Douglas, Damon and ‘Liberace’ Gay Scenes

From Star Pulse:

Matt Damon can’t wait to jump in bed with Michael Douglas and play the movie icon’s gay lover in a new film about pianist Liberace.

Douglas has confirmed he’s taking on the role of the flamboyant gay entertainer in a new biopic, to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, and announced this week that Damon will play his younger partner.

Douglas said, “Matt Damon’s going to be my young lover. God bless Matt.”

Read more at Star Pulse!

So, what’s your thoughts on this?  Should straight men be cast to play gay characters?

Independent: An Open and Shut Closet

Right now, if you’re a straight actor in Hollywood, it’s great to be gay. we have a Bafta-winning, Oscar-nominated Colin Firth as the grief-stricken English professor in Tom Ford’s sensual and sensitive adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man. Soon, we’ll see Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor get loved up in I Love You Phillip Morris, an outrageous true story from the writers of Bad Santa. And, later in the year, Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play a married couple in Lisa Cholodenko’s sublime The Kids Are All Right.

More at: The Independent!

Public figures, whether professional athletes, actors or politicians ARE role models…whether they want to be or not. They owe it to the LGBT community, especially during this period of struggle, to come out, and support equality for all! Come OUT!

Is There Any Glee For John Barrowman?

“I absolutely love the show. Maybe I could be a teacher, you know, another teacher who comes in and helps out. That’s me just kind of brainstorming, but the fact that they want to have a meeting with me is really quite nice in itself. It’s so exciting!” he tells them in the April issue.

Whatever you do John,  just don’t stop believing!

Jason Shaw, Brighton,  England.
gayagenda.com’s UK Correspondent and John Barrowman watcher!






Jason’s blogs his heart out – www.seafrontdiary.com


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Sean Hayes Speaks OUT: I Am Who I Am!

Courtesy of The Advocate:

One of the things that Sean Hayes loves about Los Angeles’s Marino Ristorante, the old-school Italian restaurant he picked as the setting for this interview, is the music. “They play the craziest renditions of Frank Sinatra,” he says. “Stuff I’ve never heard. Like he sings ‘Close to You’ by the Carpenters.”

Sure enough, not 10 minutes later, Sinatra is crooning, “Why do birds suddenly appear…”

“That song! So romantic for our interview!” Hayes exclaims.

It’s not the first gay hint the actor has dropped since our lunch began, nor is it the last. When I order the same dish he does—rigatoni with tomato sauce and chicken—he proclaims, “It must be a gay thing: the pasta with chicken. It’s all the craze!”

And when he laments that he has to look good for the next day’s Advocate photo shoot, he says, “I’m so fucking fat right now. I’m not even kidding.”

Sizing up the handsome, salt-and-pepper-goateed man across from me, I offer a sincere reply: “Oh, please. You look great. You don’t need to worry.”
His response: “You haven’t seen me naked.” And with a Jack McFarland–like, high-pitched flourish, he adds, “Yet!”

If the guy who spent eight years playing über-gay Jack on Will & Grace had his way, coy suggestions that he is of a certain proclivity (wink, wink) would be all he ever shared publicly on the topic of his sexuality. But nearly four years since the long-running sitcom ended, the 39-year-old not only is preparing to make his Broadway debut in the first revival of the 1968 musical Promises, Promises but also has agreed to his first interview with The Advocate.

Still, we should be clear on one thing: He’s not happy about sitting down with the magazine. And to understand why, let’s get a little backstory.

Find it at: The Advocate!

Where are Hollywood’s Gay Men?

From Times Online:

Colin Firth has been nominated for an Academy Award for playing a gay man in A Single Man. But gay actors still hide

“I think it needs to be addressed and I feel complicit in the problem. I don’t mean to be. I think we should all be allowed to play whoever, but I think there are still some invisible boundaries which are uncrossable.”

Actors are forever lauded for their “bravery”, but when it comes to gay rights (and wrongs), Hollywood is streaked with cowardice, prejudice, self-interest and hypocrisy. This supposed hotbed of creativity and licentiousness is weirdly sexually conservative and behind the times.

Rupert Everett, Firth’s co-star in Another Country and a leading man-in-waiting until he came out, recently advised gay actors not to do the same. His career had been impeded by his honesty, he believes — although his life is freer as a result.

More here!

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