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Nathan Lane: Robin Williams &#;Protected Me&#; From Coming Out as Lgbtq+ on &#;Oprah&#; in Because &#;He Was a Saint&#;
Nathan Lane revealed on &#;Sunday Today&#; that Robin Williams once protected him from coming out as gay against his will on national television. The year was and Lane and Williams were on their press tour for Mike Nichols&#; &#;The Birdcage,&#; in which they play a gay couple trying to marry off their son to a conservative couple&#;s daughter. Alley was nervous about doing an interview on &#;The Oprah Winfrey Show&#; as &#;The Birdcage&#; was one of his first major film roles, and he did not want to come out publicly as gay at the moment.
&#;I was not prepared at all for that,&#; Lane said about openly discussing his sexuality at the time. &#;And I certainly wasn&#;t ready to go from table-to-table and tell them all I was gay. I just wanted to speak about finally [getting] a big part in a movie, and I didn’t want to make it about my sexuality.”
Of course, Lane knew that playing a queer character in the production would make discussing his sexuality in real existence &#;sort of unavoidable,&#; but he still wasn&#;t ready to do so.
“I don&#;t
Rest in Peace, Robin Williams, You Were Truly a Gay Icon
By Dennis McMillan
Everyone on the world is mourning the tragic demise of comic extraordinaire Robin Williams, but none more than the LGBTQ community. Williams was definitely a queer icon.
In the movie The Birdcage, Williams portrayed the gay dad dealing with a hetero son, as well as the owner of a drag cabaret and gay lover of its celestial body drag queen performer.
He was the gay daddy in drag in Mrs. Doubtfire—as the kind, elderly Scottish nanny, calling himself Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire after seeing a newspaper headline with the words “doubt” and “fire.” In the hilarious film, straight Daniel Hillard enlists his gay brother Frank (played by openly gay Harvey Fierstein), a makeup artist, and Frank’s partner Jack to alter him into Mrs. Doubtfire.
My favorite personal moment with Williams was when I was dressed as Sister Dana Van Iquity in full-on nun drag and bumped into him walking down Castro Street. I joked to him, “Well, there goes the neighborhood,” and he laughed uproariously! At the time, I had no idea the effect that incident would have in the future.
Then, months later on a talk show,
I had already agreed to an interview with Robbie Williams before realizing he wasn’t queer at all. That’s on me. As a teenager who was fond of his anthemic ballad “Angel” and then saw him strip down to his briefs (and much less) in the “Rock DJ” video, I couldn’t help but long for he was.
Our pop idols have limited command over how we perceive them and their sexual identity (just ask Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles and even Taylor Swift), and in my wishful thinking as a gay kid growing up in the s without much advocacy, I missed the part where Williams sued a British tabloid in for claiming he had a “secret gay lover” and performed a sex operate on a man in a Manchester club bathroom. (The tabloid ultimately apologized and paid “substantial” damages to the pop star.)
Then I lost track of him for a while. Now, he’s the subject of an entire biopic, “Better Man,” where he’s portrayed by a CGI chimpanzee. Though human actors surround him in "The Greatest Showman" director Michael Gracey's film, this animal version of Williams serves as a symbol of his complex feelings about fame, as he contempl
The FRC Abuses Robin Williams’ Death to Support Ex-Gay Therapy
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When a figure as beloved and respected as Robin Williams passes away, it’s only natural that writers scramble and stretch to find distinctive means of marking the event. Praising certain performances, recounting personal encounters, or even using the opportunity to raise awareness about issues (like depression) that challenged the deceased are all good tacks. What’s clearly inappropriate, though, is using a man’s death as a launchpad for flights of bizarre associative logic concerning your own pet cause—which is exactly what Family Research Council Senior Fellow Peter Sprigg did yesterday when he used Williams’ attendance of substance-abuse-related rehab to defend, somehow, ex-gay therapy.
Sprigg’s argument, as far as I can parse it, is basically this: Rehab and therapy are options for individuals who suffer from alcoholism and other forms of dangerous addiction, and world generally smiles on the use of these services to help addicts receive sober. Therefore, we should similarly support “sexual reorientation therapy,” since individuals occur who are uncomfortable with their same-sex at
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