Straight Actor Grossed Out By The Thought Of Playing Gay Guys
Actor and columnist Nicholas Brown wrote a piece for The Atlantic about how he auditioned for a role in an AIDS PSA and got skeeved about having to play a homo.
The Atlantic (via Queerty):
I am not gay. I have no shortage of gay friends. My uncle is gay. I've marched in a gay pride parade. More than half of the roommates I have lived with are gay. I support marriage equality.
So it comes as a shock to me when I realize that, actually, if I am honest with myself, I'm not comfortable with kissing another man on camera. I really don't want to book this part.
I don't want people to think I'm gay. And I'm even more uncomfortable because that isn't a thought that I want to have.
Oh, the violins. My people thank you.
I, at least, am sorry. You don't have to believe in a Judeo-Christian god to find something redeeming in confession. I am sorry that I balked at the idea of pretending to be gay. I am sorry that my uncle went home alone all those years. I am sorry for the whole ugly human history of slights and hate crimes and exclusion.
Easy there, Matyr Mike. Can someone collect my eyeballs because they've rolled right the fuck out of their sockets. Do you have any idea how quickly I'd move away from this bitch at a party? I'd rather go to a Fred Phelps rally. At least those inbreds are honest about it.
That's fine that you're freaked out about being typecast as gay or women thinking you're a rough rider in real life. Legit fears, I guess. But this is a dumb bitch because everyone in Hollywood is gay, right? Don't gays run the entertainment industry? THere wouldn't be one without the cock fans. Nick here just posted the acting hopeful equivalent of telling a prospective employer on a job interview that you have a tendency to openly masturbate in the printer room. You're going to get stuck doing commercials for Christian Mingle and thats going to be it. Oh, who am I kidding. Everyone's gay over there, too.
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Submitted by sushi on Sun, 12/30/2012 - 12:36am.
Is it now a requirement that every hetero has to pretend to enjoy gay sex?
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Yes. In fact, it is a law.
Is it now a requirement that every hetero has to pretend to enjoy gay sex?
I'm reading this as him saying he is only uncomfortable with kissing another man while he's in front of a camera.
So...to me, that means he's OK with kissing another man while NOT in front of a camera?
Or maybe it's just the weird way my mind is working, with the full moon and all.
Seacrest is speed-dialing this tool.
Yes, "Angela" does spread suicide rumors. One time it got so bad that people were asking each other to facebook a certain person who had supposedly killed herself.
She didn't. She just got tired of getting bugged by "Angela."
Don't be an Angela!
I don't know about cyber laws. I think free speech covers most of it.
Is it free speech to hack someone and spread false rumors of their suicide to get people upset? I think that may not be covered under free speech. I think that crosses into stalking or at least harassment. I'm sure there are some DListers who know this stuff better than I, though!
I hate people who cower under "free speech" when they're spreading hate speech or just trying to hurt someone. Fuckers like that only use bits of the Constitution or certain parts of the Bible when it suits their needs, and ignore the rest. I can't believe I have friends and family serving in the military to protect assholes like that and their "rights". Sigh.
Submitted by Condi the ingro... on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 11:12pm.
This is tantamount to admitting you don't want to kiss a person of color.
Ya think? Interesting.
Angela will also make you commit suicide or at least delete your account.
And does she also spread rumors of your alleged suicide?
Can't she (he? it?) get arrested for these actions? I admittedly know nothing about cyber-laws. But it seems like those actions are illegal in some way.
I think there are lots of actresses who are/would be uncomfortable kissing him. Also, he's no fucking catch & if I were a gay man, I'd probably refuse to kiss him. Hell, I'm a straight woman and I'd still refuse to kiss him, part or no part. He looks like his breath is rank and his skin is greasy.
Submitted by MisterPatty on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 11:48pm.
New person here who lurks a lot. Who is Angela?
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Welcome to the D. Good question. Angela is a troll of legend. She was mean, she pushed buttons, she flamed. As other trolls have replaced her, many have hypothesized that these awful personalities are alters of the infamous Angela. If someone thinks you might be Angela, you are doing something very wrong! Angela is a ghost in the D machine... Angela has doppelgangers... Angela is the root of all evil and hate... Angela is the Sybil of the cyber world... Angela is insane!!!!
PS Angela will also give your computer a virus when she hacks into it to get your real name and telephone number to give to an aggressive religious cult.
