Robert Gant Gay, Datg, Hband, Boyiend, Height, Net Worth

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• ROBERT GANT GAY, DATG, HBAND, BOYIEND, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
• ROBERT GANT: ‘LGBT FOLK ARE STANDG OUR AUTHENTIC POWER MORE THAN EVER BEFORE—AND THERE’S MORE TO COME’STONEWALL 50EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS GETTYTHE ‘QUEER AS FOLK’ ACTOR TELLS TIM TEEMAN: ‘I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LGBTQ PEOPLE FEEL EEDOM AND EQUALY, NOT ONLY AROUND , BUT OUR OWN HEARTS AND MDS AS WELL.’TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERPUBLISHED JUN. 27, 2019 5:21AM EDT IN THIS SPECIAL SERI, LGBT CELEBRI AND PUBLIC FIGUR TALK TO TIM TEEMAN ABOUT THE STONEWALL RTS AND THEIR LEGACY—SEE MORE HERE.ROBERT GANT IS AN ACTOR (BEN THE AMERIN VERSN OF QUEER AS FOLK AND APPEARANC MANY OTHER SHOWS, CLUDG SUPERGIRL AND THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS).WHEN/HOW DID YOU FIRST HEAR ABOUT THE STONEWALL RTS, AND WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF ?I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE STONEWALL RTS 1990 DURG MY SENR YEAR AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA. I WAS TAKG A URSE AT PENN’S ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITN LLED “GAYS CEMA.” I SPECT THE CLASS FOCED ON FILM BEE THERE HADN’T BEEN MANY LGBT REFERENC ON TELEVISN AT THE TIME AND CERTALY NOT ENOUGH FOR A CLASS. I REMEMBER BEG STCK BY A SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT AT THE IA THAT MEMBERS OF OUR MUNY HAD PHED BACK SO STRONGLY AGAST THE OPPRSN AND SUBJUGATN THAT HAD ALWAYS BEEN THE NORM FOR GAY PEOPLE. LIKE MOST OF , I RELATED TO THE FEELGS OF SEND-CLASS CIZENSHIP THAT WE ALL LIVED UNR. THOSE FEELGS AND EXPERIENC HAD NEVER MHED WELL WH MY STRONG NVICTN ABOUT BEG AN AMERIN AND LOVG THIS UNTRY AND HAVG A EP REVERENCE FOR OUR FOUNDG TRADN OF EEDOM AND EQUALY.FROM THE TIME I REGNIZED THIS NFLICT, THERE HAD ALWAYS BEEN AN TERNAL DISSONANCE BETWEEN MY BEG GAY AND MY LOVG MY HERENT EEDOM AND EQUALY AS AN AMERIN. SO THE SUDN AWARENS OF STONEWALL AS AN EXAMPLE OF OTHERS STANDG UP AND FIGHTG FOR THAT EEDOM WAS, TO SAY THE LEAST, EPLY HEARTENG, THRILLG.WHAT IS THEIR SIGNIFINCE FOR YOU?THEIR SIGNIFINCE FOR ME IS PROFOUND. THE JOURNEY FOR GAY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF HISTORY HAS BEEN LARGELY ONE OF HIDG. WE WERE, AS SO MEMORABLY ED AGAST OSR WIL AT HIS GROSS CENCY TRIAL, “THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK S NAME.” SO SUCH AN OVERT, IMPASSNED ACT OF STAED REBELLN AND HEROISM BY THE PARTICIPANTS STONEWALL WAS AN VALUABLE, FOUNDATNAL MOMENT OUR MORN ABILY TO WALK AND THRIVE MORE EELY EVERY DAY.HOW FAR HAVE LGBT PEOPLE E SCE 1969? ADVERTISEMENT WE LGBT FOLK HAVE CERTALY E A LONG WAY SCE THEN. FIFTY YEARS LATER, THE LANDSPE FOR HAS SHIFTED EXTRAORDARILY QUICKLY. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGG AT THE OUTSET THAT THERE IS STILL MUCH MORE TO BE ACPLISHED, OUR OUTER AND NER LIV HAVE TRANSFORMED. WE ARE STANDG OUR THENTIC POWER MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. AND AGA, THERE’S MUCH MORE TO E, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD.WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE, LGBT-WISE, THE NEXT 50 YEARS?IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PLETE EQUALY THE LAW, BOTH DOMTILLY AND TERNATNALLY, AS WELL AS EQUALY THE WAY WE ARE REGARD AND TREATED BY OUR STRAIGHT FELLOWS AROUND THE WORLD. AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LGBTQ PEOPLE ALL FEEL THAT EEDOM, NOT ONLY AROUND BUT OUR OWN HEARTS AND MDS AS WELL—TO KNOW THAT WHO WE ARE HAS ALWAYS BEEN, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, HERENTLY AND ARGUABLY EQUAL. TIM TEEMAN
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROBERT GANT – AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WHO N NVCGLY PLAY STRAIGHT!
• NEVER BEEN MARRIED, OPENLY GAY ACTOR, ROBERT GANT, ADVOCY ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: DATG RERD ONCE?

