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Out LGBTQ Performers Modifying the Face of Hollywood in the 21st Century
Editor’s note: This list was originally published in June , and has been updated multiple times since to reflect new comings outs and groundbreaking LGBTQ castings. It could never and will never be complete, but we desire it reflects the switching face of Hollywood as we bid hello to Pride
With LGBTQ stories in filmand on TV more popular than ever before, it’s important to celebrate out-and-proud acting talents — particularly those without the non-binary awards&#; categories they deserve.
In , the mention of Hollywood is unsure to say the least. But even as existential questions about the business of making entertainment persist, audiences and artists are grappling with equally critical questions of representation on screen. Among those questions: should queer roles be played exclusively by lgbtq+ actors?
It&#;s an evolving conversation, getting at the very core of what makes the art of acting, well, acting. Last year, the industry&#;s resident superb guy Tom Hanks gave an answer in regards to his Oscar-recognized role in &#;s &#;Philadelphia.&#;
“Let’s mention ‘could a straight dude do what I did in ‘Phi
TV star Tyler Henry opens up about coming out as gay and 'Hollywood Medium'
By the looks of it, Tyler Henry should be on Cloud Nine — literally and figuratively. He is easy on the eyes — statuesque , young, handsome, a chief full of thick blond hair — a bestselling author (“Between Two Worlds”) and the star of a hit TV exhibit on E! (“Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry”), a network notorious for spotlighting the fierce and the fabulous.
Henry is also a self-described evidential-based medium, which, depending on how you do the cosmic math, foretells a life filled with interpreting messages from the invisible realm and “the other side,” adding those elements up, drawing a line under them, and offering the sum of all spiritual parts to the likes of Hollywood head-turners such as Margaret Cho, Khloe Kardashian, Eva Longoria, Ryan Lochte, Chad Michael Murray (yet another amazing hairline!), and countless others.
Ironically, considering what he does for a living, Henry never saw any of his current fame coming. The out, self-described loner whose childhood premonitions about death and “the other side” forever changed the trajectory of his life, did not know much about Hollywood and celebri
Lady Gaga
It&#;d be impossible to understate out bisexual artist and actor Lady Gaga&#;s impact on culture and pop music, or the impact she&#;s made as an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. Every Gaga performance and high-camp costume was iconic. Her male alter-ego Jo Calederone was absurdly hot. Her harmony video for &#;Telephone&#; opened with Gaga making out with butch Canadian show artist Heather Cassils and ended with her holding hands with Beyonce and driving into the sunset. &#;Born This Way&#; doesn&#;t even matter —it&#;s &#;Bad Romance&#; and &#;Poker Face&#; and &#;Alejandro&#; and &#;Bad Romance&#; and &#;You and I&#; and &#;Paparazzi.&#; Lady Gaga is a queen of gay pop.
Hayley Kiyoko
On the cover of Nylon Magazine&#;s first-ever Pride Issue, Hayley Kiyoko was described as an unprecedented drive in the gay pop scene, a lesbian teen heartthrob unafraid to court a passionate, starving gay fan base who crowned her Lesbian Jesus. She was the first womxn loving womxn pop star signed to a major label to make multiple music videos in which she kisses girls. It&#;s incredible how recent Kiyoko, who&#;s also an actor, dancer and writer, changed the game. In rec
Concannon, who previously held positions at the English colleges of Royal Holloway and Goldsmiths, published a folio in July that explored why mental illness had endured among gay men despite social progress. Drawing on research from others, Concannon points to a destructive competitiveness within the gay community and its various subcultures, each of which prizes different forms of capital to resolve one’s status. Most obviously, that includes one’s physique and appearance — the emphasis on which has only worsened, Concannon believes, because of social media — but it can also include things appreciate race, income, and even HIV status. He notes one American gay bloke who was quoted in a HuffPost piece on gay loneliness: “The bullied kids of our youth grew up and became bullies themselves.”
Concannon, 61, experienced the pressure of one of these forms of social currency — age — during a seven-year period, from to , that he spent living in Sitges, Spain.
Surrounded by young, tanned surfers, he was called fat and old on more than one occasion. So he did something to his hair that sounded beautiful familiar: “I dyed it blonde — oh god — to fit in, I suppose, to watch younger, to not be o
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