OF THE FILM FOR SURE, BUT DO NOTHG EXPLICLY QUEER EXCEPT MAYBE…WHEN SHE’S PG THE KGDOM OF THE GODS. VALKYRIE BRIEFLY STOPS TO MAKE BEDROOM EY AT ONE OF ZS’S FEMALE NCUB, WHO I AM PRETTY SURE IS PLAYED BY RA ORA. THIS HAPPENS SO FAST (AND IS FILMED SUCH A WAY THAT I’M PRETTY SURE ULD GET CUT OUT OF THE MOVIE IF NEEDS TO BE LS LGBTQ+-IENDLY TERRORI) THAT I AM ACTUALLY NOT SURE IF ’S RA ORA OR NOT. BUT DO HAPPEN, AND IS A MOMENT—THE ONLY MOMENT—OF GIRL-ON-GIRL “ACTN” THE FILM, IF YOU N LL THAT.AT ONE POT, THOR IS VOLVED A LTLE B OF A LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN JANE FOSTER AND HIS AX, STORMBREAKER. MANY LGHS ARE (ATTEMPTED) TO BE WNG OUT OF STORMBREAKER’S SEEMG JEALOY OF JANE. IT WAS NFG TO ME, A MARVEL-NEOPHYTE, AS I ASSUMED THAT THOR’S AX WAS A GENRLS OBJECT—AND NOT TO GATEKEEP THE WORD GAY, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE A LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A MAGIL AX DON’T QUALIFY AS “SO GAY.” BUT I’M HAPPY TO KEEP AN OPEN MD ON THE MATTER.THE MOST EXPLIC “GAY” MOMENT: VALKYRIE AND K HAVE A (VERY BRIEF) HEART-TO-HEART ABOUT ROMANCE WHILE THOR AND JANE FULL ON MAKE OUT. IN THE SCENE, K EXPLICLY SAYS THAT HE HAS TWO DADS, AND THAT HIS SPECI ARE NCEIVED WHEN TWO KRONAN MEN HOLD HANDS OVER A LAVA P. IT’S A SWEET MOMENT, BUT THE SCENE IS PLACED SUCH A WAY THAT, AGA, FEELS LIKE ULD BE ENTIRELY REMOVED OTHER MARKETS. DURG THE NVERSATN, K ALSO MENTNS VALKYRIE’S AD GIRLIEND AND HOW SHE’S CLOSED HERSELF OFF OM LOVE. AGA, FELY REGNN THAT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE EXIST—BUT ’S THE FIRST AND LAST TIME WE HEAR ANY MENTN OF VALKYRIE’S LOVE LIFE OR TERT WOMEN.AT THE END OF THE FILM, THERE’S ALSO THE BRIEFT OF SHOTS OF K HOLDG HANDS WH ANOTHER ROCK KRONAN (PRUMABLY A MAN) OVER A LAVA P, AN ATTEMPT TO MAYBE MAKE A BABY. DID MARVEL JT SHOW OUR FIRST SCENE OF GAY KRONAN SEX? IT’S HARD TO KNOW.SO GAYNATALIE PORTMAN G THIS FILM AS A SHOWSE AND THEN HAVG HER CHARACTER DIE, HOPEFULLY RELEASG HER OM THE MCU AND ALLOWG HER TO GET BACK TO PROJECTS LIKE CLOSER.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDVALKYRIE SUALLY WEARG A PHANTOM OF THE OPERA SWEATSHIRT WHILE KICKG SOME SPIR MONSTER ASS.HONORABLE GAY MENTIONKAT DENNGS ALSO APPEARS AS A LLEAGUE OF DR. JANE FOSTER ONE (1) SCENE, NEVER TO BE SEEN OR HEARD OM AGA. SHE’S BEEN A GUT JUDGE ON DRAG RACE AND HAS A OL VIBE, SO SHE GETS AN HONORABLE MENTN HERE.SO, LOOKS LIKE THOR WILL NOT BE WNG ANY GLAAD AWARDS. BY MY SCIENTIFIC LCULATNS, THERE WERE FAR MORE NOT GAY MOMENTS THAN GAY MOMENTS, AND ONLY TWO THAT WOULD QUALIFY AS “SO GAY.” IN EVERY WAY, THE FILM WAS LS GAY THAN DUNE, WHICH FEATURED TIMOTHéE CHALAMET POUTG, BUTTHOLE-SHAPED WORMS, AND STEPHEN MCKLEY HENRSON HOLDG A LTLE PARASOL JT SO.BUT WHAT WERE WE TO EXPECT? A MOVIE PRODUCED BY MARVEL WHICH IS OWNED BY DISNEY—WHICH HAS E UNR A B OF FIRE FOR S HANDLG OF GAY NTENT AND S FANCIAL SUPPORT OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ POLICIANS—WAS MAYBE NEVER BOUND TO BE “SO GAY” AFTER ALL. SO THE NEXT TIME THE FORMER UNRSTUDY FOR LRA BELL BUNDY RUTHLS THE MIL OFF BROADWAY SAYS THAT SOMETHG IS SO GAY, DON’T NECSARILY TAKE HER WORD FOR .MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CHRIS MURPHY
• RSELL CROWE AND NILE KIDMAN STAR ‘GAY NVERSN’ DRAMA BOY ERASED
• FILM/DVD; AN EARLIER RSELL CROWE: THE LOVG GAY SON
• THE SUM OF US REWATCHED – A LOVG FATHER, A GAY SON
• STAR-STUDD FILM 'BOY ERASED' TAK ON 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY'
• IS RSELL CROWE GAY?

