Meryl Streep talks sextg, beg a gay in — ‘I jt n't remember when LGBT people were not my life’

Contents:

• EXCLUSIVE: A CANDID MERYL STREEP OPENS UP ABOUT BEG ‘IN LOVE’ WH GAY PEOPLE & HER INIC LGBT ROL
• MERYL STREEP TALKS SEXTG, BEG A GAY IN — ‘I JT N'T REMEMBER WHEN LGBT PEOPLE WERE NOT MY LIFE’
• MERYL STREEP TALKS BEG A GAY IN
• GAY AND LBIAN CRICS NAME BRISH DRAMA ‘WEEKEND’ BT FILM OF THE YEAR

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

Gay dienc know this lgh bee they know Meryl Streep. Bh by nmng his anti-gay marriage stance. 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? You disvered you were a gay in 2012, when you found out about “Streep Tease” – gay men takg on Meryl monologu Wt Hollywood.

How do you feel about watchg other people – gay men, for stance – do Meryl? 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.

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

I’ve grown up wh gay people and been love wh gay people.

MERYL STREEP TALKS BEG A GAY IN

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.

When did you realize “Death Be Her” would bee a gay cult classic?

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

Off-screen, Streep has taken up the advancement of gay rights as a personal e. Meryl Streep found out she was nsired a gay in 2012, two years to the "Streep Tease" performance of gay men performg her the two-time Emmy wner, five-time GRAMMY nomee and three-time Osr wner says she was volved the gay muny long before that.

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