Love, Simon: at last Hollywood is sayg ‘I’m gay’ | Love, Simon | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!
• LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
• LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
• ‘LOVE, SIMON’ STARS SAY GAY TEEN ROMANCE WILL SAVE LIV
• WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE

'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY

Are the actors "Love, Simon" actually gay? I've heard a uple people say that the actors aren't actually gay.

"Pollari, who has played a gay character once before TV seri Amerin Crime, said he stggled wh a sense of shame before g out.

IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!

Nick Robson stars the new movie Love, Simon about a high-school stunt’s g out journey and fans might be wonrg if the actor is gay or straight real life. Ellen asked Nick if he hated at all to play a gay character and he said that he went back and forth wh director Greg Berlanti about .

There’s a precent for stori about gay teens g to themselv.

The new movie Love, Simon reprents somethg new: a look at what ’s like to be a gay teen that’s as slick and mastream as n be, like any other YA romantic edy.

LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?

As his profile at school evolv, he’s mocked for beg gay by the jocks, but elsewhere his search for a boyiend is met wh a zealo enuragement that saps the movie’s tensn. Plenty of gay kids are supported by those around them, but how many are appld and rooted on by the school en masse, as Simon is, as they seek love? A tone that feels overdue–the first mastream teen edy foregroundg a gay character–may have been outpaced by real life.

LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’

Can a love story centered around a gay teen who is very refully built to seem as straight as possible appeal to a generatn that’s boldly reventg genr and sexualy on s own terms? There’s no reason that the first gay romantic edy for young viewers necsarily need to look so much like the pat, flat rom-s wh which today’s teens are barely faiar.

‘LOVE, SIMON’ STARS SAY GAY TEEN ROMANCE WILL SAVE LIV

The culture, even a ago, was awash anti-gay rhetoric and msagg, om shows like The Office to movi like The 40-Year-Old Virg.

(The former relentlsly teased s lone queer office drone; the latter, a liberal-md edy, psed the actn for a lengthy sequence of mean gay jok. ) Love, Simon is a rrective to that, prentg a universe which beg gay is, fally, O. Love, Simon feels like a film rpondg to an entirely different culture, like one which gay marriage was never legalized.

That cisn both acknowledged that equaly for gays had won the day and opened the door for far more tertg and challengg fights, on the next generatn will lead. It's difficult to talk about Keiynan Lonsdale's pivotal scene Love, Simon whout spoilg the movie's most lightful surprise, but 's helpful to know that performg also changed Lonsdale's the film, Lonsdale — bt known as Wally Wt, aka Kid Flash, on CW's The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow — plays Bram, one of three possible love terts for Simon Spier (Nick Robson), a closeted gay teenager who stumbl to an anonymo onle flirtatn wh another closeted gay teen he knows only as Blue.

WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE

He'd e out privately to Greg Berlanti, the film's openly gay director — as well as the executive producer of The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.

Love, Simon isn't the first time Lonsdale has played a gay character. “If people thk, Oh, he looks gay — well, sure!