CROWE BE GAY IN

After starrg as a gay man searchg for love The Sum of Us (1994), Crowe appeared his first Amerin film, the wtern The Quick and the Dead (1995). He later assumed the role of a Baptist preacher who sends his son to a gay nversn therapy program Boy Erased (2018), which was based on a memoir of the same name (2016).

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HE EVENTUALLY BEME AN TERNATNAL STAR WH PROJECTS LIKE L.A. CONFINTIAL, THE INSIR, GLADIATOR (FOR WHICH HE WON AN OSR), A BETIFUL MD AND CRELLA MAN, WHILE ALSO BEG KNOWN FOR HIS BTIBLE BEHAVR. LATER FILMS CLUD A SCREEN ADAPTATN OF L MISéRABL, MAN OF STEEL, NOAH AND THE NICE GUYS.MOVI'BLOOD OATH,' 'THE CROSSG,' 'PROOF,' 'ROMPER STOMPER'A ROLE THE STAGE MIL BLOOD BROTHERS 1989 LED TO CROWE'S FIRST FEATURE FILM, BLOOD OATH (1990, RELEASED THE U.S. AS PRISONERS OF THE SUN). HIS OTHER EARLY FILMS CLUD THE CROSSG (1990), WHICH MARKED HIS FIRST LEADG ROLE, AND THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT (1991, RELEASED THE U.S. AS SPOTSWOOD), WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ANTHONY HOPKS AND TONI COLLETTE. HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROL SHOWSED TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIS OF CROWE— 1992’S PROOF, HE PLAYED A GENTLE, GULLIBLE DISHWASHER, EARNG AN ATRALIAN FILM INSTUTE AWARD FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTOR; HE WON THE BT ACTOR STATUE THE NEXT YEAR, FOR HIS TURN AS A BTAL NAZI SKHEAD THE NTROVERSIAL FILM ROMPER STOMPER. HIS NEXT AND EQUALLY INOCLASTIC ROLE WAS AS A GAY PLUMBER LIVG WH HIS WIDOWED FATHER THE SUM OF US (1994).'THE QUICK AND THE DEAD,' 'VIRTUOSY'IN 1995, CROWE MA HIS AMERIN FILM BUT, APPEARG WH SHARON STONE, GENE HACKMAN AND LEONARDO DICAPR THE OFFBEAT WTERN THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. THAT SAME YEAR, HE PLAYED SID 6.7, A VIRTUAL REALY OUTLAW CREATED AS A POSE OF MORE THAN 150 SERIAL KILLERS WHO IS HUNTED BY DENZEL WASHGTON THE SCI-FI THRILLER VIRTUOSY. HE ALSO TOOK THE ROMANTIC LEADS THE LTLE-SEEN FILMS ROUGH MAGIC (1995), OPPOSE BRIDGET FONDA, AND BREAKG UP (1997), WH SALMA HAYEK.'L.A. CONFINTIAL'THOUGH SOME SIRS PEGGED HIM AS "ONE TO WATCH," CROWE DIDN'T TLY PTURE THE ATTENTN OF AMERIN MOVIE-GOERS UNTIL L.A. CONFINTIAL, THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 1997 NEO-NOIR FILM THAT PROBED THE DARK UNRSI OF LOS ANGEL THE 1950S. CROWE PLAYED THE BTAL, FORTHRIGHT P BUD WHE, ONE OF A TR OF VERY DIFFERENT POLICEMEN—THE FILM ALSO STARRED KEV SPACEY AND FELLOW ATRALIAN GUY PEARCE—WHO STUMBLE UPON A TWISTED AND MURRO NSPIRACY. CROWE’S SIMMERG PERFORMANCE, CLUDG STEAMY LOVE SCEN WH -STAR KIM BASGER, EARNED HIM RAVE REVIEWS.'THE INSIR'CROWE’S FIRST STARRG ROLE OF 1999 ME MYSTERY, ALASKA, A POORLY RECEIVED EDY WRTEN BY DAVID E. KELLEY AND -STARRG BURT REYNOLDS. HE HAD A GOOD AL MORE SUCCS WH HIS NEXT FILM, THE INSIR, BASED ON THE TE STORY OF AN EX-TOBAC PANY EXECUTIVE, JEFEY WIGAND, WHO IS NVCED BY A TV NEWS PRODUCER TO BLOW THE WHISTLE ON THE POWERFUL TOBAC DTRY. DPE MEDCRE RETURNS AT THE BOX OFFICE, THE INSIR, WHICH WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MANN AND ALSO STARRED AL PACO, GARNERED MAJOR CRIL PRAISE. CROWE’S TENSE, OSR-NOMATED PERFORMANCE AS THE RELUCTANT WIGAND WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST REMARKABLE