January 29, 2023 We see a ee and liberal Hollywood today where many gay actors, cludg the old actors as well as the new generatn of actors, are openly
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TOP 51 BT GAY ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD OF ALL TIME
* gay actors deceased *
Jam Bidgood, the filmmaker behd the unrground gay classic Pk Narciss, died January at age 88.Bidgood, who was also a photographer, drag performer, and fashn signer, died at his apartment New York Cy, acrdg to The Bay Area Reporter.Bidgood shot Pk Narciss over the urse of seven years, mostly his small Manhattan apartment; he was s wrer, director, and cematographer. It picted the fantasi of a young gay sex worker, played by Bobby Kendall, Bidgood’s roommate. In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn.
The e of ath was plitns of COVID-19.Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media,” the Tim not. Mass, a founr of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, lled Kantrowz “a te sage and champn.”He beme vice print of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups found the wake of the Stonewall rts, 1970. That was also the year he me to terms wh beg gay, acrdg to the Tim.
He helped found GLAAD, then known as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, 1985.He was a profsor the English partment at the Cy Universy of New York’s College of Staten Island om 1965 to 2006, and while there he created one of the first gay studi urs the natn. He promoted the work of Walt Whman and other gay wrers.In 1977 he published a memoir, Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay, which he chronicled the difficulti he and other gay people faced mid-century Ameri. He also scribed events the gay rights movement, cludg New York Cy’s first Pri march.
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Much later, 2009, he was grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pri Para.He was a ntemporary and iend of many fellow activists, cludg Vo Rso, thor of The Celluloid Closet. He appeared Vo, a 2011 documentary about Rso, and several other documentari about the LGBTQ+ muny, cludg Gay Sex the ’70s and After Stonewall.
He also was one of the first out gay guts on popular rad and TV talk shows, speakg to Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jsy Raphael, and more.Tribut are pourg . His legacy spir to ntue fightg for a future where the most margalized among are seen, heard, and protected.”“He was thoughtful, charmg, and like any good profsor (he was among the first to teach a urse gay lerature, 1973), a lifelong stunt and teacher,” former Whe Hoe staffer Jeremy L.
Leo Bersani, an amic theorist noted for wrg about gay inty durg the height of the AIDS crisis, died Febary at age 90.Bersani died at an assisted-livg facily Peoria, Ariz., The New York Tim reports. The e has not yet been termed, but Bersani had recently been hospalized for septicemia.In 1987 he published the say “Is the Rectum a Grave?” which he lambasted “the tenncy among some gay activists to rpond to AIDS by downplayg their sexualy and emphasizg the need to replite bourgeois heterosexualy,” the Tim reports.“Male homosexualy was not the mirror image of heterosexualy, he argued, but somethg radilly different, lackg many of the patriarchal equali that he said fed straight life,” the paper explas.“Far om apologizg for their promiscuy as a failure to mata a lovg relatnship, gay men should ceaselsly lament the practil necsy, now, of such relatns, should rist beg drawn to mimickg the unrelentg warfare between men and women,” Bersani wrote the say.In his 1995 book Homos, he criqued queer theory, sayg that by seeg gay inty as socially nstcted and performative, proponents of this theory ignored and unrmed the liberatg quali of beg gay.Bersani was a profsor at the Universy of California, Berkeley, for most of his reer.