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• MARK RUFFALO REVEALS HIS INIAL CONCERNS OVER TAKG ON A GAY ROLE ‘THE NORMAL HEART’
• MARK RUFFALO WAS SCHOOLED BY ‘NORMAL HEART’S’ PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT
• MARK RUFFALO JT LEARNED ABOUT HIS GAY RELATNSHIP WH ROBERT DOWNEY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY CHRIS SPARGOAPRIL 17, 2013/5:03 PMBY CHRIS SPARGOAPRIL 17, 2013 / 5:03 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MARK RUFFALO JT LEARNED ABOUT HIS GAY RELATNSHIP WH ROBERT DOWNEY JR.","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-04-17T21:03:28.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-04-17T21:03:28.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CHRIS SPARGO","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_97053" ALIGN="ALIGNCENTER" WIDTH="500"] LOVE IS A BETIFUL THG.[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARK RUFFALO IS NOT A HUGE FAN OF THE INTER SEEMS, AND HAS NEVER REALLY GOOGLED HIMSELF, SO ONE REPORTER OM VULTURE TOOK THE CHANCE TO TRODUCE MR. RUFFALO TO "SCIENCE BROS" WHEN HE PICKED UP AN ACTIVISM AWARD AT THE ANNUAL RIVERKEEPER'S FISHERMEN'S BALL LAST NIGHT. "SCIENCE BROS" WHICH, FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT NOW, PICTS THE HOMOEROTIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN BCE BANNER (MARK RUFFALO) AND TONY STARK (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.). AND MARK LOVED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN FACT, HE LOVED SO MUCH HE ULDN'T STOP GIGGLG AND STARG AT THE PHOTOS (WE GOT THE ABOVE ONE OM HERE), TO THE POT WHERE HIS PUBLICIST GOT NCERNED. NOT SO MUCH BEE OF THE LGHG, BUT BEE SHE SAW HER CLIENT LOOKG AT HOMOEROTIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER ASKG MARK IF THOSE DRAWGS WERE OF HIM (AND PROBABLY EAKG OUT), HE TOLD HER; "Y! IT'S ME AND ROBERT! LOOK AT THIS! THERE'S THOANDS OF THEM! IT'S LLED THE SCIENCE BROS. THIS IS AWOME. I'VE NEVER HEARD OF . WHY HASN'T ANYONE TOLD ME ABOUT THAT?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE WENT ON TO SAY; "I ENDORSE 100 PERCENT. YOU KNOW WHAT IS? IT'S OPEN-SOURCE CREATIVY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A HOTTIE WH A SENSE OF HUMOR. IF ONLY HE WERE REALLY GAY...{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRILLIANT DOVE EXPERIMENT US SKETCH ARTIST TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

MARK RUFFALO REVEALS HIS INIAL CONCERNS OVER TAKG ON A GAY ROLE ‘THE NORMAL HEART’

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MARK RUFFALO WAS SCHOOLED BY ‘NORMAL HEART’S’ PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT

Pecially for gay teens who have no ia what we went through. He’d left the wrtlg program at his high school and swched to the drama partment for his senr year, actg plays and hangg out a muny that clud one openly gay choreographer.

“He was the only gay person that I thought I’d ever known my life, ” Ruffalo said wh a lgh. “And the only gay person that I thought lived Virgia Beach at the time. ’ And that’s when he said, ‘I’m gay, and I’m love wh you, and I’m aaid you’re not gonna be my iend anymore.

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As Ned Weeks Ryan Murphy‘s acclaimed HBO film of the Larry Kramer play “The Normal Heart, ” he rag at the forc — ernmental, societal and even wh the gay muny — that failed to speak up the early years of the AIDS epimic.

Kramer (and his fictnal alter ego) may not have been well-liked durg those years the ’80s when he simply refed to shut up, but he was also right: The guy who screamed the loust and the longt was the one who forced actn at a time when the print wouldn’t even utter the word “AIDS, ” much of society blamed and ostracized the victims, and actn meant ath to an entire generatn of gay men. “He was spised for what he was dog, even the gay muny, but he vented morn activism, ” said Ruffalo, who his personal life actively mpaigns agast ackg and for marriage equaly, among other .

There, the Wisns-born actor first beme aware of the plague sweepg the gay muny — and over and over, heard classmat at the Stella Adler Conservatory liver monologu om “The Normal Heart. ” (“The Normal Heart” tails the creatn of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, which Kramer -found but left when he felt was too passive, lnchg the more nontatnal ACT UP.