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• JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT TALKS GAY RUMORS, 'DON JON' IN OUT MAGAZE
• JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT TALKS GAY RUMORS: "THAT WOULD BE REALLY I HAD TO CLARIFY"
• JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT WON'T SAY IF HE'S GAY OR STRAIGHT!

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT TALKS GAY RUMORS, 'DON JON' IN OUT MAGAZE

” Gordon-Levt is no stranger to gay mors or advanc, wh male fans the past havg wrten claratns of love for the also isn't the first celebry to play y surroundg mors about his sexualy. While was highly ntroversial, the late ’90s and 2000s saw a rise gay rol on TV shows and movi that troduced dienc to a realy too many were pretendg to ny. Nohels, Gordon Levt and Topher Grace are the first men to a part of a gay scene on screens That ’70s Show, although the potentially screen-breakg LGBTQ story arc was scrapped, and only one character was gay.

Some chalk up to oppos attract while others are bummed that Eric’s storyle wasn’t adjted to a more proment portrayal of the gay muny wh Buddy who has a lot mon wh him. Some would’ve preferred Eric choose Buddy over Donna bee they seem to have a lot more chemistry the episo, while some would have liked to at least see more of Buddy and what uld’ve been store for him as a gay character the ’70s. He found fame as a teen alien on NBC's 3rd Rock om the Sun, but Joseph Gordon-Levt is no stranger to dramatic rol -- such as a gay htler Myster Sk, a Mormon homophobe Latter Days, and a boy wh AIDS Sweet Jane.

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JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT TALKS GAY RUMORS: "THAT WOULD BE REALLY I HAD TO CLARIFY"

He's one of the great storytellers of our lumn is rerved for celebri wh notable gay followgs. Yeah, I gus I do see that, but I don't thk about the support om any muny, to be Araki's Myster Sk certaly ronated wh gay sure did, but that movie really transcends. Even though I played a guy that was turng tricks wh dus, I fd reassurg and enuragg about the days we live that the people who rpond to and regnize me om that movie are not disproportnately gay.

That's good, bee people past generatns who weren't gay might've been closed-md to watchg that movie and wantg to hear that you spend any time wh gay htlers or young men who'd been molted to prepare for the role?

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT WON'T SAY IF HE'S GAY OR STRAIGHT!

But lots of people have gone through bad thgs when they were kids, so lots of people e up and tell me that movie meant a lot to them, and the reactns have been really meangful, but, aga, I wouldn't say that leans gay. And I look my bt when I drs you appeared as Eric's gay buddy on a 1998 episo of That '70s Show, you and Topher Grace shared the first gay kiss on North Amerin prime-time TV. More than anythg else, though, I remember that was wrten very well, bee the emphasis wasn't on beg gay but on makg sure the scene worked and was funny.

You know, he's a du, and girls are awome to kiss, I gotta you origally dned for nflicted gay Mormon Elr Aaron Latter Days, you played Elr Pl, the straight Mormon bully. I get a kick out of extraordary speech patterns, so that was my favore thg about playg that also got to say thgs like "God hat homos.

I stay touch wh him, and he's such a ma your profsnal stage but 2001 when you replaced Gale Harold Uncle Bob off-Broadway as the sexually nfed nephew of a gay man wh AIDS. Bee you've tackled so many gay rol and gay-themed projects, were you ever ncerned about people assumg that you're gay real life? There's nothg posive that n e om payg attentn to that kd of thg -- not jt wonrg whether or not someone thks you're gay but also worryg what people will thk of who you're datg or what you drive.