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Contents:

• DANCG ON ICE STAR COL JACKSON OPENS UP ABOUT MOMENT HE ME OUT AS GAY
• 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
• 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’
• 'SUPERNOVA' STARS COL FIRTH AND STANLEY TUCCI DISCS THEIR NTROVERSIAL CHOICE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

DANCG ON ICE STAR COL JACKSON OPENS UP ABOUT MOMENT HE ME OUT AS GAY

Col Jackson has been wowg Dancg On Ice fans this seri alongsi his skatg partner Klabera Kom - after prevly openg up about clg a same-sex partner on the Why Faye Brook is no longer favoure to w Dancg on IceThe former Olympic athlete, who is openly gay, has ndidly spoken about the difficult time his life when his sexualy was revealed by the prs, and how he was forced to e out to his parents before he had planned. That’s right, and amongst the shootouts, the betrayals, the li and ceptn, an all important qutn has arisen – was Col gay?

Anyway, early on the film, durg a sports game between the police force and firefighters, Col repeatedly homophobic slurs, first llg the firemen “fuckg queers” and them “fuckg homos”, and a while later after the game he repeats the slur, sayg “fuckg firefighters are a much of homos”, seemgly wh no provotn or reason to do so. This obvly don’t stantly label Col as a gay, but ’s worth notg as ’s a cliché character tra of extremely homophic characters movi and TV shows to be secretly gay themselv. However, if you subscribe to the gay theory, this uld be one of the many clu of Col’s hidn homosexual tennci, given his irrated nature at the qutn of marriage beg bought up.

20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE

And the realtor sayg “o, I get , you tend to have a hoegut” n also imply that he has clicked that Col is gay.

Aga, the term homo is referenced this scene, wh Ellerby specifilly statg that gettg married lets people know you’re not gay, which uld be the reason why Col gets married the first place, that no one will spect his gayns. That obvly don’t mean Costello thks Col is gay, but might be the film tryg to tell somethg.

'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF

Some people even thk that Col whistlg at a woman’s ass, after ensurg that someone is watchg him do this, also signals that he is a gay man tryg to pass as straight.

So as you n see, there are a few poters that lead the directn of Col beg gay, and for the sake of discsn ’s a nversatn worth havg. First of all, I thk all the numero unrlyg and ambiguo clu the film implyg that Col is gay are substantial enough that I don’t see a problem wh someone watchg the film and thkg, hey, you know what, I thk Col was gay, and he had to hi and reprs his homosexual tennci bee of the uber macho liftyle he was , and bee he grew up a tholic boston culture.

So if you thk that he was gay, I don’t have a problem wh that, and I n see why someone would e away wh that ncln and some ways adds to the layers that this film has, and certaly adds to the fact that everyone the film is livg a lie, and this se Col might even be lyg to himself. There’s other possible referenc to homosexualy, like when Frank Costello says to his wife “you’re givg me a hardon. And the oppose of straight is of urse bent, a slang term for homosexualy.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’

First of all, none of the mentned reasons necsarily imply that Col is gay, I don’t thk any of them are strong enough to warrant this. They are weird, and they do pot to somethg, which I’ll get to a b, but jumpg to the ncln that Col is gay is a stretch, ’s reachg, and a way do the film a disservice, by ignorg some of the central unrlyg them to brg about a pretty generic ncln that all of the ltle clu simply amount to Col beg gay. Y the stanc n be odd, like his impotence, but the reason beg he’s a homosexual is jt one of many possible reasons.

'SUPERNOVA' STARS COL FIRTH AND STANLEY TUCCI DISCS THEIR NTROVERSIAL CHOICE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

And also ignor the fact that surely Col has had sexual relatns wh Madolyn, ’s not as if every night is like this, and if he’s able to perform on numero ocsns and then not on some, that do not any way imply he’s gay.

Durg the Hays era, many characters films were supposed to be gay, such as Peter Lorre’s The Malte Faln, but they weren’t allowed to make open referenc to this, so had to e implied subtext. After this, and I don’t have any official statistics to back this up, this is jt a personal observatn, but I started noticg so many revisnist articl, blogs and opns highlightg homosexual subtext movi.

COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

Some of them where tertg, like whether mob boss Phil Leotardo The Sopranos was gay, which I’ve ma a vio on, and some were downright barmy, like one opn piece I saw about Arnold Schwarsnigger’s actn flick Predator beg a study of reprsed homosexualy. All of a sudn, everyone’s gay. Maybe you’re gay for readg this post, maybe I’m gay for makg .

And I thk Matt Damon’s character The Departed is a victim of this outlook where anyone who acts slightly unorthodox regards to his relatnship wh his women and his choice of language is all of a sudn rced to beg gay. In a way, I fd this offensive, bee a film maker may have nstcted a character to be plex and multi layered, but dienc don’t give the character the required cril thought, and stead e to the ncln, oh, he’s gay, and dog so, water down the character’s plexy. Leadg a double life, I mean, not a gay man pretendg to be straight, but a crimal livg a life as a p, is puttg a tremendo amount of strs upon him.

That don’t mean he’s gay. He’s homophobic sure, but ’s hardly somethg to note such culture that he’s where you’d expect most characters are siar, and you uld argue stead that Col’s homophobic rhetoric is a flectn of him tryg to project his manhood ont of other men. The evince prented n pot to him beg gay, n pot to him beg molted as a child, n pot to him sufferg om anxiety om beg ught, n pot to the strs of havg to al wh Costello prsurg him to fd the rat or else – really is que ambiguo.