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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• IAN MCKELLEN MA OSR HISTORY 1999—AND SHAMEFULLY, NO ONE ELSE HAS REPEATED ITA LOOK BACK AT GODS AND MONSTERS, TO THIS DAY, THE ONLY FILM TO EARN AN OSR NOMATN FOR AN OPENLY GAY MALE ACTOR. BY KATEY RICHJUNE 22, 2023© LNS GATE/EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIAN MCKELLEN HOLDS TWO SURPRISG AND, QUE HONTLY, SHAMEFUL OSR RERDS. IN 1999, HE BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACTOR TO EVER BE NOMATED FOR AN OSR, NOMATED AS BT ACTOR FOR HIS CHARISMATIC, HEARTBREAKG TURN THE DIE GODS AND MONSTERS. IN 2002, HE WAS NOMATED AGA FOR THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RG, MAKG HIM ALSO THE LAST OPENLY GAY ACTOR TO BE NOMATED. A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWBILL CONDON, WHO IS ALSO GAY, WON THE BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY OSR FOR GODS AND MONSTERS, A FICTNALIZED TAKE ON THE FAL DAYS OF JAM WHALE, THE DIRECTOR OF THE ORIGAL FRANKENSTE AND A FIXTURE THE GAY SOCIAL CIRCL OF EARLY HOLLYWOOD. BY THE TIME MCKELLEN SIGNED ON TO PLAY WHALE, HE WAS A LEGENDARY SHAKPEAREAN ACTOR AND TONY WNER, HAVG PLAYED ANTON SALIERI THE BROADWAY PREMIERE OF AMA. BUT HE WAS NOT YET THE POP CULTURE IN “SIR IAN,” STILL A FEW YEARS AWAY OM PLAYG MAGO AND THEN GANDALF. BUT FOR A PRODUCTN AS TY AS GODS AND MONSTERS, HIS PARTICIPATN MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE, CONDON SAID AT THE TIME. “HE WAS ENOUGH TO BE A MAG FOR THE OTHER ACTORS,” CONDON TOLD INDIEWIRE. “IF IAN MCKELLEN’S AGREED TO DO , WHO IS SOMEBODY ELSE TO SAY…. AND THERE WAS SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO WORK WH HIM. SO, YEAH, HE WAS THE BIGGT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.”EVENTUALLY, LYNN REDGRAVE, ANOTHER BRISH THEATER LEGEND, WOULD SIGN ON TO PLAY WHALE’S VOTED HOEKEEPER HANNA, WHILE BRENDAN FRASER, PUTTG HIS DOPEY HUNK REPUTATN TOWARD SOMETHG TOTALLY DIFFERENT, WOULD PLAY CLAYTON BOONE, WHALE’S GARNER WHO BE HIS IEND. IT’S A TY FILM THAT PRENTS THE ILLN OF SOMETHG BIGGER, WH LAVISH FLASHBACKS TO WHALE’S TIME ON THE SET OF FRANKENSTE, AND HIS MEMORI OF THE TRENCH OF WORLD WAR I TERSPERSED BETWEEN LONG NVERSATNS BETWEEN WHALE AND BOONE. “IT WAS THAT EARLY MERCHANT IVORY TRICK THAT YOAVE ALL YOUR MONEY FOR ONE OR TWO SCEN,” CONDON EXPLAED, WHILE ADMTG THE TIGHT BUDGET DIDN’T ALWAYS SERVE HIS STAR. “I DO FEEL AS THOUGH IAN SERVED TO ALWAYS HAVE THAT EXTRA TAKE […] BUT OFTEN, WE DIDN’T GET TO DO THAT. THAT WAS VERY TRATG, PAFUL THAT WAY, TO KNOW HE’S EARNED AND SERV THAT AND ACTUALLY HAVE TO SAY WE N’T.”STILL, GODS AND MONSTERS WAS A CRIL H WHEN PREMIERED AT SUNDANCE EARLY 1998 AND, SPE SOME HATN OM WOULD-BE BUYERS—“ALL OF THEM ED THE SAME WORD THAT THEY THOUGHT WOULD BE A DIFFICULT SALE,” CONDON SAID— WAS PICKED UP BY THE NASCENT LNSGATE, WHICH ALSO RELEASED THE OSR-WNG AFFLICTN