Joel McHale has gained a lot of gay fans around the globe thanks to Community, and as with pretty much every good-looking male celeb who looks after their body (and boy does he look after his body), he’s had rumours about his sexuality floating around for years. Now he’s been talking to The Advocate about it, and has revealed he really doesn’t care.
”I always find it really weird when guys flip out over someone thinking they might be gay,” he says. “If a guy gets offended by that, there’s something wrong with him. I take it as a compliment.”
He adds, “As long as the comments about my body are positive, I don’t mind.”
McHale’s very happy about all the support his comedy show has had from gay fans, saying “Community needs all the help it can get, so thank God for our gay fans. Our young gay fans especially are the loudest and most Internet-savvy. That also speaks to the quality of our show, which I think is highly intelligent.”
As well as Community, McHale presented the TV series The Soup, and has popped up in movies such as Spider-man 2, Ted, and What’s Your Number?.
The actor also tells a story about a situation where he ended up in a gay bar as a young man, waiting for a friend, when he realised that the men around him were starting to come onto him. So what’s his advice for a straight man to deal with this situation? “Just a very quick, courteous blowjob.”
Openly gay Milk writer, Dustin Lance Black, has been announced as the recipient of the un-snappily titled Lew and Pamela Hunter/Jonathan and Janice Zakin chair holder in screenwriting Award, which is given by top film school UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Derek Jarman is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most important gay film directors, making films that both directly looked at homosexuality or which look at life through gay eyes. The London Barbican is screening Jarman’s 1990 film, The Garden, this Sunday April 21st 2013 at 7pm, introduced by Film Editor at Metro London, Larushka Ivan-Zadh.
The official line-up for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival has been revealed, with an interesting set of movies screening from May 15th to 26th. We already knew the festival would open with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and that Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring would kick off the Un Certain Regard segment, but now the other movies have been announced.
There may have been a bit of controversy over the Oscars, with some saying host Seth MacFarlane was sexist, mean, or in bad taste, but the Academy obviously didn’t mind too much, as they’ve rehired the men behind the telecast, openly gay producers Craig Zadan & Neil Meron, to come up with the next one.