Steve Howey, the Shamels star, hop to end stigma -- and toxic masculy -- by playg gay and speakg out.
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CONGRSMAN DAVID DREIER: GAY & ASHAMED
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Bradley's disfort wh the ia of g out may be rooted any number of reasons, and no one, not even someone who's experienced workplace homophobia firsthand, should prsure her to e out before she's ready. For Shamels star Steve Howey, speakg out for what he knows is right has bee an art form, one that is unpredictable but always strik a December, the Texas-born actor me out on Twter, he says, to fight the stigma behd sayg the words "I'm gay. " His tweet, which read simply "I'm gay and proud, " sparked dialogue and a fair amount of nfn about the straight, married father of tws -- but he isn't bothered by fans thought Howey, who plays gay Netflix's Game Over, Man!, might have been textg character, but he sists, "My whole pot was to be a champn, a supporter, of the movement.
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Howey plays Rich, a "bad guy and a goon" who happens to be gay and works alongsi his lover (Mac Brandt), another eccentric thug. "The fact that he and Brandt both play agast type -- hypermascule bad guys who happen to be gay -- is part of the movie's charm. Movg forward, he hop to tackle more challengg rol that brg awarens to stori ls told -- like that of his bt iends, Nick and Jim, a gay uple, whose kids go to the same school as Howey's tws.
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