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10 FEMALE MOVIE AND TV CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOW GAY INS

From Catwoman to Ursula, the female characters movi and TV have gone on to be gay ins thanks to their fashn, humor, and absolute ditn to mp. * cinema gay icons *

The 12 most fabulo gay ins of all time (female divisn) GarlandThe woman who uld tear your heart out wh a melody and some moist ey, Judy appeals to the outst , as we long to go over the rabow and fd acceptance and a pot of gold. Judy's vulnerabily ma her a quiverg gay in, as did the fact that for years, she kept on gog, able to belt out one more song spe the rigors of the bs that always tried to squeeze more juice out of her brilliance.

What's more, she and the Suprem did a 1968 Funny Girl album which may be one of the most gay-iendly acts of cultural cross-pollatn history. Beyonce Gays love a pop diva wh full-throttle sexualy and great mov, and Beyonce remas the queen, cementg that when she played Diana--sorry, Deena-- Dreamgirls.

But I have to give a special shout out to Kylie Mogue, who's more cerebral than sexual, and who is a long-nng gay bar favore, whether vios or the MnelliJudy's dghter has a lot of the same pip, vulnerabily, and love of gays as mama, though she's rved her own niche of "tly terrific, absolutely te" mil them bells for Liza. Gays tton to her ftive spir ("Cabaret"), her undrenchable sense of hope ("Maybe This Time"), her big-town mania ("New York, New York"; "Cy Lights"), and her lash. MadonnaA straight man's fantasy as the Material Girl, she was also a gay man's dream, seeg as she appreciated her rabow-clive fan base, dulged "vogug, " and had some closerthanthis lbian gal pals.

THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * cinema gay icons *

I'm sred a GagaMore than a Madonna mi-me, Gaga has taken advantage of the social workg skills and overall ankns of her generatn to not only sg about gay rights, but to speak about them and really make a difference the procs. Her lbian dghter is now her son, and her fans clu so many LGBTs that, if you're at a Cher ncert and the people to eher si of you are straight, then you're fely DeGener, Rosie O'Donnell, Jodie Foster, Rachel Maddow, Gert SteI recently wrote about how gay men and lbians don't seek each other's opns enough, but when to the above ins, the gay guys notice and bow down. To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset.

Disney Channel seri Andi Mack ma history last year when featured s first ever openly gay character on the work. Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date. He was the first gay man to kiss another man on work TV, and was one of the only ma gay characters on our screens the 90s.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Mark Inlito has gone on rerd to say that he received a lot of fan mail for his portrayal, wh young gay kids ‘thankg’ him bee they’d never seen themselv reprented on televisn before. Seth MacFarlane origally outled an episo which the fan-favoure character me out, but he scrapped , but later admted that Stewie is “almost certaly gay”.

He’s unniably one of the most popular gay characters TV history, and showed dienc that gay people uld be multi-faceted.

Tara’s ath the show’s sixth cycle led to wispread backlash among fans, who acced creator Joss Whedon of beg homophobic (so stupid).

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It’s easy to see why so many gay viewers found themselv drawn to strong, funny female characters, who got to live the liv they wanted to live and not suffer as much for . This is somethg very relatable for LGBTQ people, and whout actual queer characters to root for, women beme the facto stars of the gay muny. Thanks to their fierce humor, great strength, termatn to own their sexualy, and some s, some credibly obv queer dg, the 10 female characters ronated wh LGBTQ viewers and beme gay ins.

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