THE SAME YEAR. THE 1998 OSR RACE, HOWEVER, REMAS BT REMEMBERED FOR THE CLASH OF THE TANS BETWEEN DREAMWORKS—REPRENTG MEGA-H SAVG PRIVATE RYAN—AND MIRAMAX, WHICH EARNED THEIR REPUTATN FOR STRONG-ARMG OSR TACTICS WH THEIR SUCCSFUL LAST-MUTE PH FOR SHAKPEARE LOVE. MCKELLEN WOUND UP LOSG BT ACTOR TO ANOTHER MIRAMAX RELEASE, LIFE IS BETIFUL, DIRECTED BY AND STARRG THE BARNSTORMG ROBERTO BENIGNI. BUT HE DIDN’T FET WHAT HE WOULD HAVE SAID IF HE’D WON. ON OSR NIGHT 2002, AS CONDON TOLD VANY FAIR’S DAVID CANFIELD LAST YEAR, MCKELLEN BROUGHT HIS WOULD-BE GODS AND MONSTERS VICTORY SPEECH WHICH HE DITED HIS HISTORIC TRIUMPH TO OTHER YOUNG GAY ACTORS WHO MIGHT NOW FEEL MORE WELED BY THE DTRY. DURG A MERCIAL BREAK THE TELEST, MCKELLEN STOOD UP AND READ HIS SPEECH OM THE ONT ROW ANYWAY. “I’LL NEVER FET ,” CONDON, WHO WAS STG RIGHT THERE, REMEMBERS. “IT WAS ABOUT ALL THE WARNGS HE RECEIVED WHEN HE WAS CIDG TO E OUT, ALL THE THGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN.”WOULD HOLLYWOOD HISTORY BE DIFFERENT HAD MCKELLEN BROKEN THAT BOUNDARY THAT NIGHT? PROBABLY NOT, AS WE DISCS ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST. OSR HISTORY, AFTER ALL, IS LTERED WH HISTORIC VICTORI THAT YIELD NO STCTURAL CHANG THE DTRY. IN 2016, AS #OSRSSOWHE PHED THE AMY TOWARD MEANGFUL CHANGE AT LONG LAST, MCKELLEN WAS STILL REFLECTG ON HIS ODD HISTORY: “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)KATEY RICH
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS
• A GROUNDBREAKG QUEER OSR WNER AND ITS VERY, VERY COMPLITED LEGACYIN 1986 WILLIAM HURT BEME THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER. DID HE START ONE OF THE OSRS’ WORST TRENDS? BY KATEY RICHJUNE 8, 2023FROM ISLAND ALIVE PICTUR / EVERETT COLLECTNSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S HARD TO TELL IF WILLIAM HURT FELT THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY WHEN HE TOOK THE OSR STAGE. AT THE BEGNG OF A STRG OF HS THAT WOULD MAKE HIM ONE OF THE FIVE STARS OF THE ’80S, HE WON THE BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE  KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, AN UNLIKELY DIE H. IT MA HIM THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER, TABLISHG A TEMPLATE THAT HAS NOW BEE SOMETHG OF A CLICHé: STRAIGHT ACTOR PLAYS GAY, WS OSR. A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWBUT 1986—THE SAME YEAR THAT RONALD REAGAN DARED TO SAY AIDS FOR THE FIRST TIME—KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN WAS A UNIQUE PHENOMENON, AND HURT’S PERFORMANCE A E FOR GENUE CELEBRATN. “A [GAY] AND A MIE A JAIL CELL, WHAT A MARKETG NIGHTMARE” IS HOW PRODUCER DAVID WEISMAN FACETLY SCRIBED THE FILM’S PREMISE, ADAPTED OM ARGENTEAN THOR MANUEL PUIG’S NOVEL BY UP-AND-G BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR HéCTOR BABEN. WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE 2010, AHEAD OF THE FILM’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL, THAT “ WAS A PROJECT SIGNED TO EVERYONE’S REER.” WEISMAN AND BABEN SPENT YEARS GETTG THE FILM OFF THE GROUND, CLUDG A LONG PERD OF VELOPMENT WH ’50S AND ’60S IN BURT LANSTER. EVENTUALLY THEY WENT TO PRODUCTN WH HURT AS MOLA, A GAY MAN IMPRISONED ALONGSI LEFTIST REVOLUTNARY VALENTíN, PLAYED BY RL JULIA. THE FILM IS LARGELY A SERI OF NVERSATNS BETWEEN THE TWO, TERSPERSED WH CLIPS OM A FICTNAL NAZI PROPAGANDA MOVIE, WHICH MOLA RETELLS TO VALENTíN AS A WAY TO PASS THE TIME AND PE SOMEWHERE ELSE. AS JA MASL WROTE HER RAVE REVIEW, “WHAT STARTS OUT AS A MPY, FACET TALOGUE OF HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA BE AN EXTRAORDARILY MOVG FILM ABOUT MANHOOD, HEROISM AND LOVE.”THE DIE FILM WORLD WAS A PERD OF TRANSFORMATN THE MID-1980S, WH THE EXPLODG HOME VIO MARKET SPURRG MAND FOR ALMOST ANYTHG THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SO UPSTART DISTRIBUTOR ISLAND ALIVE PICKED UP SPIR WOMAN AT CANN, WHERE HURT WON THE BT-ACTOR AWARD, AND RELEASED FOR AN EXCEPTNAL BOX OFFICE N THE SUMMER OF 1985, EVENTUALLY GROSSG $17 LN. (FOR NTEXT, THAT’S HOW MUCH THE WHALE AND THE FABELMANS HAVE MA DOMTILLY, WHOUT ADJTG FOR FLATN.) YEARS BEFORE MIRAMAX WOULD PERMANENTLY OPEN THE DOOR FOR DIE FILMS AT THE OSRS, SPIR WOMAN WAS THE UPSTART THE 1986 RACE, NOMATED FOR BT PICTURE ALONGSI MASSIVE STUD EFFORTS LIKE OUT OF AI AND THE COLOR PURPLE. HURT’S SPEECH, WHICH REX REED SNIPED WAS “MERCIFULLY” SHORTER THAN SOME OF THE MORE LONG-WD TERVIEWS HE’D GIVEN THAT SEASON, BEGAN WH A SIMPLE SENTENCE: “I SHARE THIS WH RL.” JULIA, WHO, LIKE HURT, HAD GOTTEN HIS START NEW YORK THEATER, SHARED A BT-ACTOR AWARD WH HIS STAR OM THE NATNAL BOARD OF REVIEW AND A GOLN GLOBE NOMATN, BUT WAS LEFT OUT AT THE OSRS. BUT HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE THE BIGGT REVELATN TO A MORN DIENCE. SIMMERG WH RAGE AND TRATN AS VALENTíN WATCH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS LEFTIST MOVEMENT BROUGHT TO THE PRISON, JULIA REFULLY TRACKS VALENTíN’S GRADUAL SOFTENG, NOT JT WILLG TO PE TO MOLA’S STORYTELLG BUT FD FORT—AND MAYBE A SPARK OF ROMANCE— HIS CELLMATE’S PRENCE. AND FOR MORN VIEWERS BRACG FOR IMPACT WATCHG HURT—WHOSE REPUTATN FOR TENSY AND DAMAGG BEHAVR ONLY GREW MORE PRONOUNCED AFTER THIS—HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE A SURPRISE AS WELL. MOLA IS A FLAMBOYANT CHARACTER, SPIRED BY THE ’40S SCREEN SIRENS WHOSE PHOTOS ARE PASTED ON HIS WALL, A MAN WHO SOMEHOW HAS A LLECTN OF SILK ROB SI A PRISON. YOU MIGHT FD, AS SOME OF THE HOSTS ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN DID, THAT HURT ERRS ON THE SI OF UNRPLAYG MOLA. BUT THERE’S A REASON THAT HIS PERFORMANCE SO PTIVATED DIENC AND OSR VOTERS; MOV PAST MOLA’S THEATRILY TO FD A MAN LOOKG FOR LOVE AND PURPOSE, AND RIGHT ON THE BRK OF FDG . IN AN ERA WH SO, SO LTLE QUEER REPRENTATN EVEN DIE FILMS, MOLA RONATED. AS WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE OF HURT’S PERFORMANCE, “IF HE AND THE FILM HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PULL OFF TO GAY DIENC, THEN WOULD HAVE CERTALY DIED.”ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST, CHRIS MURPHY JOS TO DISCS KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, WHICH MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT FILM TO SHOW A GROUP A FIRE ISLAND RENTAL HOE—WHICH IS WHAT CHRIS ACTUALLY DID!—BUT HAS SURPRIS STORE NEARLY 40 YEARS SCE S RELEASE. THE SUPERSIZE EPISO ALSO CLUS A NVERSATN WH CHRIS, RICHARD LAWSON, AND GUTS ESTHER ZUCKERMAN AND JACKSON MCHENRY TAKG A LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S TONY NOMATNS, AND MAKG THEIR PREDICTNS ABOUT WHO WILL PREVAIL AT SUNDAY’S AWARDS. LISTEN TO VANY FAIR’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST NOW.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)KATEY RICH

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U.

When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports. In 1999, he beme the first openly gay male actor to ever be nomated for an Osr, nomated as bt actor for his charismatic, heartbreakg turn the die Gods and Monsters. In 2002, he was nomated aga for The Lord of the Rgs: The Fellowship of the Rg, makg him also the last openly gay actor to be nomated.

IAN MCKELLEN MA OSR HISTORY 1999—AND SHAMEFULLY, NO ONE ELSE HAS REPEATED ITA LOOK BACK AT GODS AND MONSTERS, TO THIS DAY, THE ONLY FILM TO EARN AN OSR NOMATN FOR AN OPENLY GAY MALE ACTOR. BY KATEY RICHJUNE 22, 2023© LNS GATE/EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIAN MCKELLEN HOLDS TWO SURPRISG AND, QUE HONTLY, SHAMEFUL OSR RERDS. IN 1999, HE BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACTOR TO EVER BE NOMATED FOR AN OSR, NOMATED AS BT ACTOR FOR HIS CHARISMATIC, HEARTBREAKG TURN THE DIE GODS AND MONSTERS. IN 2002, HE WAS NOMATED AGA FOR THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RG, MAKG HIM ALSO THE LAST OPENLY GAY ACTOR TO BE NOMATED. A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWBILL CONDON, WHO IS ALSO GAY, WON THE BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY OSR FOR GODS AND MONSTERS, A FICTNALIZED TAKE ON THE FAL DAYS OF JAM WHALE, THE DIRECTOR OF THE ORIGAL FRANKENSTE AND A FIXTURE THE GAY SOCIAL CIRCL OF EARLY HOLLYWOOD. BY THE TIME MCKELLEN SIGNED ON TO PLAY WHALE, HE WAS A LEGENDARY SHAKPEAREAN ACTOR AND TONY WNER, HAVG PLAYED ANTON SALIERI THE BROADWAY PREMIERE OF AMA. BUT HE WAS NOT YET THE POP CULTURE IN “SIR IAN,” STILL A FEW YEARS AWAY OM PLAYG MAGO AND THEN GANDALF. BUT FOR A PRODUCTN AS TY AS GODS AND MONSTERS, HIS PARTICIPATN MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE, CONDON SAID AT THE TIME. “HE WAS ENOUGH TO BE A MAG FOR THE OTHER ACTORS,” CONDON TOLD INDIEWIRE. “IF IAN MCKELLEN’S AGREED TO DO , WHO IS SOMEBODY ELSE TO SAY…. AND THERE WAS SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO WORK WH