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Contents:

• THE FIVE GAYT MOMENTS IN AMY AWARDS HISTORY (SO FAR...)
• SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY
• OSR’S GAY AMY AWARD WNERS
• FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE TARGET OF JOKE AT AMY AWARDS
• SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER
• 7 OPENLY GAY AMY AWARD WNERS THAT AREN'T SAM SMH FOLLOWG THOSE LGBT 'FIRST' CLAIMS AT THE OSRS
• GAYMG AWARDS 2022 WNERS: THE FULL LIST
• 94TH AMY AWARDS LIVEWIRE: HOSTS SHOUT ‘GAY GAY GAY,’ POLICS TAKE CENTERSTAGE, DRAMA — WILL SMH SMACKS CHRIS ROCK, THEN WS BT ACTOR

THE FIVE GAYT MOMENTS IN AMY AWARDS HISTORY (SO FAR...)

In the end, the famo gay in and Tim Rice won for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight? Smh, who intifi as gay and non-bary, wrote a song lled "Wrg's on the Wall" for the 2015 Jam Bond movie, "Spectre, " wh fellow songwrer Jimmy Nap. "I stand here as a proud, gay man and I hope one day we n all stand as equals, " Smh said their speech.

SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY

While acceptg the Amy Award, Smh wrongly said they were the first gay person to w an Osr, which was met wh backlash on social media. Ball, an openly gay man, wrote "Amerin Bety, " which follows a suburban father who be terted his dghter's bt iend. Black wrote the 2008 movie "Milk, " which starred Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, a lol polician San Francis who fought for gay rights before beg assassated.

"To all the gay and lbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are ls than by their church or by ernment or by their fai, you are betiful, wonrful creatur, " he add. The openly gay filmmaker won another Amy Award 2003 for bt origal screenplay for his film "Talk to Her. In 1985, Epste won the Amy Award for directg "The Tim of Harvey Milk, " a documentary that follows the gay polician's life before his assassatn.

Hollywood has been slow to embrace the stori of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, but over the years a number of LGBT-themed films have neverthels won the dtry’s hight honor: Osr. William Hurt beme the first actor to w an Osr for playg a gay role, wng for playg an imprisoned wdow drser 1985’s “Kiss of the Spir Woman.

OSR’S GAY AMY AWARD WNERS

Barry Jenks’s hntg film about a young boy stgglg to accept his sexualy sred a stunng upset for Bt Picture, beg the first wner this tegory to have a gay character as s protagonist.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars this historil drama as Alan Turg, the Brish cryptanalyst who was nvicted of cency bee of his homosexualy. Mike Mills’s semi-tobgraphil film stars Ewan McGregor as a man whose elrly father (Christopher Plummer) out as gay his 70s. Sean Penn plays the tle role G Van Sant’s bgraphil film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California.

Philip Seymour Hoffman domated the awards season 2005 for his role as openly gay, larger-than-life wrer Tman Capote as he stggl to wre his masterpiece, “In Cold Blood. Although this Osr-wng drama do not centrally foc on LGBT issu, do take a close look at the effects of homophobia. Chris Cooper plays a former Mare lonel whose rampant homophobia is actually a mask for his own reprsed sir, which leads him to a tragic teractn wh the film’s protagonist (played by Kev Spacey).

FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE TARGET OF JOKE AT AMY AWARDS

Bill Condon’s drama follows the last days of director Jam Whale (Ian McKellan), the openly gay director of the classic horror films “Frankenste” and “Bri of Frankenste. Tom Hanks stars as Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer livg wh AIDS who su his former lawfirm after he is fired.

Denzel Washgton -stars as a homophobic lawyer who reprents Andrew urt. In this prison drama, a gay wdow drser (William Hurt) shar a Brazilian prison cell wh a revolutnary (Rl Julia), and the two beg a awkward iendship that velops to a sexual relatnship. This documentary tails the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office California, who was later murred along wh San Francis mayor Gee Mosne.

Deemed the “gay Super Bowl” by s many fans, the Amy Awards telest has long been a bastn of over-the-top queer energy rolled up the drama of the secret, gay ner-workgs of the Hollywood system. Many a gay in has had their moment the sun durg the Osr show, om Judy Garland sgg “Somewhere Over the Rabow” to Rock Hudson duetg wh Mae Wt to Barbra Streisand and Madonna each vampg on the Osr stage to the light of their queer fans.

SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OSR WNER

This year the ftivi will be hosted by the send openly gay host, Neil Patrick Harris, who promis to brg the same sassy twkle that he’s brought to the Tony and the Emmy Awards. Whether you plan on watchg om your livg room on Sunday or htg up a viewg party — like the Denver Film Society’s ee fete at the Sie FilmCenter, where the awards will light up their big screens and you n plete a ballot for a donatn and get a chance to w some big priz — you might notice that this year’s show appears to be short on gay power.

But while no out actors are nomated and only one nomated role is gay, there’s always a chance that the world’s most fabulo celebratn will fd a way to let our LGBTQ rabow she. As proof, here are five moments om the long history of the Amy Awards where thgs got pretty gay:.

7 OPENLY GAY AMY AWARD WNERS THAT AREN'T SAM SMH FOLLOWG THOSE LGBT 'FIRST' CLAIMS AT THE OSRS

Comedian Ellen DeGener has had her share of gay moments the public zegeist.

GAYMG AWARDS 2022 WNERS: THE FULL LIST

Ellen’s schtick has never been particularly edgy or polil but that’s the gay b her joke. Her character’s ma song, “And I Am Tellg You I’m Not Gog, ” is the Star Spangled Banner of drag queens and gay sgg petn hopefuls everywhere.

Actor William Hurt took home an Osr 1986 for his role Kiss of the Spir Woman, which he played an obvly gay character.

94TH AMY AWARDS LIVEWIRE: HOSTS SHOUT ‘GAY GAY GAY,’ POLICS TAKE CENTERSTAGE, DRAMA — WILL SMH SMACKS CHRIS ROCK, THEN WS BT ACTOR

This was a first Osr history, and opened up the Hollywood closet jt a teency b for future gay rol to emerge — yet acceptg the award, the heterosexual Hurt said only, “I’m very proud to be an actor. In 1994 Tom Hanks took home the Bt Actor Osr for his role as a gay lawyer dyg of AIDS Jonathan Demme’s Philalphia. The moment was another watershed moment for gay visibily Hollywood; Hanks livered a passnate and historic speech g the public platform to acknowledge those who had lost their liv to AIDS.