Andrew Scott is tired of talking about being gay

[quote]“Straight people don’t have to talk about their sexuality every time they go to work”

He makes a very good point if you think about it.

Butcha are Blanche. Ya are.

Because gays are special and everyone needs to know.

lol.

I like him. This made me like him even more.

He’s not wrong.

Billy Porter doesn’t mind.

Well done, Andrew Scott.

This is an old article. Why did you post this?

Very apropos given next month. Head out, stay home, your choice.

It's almost like they're trying to fetishize gay people...ummmm

What is that gay guy talking about?

Eventually this sort of thing will go away because it won't matter to anyone and people won't ask or assume until informed. But it will be many decades yet.

Who?

I agree with him.

The press seems to be more obsessed than anything. I swear, almost every interviewer starts their conversations with him with 'As an openly Gay actor...'

Move on, Press.

This was a thread last year. Numerous threads. The OP knows this too.

He needs to talk about being gay with me.

[quote]This is an old article. Why did you post this?

These are new comments from his Variety profile.

The article was posted yesterday, Karen. Fuck off.

Listen Andrew, honey, be sad when they're not talking about you, period.

He’s right. Moving beyond putting gay people in closets is not making sexuality a defining characteristic. It shouldn’t be so important.

I do wish that other section of the community, you know, the teensy little one, would get tired of talking about its identity.

[quote] I swear, almost every interviewer starts their conversations with him with 'As an openly Gay actor...'

It used to be worse. I remember on the Carson show when Harvey Fierstein admitted he was gay. The audience literally gasped in horror,

It'll die down and then people won't have any interest. Enjoy thee attention while it lasts.

He ought to be, when instead he can clearly just project a film of people gossiping about that topic onto his forehead.

he's a cutie

Love him.

It would be beyond grating to have to discuss your sexuality in every interview.

I guess this could be applied to every actor who isn’t a straight white man. You always get asked about your identity.

Good for him for saying enough already.

[quote]I swear, almost every interviewer starts their conversations with him with 'As an openly Gay actor...'

I wish interviewees would let some of the air out of these breathless and stupid interview questions and interject with, "I'm an actor who is gay, I'm not at all ashamed of it, and I hope not defined by it. There's no secret, no declaration, no revelation, no 'I identify as...', but yes, I'm gay."

I hope he will continue to be cast in gay, straight, ambiguously gay, and implicitly straight roles for many years, in movies and on TV. I love seeing him on screen.

Sorry but he made the choice to publicly come out. I almost never talk about my sexuality except with friends, because I don't want to talk about it. Let people assume what they want. You don't have to hide but nobody says you have to openly come out, either.

Everybody at my work knows I'm gay but it rarely comes up in conversation. I sometimes drop it in tangentially when referring to my partner. I also have the coffee mug linked which kind of gives it away as well

R23- Back in the 1990’s Howard Stern made a very homophobic remark about Harvey Fierstein but I laughed anyway.

- You’d think all that semen would clear up his throat-

Essentially, he regrets coming out as he's being typecast. He was happy to be openly gay when it suited him.

There really is such a thing as 'post-gay'. But he is going to have to change his life socially if that's what he wants.

[quote]Essentially, he regrets coming out as he's being typecast. He was happy to be openly gay when it suited him.

He didn’t say anything to that effect at all. He’s happy to be called “out gay actor” if it needs to be pointed out. He is NOT happy to be called “openly gay” as it has a negative connotation.

And he’s hardly being typecast. For that matter, neither is Jonathan Bailey. He’s playing straight in Wicked, and will be playing straight again in the next Jurassic movie.

He's probably used his fame to bang sceney instahos. I have zero sympathy.

[quote]Sorry but he made the choice to publicly come out. I almost never talk about my sexuality except with friends, because I don't want to talk about it. Let people assume what they want. You don't have to hide but nobody says you have to openly come out, either.

Fuck that. He had to "made the choice" only because straight people don't have to do because it's the presumption.

"I almost never talk about my sexuality except with friends" either, and that's in part because I don't have entertainment/gossip reporters shoving cameras and microphones at me asking if I'm "dating any special woman" (fishing for whether I'm straight or to clarify that I'm gay) or "wouldn't you like to comment about a how big a colleague's cock is?" from the series I just finished (beause you're a fag so we can assume you had a good look), or asking when I'm going "to settle down." If a work colleague tried that sort of fishing expedition or idle gossip they would quickly learn more than they wanted to know about me and also know never to ask about my sexuality again. But Scott has no protection from a "diverse workplace policy" and like his collegaues who work in front of a camera he's considered fair game for questions that would be considered rude and inappropriate to people who are not that particular kind of famous.

The fact is that if a straight actor plays gay or lesbian, it's bold and brave and bait for awards and the active subject of interview questions. If a straight actor plays a straight character, no one would ever thiink to raise a question about the character's sexuality. But if a gay actor plays a gay character --or a straight character-- then that's fodder for all sorts of stupid questions about everything from pride parades to gender identity to the difficulty of getting into character as a straight person.

Gay actors and entertainers get the stupid fucking questions that straights don't. What you choose to talk about in your private life is your business. It's not if you're in a new film or a new TV series or have a series of new songs coming out about ambiguously sexual past romances.

For Scott and others, it's less a choice about what not to say than spending a career dodging questions and deciding whether to be truthful about himself or to let people think he's straight and to perfect the art of artful answers that say nothing.

He should blame his fellow gay actors for staying in the closet, then. If they all come out, it'd be less of a talking point.

R30, straight men don't hide their relationships with women. They don't pretend their wives and gfs don't exist. They flaunt their relationships

Right, but they're also not constantly asked what it's like playing straight, and all the shit that gay actors are asked about even when it's irrelevant to their current project(s).