Was Philip Seymour Hoffman gay? – SheKnows

Contents:

• WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY?
• IS THE PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY LOVER LAWSU ETHIL?
• PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN PAL SETTL ‘GAY’ LAWSU AGAST NATNAL ENQUIRER
• PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN PAL SETTL LAWSU OVER TABLOID'S FALSE GAY REPORT
• PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN FRIEND SU ENQUIRER OVER GAY LOVER STORY
• NATNAL ENQUIRER APOLOGIZ OVER PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ‘GAY LOVER’ STORY

WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY?

“We were homosexual lovers. “His dg e, and his ambivalence over whether he was straight or gay, drove a wedge between him and Mimi and broke them up. One part of him wanted a normal fay life while another part wanted hero and the gay life.

Philip moved to Greenwich Village bee is the center of New York’s gay muny.

IS THE PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY LOVER LAWSU ETHIL?

While he may not have marched paras, waved rabow flags or partnered wh gay rights groups, Hoffman put homosexualy ont and center by portrayg gay characters as beg more than jt gay.

Rather than focg on the fact that the tle character was gay, Hoffman chose to portray thor Tman Capote as nuanced well beyond his sexualy.

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN PAL SETTL ‘GAY’ LAWSU AGAST NATNAL ENQUIRER

Yeah, Capote was gay, but he was first and foremost a person. His homosexualy was only part of who he was, not a qualy that fed who he was.

We'd be actually sayg, 'Well, he's gay, so we should probably show somethg about the fact that he's gay. '"Hoffman revealed his approach to playg gay rol, like the lead Capote, an terview wh Out magaze, sayg "When I play somebody gay, I never thk of as 'I'm playg a gay character. "Whether was the gay-cur, boom-mic operator Stty Boogie Nights, or the flamboyant drag queen Rty Flawls, Hoffman brought siar nuance to LGBT rol throughout his reer, elevatg their stat popular tertgly enough, the LGBT muny regniz Hoffman for troducg a certa element of sexual ambiguy to seemgly straight characters.

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PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN PAL SETTL LAWSU OVER TABLOID'S FALSE GAY REPORT

In s Febary 17, 2014 edn, the Natnal Enquirer’s ont page story claimed playwright David Bar Katz was Hoffman's gay lover, that he had seen Hoffman eebase e the night before Hoffman's ath, and that he had seen Hoffman e hero on a number of other ocsns.

But what about the claim that Bar Katz was Hoffman’s gay lover?

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN FRIEND SU ENQUIRER OVER GAY LOVER STORY

They may be legal, but are famatn claims based on false accatns of beg gay ethil? In other words, the premise of Bar Katz’s claim is that a substantial percentage of the members of our society nsir beg gay to be disreputable and beg straight to be reputable.

I never tend to suggt that David or I believe that llg someone gay is famatory.

My pot was that is famatory to allege that someone is havg an extra-maral affair, be straight or gay. Your rears should also know that, thankfully, the law New York has been evolvg to the pot where at least one appellate urt has held that an allegatn of homosexualy is not famatory. One tabloid claimed Philip Seymour Hoffman was a gay relatnship.

NATNAL ENQUIRER APOLOGIZ OVER PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ‘GAY LOVER’ STORY

"We were homosexual lovers.

They quoted him admtg, "I was Philip Seymour Hoffman's gay lover and saw him eebasg e the night before he died.

The iend who found Philip Seymour Hoffman ad has reached a fancial settlement wh the Natnal Enquirer over a false story claimg he was the actor's gay lover and watched him eebase Bar Katz, a married father of four, whdrew his lawsu agast the Enquirer on Tuday and will e the settlement to set up the Amerin Playwrg Foundatn, which will give an annual prize of $45, 000 to produce a play, his lawyer said. Katz has settled a lawsu agast the Natnal Enquirer claimg he was the actor's gay lover. ""The issue was never me beg outraged at beg acced of beg gay — we're theater guys, who r?