‘Lookg’ Seri Gay Backlash Broke Me, Says Rsell Tovey – IndieWire

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Amerin Horror Story: NYC star Rsell Tovey has revealed that he was told that was “gay” to be terted drama at school.

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RSELL TOVEY: GAY MALE BACKLASH TO ‘LOOKG’ ‘BROKE ME, HONTLY’

Rsell Tovey, star of HBO's short-lived gay seri "Lookg," rells the negative reactns he faced om his own muny. * russell tovey gay scene *

Rsell Tovey remembers beg told early his actg reer that he shouldn’t e out as gay.

RSELL TOVEY: ‘BEG GAY MA MY REER'

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” Tovey plays a closeted p New York vtigatg the murrs of several gay men durg the onset of the AIDS epimic. “There is an anxiety that kicks that you go, ‘This is a straight guy, I’m a gay guy, openly, and we’re gog to be kissg now. Creator Michael Lannan’s seri about the s and outs of three gay bt iends San Francis ran for two seasons 2014 and 2015, followed by a 2016 straight-to-HBO movie place of a third season.

And those hopg “Lookg” would be HBO’s gay answer to “Sex and the Cy” might have been disappoted wh what they received stead: an die film-style dramedy that played to the often driftg rhythms of s characters’ liv, seekg love and sex a Bay Area beg swallowed by the tech boom. Tovey, an out Brish actor who’s sce ma a name on stage (“Angels Ameri”) and screen (“Amerin Horror Story: NYC”) for playg rol both queer and straight but mostly the former, is now airg out his feelgs about the gay male rponse to the seri at the time.

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” (A handful of gay iends I polled for this story didn’t have shy thgs to say. But Tovey was most stung by reactns om his own gay male muny. He relled shootg Season 2 scen outsi a San Francis ffee shop, where he was approached by gay men passg by the set.

RSELL TOVEY OPENS UP ABOUT BEG TOLD LOVG DRAMA WAS ‘GAY’ AS A CHILD: ‘THAT REALLY AFFECTED ME’

For young kids to be able to say, ‘Cool, I’ll watch “Glee” tonight and then go to a gay bar’ – that is an credible gift that’s been hand down.

“Of urse I’m not gay.

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