Ian McKellen Urges Gay Actors to Come Out- Page 2

[katygrace84]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:31pm

Someone used it as an example earlier and I was just using it again. I have no clue if he's gay or straight. But I think I read somewhere that his girlfriend is pregnant.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:36pm

So, in other words: GAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAY!!

[katygrace84]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:37pm

Probably.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:37pm

If the sensible shoe FITS, Rath... have you explored your "women problem" with your prescribing shrink?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:39pm

Actually, Heche went legit and got kudos (PROOF, Tony nom for 20th CENTURY) after bi-coming married and pregnant. But in her defense, sort of, she was a helluva unique case, and any way, really, once you're out, you're out, even if you cross the aisle--or somebody's lap. She was the most famous half-a-lesbian-couple in America, then decided she still kinda liked boys--too-- sometimes. She didn't say "I had my fingers crossed behind my back all those years! Just to trick Ellen!" Just boinking a dude didn't mean she burned her lesbian card. It's somewhere in her pretty wallet, no? She didn't run from Ellen's arms to Camp Exodus for Debriefing Queers.

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:41pm

How is it that in a profession that has so many gay men, none of them become famous? I wonder if there's a test you have to pass before being granted star status?

Please, no rants about "not all actors are gay."

edit: sensible shoe...funny!
Updated On: 8/10/05 at 05:41 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:42pm

I'm always fascinated that people just don't acknowledge Anne Heche as bisexual. But, I guess that simplicity isn't as fun.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:44pm

And think of what a better actress Joan Crawford would have been had she been able to come out.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:46pm

She might have been nicer to those maids and children!

Oh, to hell with the dirt and wire hangers! I'm getting @*ssy!!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:48pm

Yes, JRB. Especially in a culture that's titillated by bisexual women. Look no further than the porn industry, where girl-on-girl is not only featured, it's required. Can you imagine if man-on-man action was featured as regularly? I'm hijacking this thread, I realize, but it is always fascinating to me about the double standard. Since lesbian sex is a turn on to straight white men, it's got the imprimatur, a kink that's 'allowed.'

But boys will be boys ... well, I think far too many fellas have too-fond memories of sleep away camp, life in the barracks, or maybe the men's room at Gimbel's. That doesn't turn on anybody ...but their inner fantasies.

End of hijack.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:48pm

Anne Heche has never called herself "bisexual". In many interviews, she has said that she was never attracted to women before Ellen and hasn't been attracted to women since.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:56pm

But clearly she is the least bit bisexual. It's the same level of bisexuality that I think of having myself--the possibility that I could meet a woman and fall for her does exist.

However, I am mostly into guys, so I identify as gay. And she identifies as straight. But, there is a difference between what we identify as/act on and what we are inherently.

And, Auggie, I have no idea why the hell you went down that tangent---a whole other topic really.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:58pm

Fall for her or on her? Honey, it's the platforms. They take a while to get used to.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:02pm

is aruba near the psychotropics?

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:03pm

That would be the only way I'm falling for a woman.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:04pm

(Well slap my wrists, JRB, repeatedly. No one has digressed here before, ever. It's simply unheard of and not done. I have done something startling, clearly.)

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:07pm

No, Auggie, it was just absolutely pointless in reaction to what I was saying. Would you like me to pull your panties out for you now?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:08pm

Auggie's ladies panties do NOT mean you're bisexual, jrb!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:10pm

Namo--what about lesbians that look like cute gay boys?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:15pm

As opposed to the dumpy middle aged variety who have problems with other lesbians? Especially successful performing lesbians?

LOVE EM!

Updated On: 8/10/05 at 06:15 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:18pm

Believe it or not, Namo, my taste in performers has nothing to do with their sexual preference.

Not that I think you were referring to me in any way.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:21pm

My panties have the months on them. And the August panties are not my favorite.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:21pm

Not consciously do you have a bias against successful lesbian performers. Just turns out that your posts indicate that it just so happens that you don't like performers in general who just so happen to be lesbians, particularly if they just so happen to be over 30. Nor was that post about you. Consciously.

Updated On: 8/10/05 at 06:21 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:28pm

That's some math there, Namo my boy...actually I don't like Rosie O'Donnell as a musical theater performer. I think Ellen is a wonderful actress/comedian, I think Portia deRossi is great in Arrested Development, I've been a fan of Cynthia Nixon's since Little Darlings, Fiona Shaw - brilliant, I don't know if Sara Gilbert fits your qualifications of age - do I need to go on to satisfy your made-up notions? Or have we jacked this thread enough?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:29pm

Shhhh, Auggie! The movie is back on! :P