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Contents:

• THE MURKY GAY POLICS SURROUNDG THE 'STAY WEIRD' OSRS SPEECH
• ‘IMATN GAME’ SCREENWRER GRAHAM MOORE CLARIFI THAT HE’S NOT GAY
• ‘STAY WEIRD’ OSR WNER: I’M NOT GAY
• OSR-WNG IMATN GAME WRER GRAHAM MOORE: "I'M NOT GAY"
• IS IT “WEIRD” TO BE GAY? WHAT GRAHAM MOORE’S SPEECH REALLY MEANS.
• OSR WNER GRAHAM MOORE: 'I'M NOT GAY'
• GRAHAM MOORE ISN'T GAY
• NO, IMATN GAME WRER GRAHAM MOORE IS NOT GAY
• GRAHAM MOORE PL FOUR OTHER STRAIGHT GUYS WHO SET OFF OUR GAYDAR

THE MURKY GAY POLICS SURROUNDG THE 'STAY WEIRD' OSRS SPEECH

The Murky Gay Polics Surroundg the 'Stay Weird' Osrs SpeechWhile acceptg his award, Graham Moore ially seemed to speak to the LGBT stggle. In tth, he ignored Blake/RtersQueerty’s roundup of the “Gayt and Greatt GIFs of the 2015 Osrs” is surprisgly exhstive, cludg imag both obv, like Neil Patrick Harris tighty wheys, and subtle, like Meryl Streep’s skirtsu. “The gayt and greatt moment at the Osrs belonged to Bt Adapted Screenplay wner Graham Moore, ” wrote L Fabian Brathwae.

Moore told reporters after the Osrs that he, fact, is not gay. Stay weird, and then when 's your turn, and you are the one standg on this stage, please pass this msage, of urse, is the WW2 Brish mathematician who, as The Imatn Game portrays, likely killed himself after beg prosecuted for homosexualy.

Remend ReadgThe revelatn (or reeratn—he's said before) that Moore isn't gay don't make his speech ls movg. Queer kids pecially uld benef om his msage, given that suici rat are higher among knowg that he's straight, and knowg the primary ntroversy surroundg The Imatn Game has been about s mimizatn of the gay experience, mak Moore's Osrs moment a somewhat strange one. In fact, 's strikg how much his speech is cidly not aimed at gay people, even though spoke out agast suici by vokg the name of a man whose suici was likely related to his sexualy and at a time when LGBT suici is a well-publicized problem.

‘IMATN GAME’ SCREENWRER GRAHAM MOORE CLARIFI THAT HE’S NOT GAY

Persecutn and ternal anxieti play a role; when you're raised a homophobic society, the ia of ever fdg same-sex pannship n seem hopels or even ighteng.

‘STAY WEIRD’ OSR WNER: I’M NOT GAY

"Thkg of homosexualy (or bisexualy or transgenrism) as weird is, a way, precisely the problem, " Lowr wr. In flashbacks, viewers learn he’d had an tense childhood iendship that end sadly, but though the dience is meant to assume Turg had romantic feelgs for another boy, there’s really nothg gay about the plot le; why wouldn’t Turg velop an admiratn for the only person who was nice to him at school? In the movie’s amg story, the police terrogate and then punishg Turg for beg gay, but viewers learn nothg about the actual relatnships or sir that led to that persecutn.

Note that the storytellg cisns were all om the script— other words, they were Moore' irony is that the awards-season mpaign for The Imatn Game doubled as a gay-rights mpaign, wh the Weste Company supportg a petn askg the Brish ernment to pardon 49, 000 men prosecuted for homosexualy.

” Many assumed this to mean he intified wh Imatn Game subject Turg for beg gay, but not so, says Moore a piece on Buzzfeed News:. Though many assumed that Moore was gay bee of his nnectn to Turg, at the Governors Ball after the ceremony, he told BuzzFeed News, “I’m not gay, but I’ve never talked publicly about prsn before or any of that, and that was so much of what the movie was about, and was one of the thgs that drew me to Alan Turg so much.

OSR-WNG IMATN GAME WRER GRAHAM MOORE: "I'M NOT GAY"

Well, gay or not, was still a touchg speech.

It’s a b of a shame he’s not gay though, I have to image that would make gettg an Osr om Oprah at least 75% more excg. Assumg my gay math is rrect.

