'Star Trek' Star Gee Takei on Comg Out as Gay and Gettg Married - Variety

Contents:

• MARK OWEN REVEALS HE MIGHT BE GAY
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• IS TAKE THAT GAY
• 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
• SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY
• CHECHEN LEAR: NO GAYS HERE – BUT IF THERE ARE, TAKE THEM AWAY
• THE OUT TAKE: HOW GAY IS 'THE GREAT GATSBY'?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY DANIEL WALBERMAY 9, 2013/9:49 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DANIEL WALBERMAY 9, 2013 / 9:49 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE OUT TAKE: HOW GAY IS 'THE GREAT GATSBY'?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-05-09T13:49:43.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-05-09T13:49:43.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"DANIEL WALBER","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE OUT TAKE,” IS A BI-WEEKLY LUMN DITED TO QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE’S THE STORY, WHAT WE KNOW. TMAN CAPOTE WAS THE FIRST WRER BROUGHT ON FOR THE 1974 ADAPTATN OF “THE GREAT GATSBY,” ONE OF MANY TALENTS TO ENTER AND THEN LEAVE THE FILM DURG PREPRODUCTN. A WHOLE BUNCH OF NAM WERE TOSSED AROUND TO PLAY THE LEADS, OM CANDICE BERGEN TO WARREN BEATTY. ALI MACGRAW, THEN WIFE OF ATTACHED DIRECTOR ROBERT EVANS, WAS ORIGALLY SLATED TO PLAY DAISY UNTIL SHE LEFT EVANS FOR STEVE MCQUEEN. CAPOTE’S EX, HOWEVER, ME FOR REASONS OF VISN. HE WROTE A WHOLE SCRIPT, SENT TO THE STUD, AND WAS PROMPTLY REJECTED. RATHER THAN HAVE HIM REWRE , THE NTROVERSIAL NOVELIST WAS REPLACED BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (WHO SISTED THAT HIS OWN SCRIPT DIDN’T MAKE OUT ALIVE EHER).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO WHAT WAS WRONG WH CAPOTE’S WORK? THIS IS WHERE THGS GET A B VAGUE. THE OFT-CED “CREATIVE DIFFERENC” OF HOLLYWOOD N MEAN ANY NUMBER OF THGS. HIS DRAFT ISN’T AVAILABLE TO READ, THOUGH SOMEONE BOUGHT A PY FOR $17,925 BACK 2007 AT A BONHAMS CTN. THE MOR (AND GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE THGS, A LIKELY REALY), IS THAT THE DRAFT WAS TOO GAY. CAPOTE HAD NOT ONLY PLACED NICK CARRAWAY EXPLICLY LOVE WH GATSBY, BUT HE’D ALSO TURNED GOLFER JORDAN BAKER TO A LBIAN. THK OF HOW SNDALO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO CHECK OUT: OUR REVIEW OF "THE GREAT GATSBY"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OR, RATHER, THK OF HOW SNDALO THAT WOULD BE NOW. THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT DIENC ARE OPPOSED TO GAY CHARACTERS, WE’VE MA PLENTY OF PROGRS ON THAT POT. YET THERE’S AN ATTACHMENT TO WHAT ARE PERCEIVED AS THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CHARACTER WHICH N MAKE A LOT OF PEOPLE UNFORTABLE. IT’S A PROBLEM THAT GO BEYOND THE BOUNDARI OF ANY ONE WORK OR INTY – THE MOST RECENT NTROVERSY WH THE IC BOOK WORLD IS THE STG OF A BLACK ACTOR TO PLAY THE HUMAN TORCH THE FANTASTIC FOUR REBOOT. AUDIENC TAKE BASIC ELEMENTS OF A CHARACTER AS SACROSANCT, AND WHEN AN ADAPTATN TKERS WH THE THGS OFTEN TRIGGERS SOME PRETTY UGLY PREJUDICE. IT N EVEN HAPPEN WHEN TURNS OUT TO BE THE CREATOR’S TENTN. REMEMBER THE HULLABALOO OVER J.K. ROWLG PUBLICLY STATG DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY? IT SEEMS RIDICULO TO TALK ABOUT NOW, BUT THERE WAS PLENTY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS BRGS BACK TO GATSBY. WHAT WAS F. STT FZGERALD’S TENTN REGARDG NICK? THERE’S OFTEN MORE OPEN SPACE FOR TERPRETATN AROUND SEXUALY A NOVEL, BEE WE DON’T ACTUALLY SEE THE CHARACTER’S SIR UNFOLD. IT N BE LEFT VAGUE ON PURPOSE, AND MUCH N BE READ TO THGS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE SUGGTED. SALON’S GREG OLEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, IS ABSOLUTELY NVCED THAT NICK IS GAY. HIS ARGUMENT DON’T E OM AN ACROBATIC READG OF A SGLE CRYPTIC PASSAGE, EHER. OLEAR ASSEMBL OBSERVATNS ABOUT NICK’S BACKGROUND, THE WAY HE REACTS TO AND SCRIB WOMEN, AND ONE PARTICULAR SCENE VOLVG A MR. MCKEE. I WON’T GO TO MORE TAIL WH THE EVINCE BUT DO READ HIS WHOLE PIECE, ’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS AT THE END, HOWEVER, WHEN OLEAR ALS WH THE IMPLITNS. THIS ISN’T JT A SILLY, SELFISH TERPRETATN OF THE STORY THAT LATCH ON TO A FANTASY AS A MEANS OF HIJACKG THE NARRATIVE. IT’S A READG OF THE TEXT. ALL OF THE BT FILM ADAPTATNS OF NOVELS HAVE A UNIQUE READG OF THE TEXT, WHETHER ’S JOE WRIGHT’S THEATRIL SIGNS ON “ANNA KARENA” OR THE MIMALIST APPROACH OF CARY FUNAGA AND ANDREA ARNOLD TO 19TH CENTURY ROMANTICISM. THE READG OF NICK AS GAY OPENS UP HIS PORTRAYAL OF GATSBY, AND MIRRORS GATSBY’S OWN LOVE OF DAISY. IT’S AN EXTRA DIMENSN THAT, IF EXPAND UPON A FILM, MIGHT ALTER AND ENRICH OUR UNRSTANDG OF THE ORIGAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOW, BAZ LUHRMANN HAS NOT DONE THIS WH HIS NEW FILM. HE’S UPDATED OTHER WAYS, PERHAPS MOST NOTABLY HIS CHOICE TO E NTEMPORARY MIC, STRIVG FOR THE HNS OF FZGERALD’S ORIGALLY NTEMPORARY NOVEL. OBVLY I N’T CRICIZE HIM FOR NOT MAKG NICK EXPLICLY GAY, NOR WOULD I. NOR N HE BE CRICIZED FOR BORG ADAPTATNS. HIS “ROMEO + JULIET” IS QUE SOMETHG, OF URSE, BUT “MOUL ROUGE!” AND S RAMBUNCT TAKE ON LA TRAVIATA IS THE PEAK OF HIS CREATIVY. AND SPE OF S NARRATIVE NTENT, LUHRMANN’S SOMEWHAT EPIC FLAMBOYANCE HAS ALWAYS SEEMED A LTLE B GAY. I THK ’S IMPORTANT TO KEEP “THE GREAT GASBY” AND OUR UNRSTANDG OF ADAPTATN GENERAL THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}READG BOOKS AND FILMS AS QUEER, EVEN PERHAPS QUEERER THAN ORIGALLY TEND, ISN’T JT A GAME. IT’S AN TEGRAL PART OF THE WAY WRERS, ARTISTS AND CRICS HAVE LOOKED AT QUEER AND NON-QUEER TEXTS FOR S. DEREK JARMAN’S FILMS, SOME OF THEM NOW OVER THIRTY YEARS OLD, TOOK EVERYTHG OM THE HAGGRAPHI OF THE EARLY CATHOLIC CHURCH TO MARLOWE’S “EDWARD II” AND READ THEM AS QUEER. HIS SEBASTIANE, CARAVAGG AND EDWARD II ARE CLEVER, UNIQUE FILMS THAT SAY SOMETHG NEW AND EXCG BY ENGAGG WH THE OLD. “QUEERG” PRE-EXISTG GENR IS PRACTILLY A GENRE OF S OWN, AT THIS POT, WHETHER ’S TODD HAYN’ AND PEDRO ALMODóVAR’S RE-E OF MELODRAMA OR ULRIKE OTTGER TAKG ON FRENCH SATHOOD WH JOAN OF ARC OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE CHARACTERS ARE WHAT WE MAKE OF THEM. GORE VIDAL KNEW THAT “BEN-HUR” WAS GAY, EVEN IF CHARLTON HTON HADN’T THE FOGGIT IA. GO SEE “THE GREAT GATSBY” THIS WEEKEND AND TERPRET HOWEVER YOU LIKE. WHO KNOWS, MIGHT MAKE TOBEY MAGUIRE SEEM MUCH MORE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

