Why Are So Many Gay Actors Still the Closet? – IndieWire

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF HOLLYWOOD IS ACTUALLY GAY?
• ALLEGEDLY CLOSETED GAY ACTOR SEEKS ADVICE ON COMG OUT ON REDD
• HOLLYWOOD’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: WHY SO MANY ACTRS CAN COME OUT, BUT YOUNG ACTORS STAY THE CLOSET
• SHANG-CHI'S SIMU LIU: PEDOPHILIA IS 'NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY'

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF HOLLYWOOD IS ACTUALLY GAY?

I'm a well known Amerin film actor and I'm a closeted homosexual. I also feel terribly guilty bee I know there are so many gay kids out there and I feel like by not g out, and not providg that public display of beg gay and beg succsful I'm lettg them down. I've told two gay actors who have e out bee I tsted they would keep to themselv, havg been the same posn.

I tted the water wh my agent, who basilly told me "Faggots don't make this town, " and then went on to basilly expla that he would never reprent a gay man bee the effort vers the money jt mak not worth to him. Also as a lot of you had poted out WH is the gay district of LA, we’re all straight so probs not the bt f for , do you guys have better suggtns for neighbours to stay wh good nightlife? I found a vio of the edian KAT Williams durg his stand up act exposg one of the hollywood parti talkg about how you’ll see famo men/celebri of hollywood havg gay sex wh the hollywood mansns.

Then i saw another claim by a man who i thk ed to work as secury for P Diddy claimg when he was workg at the hollywood parti he would lerally see some weird gay sh happeng wh celebri, the thg that he mentned was a man who was gettg a lap dance by a female who was leadg him on to a blowjob so when he sat and put his head back and looked back down they swched her wh a man who was givg him head and rerd the oral. I don’t have anythg agaisnt gay people wantg to have sex but i thk ’s really weird that after Kat williams openly talked about the parti on stage he was blackballed. A qutn for those who pla about Hollywood films beg "woke", n a mastream film have gay characters or a strong woman lead and not be "woke"?

ALLEGEDLY CLOSETED GAY ACTOR SEEKS ADVICE ON COMG OUT ON REDD

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HOLLYWOOD’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: WHY SO MANY ACTRS CAN COME OUT, BUT YOUNG ACTORS STAY THE CLOSET

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SHANG-CHI'S SIMU LIU: PEDOPHILIA IS 'NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY'

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