Male actors gay roles

  • Taylor Kitsch and Mark Ruffalo, &#;The Normal Heart&#;

    Taylor Kitsch and Mark Ruffalo play gay activists trying to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the prior s in HBO&#;s film adaptation of The Normal Heart. Ruffalo&#;s openly gay main character Ned Weeks is based on playwright Larry Kramer while Kitsch plays closeted investment banker Bruce Niles. Ruffalo recalls: “I said to Ryan [Murphy, who directs], ‘Aren’t we at the age when a gay actor should be playing this?’ He made it clear to me that attitude wasn’t in the spirit of the film.”

  • Jared Leto, &#;Dallas Buyers Club&#;

    Jared Leto won the adj supporting actor Oscar for his role as transsexual AIDS patient Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club.

  • Colin Firth, &#;A Single Man&#;

    Firth plays George Falconer, a suicidal English professor residing in Los Angeles in , whose longtime partner died in a car accident eight months prior. The film, which takes place over the course of a single night, follows Falconer as he comes to terms with his grief and finds a renewed wil

    Our roundup of some of the most famous gay actors of all time who are proudly flying the flag for our awesome LGBTQ community.

    Representation, whether plain as a bad eyebrow occupation or as subtle as a carefully coordinated outfit, is tediously but surely growing for the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood.

    More and more actors are coming out and opening up about their gender, emboldened by the lesser potential for backlash aimed in their direction. While some prefer to maintain their privacy – not out of phobia but out of “God, the paparazzi are getting on my nerves about this!” – others proudly announce engagements, display breakups for all the world to see, and post their vacation snaps featuring their beloved partners – and sometimes kids too!

    We still aren't where we call for to be when it comes to equal treatment and opportunity for a lot of folks in Show Business but with the list of openly renowned gay stars growing each year and the support for them following suit, it's only a matter of time before the score evens out.

    1. Sir Ian McKellen

    We dare yo

    Let’s Settle This: Can Straight Actors Play Gay Roles?

    No way. Adv, maybe? Sometimes. Okay — yes. Of course! We’re all human beings at the end of the day … and sexuality is on a spectrum, right? Acting is acting!

    This whirlwind of contradictory answers flutters through my uncharacteristically conflicted brain every age I attempt to answer this question. It’s a debate we’ve seen time and time again, most recently when many high-profile names leapt to the defence of Jack Whitehall being cast as Disney’s first openly gay character. So I’m by no means the first person to speak on this seemingly unsolvable debate, but with the recent release of Supernova — Hollywood’s latest gay film starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci — I’m throwing my coin into the hat for good measure.

    Gaslighting queer folk

    Netflix’s Disclosure (well worth a watch) beautifully highlighted the importance of casting trans actors in trans roles — or should I say, the harm of casting cisgender actors in trans roles. But the casting of gay roles remains more of a grey area than you realise. As

    17 straight actors who were praised for playing LGBTQ characters

    Hugh Grant played Clive Allen in 's 'Maurice.'

    Straight actor Hugh Grant took on the role of Clive in James Ivory's "Maurice."

    Clive is a gay man who tries to suppress his homosexuality in Edwardian-era England. Grant's performance has been labeled as insightful and "intelligent," and in , The Fresh York Times critic Janet Maslin called Grant "so good."

    Maslin said that Grant's Clive "embodies all the conservatism and complacency, not to mention all the veiled desire, that Forster saw as most repressive in the English society of his day."

    Hilary Swank played trans man Brandon Teena in 'Boys Don't Cry' in

    Hilary Swank, who is cisgender, won an Oscar for playing trans man Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry." Her performance here was called "the performance of her career" by film critic James Berardinelli. The film scores 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's critical consensus reading: "Hilary Swank's acclaimed performance pays fitting tribute to the tragic life o