11 Times Playing Queer Paid Off For Straight Actors At The Oscars

From: NewNowNext

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Tom Hanks

“Philadelphia” 

1993

In Philadelphia, Hanks played Andrew Beckett, an attorney who takes his firm to court after they fire him for having AIDS.

In the real world, HIV-positive people were still being discriminated against in the workplace—and LGBT still are—but Hanks took home the first of two Best Actor Oscars.