ASPECT OF THE FILM; THE ACTOR GAED 35 POUNDS FOR THE ROLE AND WAS NEARLY UNREGNIZABLE A THNG GRAY WIG.OSR W FOR 'THE GLADIATOR'IN 2000, CROWE VLTED TO A-LIST HOLLYWOOD STARDOM WH HIS CHARISMATIC PERFORMANCE AS A ROMAN GENERAL TURNED VENGEFUL SLAVE GLADIATOR, THE AMB ROMAN EPIC AND BLOCKBTER SUMMER H DIRECTED BY RIDLEY STT AND -STARRG JOAQU PHOENIX. THE FILM GARNERED 12 AMY AWARD NOMATNS, CLUDG A SEND STRAIGHT BT ACTOR NOD FOR CROWE. ON OSR NIGHT MARCH 2001, CROWE BEAT OUT HOLLYWOOD STALWART TOM HANKS, AMONG OTHERS, TO TAKE HOME THE OSR. GLADIATOR WON FIVE TEGORI, CLUDG THE NIGHT'S BIGGT HONOR, BT PICTURE.ALSO 2000, CROWE STARRED THE ROMANCE/ADVENTURE PROOF OF LIFE, AS A HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR WHO BE ROMANTILLY ENTANGLED WH HIS CLIENT, PLAYED BY MEG RYAN, AFTER HER HBAND IS KIDNAPPED. (THE FILM, LIKE THE INSIR, WAS BASED ON AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED VANY FAIR.)'A BETIFUL MD'IN 2001, RSELL CROWE STARRED A BETIFUL MD, AN ACCLAIMED BPIC ABOUT THE NOBEL PRIZE-WNG MATHEMATICIAN JOHN NASH. THE FILM, DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD, -STARRED ED HARRIS AND JENNIFER CONNELLY. FOR THE THIRD YEAR A ROW, CROWE'S BRAVURA PERFORMANCE EARNED HIM AN AMY AWARD NOMATN FOR BT ACTOR.'MASTER AND COMMANR,' 'CRELLA MAN'AFTER CROWE'S LEAD ROLE MASTER AND COMMANR: THE FAR SI OF THE WORLD (2003), HE AND HOWARD TEAMED UP AGA FOR THE BOXG DRAMA CRELLA MAN (2005) ABOUT JIM BRADDOCK, THE DEPRSN-ERA PUGILIST WHO FEATED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP MAX BAER A 15-ROUND BOUT. OTHER RELEAS FOR THE CLUD A GOOD YEAR (2006), AMERIN GANGSTER (2007), BODY OF LI (2008)—ALL THREE OF WHICH WERE DIRECTED BY RIDLEY STT AS WELL—AND STATE OF PLAY (2009).'ROB HOOD,' 'L MISéRABL'CROWE RNED WH STT FOR THE FIFTH TIME THE DIRECTOR’S 2010 ADAPTATN OF ROB HOOD, WHICH -STARRED CATE BLANCHETT. AFTER BEG FEATURED 2012’S MARTIAL ARTS FLICK THE MAN WH THE IRON FIST, THE ACTOR PUT HIS SGG CHOPS TO E THE MIL L MISéRABL, RELEASED DECEMBER. THE OSR-NOMATED TOM HOOPER FILM, -STARRG HUGH JACKMAN, ANNE HATHAWAY AND AMANDA SEYIED, SAW CROWE PORTRAYG OBSSED NSTABLE JAVERT.'MAN OF STEEL,' 'NOAH,' 'THE WATER DIVER'CROWE’S NEXT MAJOR ROL ME 2013 WH THE WTER RELEASE OF BROKEN CY, WHICH HE PORTRAYED A MAYOR UP FOR REELECTN, AND THE SUMMER RELEASE OF MAN OF STEEL. DIRECTED BY ZACK SNYR, STEEL RETELLS THE STORY OF SUPERMAN, STARRG HENRY CAVILL THE TLE ROLE AND CROWE AS HIS KRYPTONIAN FATHER, JOR-EL.IN 2014, CROWE DOVE BACK TO BIG-BUDGET FARE WH THE BIBLIL NOAH, BEFORE DOG AN ABOUT-FACE WH THE WATER DIVER, HIS DIRECTG BUT, ABOUT A FATHER SEARCHG FOR HIS SONS EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR I. FATHERS AND DGHTERS (2015), WH SEYIED, ALSO SHOWSED THE ACTOR A PLEX ROLE.'THE NICE GUYS,' 'THE MUMMY,' 'THE LOUST VOICE'CROWE'S NEXT EFFORT, AS AN ENFORCER ALONGSI RYAN GOSLG THE ACTN EDY THE NICE GUYS (2016), WAS GENERALLY WELL RECEIVED. HE WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH TO HELP THE REBOOT OF THE MUMMY (2017), THOUGH THE ACTOR FARED BETTER WH BOY ERASED (2018), AS THE FATHER OF A TEENAGER PLACED TO GAY-NVERSN THERAPY.TURNG TO THE SMALL SCREEN, CROWE TOOK ON THE ROLE OF FOX NEWS FOUNR ROGER AIL THE SUMMER 2019 SHOWTIME SERI THE LOUST VOICE. ALTHOUGH THE SERI DREW MIXED REVIEWS, CROWE IMPRSED ENOUGH TO CLAIM THE