The film's director Joe Mantello on his starry adaptatn of the inic gay text.
Contents:
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
- THE BOYS IN THE BAND: ENTIRELY GAY ST 'SPEAKS TO THE CHANGED WORLD'
- WH AN ENTIRE ST OF OPENLY GAY ACTORS, THE BOYS THE BAND ARE BACK — AND ON NETFLIX
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment’s stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald.
Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and ng. It wasn’t the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights.
THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports. But there’s one gag particular we at Queerty had to know more about, one that’s super gay and—as turns out—a real part of Barbie history…. Among the group are two Kens om bygone eras, and the movie stops jt short of outright llg them “gay Kens, ” but e on—look at them!
THE BOYS IN THE BAND: ENTIRELY GAY ST 'SPEAKS TO THE CHANGED WORLD'
They are so gay. This doll jt screams gay, don’t he? The Boys In The Band tells the story of a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party - before the night turns sour followg the arrival of an unved new Netflix film is an adaptatn of the 1968 play by the late US playwright Mart Crowley and featur the same st that recently starred a Broadway n of the show, earng a Tony award for bt revival.
Though both gay and straight actors were dned for the productn, the ne characters the film are all played by openly gay News spoke to Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons - who plays the lead role, Michael - along wh some of his -stars and director Joe Mantello, to discs the "pretty unprecented" project.
"I had such a powerful experience beg wh a group of gay men for a long, ncentrated time like this, " he said. "I thk speaks to the changed world, I thk speaks to the fact that gay men and other people don't necsarily need que the same leral protectn of their fellow gay humans orr to get through society, thgs are a ltle b better now.
WH AN ENTIRE ST OF OPENLY GAY ACTORS, THE BOYS THE BAND ARE BACK — AND ON NETFLIX
The play, which has already been ma to a film once before, 1970, has a chequered history, and fell out of favour for years as was emed to promote harmful stereotyp and ternalised homophobia. However, he said Mantello nvced him to give a send read and he grew to love the character and "his tortured revelatory journey" Matt Bomer, who plays Donald, said was "pretty unprecented" to have ne openly gay men a film st, and creds Murphy for his support for the muny and "voic that need to be heard".
:: Subscribe to the Backstage podst on Apple Podsts, Google Podsts, Spotify, SpreakerMantello said the stg was not tentnal, but rather a "very fortunate seri of events" ntued: "That beg said, I thk havg an out gay st really did rm the work and took on a particular kd of tone bee of that, which is not to say that's the only way to approach this material. ""I don't feel like anybody was st bee they were gay, other than the fact that maybe whatever they were drawg on, ma them play their part better, " said Parsons. "I thk hontly, had a straight actor here or there been the right choice for a certa role this, I thk they would have gone wh that and foregone the need to make a quote unquote, all gay st.