#hollywood homophobia

[newhologram]

Why’s “celeb is secretly gay/bi!” still a huge Hollywood scandal these days, but if they’re comfortably out and proud, it’s “faking to further their career”?

Is being queer *dramatic music* devastatingly career-ending or sooo ✨popular✨? Make up your damn minds. 🙄

#homophobia #queerphobia #biphobia #hollywood #hollywood homophobia #teku

[twopoppies]

I’m new to the fandom as of one year, but I don’t understand why people get so upset over stunts. It’s something fans have no control over. I see it in group chats and online. I feel like we’d all be better off to ignore it and accept that our faves are going to make decisions we don’t always like and move on

Well, I think it’s much easier for some people to do that than it is for others. For all sorts of reasons.

It’s impossible to divorce the fact that he’s in these PR relationships because he’s primarily sold as a sexual fantasy to women. Thus, his closeting and the homophobia of the music industry, the film industry, and wider world is front and center in his life and career. That, in and of itself, is bothersome to some of us.

It’s difficult for many to accept that Harry deals with his career and his closeting in a very different way than he used to. If you’re only a fan for a year that may not register for you, but it’s markedly different from how it was even 5 years ago with Camille. Not to say there aren’t reasons for that, but it’s hard for people.

And if you’ve watched him for longer—particularly when he was in the band—it can be difficult to understand that his relationship to his career and his closeting has changed.

Those are just a few reasons off the top of my head why it’s not so easy to just ignore what’s going on. But yes, I agree with you that being his fan would be a lot more enjoyable if one could just ignore all of that.

#closeting #bearding #pr and marketing #Harry’s image #Hollywood homophobia

[shieldmaiden19]

Did Marvel execs seriously think we would watch a movie with a running theme of who Steve would get together with, a movie that includes the line, “It’s not like there’s someone out there with similar life experience,” and NOT go absolutely feral for Steve/Bucky? Did they seriously?

#captain america #captain america winter soldier #ca:tws #steve rogers #bucky barnes #the winter soldier #the homophobia is blinding y’all #stucky #steve/bucky #rewatched catws and the entire first half of the movie is LITERALLY SETTING IT UP FOR THE SHIP #queerbaiting at its finest truly #fuck marvel #fuck disney #fuck the mcu #as with harry potter the mcu belongs to the fans now #and fuck Hollywood for good measure

[fozmeadows]

on the outing of kit connor

can I just - 

the reason coming out is a thing - the whole reason we have a CONCEPT of coming out - are heteronormative social defaults. we live in a culture that assumes everyone is straight: that teaches us to assume, not only that everyone else is straight, but that we are straight, and which overwhelmingly, depending on context and location, either treats queerness as something external to the norm, something invisible and shameful, or something downright evil. and so we have a situation where, when you are queer in whatever way, coming out is never a one-and-done situation, because even if you’ve come out a hundred times in your life, strangers will continue to assume you’re cis and straight unless you tell them otherwise - which it may not always be safe to do, because of homophobia and transphobia. so out people, despite being out in whatever way, can still exist in this constant state of semi-closetedness, not because they want to, but because of the refusal of others to entertain the reality of their existence as a human default, rather than as a specialised exception to the norm. straightness and cisness can always be Assumed, says this logic, but queerness must be Proven: otherwise it cannot possibly exist.  

all this being so, when you demand that a real, human person discloses their sexuality to you before they’re ready? when you forcibly out someone? you’re contributing to the same heteronormative social defaults whose dominance you’re ostensibly using to justify Why Visible Queerness Matters, because what you’re really demanding is certainty, and the emphasis on certainty IS THE WHOLE GODDAMN PROBLEM. what you’re saying is, “I assume that everyone is straight until or unless they expressly confirm otherwise, because that’s the Correct Assumption. assuming that someone is queer, therefore, would be Incorrect, even if they’re signaling solidarity with and support for the queer community - even if they’re signaling queerness in other ways - because queerness isn’t allowed any ambiguity. I must be Certain of who is queer and who is Not, because it’s Wrong to assume a person isn’t straight” and I just.

[stares directly into the camera] really. really! who is it, I wonder, who taught you that it’s wrong to assume people aren’t straight? who told you that it’s potentially insulting to be thought of as queer, but NEVER insulting to be assumed straight? what social norms, I ask, imparted the idea that thinking of someone as queer is “imposing sexuality” on them (negative), whereas thinking of them as straight is Perfectly Normal? do you think, perhaps, that continually assuming everyone is straight to the point where you demand a public, notarised Admission Of Queerness to be exempted from that assumption maybe serves to further entrench the idea of Straight As Default, thereby creating a more hostile and less accepting environment for queer people? has it occurred to you that, if you respond with derision and hostility to anyone who (for instance) plays with gender presentation through fashion, evokes a queer aesthetic or otherwise says Fuck You to presenting as cishet without expressly confirming their queerness, you are making it HARDER for queer people to exist safely in public, to say nothing of shoring up toxic, shitty gender binaries for cishet people?

