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EXCLUSIVE: A CANDID MERYL STREEP OPENS UP ABOUT BEG ‘IN LOVE’ WH GAY PEOPLE & HER INIC LGBT ROL

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Here, durg this rare and revealg one-on-one nversatn wh Streep, the three-time Amy Award wner and rerd holr for most Osr nomatns discs why she regards “Angels Ameri” as one of the most important LGBT-themed films she’s done and how she feels about gay men performg Meryl monologu. You’ve given the gay muny a breadth of greatns over the last four s. When you look back at your gay rol, which has been the most important to you?

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MERYL STREEP TALKS SEXTG, BEG A GAY IN — ‘I JT N'T REMEMBER WHEN LGBT PEOPLE WERE NOT MY LIFE’

My piano teachers when I was 11 and 12 were two gay men a ltle town New Jersey who had a llectn of Mexin art and patas and silver lantern vers, and their hoe was wonrful, not like anybody else’s hoe Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. And the theater I had lots of gay iends and my longtime llaborator Roy Helland is gay. I’ve grown up wh gay people and been love wh gay people.

I mean, I know women who’ve had gay boyiends and gay hbands. Your gay fans wouldn’t md, I’ll tell you that – as long there’s a solid script, of urse. Your “Death Be Her” -star Isabella Rosselli said that she didn’t know she was makg what beme a gay cult film until after some market rearch.

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When did you realize “Death Be Her” would bee a gay cult classic? Wh Donald Tmp and Mike Pence poised to take over the Whe Hoe, brgg wh them a startg lp of bet picks wh illtr histori of opposg LGBT rights, what might have been seen as almost superfluo jt one year ago — an endorsement of a celebry by a major gay rights group — tak on new levels of signifince 2017.

GAY AND LBIAN CRICS NAME BRISH DRAMA ‘WEEKEND’ BT FILM OF THE YEAR

The 19-time Osr-nomated actrs — arguably as inic a gay screen in as Bette Davis, Kathare Hepburn and Judy Garland before her — has never before been given a major award for her ntributns to LGBT culture and advancement.

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