The Greatt Gay Comedians of All Time

Contents:

• THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME

We have a number of talented gay edians who are exceptnally skilled at entertag the dience while passg on subtle msag on issu related to the LGBTQA+ movement. Pictured above: Stephen Sondheim.Like fe we, gay ins improve wh age, offerg worldly wisdom and thory along wh the groundbreakg talent they’ve served all the years. Here’s a toast to the olst on and what they still brg to the table.Kenh Anger, 93Known for ntroversial short films like the leather-drenched rabble-roer Srp Risg and the occult-ish Lucifer Risg and his explosive book of celebry sex gossip, Hollywood Babylon, Anger has long been a gay provotr of the first rank.

Though four years earlier, 2011, he -directed the revival of Larry Kramer’s blisterg AIDS play The Normal Heart—a bountiful gay act.Richard Chamberla, 85A heartthrob as televisn's Dr. He didn’t e out until 2003, but a lot of people had a very strong feelg—and not jt bee he -starred a mil versn of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.Don Bachardy, 85The partner of the late, great thor Christopher Isherwood (Goodbye to Berl, A Sgle Man), Bachardy is a renowned portra artist livg California and still creatg new work.Larry Kramer, 84The fiery activist and thor (Faggots, The Normal Heart) is still shakg thgs up and makg a difference by targetg placency amongst homophob and people our own muny, as well. Tacklg gay issu wh humor and heart, McNally has also served the librettos for The Rk, Kiss of the Spir Woman, Ragtime, and operas, too.Tommy Tune, 80A seven-time Tony wner (for performg, directn, and choreography, pl a Lifetime Achievement Award), the lanky Texan whipped up magil Broadway productns like Ne, Grand Hotel, and The Will Rogers Folli.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

Tommy turns 81 on Febary 28.Sir Ian McKellen, 80An openly gay actor wh two anchis unr his belt (The Lord of the Rgs and X-Men), McKellen—twice-Osr nomated—me out 1988 and has been a force the culture ever sce. Pino turns 76 on Febary 22.Armistead Mp, 75A lerary legend and a gay voice, Mp is bt known for wrg Tal of the Cy, a seri of quirky San Francis–set novels.Gordon Thomson, 74The Canadian actor was sensatnally sexy as the snarlg Adam Carrgton on the prime time soap Dynasty, startg 1982.

He don’t make films anymore, but you n tch up wh him via his books and his speakg engagements, which are a splendid mix of high- and lowbrow.Sir Elton John, 72The sequed Rocketman [who recently picked up a send Osr] has nothg to prove anymore, havg long been an openly gay hmaker and fashn plate. However, he is perhaps bt known for beg a rrponnt on The Daily Show wh Trevor Noah, He quietly left the show November 2021 and is workg as a wrer and executive producer on the upg HBO seri adaptatn of the book The Gang’s All Queer: The Liv of Gay Gang Members.

After breakg to the edy scene, this South Korean-born edian released their but stand-up album, Mol Mory, which vered racism the gay muny and his experienc fyg stereotyp about Asian Amerins. He filmed the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan?, worked as a wrer on the queer Netflix dreamed seri Sex Edutn and opened for Queer Eye‘s nonbary fashn maven Jonathan Van Ns on tour. While he has been regnized as an important ntributor to the creasgly acceptg edy world, he has also acknowledged that gay edians existed long before he and his peers me around.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual.