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Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: WHY SO MANY ACTRS CAN COME OUT, BUT YOUNG ACTORS STAY THE CLOSET
- 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
- WHY GAY MOVIE STARS ARE STAYG LOCKED THE CLOSET
- HOMOPHOBIA HOLLYWOOD: WHY GAY MOVIE STARS STILL N'T E OUT OF THE CLOSET
HOLLYWOOD’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: WHY SO MANY ACTRS CAN COME OUT, BUT YOUNG ACTORS STAY THE CLOSET
In an age of "Call Me by Your Name" and "I'm like, so gay" Kristen Stewart, young leadg men still fear g out of the closet. * gay actors not out of the closet *
This week livered a stark remr of the real state of affairs, when Jam Ivory gave a no-holds-barred terview The Guardian lamentg the lack of full-ontal male nudy “Call Me By Your Name, ” the gay awards film of last year, which earned the Hollywood legend his first Osr for Bt Adapted Screenplay. “Star Trek” actor John Cho is straight, but played Billy Eichner’s boyiend “Difficult People, ” as well as the latt eratn of Sulu “Star Trek, ” who is revealed as gay the third stallment. The same logic do not apply to straight actors, like “Call Me by Your Name” stars Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, for whom playg gay (albe a prtig film) actually bolstered their reers.
“As a producer, as someone who’s creatg a role for TV, they’re gog to want to have their lead actor, or actrs believably play the role, ” said the talent manager, who is openly gay.
29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
Entertament dtry sirs discs the broar impact of Hollywood's closet, and whether gay and bisexual actors have an obligatn to be out. * gay actors not out of the closet *
In that se, the solutn may be to wre fewer heterosexual romanc altogether — which might not be a bad thg for actrs, straight or gay, as Hollywood attempts to reckon wh s history of sexualizg women. Zachary Quto, Alan Cummg, and Neil Patrick Harris have ma no secret of beg gay, but they eher waed until later life to e out, or did not reach the height of their fame until later life.
Greg Berlanti, who directed “Love, Simon” and is pretty much sgle-handly rponsible for the proliferatn of gay supportg characters on televisn, has been around long enough to be more optimistic. In 2002, a parody fan se was created lled "Elijah Wood is Very, Very Gay" bee was believed that the Lord of the Rgs actors Elijah Wood and Domic Monaghan were a secret relatnship real life. He told the world Entertament News Network, "'s kd of a joke webse that mata that they have proof that I am very, very gay var photographs - photographic evince (of me) holdg hands wh a male.
Recently, there was a hilar clip of Brney Spears and her reactn when she fds out for the first time that Ryan Seacrt is not gay and he is fact a "straight man. "In my silence, I've helped ci for you too that to be gay is to be, as a young man (or young woman, young anyone), appropriate for a profsnal reer the Arts. "In a post-marriage equaly world, where ls than half of teens intify as straight, may be surprisg to some that so many gay and bisexual actors are still silent about their sexual orientatn.
WHY GAY MOVIE STARS ARE STAYG LOCKED THE CLOSET
Tim ntue to change Hollywood and around the untry. Over the past uple years, more and more celebri have e out of the closet as gay. * gay actors not out of the closet *
"Jt Kelly, a gay director whose new film, Kg Cobra, tackl murr the gay porn dtry, also fend the right to this privacy at his movie's premiere at the Tribe Film Ftival.
"If an actor don't want to e out, I thk 's their agenda, " said Kelly, whose prev project about an ex-gay activist, I Am Michael, featured Carver before his g-out. If you are , is not by your choice, " the gay journalist told The Advote an article that fend the right of reporters to ask celebri about their sexual orientatn. For many talent reprentativ and stud and work powers-that-be, gay actors, part due to the plited prejudic of society, are seen as ls of a mody than straight leadg men, who are sellg sex and s promise to mass markets.
For gay actors, there is a very real perceptn that if they reveal themselv to be anythg other than the heterosexual ial, their stock among producers and the public will plummet. Actors once thought of as leadg men would be forced to "gay" typ, wh a grim future that clus, if they're lucky, variatns of AIDS patients and sassy bt perceptn is rerced by forebears this dtry like Rupert Everett, the Brish actor who me out 1989.
HOMOPHOBIA HOLLYWOOD: WHY GAY MOVIE STARS STILL N'T E OUT OF THE CLOSET
In Kg Cobra, for example, many of the lead characters are gay, but none of the actors who play the parts -- Jam Fran, Christian Slater, Keegan Allen, and Garrett Clayton -- openly intify as such (although Fran has stated that he intifi as gay everythg but sex) disnnect between out actors and characters is pecially evint durg awards season.
Actor Joel Michaely experienced this discrimatn firsthand when, after playg geek rol films like Can't Hardly Wa, he portrayed a gay character the 2000 cult film But I'm a Cheerlear. Although he is proud to be part of a movie that skewers "ex-gay" therapy and has bee an trsic part of the queer non, he also saw how the offers dried up after s release. "The problem is that most gay actors get a horrible backlash and are not able to survive and thrive their craft, bee they don't get the opportuni [they once had].