George Michael. (Getty) George Michael could claim the first UK number one of 2021, with the Wham! classic “Last Christmas” just behind Mariah Carey in a midweek chart update. The late pop icon, who…
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The Autostraddle team racked our brains and came up with our personal 2020 highlights. This year, even the smallest wins count.
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Barton is part of a starry New Year’s Eve lineup, including Patti LaBelle, Audra McDonald, Josh Groban, Juanes, Yo-Yo Ma, and more, in United in Song.
Jonathan Bailey, who stars in Netflix’s Bridgerton, is speaking out about being gay in the entertainment industry, telling Sir Ian McKellen that he’s experienced the most alarm about his sexual orientation from studio executives who are also gay.
Said Bailey to McKellen in Attitude: “The most conservative conversations I’ve had about me being honest about my sexuality in this day and age have come from gay men in the industry, ‘Oh, no, you can’t come out. You shouldn’t really do that If you do that, you’re going to have to…’ They’re either people who work in publicity, or there’s also been casting directors who have put the call into my agent to say, ‘Just so that you know, the way that this is going to be sold is that it’s a gay story written by gay writers for gay actors. So by just taking the role…’”
“This was at a stage where perhaps I was coming to terms with my own sexuality, I hadn’t necessarily hidden it,” added Bailey. “But I’ve never been not honest about it. It’s just there had never been a need to talk about it. There’s a sense of shame, I think, that’s palpable throughout gay men within the industry. But then there’s also this heteronormative, heterosexual understanding of sexuality.”
“So, in my generation, the out gay actors are now being poached,” Bailey continued. “And you get a script sent through and they’ll say, ‘Must be comfortable with talking about sexuality.’ So that is in one way a brilliant thing, because it’s saying we’re not encouraging anyone not to talk about sexuality, but it’s also showing that sexuality is becoming a commodity. That actually there needs to be this sense that studios are hiring gay actors to play either gay actors or straight.”
“They want you to be gay, but not too gay,” added Bailey.
Read more at Attitude…
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The deaths of Courtney “Eshay” Key (pictured) and Jaheim Pugh Jaheim Barbie add to a record annual toll on this community.
Marks and Spencer (M&S) has launched a vegan “eggplant” Easter egg and we’re wondering if it’s single, to be honest. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, bottoms hoping to pop out and grab the other kind of aubergine will have to for now settle for the “vegan vibe, no dairy” substitute….
Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey has revealed that he was advised not to come out as gay by other queer men working in the television and film industry. Speaking to Attitude magazine, the British actor explained that gay men who work in publicity as well as casting directors told him not to state his sexuality publicly….
Seven of the entities — which pulled in a total of $2.5 million in taxpayer funds — are listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, NBC News revealed.
A gay NHS doctor has taken to TikTok to encourage take-up of the coronavirus vaccine and tackle misinformation. Dr Mark Perera, who works as an NHS doctor in east London, has taken to the platform as ‘@DoctorGayUK‘ to help educate people about the jab. The doctor, who was among frontline healthcare workers to…
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