GAYS
IN FILM
Ellen
Page, Ellen no last name needed, Bruce Willis in the Jackal, etc. Gays playing straight characters, straights
playing gay characters. Back in the bad
old days, gays etc had to portray straight characters. Think Rock Hudson etc.
But
in modern times, well you would think with gay marriage equality and all kinds
of civil rights laws, things would be different, nope.
I
think the late Brandon Gill got it right when he wrote about the gay actors of
their time
Montgomery
Clift etc who served with valor in WW2 and Mr. Wayne who didn’t.
Perceptions
in and about film are amazing.
Does
it matter, nope. Real life matters, the
other day when I asked someone to move their arm down on a public
transportation I was disparaged with every anti gay term you could imagine. It made me angry as a straight person I was
humiliated because the person thought I was gay and he could call me names. The humiliation came from the disparaging
words he used against me not the fact if I was gay or not.
Imagine
what the gays of Hollywood go through when they seek work in the 21st century.
It
could be worse see, this guardian article.
I wasn’t beat up or killed.
I
think I will add a gay character to my next novel
Being
famous, it might be easier to be gay. But
I doubt it. I have a gay friend who has
told me that the same problems affect gays as straights, so true. Except the discrimination, I think gays are
discriminated in such away it affects your soul. Sort of like being Japanese in 1942. Today a slice of my humanity was removed and
made me dislike the bigotry so much I wrote this short piece.
If
you like, my characters try Siolam.
Or any of this.
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