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- NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
- RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN
- ROB WILLIAMS: 'I'M NOT GAY'
- 4 WAYS ROB WILLIAMS CHANGED THE WAY WE THK ABOUT FEMISM AND GAY RIGHTS
- ROB WILLIAMS QUTNS GAY MOURS
- ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
- 25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
- ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’
- NATHAN LANE RELLS HOW ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED’ HIM OM G OUT AS GAY ON OPRAH WEY’S SHOW
- THE LATE ROBIN WILLIAMS WAS A GAY ALLY
- NATHAN LANE RELLS HOW ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED’ HIM OM G OUT AS GAY ON OPRAH WEY’S SHOW
NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
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Nathan Lane revealed on “Sunday Today” that Rob Williams once protected him om g out as gay agast his will on natnal televisn. The year was 1996 and Lane and Williams were on their prs tour for Mike Nichols’ “The Birdge, ” which they play a gay uple tryg to marry off their son to a nservative uple’s dghter. Lane was nervo about dog an terview on “The Oprah Wey Show” as “The Birdge” was one of his first major film rol, and he did not want to e out publicly as gay at the time.
“And I certaly wasn’t ready to go om table-to-table and tell them all I was gay.
Of urse, Lane knew that playg a gay character the film would make discsg his sexualy real life “sort of unavoidable, ” but he still wasn’t ready to do so. I’m not prepared to discs that I’m gay on natnal televisn. “Now you have to make a public statement about — I was terrified… It’s great that everyone now feels fortable but homophobia is alive and well and there are plenty of gay people who are still hidg.
RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN
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While he nied mours about beg gay, he had no qualms about discsg the sexualy of his pet pug. He said: “I also have a gay rcue pug lled Leonard. Williams worked alongsi out gay actor Harvey Fierste, who played Daniel Hillard’s brother and make-up artist Frank.
ROB WILLIAMS: 'I'M NOT GAY'
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Playg the openly gay and Jewish owner of a drag baret, he nonted the issu of homophobia far before mastream media ught on.
He said: “If I n e my celebry stat to draw people to a movie theatre to see me perform as an admirable gay man and thereby make them a ltle most posive about gay people, why wouldn’t I do ? The Birdge follows a gay uple, whose son is marryg the dghter of an ultra-nservative Republin US senator. Their out gay hoekeeper, Agador, tak on the persona of Spartac, a Greek straight manservant.
Wily released July 2015, Williams stars as Nolan Mack, a suburban 60-year-old banker g to terms wh his homosexualy. He said: “[It’s] a guy who falls love wh a gay prostute, basilly out.
4 WAYS ROB WILLIAMS CHANGED THE WAY WE THK ABOUT FEMISM AND GAY RIGHTS
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In the movie The Birdge, Williams portrayed the gay dad alg wh a hetero son, as well as the owner of a drag baret and same-sex lover of s star drag queen performer.
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ROB WILLIAMS QUTNS GAY MOURS
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” In the hilar film, straight Daniel Hillard enlists his gay brother Frank (played by openly gay Harvey Fierste), a makp artist, and Frank’s partner Jack to transform him to Mrs.
ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
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Later, Williams did an terview 1992, after beg nsired for a movie role as openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and was asked whether he might be unfortable playg a gay character. “I grew up San Francis; I grew up around gay people, ” he replied.
25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
While this is certaly not the first time Williams played gay on screen, 's certaly the most disturbg.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’
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NATHAN LANE RELLS HOW ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED’ HIM OM G OUT AS GAY ON OPRAH WEY’S SHOW
"Williams sists he has never even nsired havg a homosexual enunter - even durg his dg-fuelled heyday, when bisexualy was all the rage. Boulevard (2014), which he played a closeted gay man who beiends a male prostute, was released after his ath.
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THE LATE ROBIN WILLIAMS WAS A GAY ALLY
He also played gay baret owner Armand Goldman the 1996 film The Birdge. "If I n e my celebry stat to draw people to a movie theater to see me perform as an admirable gay man and thereby make them a ltle most posive about gay people, why wouldn't I do ?
NATHAN LANE RELLS HOW ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED’ HIM OM G OUT AS GAY ON OPRAH WEY’S SHOW
Hollywood star Rob Williams has sisted he isn’t gay spe several men claimg to have slept wh him. The actor said he would like to meet the people who say he is gay bee is a part of his life which he nnot remember. He told GQ magaze he has never nsired gay enunters, “There are many webs that’ll go, ‘Oh, he’s gay, I know he’s gay.
’ Even our chef, who’s gay, was at a gay ski lodge, and some guy me up to him and said, ‘Rob Williams is gay. In Boulevard, Williams played Nolan Mack, a married man stuck a t wh wife Joy (Kathy Baker), who realiz he’s gay and seeks the pany of a male prostute as he stggl to e to terms wh his own sexualy. “[Boulevard]’s a very betiful and sad movie about this guy who falls love wh a gay prostute, basilly out.