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| Wentworth Miller |
So there still are no openly gay leading men, at least on the Major Motion Picture front. It’s a pity.
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| Matt Bomer |
According to Matt Damon (in a comment he’s since insisted was taken out of context), this is because the career of Rupert Everett, who came out in 1989 when Matt was 19, did not achieve the stardom Everett apparently assumed he was destined for. Apparently this narrative, promulgated mostly by Everett, made a deep impression on Damon.
Damon’s theory, whether he meant it or not, is another version of the old canard that openly gay men can’t be leading men because straight men recoil at the notion and, for women, it ruins the fantasy. Hahaha
The truth is that a new generation of talented actors are gay and working, even dominating. A few are even on the verge of becoming leading men. We predict 2016 will be a breakthrough year.
Here are a few favorites, by type, because there are so many and it worked out that way:
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Television’s Golden Age grew us two very good looking and talented leading men in roles on HBO, Fox and flyover USA Network. In 2016, look for Wentworth as Captain Cold in Legends of Tomorrow on the CW. Find Bomer in a Magnificent Seven remake on the big screen from Antoine Fuqua then, and starring in Ryan Murphy’s Hotel now.
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