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• 12 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE THAT HAVE WON AN OSR
• SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER
• HERE ARE SOME OF THE OUT GAY PEOPLE WHO WON OSRS BEFORE SAM SMH
• PNEERG GAY OSR WNER OFFERS SAM SMH A HISTORY LSON (GUT COLUMN)
• IS SAM SMH THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W AN OSR? NOT EXACTLY
• SAM SMH FENDS HIMSELF AFTER ‘FIRST GAY OSR WNER’ MISTAKE
• OSRS: SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W
• SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY
• OSRS 2016: SAM SMH SPARKS NTROVERSY WH 'FIRST OPENLY GAY WNER' CLAIM
• ​OTHER OPENLY GAY PEOPLE, BIS SAM SMH, WHO HAVE WON AN OSR
• SAM SMH'S CLAIM THAT HE'S THE 'FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN' TO W AN OSR ATTRACTS IRE

12 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE THAT HAVE WON AN OSR

In the end, the famo gay in and Tim Rice won for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

Smh, who intifi as gay and non-bary, wrote a song lled "Wrg's on the Wall" for the 2015 Jam Bond movie, "Spectre, " wh fellow songwrer Jimmy Nap.

SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER

"I stand here as a proud, gay man and I hope one day we n all stand as equals, " Smh said their speech. While acceptg the Amy Award, Smh wrongly said they were the first gay person to w an Osr, which was met wh backlash on social media. Ball, an openly gay man, wrote "Amerin Bety, " which follows a suburban father who be terted his dghter's bt iend.

Black wrote the 2008 movie "Milk, " which starred Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, a lol polician San Francis who fought for gay rights before beg assassated. "To all the gay and lbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are ls than by their church or by ernment or by their fai, you are betiful, wonrful creatur, " he add. The openly gay filmmaker won another Amy Award 2003 for bt origal screenplay for his film "Talk to Her.

In 1985, Epste won the Amy Award for directg "The Tim of Harvey Milk, " a documentary that follows the gay polician's life before his assassatn. Sger remarked that he might be the first openly gay man to ever w an Osr while acceptg the award for Bt Origal Song. The Brish sger misquoted an terview wh Sir Ian McKellen earlier this year which he stated, “No openly gay man has ever won the Osr; I wonr if that is prejudice or chance.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE OUT GAY PEOPLE WHO WON OSRS BEFORE SAM SMH

” That led an elated Smh to misnste the ia and believe he might be the first openly gay Osr wner the history of the Amy Awards, which he claimed to be durg his teary acceptance speech for Bt Origal Song. To regnize those who were openly gay Osr wners, here are 11 notabl to take home a statue before Smh. A rare EGOT wner, Gielgud is nsired one of the greatt actors of the 20th century, and he was the first openly gay actor to w an Osr, and he did for his turn the Brish edy starrg Dudley Moore and Liza Melli.

He was a eply private man and after his ath 2000 at the age of 96, letters were published that revealed he was threatened and blackmailed wh beg exposed as homosexual the 1950s.

He refully crafted the ntroversial X-rated film starrg Jon Voight and Dt Hoffman as two htlers New York Cy to appeal to both a gay and mastream dience, which allowed other filmmakers to directly addrs gay inty later films. Sam Smh has ed ntroversy durg his Osrs victory speech by claimg he was the first openly gay man to get a nod.

PNEERG GAY OSR WNER OFFERS SAM SMH A HISTORY LSON (GUT COLUMN)

The movie told the story of Harvey Milk, a gay in who served openly polics and was eventually assassated. Pickg up the bt director Osr 1964 for ‘My Fair Lady’, featurg Audrey Hepburn, he was openly gay.

IS SAM SMH THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W AN OSR? NOT EXACTLY

In a bgraphy of his life, he was scribed as headg a gay subculture Hollywood durg the 1930s. “But if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man.

“It was never easy beg a homosexual”, he said an terview 1998. Sam Smh suggts he's the first openly gay man to w an Osr.

Sorry, Sam Smh, you are not the first openly gay man to w an Osr. In his acceptance speech, Smh suggted that he might be the first openly gay man to w an Amy Award. “I read an article a few months ago by Ian McKellen, and he said that no openly gay man had ever won an Osr, ” Smh said.

SAM SMH FENDS HIMSELF AFTER ‘FIRST GAY OSR WNER’ MISTAKE

It isn’t the se, a fact quickly poted out by openly gay screenwrer Dt Lance Black, who won bt origal screenplay 2009 for the movie “Milk. “I’d said no openly gay actor had received #Osrs-that don’t tract om @samsmhworld achievement. Other openly gay Amy Award wners clu Elton John for bt origal song om “The Ln Kg, ” Stephen Sondheim for bt origal song om “Dick Tracy, ” Alan Ball for bt origal screenplay for “Amerin Bety” and Bill Condon for bt adapted screenplay for “Gods and Monsters.

Crilly-acclaimed movi like "Milk, " "Brokeback Mounta, " "Boys Don't Cry, " and "Philalphia" all told stori of LGBTQ characters — some real, some fictnal — who fought agast or suffered om of the LGBTQ nome ever snagged the Bt Picture award, though three of the four mentned above rulted actg awards for straight actors who took on gay or transgenr rol. Olson said she was "sadned" to see Cate Blanchett lose the Bt Actrs award, notg that was rare to see a leadg Hollywood actrs portray a lbian character who don't die at the end of the only do "Moonlight" end on an upliftg note, the film breaks barriers by prentg the largely tobgraphil story of a livg, black, gay man told his own words.

