Bias Against Homosexual Actors Very Much Prevalent
News
oi-Staff
By Super Admin
At
the
Berlin
Awards,
Sir
Ian
McKellen
gave
the
American
Film
Industry
flak
for
the
biased
outlook
that
they
have
towards
homosexuals
in
the
business.
At
the
Berlin
Awards
where
he
received
a
lifetime
achievement
award,
the
most
prominent
gay
artist
in
the
industry
said
that
things
have
not
improved
over
the
years.
He
was
in
praise
of
this
years
hit
film
Brokeback
Mountain
that
paraded
a
gay
relationship
between
stars
Jake
Gyllenhall
and
Heath
Ledger.
The
thespian
said
that
the
American
Movie
Industry
was
moving
slowly
with
the
times.
He
himself
is
a
gay
fighter
of
the
industry.
He
came
clean
in
'88
and
that
preceded
his
rise
to
stardom
and
to
becoming
one
of
the
top-notch
actors
in
the
business.
The
gay
opinion
around
is
that
this
particular
year
Hollywood
has
done
well
in
giving
homosexuals
their
say.
Flicks
like
Capote
and
Transamerica
apart
from
Brokeback
Mountain)
which
really
sets
the
ball
rolling
all
close
in
on
gay
relationship
being
portrayed
in
movies.
The
causes
they
perpetrate
have
served
two
main
benefits
to
the
gay
community-one
being
providing
storylines,
which
appeal
to
both
homosexual
and
non-homosexual
intrests
apart
from
telling
the
world
the
true
"homosexual
story".