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Straight For Pay: Ten Gay Actors Who Played It Straight

Coming out isn&#;t easy, but it&#;s definitely harder when you&#;re an actor. After all, you&#;re told by your industry that audiences don&#;t go for gay characters, and that&#;s it&#;s tough for people to accept out-gay performers in straight roles. (That&#;s probably not true, and we&#;re learning that as more and more performers publicly speak their sexual lives, but the myth is certainly perpetuated by the movie and TV industries.) Beyond the insufferable show business politics, performers must also decide how much of their personal lives should be private. Basically, LGBT actors find themselves in damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don&#;t spots all of the time. But one thing is certain: none of this has stopped queer performers from playing straight when necessary — and doing so successfully.

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Rock Hudson, &#;Pillow Talk&#; ()

Rock Hudson was Hollywood&#;s hottest leading man for decades, but he was also Hollywood&#;s biggest closeted gay actor. It wasn&#;t until he became

If you&#;re like me &#; and you&#;re almost certainly not &#; you enjoy to dunk your buttered toast in hot chocolate and you think socks should be a legal requirement in public spaces. More relevantly though, you&#;ll also have childhood memories of being up late at night with your hair in sponge curlers, a heat crackling nearby, the wolves howling somewhere indiscernible but worryingly close, and I Love Lucy playing on a tiny little television. Now, granted, I can&#;t be % sure which decade I grew up in, the toast thing is pretty awful for you, and I probably necessitate to loosen up my stance on feet. But luckily none of what I&#;ve said so far is necessary to prove my point, which is this:

Every old television show was about gays, and I can prove it.

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FRANCES BAVIER (December 14, – December 6, ) was an American stage and television actress born on this date (d: ); Originally from New York theatre, Bavier worked in film and television from the s until the s. She is best known for her role of Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. from to Aunt Bee logged more Mayberry years (ten) than any other character. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress for the role in Bavier was additionally known for playing Amy Morgan on It&#;s a Great Life ().

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The modern television landscape is populated with many LGBTQI+ characters; including in such stalwartly popular shows as Ted Lasso, Elite, Heartstopper, Yellowjackets, House of the Dragon, FBI: Most Wanted, The Walking Dead: World Beyond and Loki. And while shows such as Will & Grace, Glee and Pose were groundbreaking in their inclusion and representation, a look back on the history of television, especially its sitcoms, shows a plethora of characters who in today’s world would be recognized as gay, but in television’s early days, were hidden in their sexuality.

From Jane Hathaway in The Beverly Hillbillies (although, as a woman, she was required to meet at least some of society’s expectations by harboring an unrealistic crush on Jethro) to Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, characters were allowed to showcase behaviors that could be classified as fitting into a gay stereotype but were never allowed to express their personal preferences. Historians have discussed for years the secret implications of some of these personae but very limited content creators of