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• COL FARRELL OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER, EAMON, IN LETTER DEFENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN IRELAND
• COL FARRELL TO BE GAY BROTHER’S BT MAN FOLLOWG MARRIAGE EQUALY VICTORY
• COL FARRELL'S GAY BROTHER, EAMON, RELLS HIS SIBLG PROTECTG HIM FROM ANTI-LGBT BULLI
• COL FARRELL DEFENDS HIS GAY BROTHER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLEA
• COL FARRELL'S GAY LOVE SCENE TOO EXPLIC !!!!
• COL FARRELL 'BANNED OM GAY ROL'
• COL FARRELL OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER
• COL FARRELL SPEAKS OUT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• BREAKG GROUND WH A GAY MOVIE HERO
• COL FARRELL MAK EMOTNAL PLEA FOR GAY RIGHTS HIS HOME COUNTRY
• COL FARRELL’S NEW GAY FILM!

COL FARRELL OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER, EAMON, IN LETTER DEFENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN IRELAND

Col Farrell spoke out fense of same-sex marriage his native Ireland, penng an open letter which strsed his close relatnship wh openly gay brother, 38-year-old actor's letter appears the Nov. I had no reference for the existence of homosexualy.

I had seen, by that age, no gay upl together. "Eamon did not choose to be gay, no more than I chose to be straight, " Farrell wr.

COL FARRELL TO BE GAY BROTHER’S BT MAN FOLLOWG MARRIAGE EQUALY VICTORY

"That's all you really need to know, and you don't even need to know that, bee there was no term for sexualy back then rpect to tegorizg as homosexualy, bisexualy, heterosexualy.

COL FARRELL'S GAY BROTHER, EAMON, RELLS HIS SIBLG PROTECTG HIM FROM ANTI-LGBT BULLI

That likely explas how he managed to star a gay-themed film this summer--A Home at the End of the World, based on Michael Cunngham's novel about a gay man, a straight woman, and the ee-spired hunk they both love--whout actually talkg about to anyone the gay media, spe repeated requts by The Advote and other publitns. He also missed the film's gala Los Angel openg as part of Outft, the cy's rpected gay and lbian film ftival, wh schlg difficulti said to be the culpr. Farrell says he's unaware of any tentnal snub to the gay prs as part of promotg Home, but 's clear om his ments that his accsibily is probably related to the months-long flap over whether a uple of sends of nudy would make to the fal cut.

But his EW terview Farrell seemed to lay the blame on the gay prs: "Apart om rears of The Advote, maybe, who wants to see Col Farrell's ck that much? " The film's openly gay director, Michael Mayer, nfirms that terpretatn: "If people are not experiencg the feelg of the moment and stead [are] thkg, Is he big or not big?

" For gay and lbian viewers, more remarkable than Farrell's willgns to drop trou may be his willgns to play two bi guys a row: Bobby A Home at the End of the World and then Alexanr--although neher character would claim the "bisexual" label. Col Farrell has bee an outstandg advote for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny as of late, but the actor's olr brother says his passn for the e go eper than that.

COL FARRELL DEFENDS HIS GAY BROTHER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLEA

Eamon Farrell, who is openly gay and married to Irish artist Steven Mannn, rells how Col "protected" him om teenage bulli a new terview wh the Irish Inpennt. 17 edn of Ireland's Sunday World, Col praised his brother, notg, "Eamon did not choose to be gay, no more than I chose to be straight.

Farrell wants gay marriage to be legal Ireland.

Gregory Pace/FilmMagic/Getty Imag— -- Col Farrell has taken to wrg an op-ed to fend his brother and fend the potential of gay marriage his native Ireland. Farrell, 38, wrote Ireland's Sunday World that his brother, Eamonn, "didn’t choose to be gay.

COL FARRELL'S GAY LOVE SCENE TOO EXPLIC !!!!

"Farrell add that he penned the piece bee his brother was forced to marry Canada years ago, not his native Ireland, bee the untry do not allow gay marriage. "It’s about givg our lbian and gay sisters and brothers back a right that should never have been stolen om them the first place, " he "Total Rell" and "Te Detective" star addrsed the Irish ernment and s people, wrg that they have the chance to make this add that his brother is "at home Dubl livg peace and love wh his hband of some years, Steven. And yet many stat Ameri, if I were gay, I uldn’t marry, " he wrote.

Farrell has also been a longtime ally to the LGBTQ+ muny, as he has an openly gay brother, Eamon.

COL FARRELL 'BANNED OM GAY ROL'

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is that rare dish: a gay tective story.

