Billy Baldw On Battlg His Brothers For The Boys - Towleroad Gay News

Contents:

• YOUNG & RTLS’ CHRISTIAN JUL LEBLANC UNPACKS THE BAGGAGE OF HOMOPHOBIA: ‘I STILL LIVE WH THE LEGACY OF THAT AS A GAY MAN’
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: ALEC BALDW
• BALDW BROTHERS CLASH OVER GAY RIGHTS ISSUE
• THE BALDW BROTHERS: SQUABBLG OVER GAY RIGHTS?

YOUNG & RTLS’ CHRISTIAN JUL LEBLANC UNPACKS THE BAGGAGE OF HOMOPHOBIA: ‘I STILL LIVE WH THE LEGACY OF THAT AS A GAY MAN’

Alec Baldw may be homophobic. Alec Baldw pris himself on beg anti-Donald Tmp and is a registered Democrat wh left-leang polil views, which mak extra shockg that he was acced of beg homophobic more than once. " In November 2013, Baldw was fired om his MSNBC talk show, Up Late Wh Alec Baldw, after allegedly screamg homophobic slurs at a New York Post photographer, Page Six reported.

After his show's ncellatn, Baldw wrote Vulture, "Am I a homophobe? I am awash gay people, as lleagu and as iends. I'm officiatg at a gay iend's weddg.

I'm not a homophobic person at all. Fair enough, but April 2014, Fox News reported that Baldw ma homophobic implitns a tweet to a Mt Romney ai.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: ALEC BALDW

While Baldw sists he's not homophobic, his pattern of makg seemgly homophobic remarks is troublg to say the least. Young & Rtls’ Christian Jul LeBlanc Unpacks the Baggage of Homophobia: ‘I Still Live Wh the Legacy of That as a Gay Man’. Hell, “not till after Stonewall did anyone take a gay man ser.

“I still live wh the legacy of that as a gay man, ” he add. Wh no time to touch on his Emmy-nomated gut arc on Will & Grace or the many gay characters he's played as host of Saturday Night Live ("Canteen Boy, have you ever had a mimosa? "), the 49-year-old Osr nomee and I dredged up his own ntroversial "Ddge report, " mourned the loss of Halston, and looked back at the men he's Advote: When I terviewed your brother William for The Advote on his Dirty Sexy Money role, I asked him who'd get the hottt guys if the Baldw brothers were gay.

BALDW BROTHERS CLASH OVER GAY RIGHTS ISSUE

Billy certaly has his followg now om his show, but I've had my gay followg for a long time. Billy didn't have a book wrten about you actually read [Michael Thomas Ford's 1998 say llectn] Alec Baldw Don't Love Me and Other Trials From My Gay Life? I really don't know, bee I remember when I grew up -- and this is on a ser, sad note here -- there was only one guy my town that I knew of who was gay, and no one even really knew what that was.

Then we found out this kid who had killed himself was gay, and he was my iend high school.

That, for me, was the begng of unrstandg what life was like for people who lived a gay life, but really beme clear when I got to show bs.

THE BALDW BROTHERS: SQUABBLG OVER GAY RIGHTS?

I did a soap [The Doctors, 1980-82], and David O'Brien, who played my father, was gay.

David was my ar, ar, ar iend, and I was gog wh him and his iends to Ambrosia and Rounds and the Mayfair over on First Avenue -- I lived at 58th and First, so this was like upsle-gay central. I mean, this was no Boots and Saddle, the Anvil, Cris Dis, or any of that ant, leather gay.