Playing gay

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Playing gay

Published: Saturday, November 29, 2008

Playing gay

While plenty films feature openly gay characters, it's rare to have an openly gay leading man in a movie

Tom Hanks

"Philadelphia" (1993)

Tom Hanks won an Oscar for his portrayal of Andrew Beckett, an attorney dying of AIDs who is fired because of his condition

Philip Seymour Hoffman

"Capote" (2005)

Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for his role
as the flamboyant author Truman Capote.

Kevin Kline

"In and Out" (1997)

Kevin Klein stars
as a high school English teacher who questions his own sexuality after he is outed by a
former student.

Heath Ledger

"Brokeback Mountain" (2005)

Heath Ledger received an Oscar nomination for his role of a cowboy in a secretive relationship with another man.