Kilmer plays Gay Perry (the clue is the name), a Hollywood private eye, a tale that embrac trash fictn, nods to the mor of Tseltown and s fatuatn wh youth, and se Kilmer snog Downey was throwg a party for director Jim Sheridan when Downey rocked up. '" A gay tective might seem a cur role for one of Hollywood's fully-fledged heartthrobs. "He wasn't gay when I read , " Kilmer says drily.

I thk I should be gay. ""Some people, " he adds wh a lectable half-smirk, "have observed that maybe this wasn't my first gay role. "There'll be a lot of gay tective movi now.

COL FARRELL OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER

"And would he be reprisg the gay role, I wonr?

Col Farrell's steamy gay love scen are reportedly beg cut om his latt film, 'Alexanr'. Col Farrell has been banned om takg any more gay rol. However, Col's agent fears the star uld risk damagg his reer if he plays any more homosexual characters.

COL FARRELL SPEAKS OUT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

The actor revealed: "If I took a third gay role, I thk my agent will kill me. " The star - who has dated a strg of famo beti, cludg Brney Spears, Angela Jolie and Demi Moore - also nfsed he ed to go to gay clubs his hometown of Dubl when he was younger. He revealed: "In my teens I ed to go wh a bunch of gay guys clubbg.

COLIN Farrell thks ’s “sane” that homosexuals, like his brother, aren’t allowed to get married actor penned a very personal letter the Sunday World askg people to vote y to allow gay marriage when the untry holds a referendum on the issue next year. “My brother Eamon didn’t choose to be gay.

”He urged Irish people to “lead by example” and vote y to gay marriage May next year.

BREAKG GROUND WH A GAY MOVIE HERO

EntertamentCol Farrell Speaks Out About Gay RightsY, Col Farrell is an award-wng actor known for that geo accent and his betiful looks, but he's so much more than that. Take Col Farrell's recent stance support of gay rights his home untry of Ireland. This past Sunday, a letter wrten by Farrell was posted Sunday World voicg his opns on gay rights.

The personal piece actually hs close to home for Farrell, as his brother, Eamon, is letter is his personal appeal to the people of Ireland to vote for gay marriage rights. The emotnal plea shows Farrell's love for his brother, who was once targeted by homophobic Te Detective actor wr, My brother Eamon didn’t choose to be gay.

As he says, "It’s about givg our lbian and gay sisters and brothers back a right that should never have been stolen om them the first place. "Getty Imag/Getty Imag Entertament/Getty ImagFor Farrell, gay marriage isn't jt about "the matrimonial uny of a man and a man or a woman and a woman, " but 's about the ung of a muny. In the film, which st about $155 ln to produce, Alexanr is also married to Roxane, played by Rosar Dawson, but the marriage tak a back seat to his passn for his boyhood s past, Hollywood hted at classil homosexualy major films like 1960's "Spartac.

COL FARRELL MAK EMOTNAL PLEA FOR GAY RIGHTS HIS HOME COUNTRY

" But the film dtry has never risked que so much on a blockbter film that picts a leadg man as gay or breakg wh that historil reticence, "Alexanr, " set for release by Time Warner Inc.

's Warner Brothers stud next Wednday, may refe what is acceptable to mass dienc when to heroic portrayals on the silver, which fanced "Alexanr" wh the German pany Intermedia, has taken pas to -emphasize the film's gay aspect s advertisg mpaign -- the trailer clar Alexanr's "passn" while showg a love scene between Mr. Stone, who had fal say over the film, sled back some of the gay love scen after Warner objected to them and to some of the movie's vlence. Stone refers to is that the wake of the printial electn and the passage of prohibns on gay marriage a number of stat, homosexualy has rurfaced as a foc of bate and ntroversy among cultural are already takg aim at Mr.

"But historians of cema said the pictn of a gay or bisexual leadg man a major Hollywood film had ltle precent. Hollywood's willgns to pict gay culture openly has gone cycl, generally followg society's reigng mor.

COL FARRELL’S NEW GAY FILM!

Today gay characters are mon throughout seri mastream cema me much closer to acceptg homosexualy the last , ually chose to do so edi like "The Birdge, " which took $124 ln at the domtic box office for MGM s 1996 release, or "In & Out, " which had $64 ln domtic ticket sal a year Stone's films have often weathered cricism for takg extreme polil or social posns, and "Alexanr" he has hardly shied away om ntroversy. The picture has no homosexual sex scene but shows many close-ups of Alexanr and Hephaistn (both wearg eye makp) nfsg their ep affectn. Lane Fox, the historian, said the director may have overemphasized homosexualy somewhat his pictn of the Alexanr-Hephaistn relatnship.

But some weled the portrayal of Alexanr as reprentg progrs toward the acceptance of homosexualy to mastream culture.