Are the gay guys on modern family gay

It seems like over the past couple of years there has been significant backlash about actors from what I can tell, mostly straight, white actors? Do you guy it is likely that we will see a straight actor playing gay again, or is it something that is becoming akin to blackface or other such outdated, offensive relics of the past?

The OP opens this up to just more than gay actors. I think some of this criticism stems from good intentions. Voices are often amplified online. It was a ham handed if well intentioned move. Dangle is played by Thomas Lennon I assume straight from his wikipedia entry, although he is a Morrisey fan. On Orange is the New Black almost all the lesbian or bi characters were played by straight women.

In Gentleman Jack the main character is a lesbian played by a straight are, and her love interest is also played by a straight woman. One of the problems with disabled characters being played by able-bodied characters, is that they are often also written by able-bodied writers as well. You also avoid the problem of taking the limited number of opportunities there are for disabled actors the from them, and giving them to actors who could be doing something else.

Can you imagine anyone but Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper? As long as there is that balance, you will continue to see gay characters played by straight actors. Representation is modern the idea that its important to see people like yourself reflected in popular culture. This is most often talked about in the context of race - Black Panther was a big deal in large part because its so rare to have a black person helming a giant Event Movie like that.

This aspect is pretty straightforward. Opportunity is a bit more nuanced. Because its already considered inappropriate to cast a white actor as a black character, solving the representation problem there necessarily resolves the opportunity problem: more black roles means more opportunity for black actors.

Trans gay, for example, almost never get cast in cis roles. So when a high profile role for an explicitly trans character come along, and they decide to cast Scarlett Johansson again! So, when the rare character comes along that uses a wheelchair, and they cast an able bodied actor in that role…. Speaking just for myself, I have no problem with a straight actor taking a family role.

A bad actor is a bad actor. The same applies gay a gay role. But plenty of straight people put in sterling performances as gay characters.

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I have no problem in that regard. TimothyNewsome January 11,pm 1. Chingon January 11,pm 2.