Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every case we prevent is a life saved," explained Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, head of the A.M.A.'s AIDS task force. The doctors may also have had in mind a few lawsuits that have been filed seeking damages from physicians who did not warn partners of AIDS victims. Gay rights groups and civil libertarians object that the rule will drive AIDS underground: if victims think doctors will expose them, they will simply avoid seeing physicians...
Part of The Front Runner's problem, ironically, may be that it depicts an ordinary world and that the gay coach is supposed to look and act like any other coach. In the past, the stars who have been injured by playing gay roles have been those who did not appear to be acting, who were so natural that they seemed to be playing themselves. Laurence Luckinbill's agent, for instance, warned him not to accept the part of a bisexual schoolteacher in Mart Crowley's movie of The Boys in the Band (1970), which took a pioneering look...
...dollars were all that counted, the agent may have given good advice. The Boys' boys were so convincing that many people incorrectly thought they were all gay, an assumption that cost Luckinbill, for one, a cigarette commercial worth $15,000. Said the casting director: "No fags smoke our fags." That snide comment did not stop Luckinbill from taking two subsequent gay parts, however...
Harry Hamlin ran into the same prejudice in 1982, when he played a gay writer in Making Love. Hamlin's character appeared straight. The only time he acted otherwise was when he went to bed with Michael Ontkean, who played another all-American. Though Hamlin's credentials as a heterosexual were beyond dispute -- he was living at the time with sexy Ursula Andress -- his realistic characterization cast his career into a gloom that was lifted only...
That is at least one worry a gay actor would probably not have had. Why? Because gay actors seldom take the risk of accepting gay parts. Like Rock Hudson, they often find it safer to play ladies...