does the entertainment industry have a historical problem re: casting straight people in queer roles and praising their performances while simultaneously refusing to cast queer people in those roles because “it wouldn’t be acting”? YES. is this some homophobic bullshit? YES. does hollywood, despite its supposed status as a liberal bastion, still have a huge fucking problem with homophobia and treating out actors and other out creatives like shit? YES. 

is any of this improved by forcing queer actors to out themselves, the better to feel comforted that a FICTIONAL queer person isn’t being “disrespected” by a real human actor, or whatever the fuck other justification you’d care to run with? NO. NO IT FUCKING ISN’T. 

does forcing people to out themselves increase the lack of safety queer people feel and experience within an already homophobic industry? IT SURE FUCKING DOES. 

all of you go to your godamned rooms and think about what you’ve done

#kit connor #homophobia #outing #coming out #hollywood #straightness #cishet defaults

[odinsblog]

Amber Heard, on the realities of Hollywood

#amber heard #hollywood #sexism #misogyny #racism #representation #homophobia #transphobia

[pollyna]

au in which Slider gets a gym from his uncle and it has a ring in the middle, Carole does the books and throw some mean punches when she wants and Goose finds new stars and takes his hot babes to matches and everybody would like not to do business with them (that queers) but they're too good for their own and the community loves them.

(Ice is an ex champion with enough under his belt to still be the best of the best and Maverick appears in front of the gym a Monday morning, his bike and a dishonorable discharge from the Navy on his papers. Hollywood and Wolf have a little bakery at the end of the street and it's between their tables they all meet. Slider needs a new coach, Ice a work, Mav a meaning and Goose says their home isn't the biggest but they can find space for two other people. Bradley takes a single look at them, at Ice and Mav, and proclaims he likes them. Not as much as his dads but he likes them.)

And so the story unfoldes itself.

#sunny is bradley's kindergarten's teacher chip is the trio lawyer and merlin hangs around #ron slider kerner #carole bradshaw #nick goose bradshaw #slider x goose x carole #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #developing icemav #leonard wolfman wolfe #rick hollywood neven #hollywolf #marcus sundown williams #charles chipper piper #hint!sunny x chip #typical period homophobia #sport au #top gun maverick #all the '86 class is around #i love them all your honor i can't have an au without everyone #ot3: i even wrote you a love letter #otp: things get old our love is gold #<- new tag for happy icemav stuff #icemav #kernshaw #alternative universe: boxe

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

I will give Robert Sean Leonard some credit because he seems like he hates his characters being shipped with almost ANYONE that they're not canonically involved with. It's just his weird little thing. Guys gotta protect his peace ig

#i still stick by what i said about people acting outraged over fans seeing a character as queer is just blatent homophobia #I think everyone does homophobic things because they are so ingrained in our society #so i wouldnt necessarily say RSL is more homophobic then anyone else #but he does uphold that norm just like soooo many other actors #and dont get me wrong i dont hate him for it and im not saying hes completely homophobic or genuinely hates queer people #its just something he does that a lot of hollywood does as well #love that man though #hes so funky lmfao #house md #house #hilson #james wilson #robert sean leonard #rsl

[silveragelovechild]

I first noticed Chris Pratt in “Wanted” (2008), a comic book movie headlined by James McAvoy. His role was small and often the butt of jokes, and he was funny. By 2014, starring in GOTG1, Pratt turned that jerk of a supporting character into a jerk of a leading man. And, a fun movie.

The next year Pratt starred in Jurassic World - essentially play the same character and it was outstaying its welcome. Then there was the double whammy of Magnificent 7 and Passengers in 2016. In M7, I got the impression that writers were pitching one-liners to him just off camera. But the worst was in Passengers, he turned that once funny guy into the creep - a stalker. (Even Jennifer Lawrence regrets making that movie.)

I lost interest in Pratt, especially when you add the fact that he dumped his first wife as soon as his career eclipsed hers, and affiliated himself with a church known for its homophobia. I have avoided seen him in any Non-MCU movie since.

Despite being called the Worst Chris in Hollywood, Pratt keeps churning out movies. I assumed I was alone in my opinion that Pratt was overrated… until I read the article at the link below (from Collider). It’s uncanny - the article’s author Douglas Laman seems to have read my mind.

Here are a few key quotes:

“(Pratt is) just portraying a vacant husk of a man whose personality’s been dialed”

“He became the forgettable straight man”

(Pratt’s) personality that was boring the first time gets no more interesting the second go-around”

“Pratt never lends a sense of authenticity to the role”

(Regarding his Mario voice) “wishy-washy accent Pratt aims for a Brooklyn sound, but mostly just sounds like it came from Minnesota.”

