'Almost Love' Director Insisted Openly Gay Actors Play Lead Couple - Variety

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• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• WHY ‘ALMOST LOVE’ DIRECTOR MIKE DOYLE INSISTED OPENLY GAY ACTORS PLAY THE LEAD COUPLE
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• ROLAND EMMERICH ON ‘INPENNCE DAY 2’S’ GAY COUPLE: IT’S NOT “A BIG DEAL”
• DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE? WE ASKED THE FILMMAKERS
• ‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The long-anticipated third episo of The Last of Us troduced viewers to the gay love story between Bill (played by Nick Offerman) and Frank (played by Murray Bartlett).Durg an terview whInverse, episo three director Peter Hoar explaed how he liberately “tricked” viewers to watchg a gay love story whout necsarily makg that clear straight away.

I would fely argue that Bill don’t e across as a gay man.

It’s jt the same love.”Even though people who had played The Last of Us gam already knew of Bill’s gay love story, the TV adaptatn of the viogame seri is attractg a wir dience that isn’t necsarily aware of all the characters and storyl. If the TV adaptatn ntu to brg such high viewership numbers, there’s a very big chance that HBO will take the Game of Thron route and ntue to make seasons past the pot of havg enough source material.For now, though, viewers are jt exced to keep watchg The Last of Us and see where this first season ends.The Last of Us airs Sundays on HBO and HBO Max.From Your Se Articl'The Last of Us' Has an Entire Episo Foced on Its Gay Characters ›'The Last of Us' Bill & Frank Episo Is One of This De's Bt ›'The Last of Us' Bill & Frank Episo Is One of This De's Bt ›'The Last of Us' Bill & Frank Episo Is One of This De's Bt ›Gay Episo of 'The Last of Us' Has an Unaired 2-Hour Director's Cut ›Here's Who Convced Nick Offerman to Play Bill 'The Last of Us' ›The LGBTQ+ Celebs Who Got Engaged 2023 (So Far) ›. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

WHY ‘ALMOST LOVE’ DIRECTOR MIKE DOYLE INSISTED OPENLY GAY ACTORS PLAY THE LEAD COUPLE

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. " The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job.

Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp.

Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis. While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era. Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs.

OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician. Hayn' but feature "Poison" was even more ntroversial for s overt exploratn and pictns of homosexualy, but earned him two Film Inpennt Spir Award nomatns for bt director and bt first picture. The film stars his good iend and equent llaborator Julianne Moore as a 1950s suburban hoewife who learns her hband is gay and embarks on an affair wh her Black garner.

Guadagno is probably bt known for "Call Me By Your Name, " a gay love story that tak place durg an Italian summer the 1980s. His 1976 but feature, "Sebastiane, " was ntroversial for s overt pictns of homosexualy.

Outsi of his work, Jarman was a proment public figure Bra and advoted for gay rights durg the AIDS crisis.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

The die, which the openly gay Doyle also wrote, stars Stt Evans as a pater and Augt Prew as his boyiend who ns a famo fashn Instagram acunt.

ROLAND EMMERICH ON ‘INPENNCE DAY 2’S’ GAY COUPLE: IT’S NOT “A BIG DEAL”

Variety ught up wh Doyle and Evans earlier this week to talk about directg, sistg on havg openly gay actors play the lead uple and why Evans may be jumpg out of helipters an “Almost Love” sequel. SE: All of a sudn, the entertament dtry wants a kd of pat on the back for givg gay people gay rol, but all the gay rol are still kd of those rol that you don’t necsarily want to play all the time. It was seeg somethg that I totally related to and that I knew a lot of my iends related to, and a lot of people relate to whether you’re gay or you’re straight.

I wanted to create a iend circle wh a lead gay uple, but put them the ntext of three other upl to show what’s universal about beg a relatnship — the ups, the downs, and all the -betweens…I thk there have been amazg films about g out, about battlg adversy.

DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE? WE ASKED THE FILMMAKERS

I played an openly gay character on the show. MD: I sort of unofficially ma my missn to st two openly gay actors as my romantic leads.

MD: I thk there’ve been some movi of late that have gotten a lot of attentn, and the non-gay romantic leads playg gay are appld for their bravery, which jt driv me crazy. I’m not makg an edict that only gay people n play gay people, and straight people play straight people. This is the gay “Missn Impossible.

‘Tom Holland gay sex ma me google The Crowd Room real quick, ’ another trigued viewer shared. ‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene.

‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM

A gay uple om Geia charged wh moltg their two adopted sons and g them to rerd child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a lol pedophile rg, acrdg to a disturbg new report. “We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not, ” he told the L.

Both films picted gay relatnships.

Legacy gay favore “Queer as Folk, ” already rema once before the U.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Billy Eichner is headg up the first gay rom- om a major stud wh “Bros, ” “Heartstopper” is a tween smash on Netflix, and Jerrod Carmichael, one of the folks on our list of the 10 LGBTQ Film and TV Creators on the Rise 2022, me out on an HBO special. Jerrod Carmichael is on a hot streak followg his trospective HBO stand-up special “Rothaniel, ” which the ic not only me out as gay but also revealed his unual birthname to dienc.