Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma: 1 (Intersections)

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The Queer Eye cast, for example, is the perfect example of owning their queerness and spreading their joy and love to others around them. “I’m thankful that we’ve been given opportunities, but I know the five of us are always [trying] to continue to open the door for someone behind us or beside us,” Karamo Brown, the show’s culture expert, told Out Magazine. “There’s still work to be done.” I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN"Representations can facilitate changing the material conditions of LGBTQ folks on- and offscreen across the globe." Though David Rose in Schitt’s Creek is pansexual, Dan Levy identifies as gay, and his parents are just as cool with it. Talking to Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohenin 2020, Dan said that his parents, fellow actor and costarEugene Levy and Deborah Divine, knew Dan was gay before he came out. “We knew for the longest time,” Eugene said. “We were waiting and then mom couldn’t wait any longer,” he added, noting that Dan’s mom just asked him one day and Dan nonchalantly said “yes.” We just love a supportive family! THE PERSON I THINK DOESN'T GET ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THEIR ACTIVISM"Alexandra Billings. I've been making art with her for decades, and she is always raising the voices of the people in the room around her through her art, teaching and advocacy."

My So Called Life alum Wilson Cruz was the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay teen on primetime TV, making history in 1994. He spoke of the experience with TODAY in 2021, saying, “I have great pride in being that person, but the freedom and the relief and the strength that people were able to garner, just from seeing him, and the feeling of validation they received by his existence — his very existence of being on a national television show about teenagers, that people like him felt seen, and included and were a part of the story.” In creating the 2020 list of entertainment's most powerful LGBTQ players,THR focused on the talent (behind and in front of the camera) and decision makers pushing for the most opportunities for work and visibility in film and television — while driving conversations about inclusivity with the rest of Hollywood and beyond. • Entries written by Seth Abramovitch, Kirsten Chuba, Mia Galuppo, Chris Gardner, Lesley Goldberg, Natalie Jarvey, Rebecca Keegan, Michael O'Connell, Alex Ritman and Bryn Elise Sandberg. I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN"Movies and shows stop queer-baiting and just start writing more queer characters and storylines." I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN"We have the kind of representation in big-budget studio films that we do on TV."I thought about asking the interviewer about his absolute fave sex position after that last question, but then I remembered how wildly invasive, strange and inappropriate that would be,” he wrote, later adding: “I highly doubt anyone would ask any of my straight peers explicit questions about who does what to who in their relationship, no matter the content of their music.”

The majority of the men I interviewed reported that they are primarily attracted to women, not men. Most of these men are also married to women and prefer to have sex with women. They explained that although they loved their wives, their marital sex lives were not as active as they wanted. Sex with men allowed them to have more sex. They don’t consider sex with men cheating and see it as a loophole in their marriage contract. Aside from his iconic role in Mean Girls, Franzese has had a few TV appearances here and there, including GLOW on Netflix, S.W.A.T., Besties and Falling for Angels. I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW" Miss Congeniality! There is this small moment where Miss New York shouts out to all the lesbians and tells her girlfriend Tina she loves her. It’s played as a joke but it filled me with such immense joy and hope." I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN"I was riding down Fifth Avenue on the Bravo float at World Pride." THE PERSON I THINK DOESN'T GET ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THEIR ACTIVISM"My friend Tanya Saracho. She created the show Vida and is always fighting the good fight. And educating people. And challenging them. And advocating for underrepresented voices. She’s a superhero."Best known for his roles as Aaron Samuels in the 2004 comedy film Mean Girls —Jonathan Bennett publicly came out in 2017 and is currently dating former Amazing Race host Jaymes Vaughan. Not only is this author and producer the host of popular late-night Bravo talk show Watch What Happens Live, he is also the host of the Love Connection reboot.

Mr. Man, the leading online library of every male nude scene ever filmed for television or movies, just announced the winners of their 8th annual Manatomy Awards! Kal Penn has always been an actor who’s kept his personal life as private as possible. But after getting engaged to his longtime partner Josh, the former House actor was so excited to share a new side of himself in his upcoming book, You Can’t Be Serious. The 50-year-old musical theater superstar first graced Broadway in the early 90s and has since taken home many accolades including an Emmy Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Pose in 2019 . Wentworth Miller is known for breaking out of prison in Prison Break. But the English actor moved on from that role and into the superhero TV hits Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash.I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW"Pinocchio saying he wanted to be a 'real boy'! There's something about the journey of a non-human other that will always speak to me — first as a young queer, then as an immigrant." I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW "Mario Cantone host a TV show in the '80s called Steampipe Alleyon a New York City channel. The minute I saw it, I knew." Since receiving his 2017 Tony for Dear Evan Hansen, Platt has been on a meteoric rise. A starring role in The Politicianbrought him a Golden Globe nomination, and his debut album ( Sing to Me Instead)inspired a Netflix concert special. In addition to speaking, and singing, publicly about his own gay relationships, Platt plays bi on The Politician— accounting for several of the series' many entangled LGBTQ romances. Broadcast TV's first openly gay chief exec has used his new post atop WarnerMedia's direct-to-consumer business to shine a spotlight. For newly launched streamer HBO Max, Greenblatt is teaming with Greg Berlanti and Jim Parsons for the docuseries Equal, ball culture competition series Legendary and scripted dramedy Generation, a modern look at sexuality.

I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW"Bugs Bunny outsmart the status quo with a wink and a witty remark." I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN"Killer Films has a history of pissing off the LGBTQ community by making content that doesn't always reinforce so-called 'positive images.' I'll feel good when we can see LGBTQ characters that are just as evil as their straight counterparts."Lee has kept himself busy since his Entourage days, though. You can spot him in ABC series Fresh Off the Boat as Oscar Chow or as Elliot Park in both Young & Hungry reruns and Young & Hungry: The Movie.