Thgs Gay People Can't Do

Contents:

• GAY CAN’T PLAY: BREAKG GROUND PROFSNAL BASEBALL FEATURG BRYAN RUBY ’19
• THGS GAY PEOPLE CAN'T DO
• AM I GAY?
• WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
• LET’S SETTLE THIS: CAN STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL?
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
• THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

GAY CAN’T PLAY: BREAKG GROUND PROFSNAL BASEBALL FEATURG BRYAN RUBY ’19

Durg the 2021 baseball season, Bryan Ruby ’19 beme the only active profsnal baseball player to e out as gay, and his story was featured USA Today as well as 100+ media outlets around the world cludg CBS, Yahoo, Bleacher Report, and Teen Vogue. Bryan is returng to Vassar to share his spiratnal and upliftg story about how he was able to get a job profsnal sports and the societal, cultural, team, and reer implitns that fluenced his cisn to be openly gay baseball.

THGS GAY PEOPLE CAN'T DO

This is te, to a lser extent, wh gay actors: studs seem que reluctant to st openly gay actors as straight leadg men, yet they're happy to st straight men as gay characters. If you're stg the role of a gay, trans, disabled, whatever character and there happens to be a gay, disabled, etc., actor out there who's right for the part, okay, great.

From the op's article:[quote] Last month Darren Criss said he would no longer accept LGBT scripts bee he did not want to be "another straight boy takg a gay man's role" Anonymoreply 8January 8, 2019 5:28 PM. ) Also, we ALL know you cunts would've ripped to shreds had any remotely effemate actor played eher role, cryg about how Hollywood only sts stereotypil gays gay, but actg rol should go to the actors bt sued to the role terms of their *talent*, not their sexual orientatn (or disabily stat, or even natnal orig - should we ban Brs om playg Amerins as well?

I'm not gonna' get mad if a straight actor wants to dulge a ltle onscreen pickle tickle for a history has an out gay actor played a str8 role any major Hollywood productn, R26?

AM I GAY?

If you’re a gay actor and you n’t nvcgly play a straight character, then gus what, you’re a terrible is nothg imprsive seeg a disabled person play a disabled person, is more imprsive to see an able person portray a disabled person. "Out or not, don't change the fact that gay people have portrayed (and ntue to portray) all typ of rol - cludg leadg rol - portrayg sexuali that may (or may not) f their existg Anonymoreply 33January 9, 2019 6:09 PM.

R4: The problem wh gay rol will be solved if om time to time they will st an openly gay actor, and there are a lot, some very good, but no HW ref to st a gay actor a ma role (gay or straight).

If gay actors will get that type of role om time to time there won't be any urse i thk gays are probably the group that put ls prsure to that kd of reprentatn, i remember a thread here mentg about the adaptatn of Days whout end and most people thought would be great if they st Lus Hedg and Timothee Chalamet for the rol, so people is not that eager for gay actors gettg any proment gay roleAnyway, actg is pretendg to be someone you are not.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.

When Ezra Miller was st to play the flash he was openly "queer" but a relatnship wh a they st gay actors om time to time on proment gay rol there won't be any problem.

LET’S SETTLE THIS: CAN STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL?

I thk gays are not exactly the on who are more prsed on this, there were a discsn about the next adaptatn of Sebastian Barry's novel Days whout end and people here seemed to really prefer if they st Lus Hedg and Timothee Chalamet for the rol, so 's clear people don't thk every proment gay role mt be played by an openly gay is pretendg to be someone you are not.

I n't remember a sgle big stud gay film wh a gay actor the ma don't mean you don't work, there are a lot of gay actors workg whout problem, but on the film dtry a gay actor has a glass ceillg very difficult to overe.

And no openly gay actor wng an osr, nomatns, a good bunch, but no gay wner (and Ian McEllen is ten thoand tim better than Roberto Benigni)by Anonymoreply 41January 9, 2019 8:04 PM.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

And straight actors playg gay is not a problem when the actor is not an homophobe or he is so worried people thk he is gay that he needs to brg how much he lov his girliend after every uple of sentencby Anonymoreply 43January 9, 2019 8:31 PM.

The only place I've enuntered the pathetic attempt of artists to hi themselv is the hip hop muny where even gay rappers still play straight to their Anonymoreply 45January 9, 2019 9:13 PM. Gay mours put to rt, nobody is gog to bash you to play gay rol bee you are a member of the muny but for most people you are basilly straight bee they are only gog to see you wh girls.

And even if wh the years you fd a gay you really like (when your reer is well tablished) you n openly date him bee you "me out" long time no, nobody is gog to g out of the closet for this (i thk people will e of the closet bee 'll be ls problematic beg openly gay, specially if you have a prev reer on tv or theatre).

SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'

One thg is qu om playg a transexual role when you know that movie won't be a h on the box office and the backlash is not worthy and other very different playg a gay role. Lately there's a lot of terviews when the first thg you read is"the actor playg this gay role, who ntifi as straight" and that's annoyg as hellby Anonymoreply 50January 9, 2019 9:22 PM. [quote] But no, nobody is gog to g out of the closet for this (i thk people will e of the closet bee 'll be ls problematic beg openly gay, specially if you have a prev reer on tv or theatre).

THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

"Lately there's a lot of terviews when the first thg you read is"the actor playg this gay role, who ntifi as straight" and that's annoyg as hell "Have you actually read "intifi as straight" an entertament puff piece, or are you paraphrasg or misquotg?