SEND GOLN GLOBE W OF HIS REER.EARLY YEARS AND CAREERRSELL CROWE WAS BORN ON APRIL 7, 1964, WELLGTON, NEW ZEALAND. HIS FAY MOVED TO SYDNEY, ATRALIA, WHEN CROWE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD. HE SPENT A GOOD AL OF TIME ON THE SETS OF VAR FILM AND TELEVISN PRODUCTNS, WHERE HIS PARENTS WORKED AS TERERS; AT AGE SIX, CROWE WAS ST AS AN ORPHAN THE TV SERI SPYFORCE, THE FIRST OF HIS MANY SMALL PARTS AS A CHILD ACTOR. HIS FAY RETURNED TO NEW ZEALAND 1978, AND CROWE BEGAN PERFORMG AS A ROCK SGER, BILLG HIMSELF AS R LE ROC AND RERDG THE PROPHETILLY TLED 1980 SGLE “I WANT TO BE LIKE MARLON BRANDO.” DURG THIS PERD, HE AND A IEND FORMED ROMAN ANTIX, WHICH LATER EVOLVED TO 30 ODD FOOT OF GNTS, A ROCK BAND FOR WHICH CROWE SERVED AS A SGER, GUARIST AND SONGWRER. CROWE RETURNED TO ATRALIA THE EARLY 1980S TO PURSUE HIS ACTG REER, WNG A ROLE A PRODUCTN OF THE MIL GREASE 1983. FROM 1986 TO 1988, HE STARRED A TOURG PRODUCTN OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. ALTERTNS AND BAD BOY REPUTATNWISPREAD MORS ABOUT CROWE’S BRASH PERSONALY CREASED WH HIS GROWG FAME THE 1990S. IN LATE 1999, HE WAS REPORTEDLY VOLVED A BRAWL OUTSI A BAR NEW SOUTH WAL, ATRALIA. THE OWNER OF THE BAR, WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE A SECURY VIOTAPE THAT SHOWED THE ACTOR HAD IATED THE BRAWL, WAS SUBSEQUENTLY CHARGED WH BLACKMAIL AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTG TO EXTORT MONEY OM CROWE EXCHANGE FOR THE VIO.CROWE'S BAD BOY REPUTATN AND SMOLRG ON-SCREEN TENSY SPIRED PARISONS TO THE YOUNG BRANDO. HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH HE IS REPORTEDLY MANDG WHILE WORKG ON SET, A NUMBER OF -STARS HAVE PUBLICLY PRAISED HIM FOR HIS CHARMG, PROFSNAL MEANOR.ON THE MORE BIZARRE SI, NEWS BROKE EARLY 2001 THAT THE FERAL BURE OF INVTIGATN HAD LNCHED AN VTIGATN TO A MORED PLOT TO KIDNAP CROWE. HE ATTEND THE JANUARY GOLN GLOB CEREMONY FLANKED BY FBI AGENTS TUXEDOS AND WAS GUARD BY STLAND YARD AT THE LONDON PREMIERE OF PROOF OF LIFE THE FOLLOWG MONTH. IN ADDN TO THE 1999 BAR FIGHT ATRALIA, CROWE WAS REPORTEDLY VOLVED A BATHROOM BRAWL A TRENDY LONDON RTRANT 2002. THREE YEARS LATER, HE WAS ARRTED AND CHARGED WH SEND-GREE ASSLT AFTER THROWG A TELEPHONE AT A HOTEL EMPLOYEE NEW YORK CY.RELATNSHIPSCROWE BEGAN A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH ATRALIAN SGER/ACTRS DANIELLE SPENCER WHILE THE TWO WERE FILMG THE CROSSG LATE 1989.DURG THE SUMMER OF 2000, CROWE BEME ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH HIS PROOF OF LIFE -STAR, MEG RYAN, AND WAS MENTNED AS A FACTOR HER SEPARATN OM HER HBAND OF NE YEARS, ACTOR DENNIS QUAID. HOWEVER, CROWE AND RYAN SPL LATE DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR.CROWE LATER REIGNED HIS ROMANCE WH SPENCER. THEY MARRIED APRIL 2003 AND HAD TWO SONS, CHARL AND TENNYSON, BEFORE ANNOUNCG THEIR SPL 2012.IN APRIL 2018, BEFORE HIS LEGAL SEPARATN OM SPENCER WAS FALIZED, CROWE HELD HIS "THE ART OF DIVORCE" CTN TO RID HIMSELF OF "ABOUT 3 ROOMS FULL OF THGS I WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO RE FOR, DOCUMENT, CLEAN, TUNE AND SURE." LIVE-STREAMED ON FACEBOOK, AND CLUDG SUCH SOUGHT-AFTER EMS AS THE ACTOR'S GRO-PROTECTOR OM CRELLA MAN AND A DOSR SKULL PURCHASED OM DICAPR, THE CTN REPORTEDLY TED CROWE A OL $2.8 {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

