Richard Gere Reflects on Playg Gay on Broadway – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• IS RICHARD GERE GAY? A VIEW INTO THE ACTOR’S SEXUALY
• LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
• ANRSON COOPER CREDS RICHARD GERE WH HELPG HIM REALIZE HE'S GAYTHE CNN JOURNALIST SAID SEEG THE ACTOR THE 1977 PLAY BENT CHANGED EVERYTHG.BY EY KIRKPATRICKJUNE 27, 2022BY JASON LAVERIS/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEANRSON COOPER SAID THAT A FATEFUL TRIP TO SEE RICHARD GERE PERFORM ON STAGE WHEN HE WAS A PRE-TEEN HELPED HIM REALIZE HE WAS GAY.TTHE CNN JOURNALIST RELLED THE STORY OF HIS SEXUAL AWAKENG TO HIS IEND ANDY COHEN ON RAD ANDY ON FRIDAY, EXPLAG THAT TWO OF HIS MOM GLORIA VANRBILT'S IENDS, PHOTOGRAPHER PL JASM AND HIS BOYIEND, TOOK HIM TO SEE A PLAY STARRG GERE WHEN HE WAS JT 11 YEARS OLD. HE EXPLAED, “AND THEY TOOK ME TO SEE RICHARD GERE BENT, WHICH IF ANYONE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PLAY BENT, ’S ABOUT TWO GAY GUYS THE NCENTRATN MPS. I MEAN THE OPENG SCENE…IT IS THE GAYT THG YOU N IMAGE.” HE ADD, “AND THIS WAS RICHARD GERE 1977, LOOKG FOR MR. GOODBAR. HE WAS SO BETIFUL. AND I’M THERE. MY MOM DIDN’T GO. IT WAS JT ME AND MY MOM’S TWO GAY IENDS.”COOPER WENT ON TO REUNT THAT WH THAT OPENG SCENE THERE IS A MOMENT WHERE A MAN GETS OUT OF BED NAKED AND PUTS ON A NAZI UNIFORM AFTER SLEEPG WH ANOTHER MAN. “AND I JT REMEMBER BEG LIKE, ‘OH MY GOD, I’M GAY…I’M TOTALLY GAY,’” THE REPORTER SAID. “AFTERWARD, PL JASM WAS IENDS WH RICHARD GERE BEE PL JASM TOOK THE PICTUR FOR AMERIN GIGOLO, AND WE GO BACKSTAGE AND RICHARD GERE IS SHIRTLS HIS DRSG ROOM AND I ULDN’T SPEAK.” HE NTUED, “AND I HAD MY PLAYBILL AND I WANTED TO GET HIM TO TOGRAPH , BUT I WAS TOO—I JT ULDN’T STOP STARG AT HIS CHT. AND SO, FAST FORWARD TO 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS TERVIEWG RICHARD GERE AND I TOOK OUT THE PLAYBILL…AND I TOLD HIM THE WHOLE STORY AND I HAD HIM SIGN . YEAH. HE WAS VERY TICKLED WH .”COOPER PUBLICLY REVEALED HIS SEXUALY 2012 VIA AN SAY PUBLISHED ON ANDREW SULLIVAN'S DAILY BEAST BLOG. IN THE PIECE, HE EXPLAED THAT HE FELT TORN BETWEEN PROTECTG HIS PRIVACY AND SERVG AS AN EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG LGBT VIEWERS. “IT’S BEE CLEAR TO ME THAT BY REMAG SILENT ON CERTA ASPECTS OF MY PERSONAL LIFE FOR SO LONG, I HAVE GIVEN SOME THE MISTAKEN IMPRSN THAT I AM TRYG TO HI SOMETHG—SOMETHG THAT MAK ME UNFORTABLE, ASHAMED OR EVEN AAID,” HE WROTE. “THIS IS DISTRSG BEE IS SIMPLY NOT FACT IS, I’M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE, AND I ULDN’T BE ANY MORE HAPPY, FORTABLE WH MYSELF, AND PROUD.”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 HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLEREY KIRKPATRICK
• RICHARD GERE REFLECTS ON PLAYG GAY ON BROADWAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

IS RICHARD GERE GAY? A VIEW INTO THE ACTOR’S SEXUALY

""If anyone don't know about the play Bent, 's about two gay guys a ncentratn mp, " Cooper explaed. "The openg scene is the gayt thg you n image. "And I'm there, my mom didn't go, 's jt me and my mom's two gay iends and I'm watchg this thg and lerally the openg scene of Bent, like there's a guy bed who's jt...

LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL

And I jt remember beg like Oh, my God, I'm gay like this is. I'm totally gay.