MARK OWEN REVEALS HE MIGHT BE GAY

”People also wanted to see you as gay.

None of red anyway, we started off the gay clubs, we’ve got no problem there. Comeback pop star Mark Owen is nsirg a gay future, after a seri of.

g out gay mag GAY TIMES. He says, "I might be gay , like, a year's time. Nigel Mart-Smh was the band’s manager for their heady 1990s perd, plottg their rise to stardom om their early appearanc at gay clubs.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party.

IS TAKE THAT GAY

As far as I know, none of the members of Take That have admted to beg gay or not. Addnally, 21 percent of LGBTQ Amerins surveyed said they are gay, 14 percent lbian, 10 percent transgenr, and another 4 percent scribed themselv as somethg else, cludg queer and same-genr-lovg.

9 percent, whereas men were more likely to intify as gay, at 2. Related: Survey fds a surprisg number of straight men have some pretty gay tennci. But Jse Williams is well st as the gay baseball superstar Darren Lemmg.

"Dpe the monali, the media, cludg the New York Tim, has wonred whether Williams, a straight actor, should play a gay character. Bee straight men playg gay, everybody wants to give them an award, " Billy Porter, who is a member of the LGBTQ muny, told The Hollywood Reporter Neil Patrick Harris, who married his hband David Burtka 2014, told The Tim 2021 that he "would fely want to hire the bt actor" for any role.

'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'

"Take Me Out, " which opened April 4, centers Darren, a stellar profsnal baseball player, and what happens to him and his team — the fictnal Empir — after he out as script, viewed by Insir, lls Darren "a Black man who you uld image had never suffered" and Williams told Entertament Weekly that the character "don't nsir himself part of the gay muny" and has been "straight prentg" before he mak the somewhat impulsive cisn to share his sexual orientatn wh the world at a prs 's is a versn of a g-out story, there is no nyg that. Unfortunately, tryg to do so, he grossly unrtimat the power of racism and homophobia.

SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY

We also see the shock Darren feels when 's clear the team manager Skip (Ken Marks) isn't gog to fight to keep Shane Mungt (Michael Oberholtzer) — the player who ed explic homophobic and racial slurs agast Darren — om beg restated on the team. Williams has a lot to prove his Broadway but as Darren, and part of the reason he's succsful bee of his platonic chemistry wh stage veteran and "Morn Fay" star Jse Tyler Fergon as Darren's bs manager Mason "Marz" role, more than Williams', benefs om beg played by an openly gay actor who knows the stggle that many young people face bee of their sexualy.

Marz knows why 's important that Darren don't n away om baseball, bee he's facg the btal reali of racism and homophobia.

Gay people need Darren to keep playg so they n keep dreamg.

CHECHEN LEAR: NO GAYS HERE – BUT IF THERE ARE, TAKE THEM AWAY

Marz has the right to ll the gay jock out for not botherg to notice a lot of the homophobia that moners the queer muny face. Historians don't doubt that Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will. Historians don't doubt that Peter Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will.

Yuri Arabov told a Rsian newspaper that his adaptatn of the 19th century poser's life won't foc on his sexualy bee “ is far om a fact that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " The New York Tim also said that films that "advertise" homosexualy are "outsi the sphere of art, " and that only "philist" thk the poser was gay. In light of Rsia's recent anti-gay legislatn, this uld be seen as another effort to erase the untry's gay history.

