Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Some love for Wolverine
Comic Dave Chappelle is right. Too much ink is wasted over the political yammering of the famous. If singing and dancing is your forte, that is what I require when you open your mouth. Your thoughts on the topic of the day not so much. Today that rule will be broken to announce that from now until I’m some slobbering dirty old man pinching the backside of an overworked nurse, I’ll be the first in line for any Hugh Jackman movie.
Rumors about the Aussie star’s sexuality have been up for public debate (please do me a favor: don’t leave notes about how your best friend’s third cousin is Jackman’s lovah or how your third cousin’s man saw him kissing someone at the Hangar). Why we care about his bed mate(s) is beyond me, but what do I know? Heck I even can’t stand Twitter.
But here is how Jackman responded when pressed to answer the gossip:
“I’d be happy to go and deny it, because I’m not,” Jackman said. “But by denying it, I’m saying there is something shameful about it, and there isn’t anything shameful. The questions about sexuality I find more here in America than anywhere else, because it’s a big hang-up and defines what people think about themselves and others. It’s not a big issue in Australia.”
While your third cousin’s mate will be annoyed by this, it made my day. Made me fall in love a little bit. In a purely platonic way. Wrecking homes is for nasty girls and my parents raised me to be a lady.
Jackman has a new movie coming out and although he doesn’t need my cash he’s getting it. I can’t think of a better guy to give it to (excluding me of course).
Hugh’s answer was great! He is great inside as a human as well as great-looking outwardly! He is right. Americans generally have many hang-ups that we all need to work on. Organized religion has caused much of this.
To Ben: Thanks for the clarification and the update. Hopefully now that Hoaward is history, you guys will be able to move forward in your quest for equality. Please take every opportunity to remind your elected officials that when it comes to human rights, America is not an example you wish to follow. There are far better examples.
To Tiger tzu. As an Australian our society is more comfortable with diverse sexualities but not to the extent that people are in the UK and Europe though. We maybe just as conservitive as Americans but we are also alot more secular. 12 years of GWB lapdog Prime Minister John Howard really pushed my country to the far right. Its only been 18 months since John Howard was thrown out government and as a result the country is still in aftershock mode. The other main reasons we don’t have marriage equality is because most gay aussies would not choose marriage as an option and are not all that fussed about campaigning for it, particlarly so know that same sex and opposite sex defacto couples have virtual equal rights with married couples. Politicans have been spooked by the culture wars in the U.S and don’t wish to set them of by having mass public debate about these seperation of church and state issues. In the last election in 2007, when John Howard of the Liberal/Nationals (center right) lost. Labor (center left) won on the backs of religous voter in marginal seats swinging to them. These factors along with a christain Prime Minster Kevin Rudd have made a parliament, where private polling shows has a majority of parlimentarians who support marriage equality to spooked to pass equal marriage legislation.
I would trod out the old dodge: But he’s married and has two kids.
Which means nothing, as once upon a time, I was married with one kid.
Just as with Bill and Hillary, a marriage is far more than the bible-bashers would want us all, including their own cheating, lying selves, to believe.
A marriage is a compact between the people involved. it takes many many many forms which are satisfying to those involved and really not the business of those not involved.
We want Hugh Jackman to be gay because he is beautiful. We want him to be gay because he is talented in ways which we, gay and straight, want to think are the province of the homosexual.
For some reason, straight men have been denied socially the capacity for grace in dance or melody.
We fully accept the straight male as the loud boisterous rocker, long hair and flouncy clothing besides.
Or we accept the straight male as the dapper suited lounge singer or suave lady killer (a la Neil Diamond, say or Tom Jones).
BUT, when a beautiful man flings himself about the stage AND throws himself into melodious abandon…uh-oh…straight boys just aren’t supposed to act that way.
The weird thing is that I, in my own safety zone of interpretation, think that a man like Hugh Jackman has loved other men, as creativity and emotional honesty and abandon seem to me to have been drummed out of the repertoire of the heterosexual male whose ultimate expression of emotion must be restricted to grunts.
One of the reasons I thoroughly enjoy identifying as a gay male. I can do anything I want. From mixing concrete or riding a bucking bronco to arranging flowers and picking out the perfect scarf to go with those socks.
And no one questions me. And I do not question myself.
How wonderful it must be for a straight man to come to that same conclusion?
That what gender attracts us has little to nothing to do with the plethora of other experiences available in this realm which may attract us as well.
So…is Hugh Jackman gay?
Who cares?
Does Hugh Jackman do or experience whatever he wants to without giving a rat’s ass what society WANTS him to do or experience?
More than likely.
Good for him, then, and every other PERSON, male/female, gay, straight or whatever, who does the same.
Actually, Hugh is not being quite truthful. Australia doesn’t offer its G&L citizens total equality any more that the USA does, so apprantly it is a big deal to many Australians, their politicians anyways. Good for him to make a stand on the right side of history tho. I am counting the Days until Wolverine is set lose in theaters.
Hugh did an interview with the Advocate back in 2003 in which he says he early on gave himself permission to be attracted to a man. He never was, but he gave himself permission to be. It was an interesting article, and the nuances of that conversation are best read there, but his responses, his thoughfulness and consideration, made me a fan long ago.
Hugh Jackman is HOT. WOOOOF!!!!
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