Who else has been queer on screen?

Well, Ewan McGregor, Christian Bale (new Batman movie if you don't know him from anything else) and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers all played gay and/or bi chars in Velvet Goldmine. Good movie, check it out! ^^

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Tom Hanks played homosexual in "Philadelphia." And Antonio Bandereis played his lover.

Kat

When was the last time you heard these exact words: You are the sunshine of my life?

Where are you from, societyrain?

There are several others. Some has said "Velvet Goldmine." Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor has homosexuals or at least bi. I need to see that movie again. I saw it on tv. Heavily edited.

Back on subject. I can't think of a movie that Tobey Maguire was gay in.

There are several upcoming movies that have homosexual or bisexual characters. "Rent" for one.

Kat

When was the last time you heard these exact words: You are the sunshine of my life?

WonderBoys was the one that I can think of that Tobey Maguire was in.

many many many many...here is just a few, if you want to know more, contact me.
this is a list of gay/bi characters

hugh grant (an awfully big adventure, maurice)
ewan mcgregor (VG, the pillow book) [but in movies he has kissed more than 5 different men)
dean cain, timothy olyphant, zach braff (brokenhearts club)
liam neeson (kinsey)
peter sarsgaard (kinsey, the dying gaul)
makauly culkin, seth green (party monster)
Kevin klien, tom selleck (in or out)
daniel day lewis (my beautiful laundrette)
russell crowe (the sum of us)
michael pitt (the dreamers, hedwig and the angry inch)
johnny depp (before night falls, the libertine [his character was in real life bi])
ian mckellen (gods and monsters)
leonardo dicaprio (total eclipse)
joshua jackson (cruel intentions)
james purefoy, hugo weaving (bedrooms and hallways)
stephen fry, orlando bloom [as a rent boy] (wilde)
ioan gruffudd (wilde, very annie mary)
jude law (wilde, midnight in the garden of good and evil)
jared leto, colin farrell (alexander)
[technically] tom cruise, brad pitt, antonio banderas (interview with the vampire)
keanu reeves, river phionex (my own private idaho)
jonathan rhys meyers (alexander, Velvet goldmine, b monkey, a lion in the winter)

rant over.

great lists up there, but noone has mentioned Cillian Murphy in Breakfast on Pluto!



Eternities aren't as long as they used to be~

Visit the boy_touching community on LiveJournal, where you'll be treated with a vast array of mainstream performers who have 'played gay'. Or are actually gay. Or that are just cute. Ahem.

All right, so the point has been made. There are quite a few movies out there where men have 'played gay'. Rupert Everett hasn't been mentioned; I've only see his mainstream movies like The Next Best Thing and My Best Friends Wedding. Both he had a queer role. Though, he is, so he might like having the chance to try and break those barriers.

The problem with most of those films mentioned [because they're predominantly Hollywood] is that homosexuality is almost poked fun at. All gay men are penned as gaudy, over-the-top 'fairies'. Which I know some are [without the derogative 'fairies' of course], but that doesn't define them.

Actors who play 'queer', and represent a population that so many are afraid of [and thus have the threat of tainting their careers - so is said, those are not my words] are admirable. Hopefully these things will become the norm so much so that we won't be making specific threads about them.

Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love.