THE OUT TAKE: HOW GAY IS 'THE GREAT GATSBY'?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY DANIEL WALBERMAY 9, 2013/9:49 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DANIEL WALBERMAY 9, 2013 / 9:49 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE OUT TAKE: HOW GAY IS 'THE GREAT GATSBY'?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-05-09T13:49:43.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-05-09T13:49:43.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"DANIEL WALBER","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE OUT TAKE,” IS A BI-WEEKLY LUMN DITED TO QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE’S THE STORY, WHAT WE KNOW. TMAN CAPOTE WAS THE FIRST WRER BROUGHT ON FOR THE 1974 ADAPTATN OF “THE GREAT GATSBY,” ONE OF MANY TALENTS TO ENTER AND THEN LEAVE THE FILM DURG PREPRODUCTN. A WHOLE BUNCH OF NAM WERE TOSSED AROUND TO PLAY THE LEADS, OM CANDICE BERGEN TO WARREN BEATTY. ALI MACGRAW, THEN WIFE OF ATTACHED DIRECTOR ROBERT EVANS, WAS ORIGALLY SLATED TO PLAY DAISY UNTIL SHE LEFT EVANS FOR STEVE MCQUEEN. CAPOTE’S EX, HOWEVER, ME FOR REASONS OF VISN. HE WROTE A WHOLE SCRIPT, SENT TO THE STUD, AND WAS PROMPTLY REJECTED. RATHER THAN HAVE HIM REWRE , THE NTROVERSIAL NOVELIST WAS REPLACED BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (WHO SISTED THAT HIS OWN SCRIPT DIDN’T MAKE OUT ALIVE EHER).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO WHAT WAS WRONG WH CAPOTE’S WORK? THIS IS WHERE THGS GET A B VAGUE. THE OFT-CED “CREATIVE DIFFERENC” OF HOLLYWOOD N MEAN ANY NUMBER OF THGS. HIS DRAFT ISN’T AVAILABLE TO READ, THOUGH SOMEONE BOUGHT A PY FOR $17,925 BACK 2007 AT A BONHAMS CTN. THE MOR (AND GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE THGS, A LIKELY REALY), IS THAT THE DRAFT WAS TOO GAY. CAPOTE HAD NOT ONLY PLACED NICK CARRAWAY EXPLICLY LOVE WH GATSBY, BUT HE’D ALSO TURNED GOLFER JORDAN BAKER TO A LBIAN. THK OF HOW SNDALO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO CHECK OUT: OUR REVIEW OF "THE GREAT GATSBY"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OR, RATHER, THK OF HOW SNDALO THAT WOULD BE NOW. THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT DIENC ARE OPPOSED TO GAY CHARACTERS, WE’VE MA PLENTY OF PROGRS ON THAT POT. YET THERE’S AN ATTACHMENT TO WHAT ARE PERCEIVED AS THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CHARACTER WHICH N MAKE A LOT OF PEOPLE UNFORTABLE. IT’S A PROBLEM THAT GO BEYOND THE BOUNDARI OF ANY ONE WORK OR INTY – THE MOST RECENT NTROVERSY WH THE IC BOOK WORLD IS THE STG OF A BLACK ACTOR TO PLAY THE HUMAN TORCH THE FANTASTIC FOUR REBOOT. AUDIENC TAKE BASIC ELEMENTS OF A CHARACTER AS SACROSANCT, AND WHEN AN ADAPTATN TKERS WH THE THGS OFTEN TRIGGERS SOME PRETTY UGLY PREJUDICE. IT N EVEN HAPPEN WHEN TURNS OUT TO BE THE CREATOR’S TENTN. REMEMBER THE HULLABALOO OVER J.K. ROWLG PUBLICLY STATG DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY? IT SEEMS RIDICULO TO TALK ABOUT NOW, BUT THERE WAS PLENTY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS BRGS BACK TO GATSBY. WHAT WAS F. STT FZGERALD’S TENTN REGARDG NICK? THERE’S OFTEN MORE OPEN SPACE FOR TERPRETATN AROUND SEXUALY A NOVEL, BEE WE DON’T ACTUALLY SEE THE CHARACTER’S SIR UNFOLD. IT N BE LEFT VAGUE ON PURPOSE, AND MUCH N BE READ TO THGS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE SUGGTED. SALON’S GREG OLEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, IS ABSOLUTELY NVCED THAT NICK IS GAY. HIS ARGUMENT DON’T E OM AN ACROBATIC READG OF A SGLE CRYPTIC PASSAGE, EHER. OLEAR ASSEMBL OBSERVATNS ABOUT NICK’S BACKGROUND, THE WAY HE REACTS TO AND SCRIB WOMEN, AND ONE PARTICULAR SCENE VOLVG A MR. MCKEE. I WON’T GO TO MORE TAIL WH THE EVINCE BUT DO READ HIS WHOLE PIECE, ’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS AT THE END, HOWEVER, WHEN OLEAR ALS WH THE IMPLITNS. THIS ISN’T JT A SILLY, SELFISH TERPRETATN OF THE STORY THAT LATCH ON TO A FANTASY AS A MEANS OF HIJACKG THE NARRATIVE. IT’S A READG OF THE TEXT. ALL OF THE BT FILM ADAPTATNS OF NOVELS HAVE A UNIQUE READG OF THE TEXT, WHETHER ’S JOE WRIGHT’S THEATRIL SIGNS ON “ANNA KARENA” OR THE MIMALIST APPROACH OF CARY FUNAGA AND ANDREA ARNOLD TO 19TH CENTURY ROMANTICISM. THE READG OF NICK AS GAY OPENS UP HIS PORTRAYAL OF GATSBY, AND MIRRORS GATSBY’S OWN LOVE OF DAISY. IT’S AN EXTRA DIMENSN THAT, IF EXPAND UPON A FILM, MIGHT ALTER AND ENRICH OUR UNRSTANDG OF THE ORIGAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOW, BAZ LUHRMANN HAS NOT DONE THIS WH HIS NEW FILM. HE’S UPDATED OTHER WAYS, PERHAPS MOST NOTABLY HIS CHOICE TO E NTEMPORARY MIC, STRIVG FOR THE HNS OF FZGERALD’S ORIGALLY NTEMPORARY NOVEL. OBVLY I N’T CRICIZE HIM FOR NOT MAKG NICK EXPLICLY GAY, NOR WOULD I. NOR N HE BE CRICIZED FOR BORG ADAPTATNS. HIS “ROMEO + JULIET” IS QUE SOMETHG, OF URSE, BUT “MOUL ROUGE!” AND S RAMBUNCT TAKE ON LA TRAVIATA IS THE PEAK OF HIS CREATIVY. AND SPE OF S NARRATIVE NTENT, LUHRMANN’S SOMEWHAT EPIC FLAMBOYANCE HAS ALWAYS SEEMED A LTLE B GAY. 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HIS SEBASTIANE, CARAVAGG AND EDWARD II ARE CLEVER, UNIQUE FILMS THAT SAY SOMETHG NEW AND EXCG BY ENGAGG WH THE OLD. “QUEERG” PRE-EXISTG GENR IS PRACTILLY A GENRE OF S OWN, AT THIS POT, WHETHER ’S TODD HAYN’ AND PEDRO ALMODóVAR’S RE-E OF MELODRAMA OR ULRIKE OTTGER TAKG ON FRENCH SATHOOD WH JOAN OF ARC OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE CHARACTERS ARE WHAT WE MAKE OF THEM. GORE VIDAL KNEW THAT “BEN-HUR” WAS GAY, EVEN IF CHARLTON HTON HADN’T THE FOGGIT IA. GO SEE “THE GREAT GATSBY” THIS WEEKEND AND TERPRET HOWEVER YOU LIKE. WHO KNOWS, MIGHT MAKE TOBEY MAGUIRE SEEM MUCH MORE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Well, sorry Rsia, but Tchaikovsky — along wh dozens of other Rsian cultural ins — were gay, as many scholars would readily Tchaikovsky (poser)Tchaikovsky posed two of the most qutsentially Rsian ballets — Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Harry wr (emphasis add): The history of Tchaikovsky's homosexualy was supprsed Rsia by the Soviets, and has only recently bee wily known post-Soviet Rsia.

