A class lled Act Out offers both support and trag for gay actors.
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HELPG GAY ACTORS FD THEMSELV ONSTAGE
12, 2010One by one the stunts Brad Calterra’s actg class stood at the ont of the room and tearfully, joyfully, brazenly talked about beg gay. A gay man scribed livg wh H. Feldman, who has tght actg for almost 25 years, said a gay-foced actg class might be beneficial, pecially for young actors.
“It uld be a eful piece of the puzzle to an dividual actor at a certa moment their trag, ” he Calterra said the recent suicis by several young gay men across the untry bolstered his sire to help his stunts bee fortable their own sexual sks, which he said would help make them “more hont” actors. What the class is not, he strsed, is a urse on “how to act gay, ” or nversely, how gay actors n supprs certa body language or speech patterns. Calterra said he started Act Out bee he was tired of seeg so many of his gay stunts unrgo what he lled a “ntractn, not an expansn” of their talents as they alt wh years of shame, guilt and other byproducts of life as a sexual mory.