OSRS: SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W

Tarell Alv McCraney, whose script "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" was the basis for the film, also took an Amy Award for Bt Adapted Screenplay on Alv McCraney (right) livers a speech on stage next to Barry Jenks after they won the Bt Adapted Screenplay Osr for "Moonlight" at the 89th annual Amy Awards on Febary 26, 2017Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagIn October, McCraney told NBC Out "Moonlight" isn't jt a "gay film" or a "black film, " that would be "disgenuo" to lim the story to jt one tegory. "It is a queer story, is a gay story, is a poverty story — you know what I mean?

"For so long people thought bee the story is black or gay then that means 's not mastream, " Onuorah said. Sunday night's diverse crop of wners — along wh the Amy's recent vatn to hundreds of women and people of lor to jo s homogeno ranks last year — uld potentially help overe that reputatn.

Mahershala Ali livers a speech on stage after wng the Osr bt supportg actor "Moonlight" at the 89th Adamy Awards on Febary 26, 2017 Los Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagFor Bahamian-born filmmaker Sekiya Dorsett, 's important to intify "Moonlight" as the barrier-burstg black, gay film that is, bee that means the stori of queer people of lor have a reach like never before. He began his speech by brgg up an article by Ian McKellen about his hop to see an out gay actor w an Osr.

SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY

However, Smh misterpreted and thought that he was the first out gay artist to w an Osr. Twter was quick to rrect Smh didn't look up if he's the first openly gay Osr wner, he jt hoped he was (he's not). " - Sam Smh #OsrsAlso, some people on Twter were upset that, his sh to stand up for the LGBTQ muny, Smh ignored the fact a trans performer was nied the opportuny to sg their entry the bt origal song Smh dit his #Osrs to LGBT muny and mentns Gaga BUT NOT HIS CO-NOMINEE ANOHNI WHO MADE HISTORY AS 1ST TRANS Smh may have misspoken, is important to remember that there are ed a number of out gay people who have won Osrs.

Stephen SondheimSource: Evan Agosti/APYou probably know Sondheim as the name behd some of the biggt mils of all time, but 1991 he won the Amy Award for bt origal song, om the movie Dick Tracy, for "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man), " performed by Madonna at that year's Lance BlackSource: Ryan Miller/APBlack won an Osr for bt origal screenplay 2009 for the film Milk, about the life of LGBT activist and out gay San Francis board member Harvey CondonSource: Michael Sohn/APIn 1999, Condon won the bt adapted screenplay Osr for the film Gods and Monsters, which starred out gay actor Smh's acceptance speech below.

That was a crack a iend ma while watchg Sam Smh claim to be the first openly gay person to w an Osr. Is Sam Smh the First Openly Gay Man to W an Osr? Elton John and Melissa Etheridge are among the openly gay stars who nabbed Osrs.

OSRS 2016: SAM SMH SPARKS NTROVERSY WH 'FIRST OPENLY GAY WNER' CLAIM

"I read an article a few months ago by Sir Ian McKellen, and he said that no openly gay man had ever won an Osr, " said Smh, 23, who won Bt Origal Song thanks to his h "Wrg's on the Wall" om the latt Jam Bond film, Spectre. Although there aren't any openly gay male actg wners Amy Awards history, Smh is far om the first gay man to nab an Osr.

Milk, the 2008 film which Sean Penn tells the story of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, thst the screenwrer to the spotlight.

Peter Fch was the first to be nomated by the Amy for his role as a gay doctor the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday and the groundbreakg nomatn paved the way for dozens of straight thpians to receive nods for takg on gay, lbian and transgenr rol. William Hurt for Kiss of the Spir Woman(Released: 1985)William Hurt was the first actor to w an Osr for playg a gay character on the big screen. Hurt portrayed Luis Mola, an rcerated gay man, the 1985 film Kiss of the Spir Woman.

​OTHER OPENLY GAY PEOPLE, BIS SAM SMH, WHO HAVE WON AN OSR

The film was one of the first mastream Hollywood films to explicly addrs HIV/AIDS and homophobia.

SAM SMH'S CLAIM THAT HE'S THE 'FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN' TO W AN OSR ATTRACTS IRE

The historilly sketchy film ncentrated on the gay thor as he was rearchg his te-crime masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Sean Penn for Milk(Released: 2008) Sean Penn took home the Osr for bt actor 2009 for his portrayal of sla San Francis gay rights activist Harvey Milk the movie Milk and ed his w to ll for equal rights for the LGBTQ+ muny sayg, “We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone. ” He also ed his speech to ment on gay marriage sayg, “I thk is a good time for those who voted for the ban agast gay marriage to s and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame their grandchildren’s ey if they ntue that way.

Christopher Plummer for Begners(Released: 2010)Christopher Plummer was award the Bt Supportg Actor statue for his portrayal of a gay senr the film, Begners. Mahershala Ali for Green Book(Released: 2018)Mahershala Ali took home the Bt Actor Osr 2019 after playg gay pianist Dr.