Tchaikovsky's letters and diari, as well as the letters of his brother Most, who was also gay, make clear his orientatn. ] Many of Tchaikovsky's most timate relatnships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Soonov and his nephew, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov. Gay thor E.

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For stance, Wiley pots out that Tchaikovsky was openly gay all his life, to the pot that he femised the nam of the young men he nsorted wh, and ed his own – signg a letter to his brother (who was also gay) "Petrola". Nikolai Gogol (thor)The 19th century novelist, bt known for Dead Souls and his short stori, was also homosexual. The Sexual Labyrth of Nikolai Gogol, by fellow gay Rsian Simon Karlsky, argued that evince of Gogol's homosexualy uld be found his works.

In her review of the book for The New York Review of Books, Helen Muchnic laid out Karlsky's argument this way: His this, brief outle, is that Gogol, unable to be himself a world where homosexualy was proscribed, ncealed his clatns, attempted to supprs his emotns, projected his secretivens unnscly the ceptns, mystifitns, and symbols of his stori and plays, and ultimately broke down unr the stra, g his art and stroyg himself. Here's an excerpt om her 1924 poem "Dreams": Only dreams, wh a broken off moan, so as not to die her sleep, on such a mellifluo wave, above this sky-blue drowng, her whole cht heavg eely wh breath, my soul is published several llectns of poems until censorship unr the Soviet ernment emed her works "unlawful" Nabokov (brother of Vladimir Nabokov)Vladimir Nabokov, bt known for his 1955 novel Lola, was a known homophobe.

Y as Lev Grossman explaed this 2000 piece for Salon, his brother was a known homosexual.

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Grossman wrote: Sergei’s homosexualy would st a long shadow over his strange and heroic life, and would also, ultimately, be the e of his horrifyg and untimely ath. It st a shadow over Vladimir’s life as well: He loved his brother, but whatever else he may have been — a brilliant wrer, a lovg father — Vladimir was a nfirmed homophobe, and his gay brother was a nstant source of shame, nfn and regret to died a Nazi labor mp, while Vladimar went on to wre several novels. Meanwhile, gay characters appear throughout Vladimir's work, possibly regnn of his article is om the archive of our partner The Wire.

"Clive is a gay man who tri to supprs his homosexualy Edwardian-era England.