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Contents:
- THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
- 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- 20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- THE STRAIGHT SOP: 10 STARS YOU WON'T BELIEVE AREN'T GAY
- SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
* actors who seem gay but aren't *
Look no further than Old Hollywood actor Rock Hudson, whose homosexualy remaed a tightly guard secret durg the height of his fame. However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola.
" He discsed g out as gay 2014, after enterg a civil partnership wh poser Mark Bradshaw, llg public reactns "surprisgly lovely. Ma history as the first openly gay player to play a Canadian Football League regular-season game, playg for the Montreal Alouett. Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart.
The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly.
29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
Tim ntue to change Hollywood and around the untry. Over the past uple years, more and more celebri have e out of the closet as gay. * actors who seem gay but aren't *
It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women. Helpg to change that is former NBA player Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay man to play one of the four major profsnal team sports.
"When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet.
" In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter. After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat. " Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * actors who seem gay but aren't *
Carver performed on Broadway "The Boys the Band, " which tails the gay experience 20th-century Ameri before the Stonewall Rts occurred. Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life. Actor Marlon Brando once told his bgrapher, "Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experienc and I am not ashamed.
Acrdg to mic legend Qucy Jon, one of Marlon Brando's alleged homosexual trysts was wh edy legend Richard Pryor the 1970s. Long before directg movi like "Prec" or -creatg Fox's "Empire, " Lee Daniels was a young gay man g to terms wh his homosexualy while growg up Philalphia.
Hopg to quash the ntroversy, Banks me out as bisexual that same year, addg that nearly all of her iends are gay and that one of her siblgs is transgenr. That same month, he donated $1 ln to GLSEN (Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), which works to create clive and safe environments schools. While his most notable role of the last few years put beg gay ont and center stage, actor Lee Pace was not always as forthg about his own sexualy.
20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
(Reportedly, however, Pace ma headl 2012 when his "Hobb" -star, Ian McKellen, accintally scribed Pace as gay an terview.
While he adms he was never outright srned for beg gay, there have been stanc where he felt was more of a hdrance than jt a fact that shouldn't matter. He told Variety that while watchg "Love, Simon, " a love story wh a gay protagonist, he realized, "Straight people go to the movi and lerally see themselv all the time. "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years, and all they said was 'we know, '" Schnapp wrote of his g-out story, addg, "I gus I'm more siar to will than I thought.
Getty ImagWhile is fely not the same as a formerly-closeted LGBTQ+ celeb publicly g out and livg/sharg their tth to the world, sometim 's the straights who have to do the talkg when to explag the sexuali and are a few stanc where famo men had to clarify that they are, fact, not gay. That's a very worryg thg, like they have sat at home and have got pictur of me next to other famo, gay [people] -- Elton John, I don't know -- jt parg across the years.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
The Emmy wner who played gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Storyspoke about his sexualy a 2011 terview wh Out.
)"I thk 's more empowerg to everybody, cludg myself, if I'm articulate about intifyg myself as a straight male playg a gay character, " he said when asked about beg fortable playg gay characters.
In his first gay prs terview wh The Advote 2012, the High School Mil and Hairspray heartthrob opened up about how although he don't intify as gay, he fds the love and support he gets om his big, gay fanbase to be "flatterg. After High School Mil and Hairspray, I've always felt embraced by the gay muny, and I feel credibly grateful and honored, " he said. Unfortunately, that wasn't the se, and an terview the followg month wh the Rad Tim, he cleared up mors about his sexualy, tellg people he isn't gay.
THE STRAIGHT SOP: 10 STARS YOU WON'T BELIEVE AREN'T GAY
"One of the lads was at my London flat and I Instagrammed a picture of him and said, 'Look at this cutie, ' and a ln outlets reported I was g out as gay, " he said. "I'm not gay but two of my mat me out when I was 15 and was a joy to support them bee, as a group, we are all secure who we are.
After already addrsg the mors of him beg gay back 2016, he reerated his heterosexualy a November 2018 terview wh Rollg Stone and an April 2019 terview wh The Guardian. Realy TV star and The Bachelor Atralia alum Matt Agnew (left) had to set the rerd straight about his sexualy when ter mors started circulatg that he was gay after he posted pictur of he and his gay iend/fellow Asie TV personaly Khanh Ong (right) gettg close while on vatn Vietnam. The Love Island UK season 9 nttant had to reassure fans about his sexualy and nfirm that he isn't gay a March 2023 terview wh the Daily Mirrorafter speculatn started swirlg onle about him durg his time on the popular realy datg petn show.
SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
The Abbott Elementary star took to his Instagram stori and publicly addrsed mors about his sexualy June 2023, sharg that although he isn't gay, he is an ally and that the culture of tryg to "overanalyze" someone's behavr to try and out them is dangero and homophobic.
"I’m not gay, but I thk the culture of tryg to ‘fd’ some kd of hidn tra or behavr that a closed person ‘let slip’ is very dangero. It mak the most pestrian of nversatns and teractns spac feel ls safe for our gay brothers and sisters and those who may be qutng. In July of 2023, the popular TikTok and social media star did a YouTube terview wh Zach Sang where he opened up and clarified his the fluencer shared a vio of himself on-stage durg a burlque performance where one of the performers lled him gay, many of his fans took that to mean he was publicly g out.