HIM. SO, YEAH, HE WAS THE BIGGT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.”EVENTUALLY, LYNN REDGRAVE, ANOTHER BRISH THEATER LEGEND, WOULD SIGN ON TO PLAY WHALE’S VOTED HOEKEEPER HANNA, WHILE BRENDAN FRASER, PUTTG HIS DOPEY HUNK REPUTATN TOWARD SOMETHG TOTALLY DIFFERENT, WOULD PLAY CLAYTON BOONE, WHALE’S GARNER WHO BE HIS IEND. IT’S A TY FILM THAT PRENTS THE ILLN OF SOMETHG BIGGER, WH LAVISH FLASHBACKS TO WHALE’S TIME ON THE SET OF FRANKENSTE, AND HIS MEMORI OF THE TRENCH OF WORLD WAR I TERSPERSED BETWEEN LONG NVERSATNS BETWEEN WHALE AND BOONE. “IT WAS THAT EARLY MERCHANT IVORY TRICK THAT YOAVE ALL YOUR MONEY FOR ONE OR TWO SCEN,” CONDON EXPLAED, WHILE ADMTG THE TIGHT BUDGET DIDN’T ALWAYS SERVE HIS STAR. “I DO FEEL AS THOUGH IAN SERVED TO ALWAYS HAVE THAT EXTRA TAKE […] BUT OFTEN, WE DIDN’T GET TO DO THAT. THAT WAS VERY TRATG, PAFUL THAT WAY, TO KNOW HE’S EARNED AND SERV THAT AND ACTUALLY HAVE TO SAY WE N’T.”STILL, GODS AND MONSTERS WAS A CRIL H WHEN PREMIERED AT SUNDANCE EARLY 1998 AND, SPE SOME HATN OM WOULD-BE BUYERS—“ALL OF THEM ED THE SAME WORD THAT THEY THOUGHT WOULD BE A DIFFICULT SALE,” CONDON SAID— WAS PICKED UP BY THE NASCENT LNSGATE, WHICH ALSO RELEASED THE OSR-WNG AFFLICTN THE SAME YEAR. THE 1998 OSR RACE, HOWEVER, REMAS BT REMEMBERED FOR THE CLASH OF THE TANS BETWEEN DREAMWORKS—REPRENTG MEGA-H SAVG PRIVATE RYAN—AND MIRAMAX, WHICH EARNED THEIR REPUTATN FOR STRONG-ARMG OSR TACTICS WH THEIR SUCCSFUL LAST-MUTE PH FOR SHAKPEARE LOVE. MCKELLEN WOUND UP LOSG BT ACTOR TO ANOTHER MIRAMAX RELEASE, LIFE IS BETIFUL, DIRECTED BY AND STARRG THE BARNSTORMG ROBERTO BENIGNI. BUT HE DIDN’T FET WHAT HE WOULD HAVE SAID IF HE’D WON. ON OSR NIGHT 2002, AS CONDON TOLD VANY FAIR’S DAVID CANFIELD LAST YEAR, MCKELLEN BROUGHT HIS WOULD-BE GODS AND MONSTERS VICTORY SPEECH WHICH HE DITED HIS HISTORIC TRIUMPH TO OTHER YOUNG GAY ACTORS WHO MIGHT NOW FEEL MORE WELED BY THE DTRY. DURG A MERCIAL BREAK THE TELEST, MCKELLEN STOOD UP AND READ HIS SPEECH OM THE ONT ROW ANYWAY. “I’LL NEVER FET ,” CONDON, WHO WAS STG RIGHT THERE, REMEMBERS. “IT WAS ABOUT ALL THE WARNGS HE RECEIVED WHEN HE WAS CIDG TO E OUT, ALL THE THGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN.”WOULD HOLLYWOOD HISTORY BE DIFFERENT HAD MCKELLEN BROKEN THAT BOUNDARY THAT NIGHT? PROBABLY NOT, AS WE DISCS ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST. OSR HISTORY, AFTER ALL, IS LTERED WH HISTORIC VICTORI THAT YIELD NO STCTURAL CHANG THE DTRY. IN 2016, AS #OSRSSOWHE PHED THE AMY TOWARD MEANGFUL CHANGE AT LONG LAST, MCKELLEN WAS STILL REFLECTG ON HIS ODD HISTORY: “NO OPENLY GAY MAN HAS EVER WON THE OSR; I WONR IF THAT IS PREJUDICE OR CHANCE.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)KATEY RICH

Bill Condon, who is also gay, won the bt adapted screenplay Osr for Gods and Monsters, a fictnalized take on the fal days of Jam Whale, the director of the origal Frankenste and a fixture the gay social circl of early Hollywood.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

