Big gay followg: Pl Rudd: he's been the object of our affectn sce his breakthrough role Cluels. Now, as the Friend -law and 40-Year-Old Virg veteran tak the lead two high-profile romantic edi, Pl Rudd prov he's still a total Baldw. - Free Onle Library

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• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: PL RUDD: HE'S BEEN THE OBJECT OF OUR AFFECTN SCE HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROLE CLUELS. NOW, AS THE FRIEND -LAW AND 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG VETERAN TAK THE LEAD TWO HIGH-PROFILE ROMANTIC EDI, PL RUDD PROV HE'S STILL A TOTAL BALDW.
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: PATRICK DEMPSEY
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: SETH MACFARLANE
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: JON HAMM
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: DAVID DUCHOVNY
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: DIANE LANE
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: ANNA FARIS
• THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW
• THE BIG GAY
• DENIS LEARY: BIG GAY FOLLOWG
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG:.
• KYLE CHANDLER: BIG GAY FOLLOWG
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: NEW FEATURE: .
• BIG GAY
• BIG GAY FOLLOWING
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: PL RUDD: HE'S BEEN THE OBJECT OF OUR AFFECTN SCE HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROLE CLUELS. NOW, AS THE FRIEND -LAW AND 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG VETERAN TAK THE LEAD TWO HIGH-PROFILE ROMANTIC EDI, PL RUDD PROV HE'S STILL A TOTAL BALDW.

Do you thk your relatnship wh Jennifer Aniston's character the Object of My Affectn may have given gay men's straight girliends a b too much false hope?

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: PATRICK DEMPSEY

That was my favore part the movie, bee I thought was so ol that there was this really ol character who was pletely to all the Rat Pack--type stuff and is gay, but wasn't really a big thg.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG

But yeah, somebody told me that they were very offend by and even put me the tegory of Pat know I know you're gay? It's somehow ftg that his new weddg-themed romantic edy is tled Ma of Honor, bee durg a heated argument on the set of ABC's h seri Grey's Anatomy 2006, Goln Globe-nomated star Patrick Dempsey reportedly fend his gay star T.

" That scuffle, which won Dempsey the hearts of gay men everywhere, was an off-lims topic for our terview, but the McDreamy 42-year-old Versace mol did say "I do" when I popped the qutns about his feme si and why -- at least when to People's Sexit Man Alive -- he's always a brismaid, never a Advote: Tweakg the plot of My Bt Friend's Weddg, your character Ma of Honor acts as his bt girliend's Maid of Honor so that he n sabotage her weddg. Everyone around him knew, and then when he fally me to terms wh and said, "Yeah, I'm gay, " we were like, "Fally! I'm very happy to be the age that I am, so to go back and see those scen was a ltle character often gets mistaken for gay, which also happens to your character 1989's Loverboy.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: SETH MACFARLANE

Dog theater, the gay muny was always credibly kd to me -- never aggrsive or predatory, always supportive and nurturg. It actually tght me a lot and helped me the long n, bee then I stopped worryg about what people thought of you been aware of your gay followg sce your breakout succs 1987's Can't Buy Me Love? Oppose another straight actor, Eric McCormack, was challengg to make a gay romance appear believable?

The suatn reveals that you're gay; you don't have to play gay to be a Versace mol, not to mentn all the shirtls scen you have Ma of Honor, do you feel prsure to nstantly h the gym?

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: JON HAMM

He's not "fay, " but Emmy-wng Fay Guy and Amerin Dad creator Seth MacFarlane nsistently packs his irreverent animated ss wh queer gags and subplots, even votg entire episos to hot-button gay issu such as marriage and adoptn rights.

Wh his sexy barone (siar to Fay Guy's alholic dog Brian, jt one of the many lorful characters he voic himself), the 34-year-old voted Democrat drew to discs what mak homosexualy so damn funny, and -- step asi, Dumbledore -- out one of his most popular characters as "almost certaly gay. "The Advote: I hope you're prepared for my very gay le of MacFarlane: I spent half the holidays wh my gay , so I thk I'm good to did your rm your views on homosexualy?

