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Bret Easton Ellis: The Year the Oscars Finally Got Gay Right (Guest Column) A record of seven out of 20 Oscar-nominated roles are for LGBTQ characters — and there's not a tortured coming-out. By Bret Easton Ellis. Here is the stat: 4. The year the Oscars finally got gay right.
After word got out that Oscar-nominated Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande would be opening the show with some sort of performance, we began to wonder how many songs from the movie musical. A ndrew Haigh never cared about casting a gay actor in a gay role until All of Us Strangers. I needed someone who could understand that and have those conversations with me. 
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List of LGBTQ Academy Award winners and nomineesThis list details the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people who have been nominated for or received Academy Awards and/or cis - hetero actors who have been nominated for or won for playing queer characters. Individuals are identified as queer, though they may not have publicly or personally identified at the time of their nomination. But as the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro , Cooper had seemingly cracked the code. The role encompassed all the hallmarks of a typical Oscar winner: Cooper was playing a historical figure in an artsy biopic.
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Over 95 years, more than 80 Oscar nominations have gone to presumably straight, cisgender actors cast in queer roles. Of those, at least 15 have gone on to win. Compare that to the number of openly queer actors who have been nominated for playing LGBTQ+ characters, which, before the nominees were announced, could be counted on one hand. . Is This the Year a Queer Actor Goes All the Way at the Oscars?
Earlier this week, Colman Domingo was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his role as the titular civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in Rustin. The nomination, which is Colman's first, is. . The fascinating, but often lacking, LGBTQ+ history of the Oscars
Paul Winfield becomes the first openly LGBTQ+ Oscar nominee Just four years after the Stonewall riots, Paul Winfield made Oscars history: he was the third-ever Black Best Actor nominee, the first openly gay Black nominee, and the first gay nominee to have come out on his own terms. . 
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By several measures, diversification has improved, and the Oscars this year look much more like America in Seven of the 20 acting nominees are from historically underrepresented groups. .
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