On Osr night 2002, as Condon told Vany Fair’s David Canfield last year, McKellen brought his would-be Gods and Monsters victory speech which he dited his historic triumph to other young gay actors who might now feel more weled by the dtry. In 2016, as #OsrsSoWhe phed the Amy toward meangful change at long last, McKellen was still reflectg on his odd history: “No openly gay man has ever won the Osr; I wonr if that is prejudice or chance. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

A GROUNDBREAKG QUEER OSR WNER AND ITS VERY, VERY COMPLITED LEGACYIN 1986 WILLIAM HURT BEME THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER. DID HE START ONE OF THE OSRS’ WORST TRENDS? BY KATEY RICHJUNE 8, 2023FROM ISLAND ALIVE PICTUR / EVERETT COLLECTNSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S HARD TO TELL IF WILLIAM HURT FELT THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY WHEN HE TOOK THE OSR STAGE. AT THE BEGNG OF A STRG OF HS THAT WOULD MAKE HIM ONE OF THE FIVE STARS OF THE ’80S, HE WON THE BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE  KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, AN UNLIKELY DIE H. IT MA HIM THE FIRST ACTOR TO W AN OSR FOR PLAYG AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER, TABLISHG A TEMPLATE THAT HAS NOW BEE SOMETHG OF A CLICHé: STRAIGHT ACTOR PLAYS GAY, WS OSR. A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWBUT 1986—THE SAME YEAR THAT RONALD REAGAN DARED TO SAY AIDS FOR THE FIRST TIME—KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN WAS A UNIQUE PHENOMENON, AND HURT’S PERFORMANCE A E FOR GENUE CELEBRATN. “A [GAY] AND A MIE A JAIL CELL, WHAT A MARKETG NIGHTMARE” IS HOW PRODUCER DAVID WEISMAN FACETLY SCRIBED THE FILM’S PREMISE, ADAPTED OM ARGENTEAN THOR MANUEL PUIG’S NOVEL BY UP-AND-G BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR HéCTOR BABEN. WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE 2010, AHEAD OF THE FILM’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL, THAT “ WAS A PROJECT SIGNED TO EVERYONE’S REER.” WEISMAN AND BABEN SPENT YEARS GETTG THE FILM OFF THE GROUND, CLUDG A LONG PERD OF VELOPMENT WH ’50S AND ’60S IN BURT LANSTER. EVENTUALLY THEY WENT TO PRODUCTN WH HURT AS MOLA, A GAY MAN IMPRISONED ALONGSI LEFTIST REVOLUTNARY VALENTíN, PLAYED BY RL JULIA. THE FILM IS LARGELY A SERI OF NVERSATNS BETWEEN THE TWO, TERSPERSED WH CLIPS OM A FICTNAL NAZI PROPAGANDA MOVIE, WHICH MOLA RETELLS TO VALENTíN AS A WAY TO PASS THE TIME AND PE SOMEWHERE ELSE. AS JA MASL WROTE HER RAVE REVIEW, “WHAT STARTS OUT AS A MPY, FACET TALOGUE OF HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA BE AN EXTRAORDARILY MOVG FILM ABOUT MANHOOD, HEROISM AND LOVE.”THE DIE FILM WORLD WAS A PERD OF TRANSFORMATN THE MID-1980S, WH THE EXPLODG HOME VIO MARKET SPURRG MAND FOR ALMOST ANYTHG THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SO