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Playing it straight: should gay roles be reserved for gay actors? by Ryan Gilbey

From Freddie Mercury to Queen Anne, awards season is set to be dominated by queer characters played by non-LGBT performers. So is this sexuality's equivalent of blackface " or is it simply acting?It is 1992. A young actor named Will Smith, already a famous rapper and sitcom star, is nervous about his first big film role, as a gay con artist in Six Degrees of Separation. It's a part that requires him to kiss a man, so…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AM on January 14, 2019

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