Damn. That seems like a lot of effort for people you've never met in real life. Imagine if that energy were harnessed for good instead of evil.
Someone I'm acquainted with was talking about a stalker he had who hacked his phones and computers and did other CRAZY shit. She also apparently broke into his house, threatened his life, and started hacking computers, etc. of his friends and family. Mind. Boggled.
Why do people go through that much trouble to harass someone?
Ah thank you
New person here who lurks a lot. Who is Angela? Also, who doubts his uncle always went home alone?
Piss off. I don't give a goddamn what you're uncomfortable pretending.
Something tells me the "Nicholas Brown" tag is already redundant, and either "A Check is a Check" or "Fug" would have sufficed for this post. Actor and columnist = unemployed bum shit-stirring for attention.
Oh my God - why do the white girls always have to take it so hard? If you don't want to mack on a guy, dude, don't mack on a guy. End of story.
Don't paint yourself to be some sort of enlightened person because you're "brave enough" to admit you don't want your peen to be anywhere near another peen. I suppose we should all congratulate you for not picking up a baseball bat and going hunting for the gays. What a fucking saint.
This is tantamount to admitting you don't want to kiss a person of color. And if you also feel that way, let me thank you on behalf of all of us. You've saved us from a world of ICK. Twat.
He's gay.
I wonder if he knows there is an on-line application to become a member of Scientology? He didn't need to take out a full page ad.
Awwww, he's afraid he'll like it.
This is major famewhoring, faux-sincerity, attention getting, sensitive bullshit.
Kissing Ass and Cupping Balls. You're Welcome.
This twat with the HONGRAY eyes isn't as cute as he thinks he is.
"Let them all boil in their own hotdog juice." Deb 7/2012
"...I'm a greedy, money grubbing
whore and a check is a check, so I'd strap a snorkel on the ol' noggin
and muff dive like there was diamonds up in there..."
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Oh dear Lord! Roflmfao!!! Tiger Lilly, do you mind if I steal this as my new siggie??? XD
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This is attention whore shit. He's an actor so everything is attention whore shit for him, but this especially because he has figured out how to game the "clutch the pearls" crowd on both sides of the aisle. I don't think his opinion matters and it doesn't offend me. It's just dumb that an actor has these kinds of issues publicly. It's stupid for the reasons mentioned. He's going to offend people needlessly in this little exploration of his innermost deep thoughts and it shows him to be literally a homophobe, as well as an idiot, and someone who's not real clear on what acting is.
TL;DR: It's not so offensive to gay people in my opinion, because who cares, but it makes him look dumb. First and last mention of this dude hopefully.
http://13-mitred-abbots.tumblr.com/
And still, when I IMDB him I get an Indian guy. Well worth it...
You can be gay without people thinking your gay. Just ask Rock Hudson...oh wait you can't.
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I'm not even going to google or IMDB this looser, don't want his star rating to go up after this obvious and pathetic bid for attention and press.
Me thinks the lady doth protest too strongly.
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Shiitake happens...
People need to stop trying to push their ideas and beliefs on others...and that includes the gay community.
Mostly I care about anyone having to kiss HIM-he is fugly with really unfortunate coloring, pasty and zitty.
@dementa, yeah when I read that he didn't want to do that I also thought, "well it's because he's not gay that he doesn't want to engage in homosexual activity" but the part where he writes about him not wanting people to think he's gay because of his role struck me as a bit homophobic because he's an actor and he probably hasn't worried about people thinking he's really a 19th century governor or whatever roles he's played. But I think the fact that he feels bad about that is some progress, it means that he recognizes that homosexuality makes him uncomfortable but that he wishes it didn't--societal progress is slow but this is how it starts.
BFD.
All the guy needs is a little alcohol. Ever see what most men go home with before last call at a bar? Kissing a man would be the least of his worries.
Submitted by Bossy on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 8:51pm.
Nah, I wasn't offended either. But then, I don't think it's homophobic (or heterophobic) to not want to engage in any intimate activities with somebody you aren't attracted to, or to find that unpleasant.
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I'm here to kick ass and drink tea. And I'm all out of tea.
Hot choc on the cock? We can all go home now.
Submitted by Gobbler on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 8:41pm.
Submitted by Tigerlilly on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 8:38pm.