reputatn - by reventg himself as a gay in. Heart gay Los Angel nightclubs. He says, "I hear the gays love my mic.

His next and equally inoclastic role was as a gay plumber livg wh his widowed father The Sum of Us (1994). He was unable to do much to help the reboot of The Mummy (2017), though the actor fared better wh Boy Erased (2018), as the father of a teenager placed to gay-nversn therapy. Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia1994R1h 40mA widowed father has to al wh two plex issu: while he is searchg for "Miss Right, " his son, who is his 20s and gay, is searchg for "Mr.

"A widowed father has to al wh two plex issu: while he is searchg for "Miss Right, " his son, who is his 20s and gay, is searchg for "Mr. I've always been a sucker for good father/son relatnship movi, and this ranks up there wh the bt, and not bee of the twist: Harry's (Jack Thompson) almost too-willg acceptance of his son's gayns. )And here's another rehg difference: nobody's OTT drag, (you n rent TO WONG FOO for that), nobody gets AIDS, OD's, ms suici or otherwise meets the Grim Reaper most tragilly, as gay characters are wont to do most big-budget Hollyweird "gay-iendly" dramas.

RSELL CROWE PLAYG GAY BEFORE LEAVG FOR THE US “THE SUM OF US”

Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2018R1h 55mThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his productn, box office & pany Vios42More like thisReview Not as horrifyg as the bookThis adaptatn tak a lot of liberti wh the story om the book, which is certaly mon enough and n lead to a more entertag film. He's 19 years old, has jt admted to his Christian parents that he's gay, and they sist he get help. He eventually bolts om the program, accepts his inty as a gay man, and his parents—at least his mother, anyway—realize their error.

So when me to God and gay, he had ncerns of his basilly, his participatn was spired not by a ep sire to get help, but rather a ep sire to keep peace, be a good kid and make life easier for his parents—none of which are good reasons to get unselg of any sort. Scere moms and dads who fd their kids are gay often thk that the right person, wh the right ttimony, will somehow change the kid's md. Bis, there is somethg vlatg about forcg, or even prsurg, anyone to get help you feel they need, but they themselv have no sire I unapologetilly believe God never tend a person to be homosexually attracted, much ls act on such attractns, I also know that everyone has God-given ee will, grantg them the right to ci for themselv how to exprs or not exprs their sexual I was gay-intified and sexually active, nobody uld have persuad me to change my views.