UPSTART DISTRIBUTOR ISLAND ALIVE PICKED UP SPIR WOMAN AT CANN, WHERE HURT WON THE BT-ACTOR AWARD, AND RELEASED FOR AN EXCEPTNAL BOX OFFICE N THE SUMMER OF 1985, EVENTUALLY GROSSG $17 LN. (FOR NTEXT, THAT’S HOW MUCH THE WHALE AND THE FABELMANS HAVE MA DOMTILLY, WHOUT ADJTG FOR FLATN.) YEARS BEFORE MIRAMAX WOULD PERMANENTLY OPEN THE DOOR FOR DIE FILMS AT THE OSRS, SPIR WOMAN WAS THE UPSTART THE 1986 RACE, NOMATED FOR BT PICTURE ALONGSI MASSIVE STUD EFFORTS LIKE OUT OF AI AND THE COLOR PURPLE. HURT’S SPEECH, WHICH REX REED SNIPED WAS “MERCIFULLY” SHORTER THAN SOME OF THE MORE LONG-WD TERVIEWS HE’D GIVEN THAT SEASON, BEGAN WH A SIMPLE SENTENCE: “I SHARE THIS WH RL.” JULIA, WHO, LIKE HURT, HAD GOTTEN HIS START NEW YORK THEATER, SHARED A BT-ACTOR AWARD WH HIS STAR OM THE NATNAL BOARD OF REVIEW AND A GOLN GLOBE NOMATN, BUT WAS LEFT OUT AT THE OSRS. BUT HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE THE BIGGT REVELATN TO A MORN DIENCE. SIMMERG WH RAGE AND TRATN AS VALENTíN WATCH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS LEFTIST MOVEMENT BROUGHT TO THE PRISON, JULIA REFULLY TRACKS VALENTíN’S GRADUAL SOFTENG, NOT JT WILLG TO PE TO MOLA’S STORYTELLG BUT FD FORT—AND MAYBE A SPARK OF ROMANCE— HIS CELLMATE’S PRENCE. AND FOR MORN VIEWERS BRACG FOR IMPACT WATCHG HURT—WHOSE REPUTATN FOR TENSY AND DAMAGG BEHAVR ONLY GREW MORE PRONOUNCED AFTER THIS—HIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE A SURPRISE AS WELL. MOLA IS A FLAMBOYANT CHARACTER, SPIRED BY THE ’40S SCREEN SIRENS WHOSE PHOTOS ARE PASTED ON HIS WALL, A MAN WHO SOMEHOW HAS A LLECTN OF SILK ROB SI A PRISON. YOU MIGHT FD, AS SOME OF THE HOSTS ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN DID, THAT HURT ERRS ON THE SI OF UNRPLAYG MOLA. BUT THERE’S A REASON THAT HIS PERFORMANCE SO PTIVATED DIENC AND OSR VOTERS; MOV PAST MOLA’S THEATRILY TO FD A MAN LOOKG FOR LOVE AND PURPOSE, AND RIGHT ON THE BRK OF FDG . IN AN ERA WH SO, SO LTLE QUEER REPRENTATN EVEN DIE FILMS, MOLA RONATED. AS WEISMAN TOLD INDIEWIRE OF HURT’S PERFORMANCE, “IF HE AND THE FILM HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PULL OFF TO GAY DIENC, THEN WOULD HAVE CERTALY DIED.”ON THIS WEEK’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST, CHRIS MURPHY JOS TO DISCS KISS OF THE SPIR WOMAN, WHICH MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT FILM TO SHOW A GROUP A FIRE ISLAND RENTAL HOE—WHICH IS WHAT CHRIS ACTUALLY DID!—BUT HAS SURPRIS STORE NEARLY 40 YEARS SCE S RELEASE. THE SUPERSIZE EPISO ALSO CLUS A NVERSATN WH CHRIS, RICHARD LAWSON, AND GUTS ESTHER ZUCKERMAN AND JACKSON MCHENRY TAKG A LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S TONY NOMATNS, AND MAKG THEIR PREDICTNS ABOUT WHO WILL PREVAIL AT SUNDAY’S AWARDS. LISTEN TO VANY FAIR’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST NOW.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)KATEY RICH

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