Mentng the ma character the movie, English mathematician Alan Turg — who was gay — he said, “Alan Turg never got to stand on a stage like this and look out on all the disncertgly attractive fac. But many accintally misterpreted his ments support of Turg — who was prosecuted for homosexualy Bra and died by suici — to be a celebratn of his own homosexualy.

IS IT “WEIRD” TO BE GAY? WHAT GRAHAM MOORE’S SPEECH REALLY MEANS.

After the Osrs, he clarified his speech, explag, “I’m not gay, but I’ve never talked publicly about prsn before or any of that and that was so much of what the movie was about and was one of the thgs that drew me to Alan Turg so much. But Moore is not gay. His speech was not about LGBT youth, many of whom experience prsn bee of the homophobia and transphobia which our culture is mired.

OSR WNER GRAHAM MOORE: 'I'M NOT GAY'

Moore's prsn is nothg to make light of, but by nnectg his story to Alan Turg's, his speech mand addrsg actual gay, lbian, and transgenr people who are havg suicidal thoughts.

Alan Turg wasn't weird; he was a brilliant gay man who killed himself bee his ernment chemilly strated him. Bee let me tell you, as a gay black man, my suicidal thoughts were for different reasons than jt feelg "weird. " Gay and transgenr people aren't murred daily bee they're "weird.

As a gay man whose life was outlawed by his untry, Turg probably jt wanted to have sex wh a man he was love wh whout fear of ernment torture.

GRAHAM MOORE ISN'T GAY

If you need to see that to unrstand that he's gay, then all is lost for any kd of subtle storytellg.

In Black's speech he said, "but most of all, if Harvey had not been taken om 30 years ago, I thk he'd want me to say to all of the gay and lbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are ls than by their church, by the ernment or by their fai, that you are betiful, wonrful creatur of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God do love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights ferally, across this great natn of ours.

NO, IMATN GAME WRER GRAHAM MOORE IS NOT GAY

The chos of people who champned Moore's speech onle were mostly out gay men who were exced about the prospect of another out gay screenwrer reaffirmg the notn that their liv are important. The mantra has evolved to attractive, whe gay mols g out on YouTube and beg award money by Ellen DeGener and televisn rol by Ryan Murphy. Out gay actors like Matt Bomer get Goln Glob.

Moore's speech, spirg for his willgns to discs his prsn publicly, was a step back terms of gay visibily. You may have thought that Imatn Game wrer Graham Moore's acceptance speech for Bt Adapted Screenplay last night was his way of sharg his experienc as a young gay man who tried to m suici bee he felt like he "didn't belong. You'd be Moore is not Moore is not Moore is not gay.

GRAHAM MOORE PL FOUR OTHER STRAIGHT GUYS WHO SET OFF OUR GAYDAR

Buzzfeed terviewed Moore after the Osrs and here's what he said about not beg gay:I'm not gay, but I've never talked publicly about prsn before or any of that and that was so much of what the movie was about and was one of the thgs that drew me to Alan Turg so much. Is It “Weird” to Be Gay? My Outward lleague June Thomas parsed Moore’s words quickly thereafter, praisg his attempt to e the platform to say somethg meangful about difference and acceptance, but raisg a note of ncern about the wrer’s nflatn of Alan Turg’s experience as a homosexual man the mid-20th century wh the more generalized plight of people society ems “weird.

” Durg his speech, Moore—who nfirmed to BuzzFeed early Monday morng that spe wispread assumptn to the ntrary, he do not intify as gay—revealed that his own vague adolcent weirdns and nant difficulti led him to the precipice of suici when he was 16, and he offered his succs as a sort of “It Gets Better” se study for teens who might feel like outsirs themselv. But those who are exprsg disfort wh the speech are not wrong to fd flt wh Graham’s implied parison between the experience of beg gay a still largely homophobic society (liberal Hollywood award shows notwhstandg) and standard teenage disaffectn. And so, whout harpg on Moore’s fltered speech too much, ’s worth takg a moment to expla the trouble wh that equivalence more generally and to thk about why gay people might be so sensive to —pecially g as did om the straight wrer of a film that sperately marketed self to dienc and Amy voters as a gay polil statement.

To start wh the basics: Homosexualy is a fundamental inty that, spe the ocsnal “’s a small part of me” talkg pot, eply term how one se and is seen by the world. Put differently: Beg a straight weirdo is, on balance, jt not as totalizg or strsful a suatn as beg a gay person. New York-based wrer Kev Jofé put elegantly on Twter Monday morng: “Beg gay means more than ‘beg weird.