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Straight Men Still Fear Magic Mike
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Magic Mike, which ‘s PopWatch deemed “the Citizen Kane of male stripper movies,” recently passed the $ million mark at the box office. I’m no statistician, but I’m pretty sure the number of straight men responsible for that milestone could fit in a garden shed—with plenty of room remaining for a fleet of riding mowers. My suspicions started last month when the trailer was making the rounds, and I expressed my interest in the film to a film-loving friend of mine.
“Really?” he asked incredulously.
“It’s Steven Soderbergh’s latest,” I said, referring to the eclectic director of such character-driven gems as Out of Sight and Traffic. “I’ve heard good things.”
My friend, the identical one who willingly attended the awful Rock of Ages with me, remained unconvinced.
A few weeks later, I caught Magic Mike with my wife—who wanted to see it for a completely different set of reasons
MatthewMcConaughey'sgay fans are no doubt looking forward to "Magic Mike," which will feature scenes of the star stripping down to a thong alongside fellow heartthrobs Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello.
But the year-old hunk has always enjoyed a sizable gay fanbase, which he discusses at length in a new interview with The Advocate.
"It’s much appreciated," he tells writer Brandon Voss of the support from the gay community. "You know, I hold some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight might, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different." He then went on to note. "I've had some great conversations with a lot of gay people about being gay, when they knew, how they came out, and how they liveIt’s all very interesting to me on a human level, because we’re all in this together."
McConaughey, who has been the subject of a number of rumors about his own sexuality, also recalls
Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?
Matt Bomer doesn't like talking about his private life.
And even if the White Collar star did publicly aknowledge he was gay earlier this year, he's not about to start spilling anytime soon.
"I never really endeavored to hide anything," Bomer, 34, told me this weekend while promoting his new movie, Magic Mike. "But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall."
Not that he dismisses the importance of being an out actor.
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"I had somebody from the military approach me a rare weeks ago just saying how this helps people, affects people," Bomer said. "It brought me to tears."
I go so far as to suggest that he could be saving young gay people's lives. "I hope so," he said. "They need saving, certai
We've been bombarded with Joe Mangenelo and Sophia Vergara stories way too often along with stories of the boys naming their trouser buddies. It's been fun listening to all of the boys being boys, but I've been waiting to verb if someone would acknowledge Matt as a gay actor in this very heterosexual movie. Finally someone asked Matt Bomer a question about him and his partner and if the "magic" from Magic Mike XXL initiate its way home to his husband and the bedroom.
Here is the interview with Donald Glover and Matt Bomer conducted by Dulce Osuna from Hola Hollywood.
had this to say about the Q & A exchange
While interviewing Magic Mike XXL stars Matt Bomer and Donald Glover, one reporter made a rather uncomfortable generalization.
Hola Hollywood's Dulce Osuna pointedly asked Matt Bomer if he felt that gay men were harder to please [], and Bomer maintained perfect composure while shutting down the reporter. "Why would I ever try to boil down an entire community into a yes-or-no question?"