We went to see him a show when he was high school or llege, and I remember my parents talkg about the fact that he might be gay and jt don't know yet. Wh certa parts of our fay, was taken for granted -- "Oh, he's gay" -- and we didn't thk any more of . I certaly remember hearg stunts e the word "fag" and whatnot, but didn't really register wh me jt bee I hadn't been directly exposed to any openly gay people yet.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: DAVID DUCHOVNY

But then when I was, was nice to fd out that my bra was already set up the right way, so I didn't give a you ever mistaken for gay, perhaps due part to your longtime love of mil theater? Hot chicks love gay spired Fay Guy's season 4 gay marriage episo "You May Now Kiss Who Receiv, " which Brian's flamboyant Jasper viss wh his Filipo boyiend? I'm credibly passnate about my support for the gay muny and what they're alg wh at this current pot time.

Acrdg to DVD mentary, [your "standards and practic" legal partment] had you say that an antigay propaganda vio shown the episo was ma by "Pat Robertson Indtri" to ensure that Fox wouldn't be lled homophobic.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: DIANE LANE

I was surprised that we were forced to add that Pat Robertson thg, bee you had this unbelievably radil antigay film -- obvly was somethg we were makg fun of. But there are some bs that we do on Fay Guy and Amerin Dad that are jt pure edy which I hope are not fluencg character do gay fans rpond to the most?

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: ANNA FARIS

We all feel that Stewie is almost certaly gay, and he's the procs of figurg out for himself.

THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW

We haven't ever really locked to bee we get a lot of good jok om both sis, but we treat him oftentim as if we were wrg a gay odd how much people re about this rtoon baby's sexualy?

We've had letters om homophobic fans the past, and I sort of relish the ia of sayg, "Yeah, well, you know what?

There are obvly many different typ of gay personali, but what's funny to me is when a gay character exprs mischievo guilt about somethg which there are no stak, like, "Ew, I'm gog to watch one more episo of Sex and the Cy -- don't tell anybody! " We didn't end up dog this wh Greg and Terry bee we thought they would be funnier takg the form that they do, but I'm always amed when there's a gay uple and one is clearly the hband and one is clearly the wife.

THE BIG GAY

But there's so many more, and I'm sure we'll disver some new on as we go Fay Guy's gay marriage episo tle to Greg and Terry's "pcher" and "tcher" license plat, there also seems to be a fascatn wh the ia of tops vers bottoms.

Unfortunately, gay groups haven't always gotten the joke, like the ntroversial 2005 Fay Guy b which Peter's barbershop quartet rms a man that he has "full-blown AIDS.

" On top of that, wh most of the gags where seems like we're takg a potshot at black people, Asian people, Jewish people, or gay people, the joke is that Peter is an idt. We thought, A barbershop quartet might be you have gays on staff wh whom to nsult on gay ntent? One of our broadst standards people -- the censors -- is gay, and I've had many, many nversatns wh him about a lot of the issu, makg sure that we're handlg the right way.

DENIS LEARY: BIG GAY FOLLOWG

We have a few artists who are gay, and actually two of our executive producers are gay -- I wonr if I'm allowed to say that the prs.

[Lghs] For the first three seasons of Fay Guy we had a gay wrer who was really stmental buildg the relatnship between Brian and Stewie that we kd of take for granted now.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG:.

That's somethg I didn't really thk of when I created the show, but emerged the wrers' room, particularly out of the pen of this one wrer who really had a knack for those characters and opened the door for to explore that facet of Stewie's Amerin Dad's season 2 Log Cab Republins episo "Lln Lover, " Stan mak a statement that "Gays are the new blacks.

It jt burns my your recent donatn to Barack Obama's mpaign have anythg to do wh his stance on gay issu?

