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Gay characters have ma their way to mastream movi, but there's yet to be a lead gay actn hero.

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WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?

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While the plete absence of gay men actn films for the longt time is unrstandable, though disappotg, om a historil perspective, the perd for unrstandg end s ago. The lack of gay actn stars through the '70s and '80s should e as no surprise, nsirg gay people were classified as havg a “psychiatric disorr” by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn om 1952-1973 (at which pot "gay" was downgrad to mere "sexual orientatn disturbance. There were certaly gay ins and hero the real world sense before beg gay was given the stamp of sany early ‘70s (Waters’ himself surely earned that signatn), but nothg when to onscreen man of actn kd of reprentatn.

But the new lennium surely had to brg wh at least one garish, over the top Die Hard on Gay Cise that’d be looked back on as very problematic one day.

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Sure, there are exampl of gay supportg characters actn movi, but they eher be the dt before creds roll, need to be rcued, or, if they’re lucky, get to putter around the background and say somethg clever.

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Enjoy the short film Jamie, directed by Christopher Manng, about a young gay man's first meetg wh someone he met onle. * gay man action *

It might not even necsarily be the dienc themselv at this pot, but more an stance where stud brass refe to accept that tim have changed enough for a gay man to save the day. There’s a fairly standard dumb jock character throughout ParaNorman who is only revealed to be gay the last few mut, and not any way where he’s the joke of the suatn.

A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS A STRANGER ONLE THE SHORT FILM ‘JAMIE’ – WATCH

It wouldn’t be difficult at all to ntrive a circumstance where some Jason Statham-que badass pummels his way through 90 mut of opponents before gog home to his lovg hband or poppg to a gay bar. By that pot, if the hypothetil filmmakers are any good at their jobs, the dience would be sold on his actn hero chops to the pot that even the most reluctant viewer would e around on the ia that gay guys n save the plane om terrorists, too.

Stuff like Glass Onn and Our Flag Means Death have done well at utilizg the eventual reveal approach, the former by wag until the sequel to slip a quick scene of gay domticy and the latter by lettg the dience assume they’re watchg jt another se of queer-bag before actually havg Steed (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Wai) profs their feelgs for one another and kiss. Once upon a time, studs were wary of all thgs gay bee turng away possible ticket buyers was the number one no-no, probably still is, except that world is kd of over.

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It’s nsired by many to be one of the first exampl of gay imagery film, and a remr that homosexual reprentatn has been wh the medium om the very begng.

That clip appears The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman’s documentary based on Vo Rso’s study of homosexualy the movi, along wh untls exampl of how gay characters showed up, per narrator Lily Toml, as “somethg to lgh at, or somethg to py, or even somethg to fear. Some have been documents of a moment or era of gay history, some have been ed as rrectiv to s of negative clichés, and others have simply celebrated the fact that the movi n be queer, they’re here, get ed to . It is nowhere near a prehensive ndown of every great movie to feature out-and-proud hero and villas, or a queer sensibily, or even jt visible (and/or risible) exampl of gay life cema; we uld have easily ma this list twice as long.

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