SO, HOW GAY IS THOR: LOVE AND THUNR, REALLY?NATALIE PORTMAN CLAIMED THAT THE ANCHISE’S LATT STALLMENT IS “SO GAY”—BUT IS SHE RIGHT?BY CHRIS MURPHYJULY 8, 2022BY JAS BOLAND/MARVEL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN NATALIE PORTMAN SAYS THAT SOMETHG IS “SO GAY,” I WANT TO BELIEVE HER. AFTER ALL, SHE’S A QUEER IN BY VIRTUE OF STARRG PABLO LARRAíN’S JACKIE, MANY MISS DR MERCIALS, AND, FIRST AND FOREMOST, WNG THE OSR FOR THE BLACK SWAN, A PSYCHOSEXUAL PAS UX BETWEEN TWO WARRG BALLERAS. SO WHEN PORTMAN SWORE DURG A Q&A AT THE LONDON PREMIERE OF HER LATT FILM, THOR: LOVE AND THUNR, THAT MARVEL’S NEWT OFFERG IS “SO GAY,” MY TERT WAS IMMEDIATELY PIQUED—AND WHILE I HADN’T SEEN A MARVEL FILM SCE 2018’S BLACK PANTHER, I HAD TO KNOW WHETHER THOR 4 WOULD BE AN ENTRY TO THE QUEER CEMATIC NON à LA MOONLIGHT, CAROL, AND THE NILE KIDMAN AMC AD.SO OFF TO THE CEPLEX I WENT, TSTG NATALIE PORTMAN SPE MORS THAT THOR: LOVE AND THUNR MIGHT NOT BE AS GAY AS SHE CLAIMED. BUT STILL, I HAD FAH. THOR: LOVE AND THUNR WAS DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAI, WHOSE QUEER, PIRATE HBO MAX SHOW, OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH, CERTALY CROSS THE THRHOLD OF “SO GAY.” BISEXUAL ACTOR TSA THOMPSON WENT ON RERD AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON SAYG THAT SHE WANTED TO FD HER CHARACTER VALKYRIE, THE FEMALE KG OF ASGARDS, A QUEEN THE NEXT FILM. PL, THERE WAS GOG TO BE A RA ORA MEO. ALL POSIVE SIGNS!WHAT I FOUND…WELL I’M STILL TRYG TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND. BELOW IS A LIST OF THE GAY MOMENTS, SUBTEXT, AND ENERGY THAT I ULD FD THOR: LOVE AND THUNR, RANKED BY THEIR LEVEL OF GAYNS. BE WARNED: SPOILERS ABOUND.NOT GAY (AND SORT OF RUDE)CHRIS PRATT’S STAR-LORD IS PRETTY HEAVILY FEATURED THE FIRST 15 MUT OF THE FILM. THERE’S A FIGHT SCENE WHERE THOR FENDS OFF TWO MONSTERS WHILE A RSIAN SPL, AND STAR-LORD DRAMATILLY ROLLS HIS EY (WHICH GOT A BIG LGH OM THE DIENCE, BY THE WAY). SHAMG ANOTHER MAN FOR BEG SUPER FLEXIBLE AND A “B MUCH”? SORRY; THAT’S ANTI-QUEER BEHAVR, I’M AAID.CHRISTIAN BALE’S PERFORMANCE AS GORR THE GOD BUTCHER WAS GIVG VOLMORT VIB, WHICH MA ME THK OF HARRY POTTER, WHICH MA ME THK OF J.K. ROWLG—WHO IS ACTUALLY HARMFUL TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND TO MY PSYCHE. ALSO, FOR THE ENTIRE FILM I THOUGHT HE WAS PL BETTANY.THERE’S A B WHERE HEIMDALL’S SON, AXL (KIERON L. DYER), RENAM HIMSELF, AND THOR SISTS THAT AXL E HIS PREV NAME, ASTRID. EVENTUALLY, THOR ACQUIC AND LLS AXL BY HIS CHOSEN NAME…BUT ’S LEFT A WEIRD TASTE SOME LGBTQ+ FANS’ MOUTHS.SIMPLY NOT GAYTHERE’S A SHORT MONTAGE OF THOR, PLAYED BY CHRIS HEMSWORTH, AND HIS MANY LOVERS…ALL OF WHOM ARE WOMEN. TECHNILLY, HE KISS A “WOLF WOMAN” WHILE RIDG “A WOMAN WOLF,” BUT THE ENERGY OF ALL IS OVERWHELMGLY STRAIGHT LOTHAR.THE MONTAGE THAT PICTS NATALIE PORTMAN’S DR. JANE FOSTER AND THOR’S RELATNSHIP IS BASILLY JT A 10-MUTE VERSN OF THE BREAKUP (2006) STARRG JENNIFER ANISTON AND VCE VGHN, PL A MAGIC HAMMER. DECIDLY NOT GAY.MATT DAMON AND MELISSA MCCARTHY BOTH APPEAR A PERFORMG TROUPE ASGARD, ACTG OUT THE LEGEND OF THOR. LATER ON, DAMON APPEARS AGA AND ASKS VALKYRIE IF HE SHOULD WRE A PLAY TO HELP SAVE THE TOWN, WHICH HAS BEEN RAVAGED BY VOLGORR THE GOD BUTCHER. WHILE THE SHEER AMOUNT OF SURPRISE CELEBRY REVEALS THE FILM IS SOMEWHAT GAY (WHO DON’T LOVE A RUVEAL!), THE MOCKERY OF STAGE ACTG IS NOT GAY AT ALL.SLIGHTLY GAYTHE FILM OPENS WH A PREFACE THAT FEATUR THE GOD DNYS (SIMON RSELL BEALE)—SHIRTLS A FIELD OF GIGGLG FLOWERS AND WEARG A SPARKLY GOLN CROWN AND STATEMENT NECKLACE, BRAGGG ABOUT HOW MANY FOLLOWERS HE HAS. FLOWERS, STATEMENT NECKLAC, AND BEG OBSSED WH FOLLOWERS? DEFELY A B GAY!K MISTAKENLY LLS JANE FOSTER “JANE FONDA.” THE VOTN OF MISS FONDA, ’80S AEROBICS AND 9 TO 5 QUEEN, IS FELY SLIGHTLY GAY!THE FIRST NEEDLE DROP OF THE FILM IS, QUE RANDOMLY, ENYA’S “ONLY TIME.” THIS FEELS WEIRDLY APPROPRIATE GIVEN THE RECENT RURGENCE OF WCHY FORMER POP STARS WHO NOW LIVE STL PLETELY OFF THE GRID. AGA, NOT EXPLICLY GAY ANY WAY, BUT I FELY UGHT QUEER VIB.THOR’S CLOTH ACCINTALLY GET STRIPPED OM HIM, LEAVG HIM STANDG A ROOM FULL OF GODS THE NU. WHILE NOTHG SALAC IS SEEN (THE MOVIE IS ONLY PG-13, AFTER ALL), I BELIEVE THAT IMAGG CHRIS HEMSWORTH NAKED WILL RULT A QUEER AWAKENG FOR SOME OF THE YOUTH (AND, LET’S FACE , THE ADULTS) THE DIENCE. BON POTS: K SAID, “IT LOOKED LIKE A LTLE URGETTE,” I.E. A ZUCCHI—WHICH IS A HOP, SKIP, AND A JUMP AWAY OM THE EGGPLANT EMOJI.GAYTHOR, JANE, AND VALKYRIE MORE OR LS EXCLIVELY TRAVEL BY RIDG SCREAMG YAKS WHO N ON A SUPERCHARGED RABOW. WHILE RABOWS ARE NONILLY GAY (SEE: THE PRI FLAG, “SOMEWHERE OVER THE”), THIS IS SORT OF THE LOWT POSSIBLE BAR YOU ULD PASS FOR HAVG QUEER NTENT. BUT, I GUS UNTS.THE SHEER NUMBER OF FIERCE PANTSUS VALKYRIE WEARS AS KG OF ASGARD. SERVG LEWKS IS GAY!VALKYRIE BRGS A PORTABLE SPEAKER WH HER ON THE RABOW GOAT SHIP AND PLAYS A SNIPPET OF “FAY AFFAIR” BY MARY J. BLIGE. THAT’S A BOP, AND GAYS LOVE BOPS!MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDRSELL CROWE GIV THE WORST VOL PERFORMANCE OF HIS REER SCE L MISéRABL (2012). HIS BLOWHARD ZS SOUNDS LIKE THE FIRST DRAFT OF AN ITALIAN ACCENT, BUT ZS IS FAMOLY GREEK. IT WAS NFG AND NFOUNDG AND REMD ME OF HIS JAVERT, AND THERE’S SOMETHG HERENTLY QUEER ABOUT THAT.GAY??THE SO-LLED GAYNS OF VALKYRIE IS (TENTNALLY) NFG. AT ONE POT SHE TELLS DR. JANE FOSTER—WH WHOM SHE CLEARLY HAS NO ROMANTIC CHEMISTRY—THAT SHE MISS HER “SISTERS.” DO SHE MEAN SISTERS LIKE RELATIV, SISTERS LIKE GIRLIENDS (PLATONIC), OR SISTERS LIKE GIRLIENDS (ROMANTIC)? WE NEVER FD OUT. VALKYRIE IS THE GAYT PART OF THE FILM FOR SURE, BUT DO NOTHG EXPLICLY QUEER EXCEPT MAYBE…WHEN SHE’S PG THE KGDOM OF THE GODS. VALKYRIE BRIEFLY STOPS TO MAKE BEDROOM EY AT ONE OF ZS’S FEMALE NCUB, WHO I AM PRETTY SURE IS PLAYED BY RA ORA. THIS HAPPENS SO FAST (AND IS FILMED SUCH A WAY THAT I’M PRETTY SURE ULD GET CUT OUT OF THE MOVIE IF NEEDS TO BE LS LGBTQ+-IENDLY TERRORI) THAT I AM ACTUALLY NOT SURE IF ’S RA ORA OR NOT. BUT DO HAPPEN, AND IS A MOMENT—THE ONLY MOMENT—OF GIRL-ON-GIRL “ACTN” THE FILM, IF YOU N LL THAT.AT ONE POT, THOR IS VOLVED A LTLE B OF A LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN JANE FOSTER AND HIS AX, STORMBREAKER. MANY LGHS ARE (ATTEMPTED) TO BE WNG OUT OF STORMBREAKER’S SEEMG JEALOY OF JANE. IT WAS NFG TO ME, A MARVEL-NEOPHYTE, AS I ASSUMED THAT THOR’S AX WAS A GENRLS OBJECT—AND NOT TO GATEKEEP THE WORD GAY, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE A LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A MAGIL AX DON’T QUALIFY AS “SO GAY.” BUT I’M HAPPY TO KEEP AN OPEN MD ON THE MATTER.THE MOST EXPLIC “GAY” MOMENT: VALKYRIE AND K HAVE A (VERY BRIEF) HEART-TO-HEART ABOUT ROMANCE WHILE THOR AND JANE FULL ON MAKE OUT. IN THE SCENE, K EXPLICLY SAYS THAT HE HAS TWO DADS, AND THAT HIS SPECI ARE NCEIVED WHEN TWO KRONAN MEN HOLD HANDS OVER A LAVA P. IT’S A SWEET MOMENT, BUT THE SCENE IS PLACED SUCH A WAY THAT, AGA, FEELS LIKE ULD BE ENTIRELY REMOVED OTHER MARKETS. DURG THE NVERSATN, K ALSO MENTNS VALKYRIE’S AD GIRLIEND AND HOW SHE’S CLOSED HERSELF OFF OM LOVE. AGA, FELY REGNN THAT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE EXIST—BUT ’S THE FIRST AND LAST TIME WE HEAR ANY MENTN OF VALKYRIE’S LOVE LIFE OR TERT WOMEN.AT THE END OF THE FILM, THERE’S ALSO THE BRIEFT OF SHOTS OF K HOLDG HANDS WH ANOTHER ROCK KRONAN (PRUMABLY A MAN) OVER A LAVA P, AN ATTEMPT TO MAYBE MAKE A BABY. DID MARVEL JT SHOW OUR FIRST SCENE OF GAY KRONAN SEX? IT’S HARD TO KNOW.SO GAYNATALIE PORTMAN G THIS FILM AS A SHOWSE AND THEN HAVG HER CHARACTER DIE, HOPEFULLY RELEASG HER OM THE MCU AND ALLOWG HER TO GET BACK TO PROJECTS LIKE CLOSER.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDVALKYRIE SUALLY WEARG A PHANTOM OF THE OPERA SWEATSHIRT WHILE KICKG SOME SPIR MONSTER ASS.HONORABLE GAY MENTIONKAT DENNGS ALSO APPEARS AS A LLEAGUE OF DR. JANE FOSTER ONE (1) SCENE, NEVER TO BE SEEN OR HEARD OM AGA. SHE’S BEEN A GUT JUDGE ON DRAG RACE AND HAS A OL VIBE, SO SHE GETS AN HONORABLE MENTN HERE.SO, LOOKS LIKE THOR WILL NOT BE WNG ANY GLAAD AWARDS. BY MY SCIENTIFIC LCULATNS, THERE WERE FAR MORE NOT GAY MOMENTS THAN GAY MOMENTS, AND ONLY TWO THAT WOULD QUALIFY AS “SO GAY.” IN EVERY WAY, THE FILM WAS LS GAY THAN DUNE, WHICH FEATURED TIMOTHéE CHALAMET POUTG, BUTTHOLE-SHAPED WORMS, AND STEPHEN MCKLEY HENRSON HOLDG A LTLE PARASOL JT SO.BUT WHAT WERE WE TO EXPECT? A MOVIE PRODUCED BY MARVEL WHICH IS OWNED BY DISNEY—WHICH HAS E UNR A B OF FIRE FOR S HANDLG OF GAY NTENT AND S FANCIAL SUPPORT OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ POLICIANS—WAS MAYBE NEVER BOUND TO BE “SO GAY” AFTER ALL. SO THE NEXT TIME THE FORMER UNRSTUDY FOR LRA BELL BUNDY RUTHLS THE MIL OFF BROADWAY SAYS THAT SOMETHG IS SO GAY, DON’T NECSARILY TAKE HER WORD FOR .MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CHRIS MURPHY

