Taye Diggs is makg his theater eback, playg a gay character the h Broadway mil, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Diggs jos a select list of Black actors who have played gay characters on the big and small screen. Flip through for some of our favore gay and lbian portrayals on TV and film.
Contents:
- 20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
- THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
- 14 MOST MEMORABLE GAY CHARACTERS PLAYED BY NON-GAY ACTORS
20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
In honor of Pri Month, here are some of the bt gay characters across a number of mastream vio gam, a list that will hopefully ntue to grow every year. * gay playable characters *
Many actors who are not gay realy have portrayed gay characters, real and fictnal. Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron and Hilary Swank won Osrs for playg gay or transgenr characters.
Whether ’s for televisn or a feature film, ’s not easy to pull off a gay role as a straight actor.
THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
Hilary Swank, “Boys Don’t Cry” (while Swank’s character Brandon Teena was transgenr, not gay, the role was inic for many gays and lbians). All forms of popular culture have taken awhile to clu more LGBTQ characters, but gam pecially have ed gay and transgenr characters as punchl for a long while now, and only now are we startg to see that shift earnt. As a rult, we still have almost no lead characters gam that are gay outsi of the die scene.
I’ve thought back to the gam I’ve played the last few years, and there have been a number of gay characters that have stood out to me one way or another. This won’t be a perfect list, and the gay game characters on may have their own problems wh trop or stereotyp, but I like them all for different reasons.
14 MOST MEMORABLE GAY CHARACTERS PLAYED BY NON-GAY ACTORS
The fact that Kung J is gay is referenced only a few l of dialogue, and fightg gam, more than most, tend to e trop when cludg trans, gay or jt effemate fighters. Borrlands 2 has a few gay/bi characters, cludg Sir Hammerlock (who is gay) and Mad Moxxxi (who is bi) but I like the way the game snuck a few l to show that Ty Ta is actually gay herself.