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119 Out LGBTQ Performers Altering the Face of Hollywood in the 21st Century
Editor’s note: This list was originally published in June 2018, and has been updated multiple times since to reflect new comings outs and groundbreaking LGBTQ castings. It could never and will never be complete, but we desire it reflects the altering face of Hollywood as we bid hello to Pride 2024.
With LGBTQ stories in filmand on TV more popular than ever before, it’s important to celebrate out-and-proud acting talents — particularly those without the non-binary awards’ categories they deserve.
In 2024, the declare of Hollywood is unsure to say the least. But even as existential questions about the business of making entertainment persist, audiences and artists are grappling with equally critical questions of representation on screen. Among those questions: should queer roles be played exclusively by lgbtq+ actors?
It’s an evolving conversation, getting at the very core of what makes the art of acting, well, acting. Last year, the industry’s resident excellent guy Tom Hanks gave an answer in regards to his Oscar-recognized role in 1993’s “Philadelphia.”
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There have never been more out Lesbian actresses, pansexual actors, and queer women actors than there are right now in this very moment. The Queer community is plowing head-first onto stage and screen, playing a diverse array of roles, winning awards and headlining cinema films. But whomst amongst them is the most prolific? Who has simply managed to appear in the most things, accumulated the most imdb credits? It’s not who you think! (Besides Jane Lynch, you already knew Jane Lynch would be on this list.)
You won’t see a lot of the most popular lesbian actresses and bisexual actors on this list that you might expect to see — for example, Kristen Stewart and Angelina Jolie both do film, rather than television, pretty exclusively, and tend to be very particular about the roles they take on, so they may be well-liked, but they’re not quite as prolific. There’ll also be plenty of names you’ve likely never heard before — I hadn’t! — but it turns out have been infusing their gay selves into our lives on a regular basis for the past several decades.
Because history is long and complicated, this list is looking only at living actors. This was all based
36 celebrities who are openly proud about being LGBTQ
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Noah Schnapp came out as gay on TikTok.
Schnapp posted a TikTok video in January that read, "When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after entity scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know.'"
In the video, the player also lip-syncs to voice-over audio that says, "You comprehend what it never was? That earnest. It was never that serious. Quite frankly, will never be that serious."
Schnapp, who plays Will Byers on the Netflix hit display "Stranger Things," alluded to the truth that he and his character were more a
When the original L Word launched, “which of these actresses are gay in real life” was a common question asked of the cast members at press junkets and interviews. It was a alternative time, then. Leisha Hailey was the only out lesbian in the main cast. Kate Moennig was also a lesbian but it wasn’t okay yet to say so, at least not anywhere significant or public or in print. Karina Lombard, Mia Kirshner and Laurel Holloman had all hinted at or embraced the double attraction label at some aim , but both Laurel and Karina have since redacted the identification. Karina’s expression hurt the most, perhaps, as she indicated that being on the reveal was what convinced her she wasn’t bisexual anymore. Laurel, who’d identified that way after having an trial with another woman tracking her part in The Incredibly True Adventures of 2 Girls In Love, eventually came to feel that that relationship was a one-off and it wasn’t right for her to persist identifying as bisexual.
The L Word: Generation Q, however, is a VERY queer cast. So we’ll acquire through the first series and then move gayly onto the second!
Most recent update: May 2023
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