ROBERT GANT GAY, DATG, HBAND, BOYIEND, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

As I've mentned before, I grew up Ptsburgh, so when Showtime premiered the first-ever work broadst of a gay drama 20 years ago this month, based Ptsburgh, my tert was naturally piqued. The show's thumpg, gay-central Liberty Avenue downtown Ptsburgh was nothg like the thoroughfare I knew timately, led wh office buildgs and straight bars; more Wall Street than Christopher Street.

I unrstood that the creators wanted to show that gay life uld thrive a smaller metropolis, the Midwt, but I wasn't buyg that happeng , there was that naggg envy.

ROBERT GANT: ‘LGBT FOLK ARE STANDG OUR AUTHENTIC POWER MORE THAN EVER BEFORE—AND THERE’S MORE TO COME’STONEWALL 50EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS GETTYTHE ‘QUEER AS FOLK’ ACTOR TELLS TIM TEEMAN: ‘I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LGBTQ PEOPLE FEEL EEDOM AND EQUALY, NOT ONLY AROUND , BUT OUR OWN HEARTS AND MDS AS WELL.’TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERPUBLISHED JUN. 27, 2019 5:21AM EDT IN THIS SPECIAL SERI, LGBT CELEBRI AND PUBLIC FIGUR TALK TO TIM TEEMAN ABOUT THE STONEWALL RTS AND THEIR LEGACY—SEE MORE HERE.ROBERT GANT IS AN ACTOR (BEN THE AMERIN VERSN OF QUEER AS FOLK AND APPEARANC MANY OTHER SHOWS, CLUDG SUPERGIRL AND THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS).WHEN/HOW DID YOU FIRST HEAR ABOUT THE STONEWALL RTS, AND WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF ?I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE STONEWALL RTS 1990 DURG MY SENR YEAR AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA. I WAS TAKG A URSE AT PENN’S ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITN LLED “GAYS CEMA.” I SPECT THE CLASS FOCED ON FILM BEE THERE HADN’T BEEN MANY LGBT REFERENC ON TELEVISN AT THE TIME AND CERTALY NOT ENOUGH FOR A CLASS. I REMEMBER BEG STCK BY A SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT AT THE IA THAT MEMBERS OF OUR MUNY HAD PHED BACK SO STRONGLY AGAST THE OPPRSN AND SUBJUGATN THAT HAD ALWAYS BEEN THE NORM FOR GAY PEOPLE. LIKE MOST OF , I RELATED TO THE FEELGS OF SEND-CLASS CIZENSHIP THAT WE ALL LIVED UNR. THOSE FEELGS AND EXPERIENC HAD NEVER MHED WELL WH MY STRONG NVICTN ABOUT BEG AN AMERIN AND LOVG THIS UNTRY AND HAVG A EP REVERENCE FOR OUR FOUNDG TRADN OF EEDOM AND EQUALY.FROM THE TIME I REGNIZED THIS NFLICT, THERE HAD ALWAYS BEEN AN TERNAL DISSONANCE BETWEEN MY BEG GAY AND MY LOVG MY HERENT EEDOM AND EQUALY AS AN AMERIN. SO THE SUDN AWARENS OF STONEWALL AS AN EXAMPLE OF OTHERS STANDG UP AND FIGHTG FOR THAT EEDOM WAS, TO SAY THE LEAST, EPLY HEARTENG, THRILLG.WHAT IS THEIR SIGNIFINCE FOR YOU?THEIR SIGNIFINCE FOR ME IS PROFOUND. THE JOURNEY FOR GAY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF HISTORY HAS BEEN LARGELY ONE OF HIDG. WE WERE, AS SO MEMORABLY ED AGAST OSR WIL