Talk:Gay-for-pay
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[edit] Removed paragraph....
I have removed the following paragraph:
- Russell Crowe’s portrayed a gay man in Geoff Burton’s The Sum of Us and Home Improvement’s Jonathan Taylor Thomas, 3rd Rock From The Sun’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt and 7th Heaven’s David Gallagher had gay roles in Nickolas Perry’s Speedway Junky, Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin & C. Jay Cox's Latter Days, and Duncan Roy’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray, respectively. In no small part, due to all of these films and the mainstream success of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, it's now becoming more acceptable for heterosexual males to play gay males on film.
While I have no compunctions about researched entries in this article - these inclusions seem willy-nilly and POV. If you are going to simply include a list of straight actors who have performed in "gay themed" films, that would be a very long list. Also, many of the films mentioned were hardly "mainstream" and/or highly watched - it seems to me to merely be a Wiki editor's top picks for inclusion in the article and not reflective of more popular "gay themed" films. Who thinks Jonathan Taylor Thomas's portrayal in film was that well known and worthy of mention in this article? I can certainly think of dozens of other well known films with heterosexual actors portraying gay characters.
Lastly, In no small part, due to all of these films and the mainstream success of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, it's now becoming more acceptable for heterosexual males to play gay males on film. Seems to be riddled with weasel words and POV. ExRat 02:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] re: Removed paragraph....
The author never said the list was comprehensive. It was just a little list which could have grown into a bigger list with time and contributions from others. "Gay for Pay" roles certainly exist outside the "gay themed" film genre; I really don't think it's right to remove a movie from a section about "gay for pay" just because the movie isn't gay themed. --Vittlebog 05:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Clark Gable
I'm removing the blurb about Clark Gable; Reuters describes the book's allegations as completely unsourced. Cap'n Walker 16:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mainstream movies
I have never seen "gay for pay" used in conjunction with mainstream actors - only porno actors. --Fredrick day (talk) 11:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- The usage has been transferred as gay roles have become more mainstream and bigger name actors take "gay" roles. Benjiboi 11:59, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Transferred where? I can see one reference to it in the article, which seems to be the lynchpin the section is based upon. --Fredrick day (talk) 12:04, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
