Zac Eon: The Gay Photo Sndal - The Hollywood Gossip

Contents:

• ZAC EON GAY? FALLY, HE TELLS ALL TO THE ADVOTE
• "I JT N’T SEE WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT BEG GAY" - ZAC EON OPENS UP ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• ZAC EON: THE GAY PHOTO SNDAL
• ON ZAC EON, HOMOEROTICISM AND GAY PANRG: HOW ‘NEIGHBORS’ IS THE GAYT STUD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER
• SHIRTLS ZAC EON GRABS DAVE FRAN CROTCH: GAY, BI DATG RUMORS RETURN
• IS ZAC EON GAY OR BISEXUAL? ZAC EON’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
• IS ZAC EON GAY?
• FACTS ABOUT ZAC EON: GAY RUMORS FOLKS DON’T KNOW!
• ZAC EON REF TO "LIVE FEAR" ABOUT GAY MOURS

ZAC EON GAY? FALLY, HE TELLS ALL TO THE ADVOTE

Zac Eon has been addrsg gay mors wh class and style for years, so why has taken him so long to get around to talkg to The Advote? Zac Eon’s terview wh The Advote is a chance for the actor to addrs gay mors that date all the way back to his High School Mil days.

"I JT N’T SEE WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT BEG GAY" - ZAC EON OPENS UP ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

“After High School Mil and Hairspray, I’ve always felt embraced by the gay muny, and I feel credibly grateful and honored, ” Zac Eon said durg his first-ever gay prs s-down.

Zac Eon, whose latt role is The Paperboy, oppose Nile Kidman, went on to share, “I don’t like to live fear about thgs like mors and backlash to beg wh — that’s the way I was raised — but I jt n’t see what’s so wrong about beg gay. Will we see the heartthrob embrace a gay role on the big screen? When asked the qutn, the 24-year-old replied, “I’d never take a role jt for the sake of playg gay, but I’m always lookg for a role that’s challengg, different, and entails some risk, so there’s no doubt my md that one of those characters will be gay at some pot the future.

ZAC EON: THE GAY PHOTO SNDAL

Zac Eon was turng gay heads way before director Lee Daniels stripped him to his skivvi for the pulpy, '60s-set southern thriller The Paperboy, which steams up theaters October 5.

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All he required of me was that I be fearls, and that's somethg I'm really workg on right now my grabs of you wet undi ma que an imprsn the gay blogosphere, but your prence on gay blogs is certaly nothg 's very flatterg. After High School Mil and Hairspray, I've always felt embraced by the gay muny, and I feel credibly grateful and honored. I'm so exced to be talkg to did gay fans first e to your attentn?

ON ZAC EON, HOMOEROTICISM AND GAY PANRG: HOW ‘NEIGHBORS’ IS THE GAYT STUD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER

I thk the gay dience related to my character Troy, bee really was a story of embracg who you are, no matter how different you might be, and not beg aaid to show . That's a universal theme for everyone, but specifilly ronated wh the gay muny, and I felt very proud of you remember your first teractn wh gay people?

SHIRTLS ZAC EON GRABS DAVE FRAN CROTCH: GAY, BI DATG RUMORS RETURN

I started dog lol theater so young -- I was 12 -- so to me, beg gay was jt another way that you n be. I might've been ls aware of back then, but whout qutn I had gay role your volvement last year's Footloose remake fell through, fans worried that you might be done wh mils for good.

But that will always be my home base and where I feel the most ee, and 's somethg I will fely do aga, even 's jt for pleasure and personal Paperboy also marks McConghey's first gay role. Are you terted tacklg a gay character? I'd never take a role jt for the sake of playg gay, but I'm always lookg for a role that's challengg, different, and entails some risk, so there's no doubt my md that one of those characters will be gay at some pot the future.

I fely wouldn't be a 2008 Details profile, the wrer brought up the subject of gay mors, particularly as they related to blogger Perez Hilton's onle speculatn about you. You replied, "Hontly, if the worst he n say about me is that I'm gay, then I thk I'll be fe. Do gay iends make the exclive gut list?

IS ZAC EON GAY OR BISEXUAL? ZAC EON’S SEXUALY EXPLAED

And he's also been givg some pretty ol terviews about thgs like whether or not he's gog to move back to mil theatre, and how he feels about the gay mours which have followed him around ever sce his High School Mil days. "I don’t like to live fear about thgs like mors and backlash to beg wh — that’s the way I was raised — but I jt n’t see what’s so wrong about beg gay, " he says the terview wh US onle magaze Advote.

" "I might’ve been ls aware of back then, but whout qutn I had gay role mols [when I was growg up]".

"I thk the gay dience related to my character Troy, bee really was a story of embracg who you are, no matter how different you might be, and not beg aaid to show . That’s a universal theme for everyone, but specifilly ronated wh the gay muny, and I felt very proud of that.

IS ZAC EON GAY?

" "I’d never take a role jt for the sake of playg gay, but I’m always lookg for a role that’s challengg, different, and entails some risk, so there’s no doubt my md that one of those characters will be gay at some pot the future.

Is Zac Eon gay? Like many red-blood gay men, I got my myself to a movie theater this weekend and saw ‘Neighbors. It was more about how might jt be the gayt stud-produced edy ever ma.

Especially nsirg don’t even have a sgle (explicly) gay character.

FACTS ABOUT ZAC EON: GAY RUMORS FOLKS DON’T KNOW!

When Seth Rogen’s Mac se Zac Eon’s Teddy the film for the first time, he offers Rose Byrne’s Kelly one of the film’s bt l: “He looks like somethg a gay guy created a lab. From s homoerotic at hoe moments to s fetishizatn of Eon (and -star Dave Fran, for that matter) to uniquely subversive tak on the standard gay panic jok found the long leage of homophobic films that ‘Neighbors’ was born out of, the film seems to be outright panrg to gay dienc.

They also aggrsively sought out advertisg and verage gay male-oriented magaz and webs. And while that technilly remas the se (at least I thk so — I uldn’t fd anythg nfirmg otherwise about s director and wrers), I was pleasantly taken aback by the remarkable amount of blatant homoeroticism ‘Neighbors’ that, for once, didn’t e wh any unrlyg homophobia.

ZAC EON REF TO "LIVE FEAR" ABOUT GAY MOURS

There’s Teddy and his iendship wh Frat hoe BFF Pete (Dave Fran, who has sentially ma a reer off homoerotic viral vios — and let’s not even get started on his olr brother). When their relatnship is threatened bee Pete sleeps wh Teddy’s girliend (a scene where the nudy is rehgly all Fran), Teddy is quick to back down off via the “bros before hos” motto he and his at holds so queerly ar (the film certaly don’t shy away om pictg the homoeroticism evint ats general). Which kd of acts as a metaphor for the state of a lot of ntemporary gay men, no?

I mean, suggtg that was an tentnal aspect “Neighbors” to prent social mentary on Grdr-era gay men is officially overreachg here, but ’s still very easy to read that to .