Matt Damon Says He Never Used Anti-Gay ‘F-Slur,’ GLAAD Rponds – Deadle

Contents:

• MATT DAMON ADDRS MENTS ABOUT GAY ACTORS
• I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN
• MATT DAMON HAS PLAYED GAY BEFORE
• MATT DAMON STRIPS DOWN TO PLAY LIBERACE'S BUFF GAY LOVER BEHD THE CANLABRA
• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL
• IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS
• MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET
• 20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
• AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR
• MATT DAMON SAYS HE NEVER USED ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ FOLLOWG INTERVIEW CONTROVERSY, GLAAD RPONDS

MATT DAMON ADDRS MENTS ABOUT GAY ACTORS

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Damon is currently promotg his new film The Martian, which he plays an astront strand on MarsActor Matt Damon has told Ellen DeGener that ments he ma a recent terview, sayg gay actors should keep their sexualy a secret, were taken out of ntext. "Whether you're straight or gay, people shouldn't know anythg about your sexualy bee that's one of the mysteri that you should be able to play, " he told the Brish newspaper. 'Not that guy'Damon had been addrsg mours he and Ben Affleck were gay, which he said surfaced as they tried to get their 1997 Osr-wng film Good Will Huntg ma.

"But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy - more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor - 's tough to make the argument that he didn't take a h for beg out. "Image source, APImage ptn, Damon had ially been talkg about mours he and Ben Affleck were gay when he ma the mentsDamon later addrsed his ments durg a pre-taped terview on The Ellen DeGener Show, which is due to air on Tuday.

" he told DeGener, "and somebody picked up and said I said 'gay actors should get back the closet'. "DeGener, who is openly gay, told Damon: "I know you and I know you're not that guy.

I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN

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MATT DAMON HAS PLAYED GAY BEFORE

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MATT DAMON STRIPS DOWN TO PLAY LIBERACE'S BUFF GAY LOVER BEHD THE CANLABRA

This 2008 bgraphil feature se Penn play real-life polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who 1977 beme the first openly gay person to be elected to California public office. Andrew Beckett (Hanks) is an associate at a rporate Philalphia law firm who, spe livg wh his long-term partner, is not open wh his -workers about his homosexualy or his AIDS.

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"The word that my dghter lls the 'f-slur for a homosexual' was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn, " the actor said, explag that he recently ma a joke g the slur. The tweets were fast and fur: "If Matt Damon's g homophobic slurs at the dner table 2021, you n't tell me he's not g racist slurs too.

MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL

As a person who was equently tnted for beg gay as a kid growg up Appalachia, who was himself lled the "f-slur" too many tim to unt, you might be surprised to learn that I dissent. Instead of admirg the is grace of changg one's md and givg up hurtful language, the social jtice mob dragged Damon over the proverbial als, sperate to e this as evince of his Damon is not homophobic.

I remember sperately tryg to expla to my straight male iends—who had been my iends for years, who had stood by me through thick and th, and had even fend me om homophobia—why the word bothered me so much. Like Matt Damon, they weren't homophobic, eher. And if Damon had doubled down on the homophobic slur after his dghter cricized him, if he had gotten fensive and relcrant, there would be ample room for that is not what happened.

IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

If we on the Left, cludg those of the gay muny, are ser about makg social progrs and broang acceptance and cln for LGBT people, Matt Damon should be ld, not lambasted. "If Matt Damon’s g homophobic slurs at the dner table 2021, you n’t tell me he’s not g racist slurs too.

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MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET

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20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS

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AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR

'"The film had to be ma for televisn the US, bee was nsired "too gay" for wir cematic release. Matt Damon found himself more hot water this weekend when his take on mors that he and Ben Affleck were gay turned to a discsn of gay actors , about that ponytail he was sportg over the summer: It wasn’t real.

MATT DAMON SAYS HE NEVER USED ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ FOLLOWG INTERVIEW CONTROVERSY, GLAAD RPONDS

“When Ben and I first me on the scene, there were mors that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote a script together, ” he said.