The belief that homosexualy falls short of God's will is not an abive belief to exprs, nor is a self-hatg belief to embrace.

Their beg wrenched apart after 40 years earlier is more horrifyg than Harry’s stroke, which is brought on by the reactn of Joyce [Deborah Kennedy], his current romance, reactg wh horror to learng that his son Jeff is gay—though ’s not clear whether she is most upset by Jeff beg gay, Harry enuragg , or Harry not havg told her. It’s hard to nceive of excsive acceptance, but Harry manag to provi , eakg out Jeff’s boyiend Greg [John Polson], who is acctomed to paternal homophobia and don’t know what to make of Harry tryg to make the boys fortable. I thk the over-acceptg father is probably wish fulfillment, so the movie lls to my md Doña Herlda y su hijo (Doña Herlda and Her Son), though Doña Herlda only mak acmodatns to her son’s homosexualy whout the embrace of Harry for Jeff’s.

RSELL CROWE AND NILE KIDMAN STAR ‘GAY NVERSN’ DRAMA BOY ERASED

He is the thor of Amerin Gay, Homosexuali, etc. Is Rsell Crowe Gay?

FILM/DVD; AN EARLIER RSELL CROWE: THE LOVG GAY SON

From the rmatn provid, is safe to say that Crowe is not gay. The approach taken to this gay-themed light-drama is so low-keyed and matter-of-fact, mak the whole ia of homosexualy seem rather staid.

Young gay Atralian plumber liv wh his widower dad; they both want a ser mment wh a special someone, and both fd the path to romance rather rocky, but dad is fully mted to seeg that his "poof" son fds a partner who won't break his heart.

Father supports gay son unndnally.

THE SUM OF US REWATCHED – A LOVG FATHER, A GAY SON

The agg "dad", who is a widower, habually tri to play cupid for his gay 20-somethg son, seemgly spoilg all chanc of "succs", and eventually starts a search for his own send love. The eper msage of tolerance towards gays and lbians, as well as loyalty to a loved one need (when the father suffers a stroke, the son ref to abandon him, rg for him like a parent would re for a small child) is not dimished by the brilliant humor which surrounds . It is pecially worthwhile if you are gay, and disvered that about yourself as a child.

Rsell Crowe is adorable as the gby-playg gay son of a charmg Sydney widower played by Atralia's favore actor, Jack Thompson. The gay son's dad is supportive of him and his search for love, so the end, when the father has a stroke, the son is there to take re of him.

I had this warped image of beg gay that I had to velop a lisp and bee high mp jt to nform wh beg gay (I repeat I was 13 and livg the sticks. Wh alot of preutns I ught a tra for 2 hours to a movie theater that was far enough away so no one that I knew would see me gog to a "gay" Film.

STAR-STUDD FILM 'BOY ERASED' TAK ON 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY'

Any way Stg the theater I was prented wh an image of a gay man that didn't fall to the stereotyp I had been so ed to, I gus the film tght me I uld be gay wh out beg faggy.

IS RSELL CROWE GAY?

To simply label this as a gay movie is to miss the entire pot s a Romance movie, both father and son lookg for a partner of same/different genr. Male, female, gay, straight, young and old.