AT HIS GROSS CENCY TRIAL, “THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK S NAME.” SO SUCH AN OVERT, IMPASSNED ACT OF STAED REBELLN AND HEROISM BY THE PARTICIPANTS STONEWALL WAS AN VALUABLE, FOUNDATNAL MOMENT OUR MORN ABILY TO WALK AND THRIVE MORE EELY EVERY DAY.HOW FAR HAVE LGBT PEOPLE E SCE 1969? ADVERTISEMENT WE LGBT FOLK HAVE CERTALY E A LONG WAY SCE THEN. FIFTY YEARS LATER, THE LANDSPE FOR HAS SHIFTED EXTRAORDARILY QUICKLY. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGG AT THE OUTSET THAT THERE IS STILL MUCH MORE TO BE ACPLISHED, OUR OUTER AND NER LIV HAVE TRANSFORMED. WE ARE STANDG OUR THENTIC POWER MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. AND AGA, THERE’S MUCH MORE TO E, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD.WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE, LGBT-WISE, THE NEXT 50 YEARS?IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PLETE EQUALY THE LAW, BOTH DOMTILLY AND TERNATNALLY, AS WELL AS EQUALY THE WAY WE ARE REGARD AND TREATED BY OUR STRAIGHT FELLOWS AROUND THE WORLD. AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LGBTQ PEOPLE ALL FEEL THAT EEDOM, NOT ONLY AROUND BUT OUR OWN HEARTS AND MDS AS WELL—TO KNOW THAT WHO WE ARE HAS ALWAYS BEEN, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, HERENTLY AND ARGUABLY EQUAL. TIM TEEMAN

I lacked a re group of gay iends and a gay bar or club we uld ll "our own. " The show ma me feel like I had eher missed out on somethg excg or lost the opportuny to live the life of a ee and nnected gay man.

It took me back to a perd when I was young, dancg and yearng to be a ee gay man.

At the same time, I realized that I had mised my gay youth by not beg more open to havg a work of LGBTQ+ iends. Beg gay my 20s was jt a seri of one-night stands. Gay men were not iends, jt sex partners.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROBERT GANT – AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WHO N NVCGLY PLAY STRAIGHT!

My path to gay eedom was pretty show took me back to 1994 when, after movg to Manhattan, I met someone while I was attendg actg school.

I uld barely handle beg gay, so how uld I, all honty, handle what was nsired a ath sentence at that time? Was Gant a ltle apprehensive about playg a gay character while he was still the closet? "Obvly, I thk and hope that we have changed, and that havg that ponent a relatnship is not such a big al, sce most well rmed gay men get the ia of the impact of meds and the new realy of beg untectable, " Gant surmised.

NEVER BEEN MARRIED, OPENLY GAY ACTOR, ROBERT GANT, ADVOCY ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: DATG RERD ONCE?

In 1999, Harrison land his first televisn actg gig, takg on the ma character of 17-year-old Jt Taylor, who is disowned by his parents after g out as gay. He quickly fds a new fay a group of gay men after fallg for Brian Kney.