Gay characters have ma their way to mastream movi, but there's yet to be a lead gay actn hero.
Contents:
- WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS A STRANGER ONLE THE SHORT FILM ‘JAMIE’ – WATCH
- STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
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.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * gay man action *
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. 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.
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.
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
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 *
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. 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.
A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS A STRANGER ONLE THE SHORT FILM ‘JAMIE’ – WATCH
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.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
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. 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.