It has been a real “coming out party” these last few weeks. One started it, and several followed, the last saying it was the others who gave him the courage
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You bring up good points about the difficulty of athletes and actors to come out publicly because of their environments. A lot of gay actors working now who aren't out may do it for their own personal privacy, but they also have their careers to think about and don't want to be pigeonholed into stereotyped roles.
Privacy in the entertainment business is a double-standard. If someone is straight, the gossip flows, and everyone just looks at it as "they are public property" to a point. If someone's gay, they're left alone, for the most part.
I personally don't need to know about the private lives of actors, and I manage to stay surprisingly ignorant. But the double-standard thing bothers me. It's as if being gay is a horroble thing, so no one should talk about it.
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You bring up good points about the difficulty of athletes and actors to come out publicly because of their environments. A lot of gay actors working now who aren't out may do it for their own personal privacy, but they also have their careers to think about and don't want to be pigeonholed into stereotyped roles.
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Privacy in the entertainment business is a double-standard. If someone is straight, the gossip flows, and everyone just looks at it as "they are public property" to a point. If someone's gay, they're left alone, for the most part.
I personally don't need to know about the private lives of actors, and I manage to stay surprisingly ignorant. But the double-standard thing bothers me. It's as if being gay is a horroble thing, so no one should talk about it.
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