I take the Bill Maher pot of view: Give me the guy who n change his md when prented wh new the gay world, flip-floppg is nsired a posive. [Lghs] Well, there ya do you feel about the young straight muny's valier e of the word "gay" to scribe stupidy or weakns? The people at the top of the fancial food cha have to give up a ltle b -- and by a ltle b I mean a ltle n we expect om the as yet unschled episo tled "Fay Gay"?

KYLE CHANDLER: BIG GAY FOLLOWG

That has to do wh Peter beg jected wh the gay gene as part of a scientific experiment to terme whether or not 's a learned tra or somethg that you're born wh. Basilly, Peter's a gay relatnship for an episo and wds up one of those straight you explibly woke up gay tomorrow, what would be your first orr of bs?

I would seek out Jt Timberlake and get him to adm a hoe party full of Ameri's gay celebri lerally burst to flam, which one would you n to save first? Here, the 37-year-old former prep school drama teacher explas why he's jt mad about men like star Bryan Batt, Massachetts ngrsman Barney Frank, and pecially Keanu Advote: I hear you've had a long day of back-to-back terviews, but hopefully this will be your gayt one Hamm: I don't know.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: NEW FEATURE: .

Fortunately we live a world now where you n get on mand or on iTun or on DVD, so the snowball effect happened, and I uldn't be would you create a Mad Men ad mpaign geared specifilly to the gay muny? We're a prime property for a big gay followg--I love 're an easy sell, Jon -- jt show some sk. As a gay man, Bryan do a wonrful job wh , but I'd take that part a heartbeat -- gay, straight, or would happen if Salvatore me out?

When you were on The Divisn om 2002 to 2004, were you aware that the Lifetime work was televisn for women and gay men?

I much prefer playg a game or anythg that tak your md off of the fact that you're workg you ever played a gay role?

BIG GAY

Talk about the swgg years -- the Weimar Republic back Berl the '30s, which gets back to my pot that wh sexualy 's not one or the are you chg to play a gay role on-screen?

Gay, straight, or different, don't matter -- there's enough drama on the page that you don't need to brg more to your upbrgg anythg like Judy Garland's Meet Me St. Durg one of the star's classic gut appearanc as himself on The Larry Sanrs Show, Larry's gay assistant timat his iends' opn of David Duchovny: "A third thk he's gay, a third thk he's bi, and the rt don't re -- they jt want to kiss him anyways. But how do the 47-year-old father of two and star of Showtime's Californitn really feel about gay mors, male nudy, and queer extraterrtrials?

BIG GAY FOLLOWING

I heard the Martian Stonewall was a big event -- changed thgs you read any of the erotic gay fan fictn volvg Fox Mulr and his X-Fil nemis Alex Krycek? I never read , but Nick Lea, who played Krycek, showed me this webse wh head-replacement pictur of him and me var homosexual acts, lookg at each other adorgly. We enjoyed Californitn your womanizg novelist character, Hank, liv Los Angel and works the entertament dtry, yet there are no gay characters.

That is que unrealistic, and I hope to addrs that the near future, and I apologize to my big gay followg. It's funny bee when we were stg the pilot, and even when we shot the pilot -- though we never told the actor -- the ia was always that Evan Handler's character, my agent, was gay.

Actually, he beme more of a player than my sure would've spiced up the threome Hank had wh his, that would've ma the squirtg more says he ed to live New York's Wt Village "amongst the gays, " so I'd be surprised if he's never jumped the, Hank is a very passive sexual partner.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG

"You're currently shootg the send season, so I assume you're full "I'm nstantly jt my unrwear on-screen" workout, I'm very much like a gay man right now. A iend of me ed to say that he uld never be gay bee he uld never get to that kd of you gog the Full Monty this season?

I said, "Why don't I have a csh on you, but I'm not gay, and 's funny bee don't bother me -- I jt say . I grew up the East Village and lived amongst the gays, so that kd of sh happens, and 's no big you ever been annoyed by gay mors about yourself?