Hollywood openly gays

Billy Eichner is opening up about his experience as an openly gay actor in Hollywood. The "Lion King" star, 41, spoke to Deadline about LGBTQ representation in film and television as well as the career challenges actors can face when they come out of the closet. We put them on the cover of magazines. And then instantly, that actor gets taken off so many casting lists in the business.

These six men and women of Hollywood gave their thoughts on being openly gay or bisexual and black in the industry. Click on their photos or scroll down to see what they said. Diversity has been the buzzword in Hollywood for the better part of the last year. Henson and the continual sprinkling of LGBT people and characters on screens large and small, Tinseltown paints itself as a progressive paragon in a world not yet there. But true progress in Hollywood has yet to trickle down for those at the intersection of their non-white race and non-heterosexual identity. In an effort to chronicle the experiences of openly gay black actors in Hollywood, I reached out to all those that I could think of, a relatively small list. For them, New York looks white.

While there is still widespread public confusion about the precise nature and spread of the disease, it is a fact that the overwhelming majority of monkeypox patients in the United States identify as LGBTQ and are male. At a meeting this week in West Hollywood, a hub for Los Angeles' LGBTQ community, actor Matt Ford received a standing ovation as he spoke openly about the "excruciating" symptoms he had endured when he contracted the disease - an experience he has also shared online. While monkeypox has not so far been labelled a sexually transmitted infection STI and can infect anyone, the group currently most affected is men who have sex with men. Spreading through skin-to-skin contact, the disease is most often transmitted through sexual activity, and the World Health Organisation this week urged gay and bisexual men to limit their sexual partners.

The Game of Thrones actor says Hollywood casting sees homosexuality and masculinity as incompatible in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival. Donovan , actor Kit Harington told Variety of his frustrations with the casting — or lack of — of out gay male actors. I mean, when is that going to happen? The Death and Life of John F. Donovan sees Harington take on the titular role of a TV star who hides his sexuality because of the threat it poses to his career.