ANRSON COOPER CREDS RICHARD GERE WH HELPG HIM REALIZE HE'S GAYTHE CNN JOURNALIST SAID SEEG THE ACTOR THE 1977 PLAY BENT CHANGED EVERYTHG.BY EY KIRKPATRICKJUNE 27, 2022BY JASON LAVERIS/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEANRSON COOPER SAID THAT A FATEFUL TRIP TO SEE RICHARD GERE PERFORM ON STAGE WHEN HE WAS A PRE-TEEN HELPED HIM REALIZE HE WAS GAY.TTHE CNN JOURNALIST RELLED THE STORY OF HIS SEXUAL AWAKENG TO HIS IEND ANDY COHEN ON RAD ANDY ON FRIDAY, EXPLAG THAT TWO OF HIS MOM GLORIA VANRBILT'S IENDS, PHOTOGRAPHER PL JASM AND HIS BOYIEND, TOOK HIM TO SEE A PLAY STARRG GERE WHEN HE WAS JT 11 YEARS OLD. HE EXPLAED, “AND THEY TOOK ME TO SEE RICHARD GERE BENT, WHICH IF ANYONE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PLAY BENT, ’S ABOUT TWO GAY GUYS THE NCENTRATN MPS. I MEAN THE OPENG SCENE…IT IS THE GAYT THG YOU N IMAGE.” HE ADD, “AND THIS WAS RICHARD GERE 1977, LOOKG FOR MR. GOODBAR. HE WAS SO BETIFUL. AND I’M THERE. MY MOM DIDN’T GO. IT WAS JT ME AND MY MOM’S TWO GAY IENDS.”COOPER WENT ON TO REUNT THAT WH THAT OPENG SCENE THERE IS A MOMENT WHERE A MAN GETS OUT OF BED NAKED AND PUTS ON A NAZI UNIFORM AFTER SLEEPG WH ANOTHER MAN. “AND I JT REMEMBER BEG LIKE, ‘OH MY GOD, I’M GAY…I’M TOTALLY GAY,’” THE REPORTER SAID. “AFTERWARD, PL JASM WAS IENDS WH RICHARD GERE BEE PL JASM TOOK THE PICTUR FOR AMERIN GIGOLO, AND WE GO BACKSTAGE AND RICHARD GERE IS SHIRTLS HIS DRSG ROOM AND I ULDN’T SPEAK.” HE NTUED, “AND I HAD MY PLAYBILL AND I WANTED TO GET HIM TO TOGRAPH , BUT I WAS TOO—I JT ULDN’T STOP STARG AT HIS CHT. AND SO, FAST FORWARD TO 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS TERVIEWG RICHARD GERE AND I TOOK OUT THE PLAYBILL…AND I TOLD HIM THE WHOLE STORY AND I HAD HIM SIGN . YEAH. HE WAS VERY TICKLED WH .”COOPER PUBLICLY REVEALED HIS SEXUALY 2012 VIA AN SAY PUBLISHED ON ANDREW SULLIVAN'S DAILY BEAST BLOG. IN THE PIECE, HE EXPLAED THAT HE FELT TORN BETWEEN PROTECTG HIS PRIVACY AND SERVG AS AN EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG LGBT VIEWERS. “IT’S BEE CLEAR TO ME THAT BY REMAG SILENT ON CERTA ASPECTS OF MY PERSONAL LIFE FOR SO LONG, I HAVE GIVEN SOME THE MISTAKEN IMPRSN THAT I AM TRYG TO HI SOMETHG—SOMETHG THAT MAK ME UNFORTABLE, ASHAMED OR EVEN AAID,” HE WROTE. “THIS IS DISTRSG BEE IS SIMPLY NOT FACT IS, I’M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE, AND I ULDN’T BE ANY MORE HAPPY, FORTABLE WH MYSELF, AND PROUD.”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 HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLEREY KIRKPATRICK

The qutn of if Richard Gere is Gay me to be after his appearance the film Amerin Gigolo 1980. Richard Gere was sexualized the movie and so many s later, fans are still wonrg, is Richard Gere gay? Cooper said: “And I jt remember beg like, ‘Oh my God, I’m gay… I’m totally gay.

I mean the openg scene… It is the gayt thg you n image. The productn retells the story of two gay men a Nazi ncentratn mp.

Richard Gere is not gay. Dpe the fact that he played the role of a gay character Bent and that he has been greatly sexualized other productn. The veteran Amerin actor isn’t gay.

RICHARD GERE REFLECTS ON PLAYG GAY ON BROADWAY

Even though he played a key role helpg Cooper Anrson disver his sexualy, Richard Gere isn’t gay. Contrary to the too many mors that Richard Gere is gay, he isn’t. Though Richard Gere sparked the light bulb regardg Anrson Cooper’s sexualy, Richard isn’t gay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Although he’s hailed as a queer in and a self-scribed “The Kg and Queen of Rock and Roll, ” his flamboyant inic style differed om the anti-gay Christiany he poed later life, leavg behd a tly nflicted legacy. His dad then kicked him out for beg gay at age 15 and was shot and killed by a ctomer outsi of his own nightclub when Richard was 19. Related: 3 gay micians jt got fired om their Catholic church bee, you know… gay.

The song was a fast-spired romp about gay terurse. In 1984, s after his last big h, he said that homosexualy was “unnatural” and “ntag” an terview, and by March 1985, he announced a public sermon:.

“I have rejected homosexualy.