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Hollywood Like their Gay Actors Closeted.
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by Barry ORegan | April 23, 2008 at 06:08 am
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Wow, who saw that one coming?
Stereotypes we laugh at now, were Hollywood News Breaking in the day 3 decades ago. Today Hollywood prefers to closet their Gay Actors, preferring Leading Men Straight Actors to play it Gay, yet Gay actors are not allowed to play Leading Men in action Movies for some strange reason.
Of course then there are the stereotypes Hollywood would like us to believe as well, that "Movie Guns" fire an unlimited amount of bullets without reloading, Hookers with a Heart of Gold, and Endless Car Chases never run out of gas or can never sustain damage even after leaping off 12 story parking garages.
Hollywood telling Gays to stay in the closet if they ever want to work in this town again, as Families who watch their Movies want Macho Hetro men in their Movies.
Though for some reason it is okay to portray Gay men in Hollywood using Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink Leading Hetro Men such as Ryan Phillipe, the Late Christopher Reeve, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine playing Gay Parts, such as Brokeback Mountain, Death Trap, Soap Opera "One Life to Live" the list goes on.
Certainly one would think Parents would be offended regardless if Hetros played Gay Characters instead of Gay Actors playing Gay parts. So what's the Point, Hollywood all of a sudden found Religion or Morals?
Below is one of the earliest Groundbreaking 1960's or early 70's era Hollywood movies where apparently censors did not object to use Gay characters, though I think they had a problem with the word "Bitch".Only in LaLa Land is the Ludicrous so Hypocritical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllKzb_qieA
Gay actors still pressured to stay closeted in Hollywood
TORONTO - Ian McKellen made headlines two years ago when the openly gay British actor spouted off on what seemed an unspoken truth: it's impossible for homosexual Hollywood actors to have successful careers.
"It's very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality," McKellen said.
From celebrities of yesteryear like Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift to current-day A-listers, gay actors have long concealed their sexuality, due in large part to studios who fear millions of movie-goers will stay away from films featuring homosexual stars playing straight characters.
But some say the tide might slowly be turning as young actors begin coming out amid an atmosphere of unfiltered news and photos on Internet blogs and websites.
"You have bloggers like Perez Hilton basically outing people constantly," John Webster, who writes a pop culture blog for Xtra.ca, said Tuesday.
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at 06:38 on April 23rd, 2008
I remember seeing a photo in a Vanity Fair spread of UK actors (this was something like 10 years ago), and he was wearing a t-shirt that said, "Wherefore art thou Romeo?". His quote was something like, "I had no problem doing nude scenes, but could I tell anyone I was gay? No." It was heartbreaking.
That dude is a total stud: I saw him on Broadway in Dance of Death, and he was as spry and physically imposing as someone half his age.
It strikes me as odd that producers can't grasp that movies are make believe. Actors are pretending... Bruce Willis doesn't really swing through plate-glass windows, and Tom Cruise isn't really taller than Nicole Kidman. Sexuality is no different.
Do we really think that the movie-going public cares that much? I'm not convinced that they do, but they only get to weigh in on what actually gets made.
at 08:18 on April 23rd, 2008
Thanks Jordan, makes one wonder doesn't it?
at 10:05 on April 23rd, 2008
Maybe closeted Hollywood gays and closeted Hollywood conservatives could ban together and do something about this closetedness.
at 11:00 on April 23rd, 2008
Thanks Big T, I dont know there Big T, Hollywood is more of a Walk in Closet type of town
at 12:54 on April 23rd, 2008
Let all actors come out of whatever closets they are in. Why stop at gay or straight? How about S&M, drug use, eating disorders, transvestites, communists, polluters, assholes......... Let's get all the info we can about these actors and make our choices of which we want to support knowing all we can. I for one would refuse to watch a movie in which the leading actor was a polluting communist asshole who has an eating disorder!
at 13:17 on April 23rd, 2008
Me too, especially those Transgendered Belgians, so smug with both their genitalia, of course one being in a glass jar.
at 14:48 on April 23rd, 2008
Hi Barry, what are "Hetro men" and what have you got against Belgians?
at 17:30 on April 23rd, 2008
Hetro Meaning Hetrosexual, and as for the Belgians, well they are situated north of France, West of Luxembourg and South of the Netherlands, and only a 8 hour hop, skip and jump away from Winnepeg.
As for wha6t I have against them, obviously you have not been an unwilling receipant of a Belgian Fish Slapping Dance, and wine tasting contest!
at 15:48 on April 23rd, 2008
Good points, let the most qualified actor take the role.
at 17:24 on April 23rd, 2008
Thanks Rob for a comments, if we let only the most qualified actors get the roles, 90% of the actors would be unemployed including Leading A Listers, as the few Theatre Trained Actors would get all the roles. hahah
at 20:02 on May 13th, 2009
Why Don't all our gay communities and gay tycoons get together to build and create our own Hollywood after all you have a Bollywood so what could ours be what name would the perspected developers call it...mmmmm?
at 09:24 on May 17th, 2009
Jake Gyllenhaal is gay.