Put some warm dude slob on your cob...or a little hot choc on the cock..
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*dies laughing*
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I know I ain't right in the head for that.
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Am I the only one who wasn't offended or eye-rolling because of this? He wrote that he's not happy that he feels that way but that he does nevertheless, isn't that just honest? People grow up with social stigmas and they can be hard to unroot. I'm sure plenty of people helped or cared for African Americans during the civil rights era in the US but still had racist thoughts because that's what they grew up having engrained in them. Gay marriage is still a battle legally and socially, prejudice against gays isn't going to be eliminated in one generation. At least he's sort of trying to understand his uncle, etc.
Submitted by Tigerlilly on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 8:38pm.
Put some warm dude slob on your cob...or a little hot choc on the cock..
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O_o
*dies laughing*
Submitted by Deb on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 8:03pm.
"More than half of the roomates I have lived with have been gay."
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In his defense, gay 'roomates' have the best penis warmers....Just because you're 100% tuna lovin' HETERO does not mean you should suffer a COLD peen...It's winter after all...Put some warm dude slob on your cob...or a little hot choc on the cock...It's all good and it soooooooooo doesn't mean you're DA GHEY!!!!
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
The phrase "Judeo-Christian" is by far the most offensive thing to me about this no-name whiny bitch's "confession." All the evangelical freakazoids like to say "judeo-christian" to us when trying to say they "care about Israel," which is code for "My book says all the Jews have to be in Israel for jeebus to return, and I like the idea of people browner than Jews being disenfranchised and/or killed." Jews who attend synagogue and do Jewish holiday stuff, like me, find ourselves especially beleaguered by these mofos. So, i hate this guy mostly for making me relive all the damn run-ins with the born-again bitches in my liberal but still sometimes frighteningly midwestern town. The fact that this kid no one's heard of thinks he's doing my Other Us a favor by "confessing" his wussiness is comparatively mildly annoying.
But yeah, it's always good to have a reminder that straight male WASP bitches need to STFU about their "issues." Thanks, J. Harvey, and please continue with the watchdogging that does not involve a plethora of jizz bottles. Have a good rest of the weekend.
um...who is this?
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Roseanne Barr
Submitted by Glambert on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 7:21pm.
This NOBODY bitch only wrote the article for The Atlantic hoping he would get attention from it and get "discovered" so he won't have to do PSAs anymore.
The whole thing reeks of famewhoring.
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I agree, he should of just gotten out of a limo and flashed his vadge like Anne Hathaway did...
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Submitted by Zambonie on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 7:57pm.
Well obviously he should be forced to play gay parts
And in between be gang banged by gays
And all non gays should be forced to watch gay movies and gay porn
Because if you don't want to participate you absolutely must be evil and forced to
ladies and gentlemen,...the new Screen Actors Guild mission statement!
*wild Kermit the Frog-style applause*
"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12
Submitted by Kukai-manini on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 7:18pm.
Nice try Angela, Gladys, et al.
I can't muster up the strength to care. I did however care enough to report Angela's dumb ass.
"More than half of the roomates I have lived with have been gay."
Nick has a gift for redundancy too!
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 7:48pm.
The thing I find most annoying is this: when hetero actors play gay, everyone praises them for their ""bravery"". When gay actors play hetero people start mumbling about the set up not being ""convincing"".
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To be fair, there is not, nor has there ever been a social stigma for being straight. I'm NOT saying there SHOULD be or EVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN one for being gay, but there was and still is. Let's be real. It's apples and oranges, though it shouldn't be and actors should do or not do what they're comfortable with. It's a job after all. Sometimes you may think you can handle some shit for the paycheck, then you realize you can't. Happens to A LOT of people in their every day jobs who don't have to have a million viewers looking at them doing something that they don't want to do and pretending to be something they are not. And yes, I agree decide your bounderies BEFORE you apply to take on the task. Easier said than done sometimes is all I'm saying.
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
I would suck his dick and make him cum however!
Well obviously he should be forced to play gay parts
And in between be gang banged by gays
And all non gays should be forced to watch gay movies and gay porn
Because if you don't want to participate you absolutely must be evil and forced to
The thing I find most annoying is this: when hetero actors play gay, everyone praises them for their ""bravery"". When gay actors play hetero people start mumbling about the set up not being ""convincing"".