It's a milennial-thang! Back at the end of the second milennium; gay remained by-and-large the kiss of celebrity death. It wasn't that celebrities weren't gay: There were gay actors (Rock Hudson, Errol Flynn, Marlena Deitrich, Barbara Stanwick), gay musicians (Leiberaci, Billy Stayhorn), gay writers (James Baldwin, Langston Hughes). But they lived in closets, because that was the only way they could practice their art viably.
And here we are in the third millennium, and how times have changed! Here are 30 successful totally out GLBT Celebrities. How many names do you recognize?
CHAD ALLEN, actor
LANCE BASS, singer
ROBERT BLY, poet
DAN BUTLER, actor
RICHARD CHAMBERLAND, actor
ALLEN CUMMING, actor
ELLEN DeGENERES, actor, comedian
MELISSA ETHERIDGE, singer
RUPURT EVERET, actor
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, playwrite, actor, producer
PATRICK HARRIS, actor
Sir ELTON JOHN, singer, composer
CHERRY JONES, actor
LESLIE JORDAN, actor
T. R. KNIGHT, actor
NATHAN LANE, actor, voice artists
K. D. LANGE, singer, actor
GREG LOUGANIS, athlete
IAN McKELLEN, actor
GEORGE MICHAEL, singer
CYNTHIA NIXON, actor
ROSIE O'DONNELL, comedian, actor
MARY OLIVER, poet
RuPAUL, drag queen, actor, comedian, singer
DAVID HYDE PIERCE, actor
ANTHONY RAPP, actor
MICHAEL SYPES, singer, composer
GEORGE TAKEI, actor
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, singer
B. D. WONG, actor
And where are the others?
Come out, come out, where ever you are! Come out Richard. Come out Ann. Come out Tom. Come out Sean. Olly-olly-ox-in-free.....
No comments:
Post a Comment