#chris pratt is a pratt #Star lord #mcu #GOTG3 #Jurassic world #wishy washy #boring #worst Chris in Hollywood #homophobia #collider

[rivertalesien]

"These efforts are having their intended effects — corporations and brands are beginning to assume a neutral stance on our rights and existence rather than incur the wrath of these customers. GLAAD reports a decline in LGBTQIA+ representation in media this year, and I, along with most other queer writers, can tell you personally that the atmosphere has turned frigid in the past year and a half, and A League of Their Own has been one of the lucky ones. While states are passing “Don’t Say Gay” laws, we’ve seen a corresponding tidal wave of cancellations of shows with strong queer characters — especially female, trans and nonbinary characters. Creators now hear constantly about the need to find shows that are bigger, broader, that aren’t catering to a “niche” audience, without deep recognition of the fact that queer people are being attacked by some portion of that “broad” audience. And when we’re talking about “global TV,” there’s little recognition that LGBTQIA+ rights are still in their infancy in many of the countries that now represent the growth opportunities for platforms."

#will graham #lgbtq issues #queer representation #homophobia #homophobia in hollywood #that neutral stance is BS #they know what they're doing #fascism

[poop-everyday]

We don't have to worry about straight people playing queer characters, it's not homophobic. If "straight" actor denies to place queer characters, that would be homophobic. I have heard film worker telling how often man hesitate to play a gay character on camera, the same ones who had no problem playing a rap!st on screen. So if someone is openly straight and play well a Queer character, it's good.

Next, you can never tell who is LGBTQ who is straight so...

#love #lgbtq #red white and royal blue movie #red white and royal blue #rwrb book #rwrb #movies #anti homophobia #hollywood #film

[earhartsease]

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson got told early on in his acting career to stay away from gay roles or it would "ruin his career" - and he told 'em to "hold my tequila and fuck off"

king

#dwayne johnson #homophobia in hollywood

[twopoppies]

Regarding the post you shared about the Mexican band that came out of a soap opera, it makes me think that if that happened outside of Hollywood, why are there people who are so crazy to think that something like that happened to Harry and Louis? Being in a band as big as One Direction? There are days when I remember these things and I feel happy to think that although they no longer need us as before, we know that they prefer not to put their privacy and their lives in that danger and that fragile line.

I’m continuously shocked that people insist that closeting doesn’t go on just because there are certain celebrities who are out. There are so many actors and musicians who are much less well-known than Harry and Louis are, who have spoken about how intensely they were closeted and how afraid they were to come out. When you consider the amount of money that was riding on the success of One Direction and then on the success of solo Harry, I don’t understand how you could think closeting isn’t a possibility.

In reference to this

#closeting #Hollywood Homophobia

[thetiredstuff]

i don't know how true this is but rumor has it that chris pr*tt is maybe gonna be in season 4 of the b*ys

i cannot tell you how much i do notttttttt want that

cuz pr*tt's got that whole homophobic church-goer history and also ya know that very small little thing about being all entwined with some white supremacist symbols and all

#for real let this not happen #i already have to see this man more than enough in way too many things cuz hollywood doesn't care he's apparently awful #tw mention of white supremacy #tw mention of homophobia

[rainespells]

Patsy Kelly was so funny for allegedly saying this. For all the other dyke ladies it would be an unsaid but understood ‘Don’t publish this til after I’m dead and gone’ but here she was like ‘Publish this after Disney stops paying me’

#Patsy kelly #Boze hadleigh #is the author/interviewer #Disney #Homophobia #lesbophobia #not described #Hollywood lesbians #old hollywood #And she was Not in films for like a full two decades because she was Out not bc of the communism or anything #Also one of the disney films she was talking about was freaky friday! Which y’know starred baby jodie foster #corporations esp studios literally cannot make stuff without lgbtq artists and YET

[pennyserenade]

me trying to explain that i love old movies, not because they represent a time period i yearn for, but because they are sometimes just fun and also because sometimes i do relate to those characters even when they are at their most outrageous and their most melodramatic because they were made and played by real humans who experienced all the same feelings of fear and anger and happiness that we do and to write them off as ‘dated’ or ‘old’ is such a horrific way to erase the lives of many people who felt just like you and i

#misc. #old hollywood #the other day i saw someone call the children’s hour a bad movie #and it literally killed me bc they said they hated that someone in the ‘60s thought that was good lesbian representation #as if that wasn’t a very big deal for gay people at one point #that entire movie is abt how homophobia is destructive and evil ! #oh it kills me how people think of these movies now #they look for moral perfection in media and they forget how hard people these creators had to fight for even that much

[sunflowersand-bees]

a Thought that I had

in the IT book by stephen king, the f and n slurs are tossed around, period-typical racism/homophobia type shit.

in the IT movies, the f slur is used, but not the n slur. idk, i guess i was just thinking about how calling someone a "faggot" is more permissible in hollywood's eyes than using the n slur.

#it #racism #homophobia #it stephen king #it 2017 #it chapter two #it chapter 2 #it 2019 #richie tozier #mike hanlon #i personally dont think slurs should be used ever #but wtf does hollywood think theyre doing like actually fuck that #riv rambles