15 Famo People You Didn't Know Were Gay!
Contents:
- 15 CELEBRI YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY
- 15 FAMO PEOPLE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY!
- 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
15 CELEBRI YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY
On the Ellen DeGener show 2018, speakg of his marriage, he said, “It’s such a weird thg beg a gay uple at my age, bee when we got together, you uldn’t get married. When asked about the difference between his g out 2009 vers what ’s like beg an openly gay artist 2019 an terview wh Variety 2019 he said, “It’s a totally different landspe. Shortly after she me out 2018, an terview wh Gay Tim Magaze when asked about how she felt about g out publicly she said, “This was a moment time when I wanted to give nfince to girls who are trapped and feel like they n’t tell their parents that they are gay.
To be fair, he was open about his sexualy durg his life, even sayg, "like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experienc and I am not ashamed. In the same terview 1976, when homosexualy was still nsired taboo to discs, let alone somethg to adm to Brando said, “I have never paid much attentn to what people thk about me. And at the same time, as a gay man, ma me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many thgs that need to be looked at and addrsed.
In an terview for “The Last Lgh” podst 2019, Lynch said that Ellen’s g out 1997 “ma my beg a gay person Hollywood a no-braer, not a problem at all, bee she basilly took one for the team, if you will. Jt two years after releasg his tobgraphy 2012 which he vehemently nied beg gay, durg his terview wh Parkson he said, “I’m fortable sayg I’m a gay man, and I don’t want young people to feel the same way that I did. Although Young was not sure how the news about him beg an openly gay wrtler would be received, he was relieved at the amount of support he actually received.
15 FAMO PEOPLE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY!
However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola. Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart.
The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly. It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women. "When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet.
" In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter.
20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat. " Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol.
Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life. Long before directg movi like "Prec" or -creatg Fox's "Empire, " Lee Daniels was a young gay man g to terms wh his homosexualy while growg up Philalphia. Hopg to quash the ntroversy, Banks me out as bisexual that same year, addg that nearly all of her iends are gay and that one of her siblgs is transgenr.
While he adms he was never outright srned for beg gay, there have been stanc where he felt was more of a hdrance than jt a fact that shouldn't matter. He told Variety that while watchg "Love, Simon, " a love story wh a gay protagonist, he realized, "Straight people go to the movi and lerally see themselv all the time. "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years, and all they said was 'we know, '" Schnapp wrote of his g-out story, addg, "I gus I'm more siar to will than I thought.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
Tuc Watks, bt known for his rol as David Vickers on One Life To Live and Bob Hunter on Dperate Hoewiv publicly me out as gay 2013 has been a lovg sgle parent sce 2012 to adopted kids Catchen and Curtis Watks. Rupert Everett, dashg star of such films as My Bt Friend's Weddg and The Madns of Kg Gee is an openly gay actor who got his first big break playg an openly gay stunt the 1984 film Another Country. Alan Cummg is a vol advote for LGBT rights and has also spoken out on his beg bisexual, not gay, spe his current marriage to hband Grant Shaffer, sayg "I still fe myself as a bisexual even though I have chosen to be wh Grant.
News anchor and journalist Anrson Cooper me out as gay officially 2012, sayg an email that he allowed iend Andrew Sullivan to publish on The Daily Beast, "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be. This Whe Collar star me out publicly as gay 2012, but he actually married his hband, Simon Hall, wh whom he now shar three children, a year earlier 2011. Sex and the Cy star Cynthia Nixon me out as gay 2004, and 2012, she clarified that she nsirs herself to be technilly bisexual after mentg that her beg gay was a cisn she ma.
The Doogie Howser and How I Met Your Mother star me out as gay publicly 2006, sayg, "I am happy to dispel any mors or misnceptns and am que proud to say that I am a very ntent gay man livg my life to the fullt and feel most fortunate to be workg wh wonrful people the bs I love.