Paul Mescal From Hulu's Normal People

It’s not as if actors haven’t gaybaited in the past. An actor from How to Get Away With Murder acknowledged that he did, that it was wrong, and apologized for it after the show is over. We’re not too far removed Tom Hanks winning the Oscar for Philadelphia, a gay film with practically no gay actors in substantial parts at all. Colman Domingo’s Oscar nomination this year is only the second nomination for an openly gay man playing a gay part- ever.

The mess with Kit Connor has made it impossible to have any sort of nuanced conversation about exploiting gay audiences or how we can make sure that there are gay people actively involved in telling our own stories. We should be able insist that at least some (but definitely not all) of the actors, screenwriters, producers, and directors of gay stories actually are gay so those stories are authentically told. And don’t we want talented gay actors to stay employed? There’s got be some way to make sure that gay people are actively involved without making people feel “forced out” like Kit Connor or insisting that straight people never take gay roles.

This film probably isn’t an appropriate target of those conversations, though. Andrew, this film’s lead, is out and proud. For where I’m standing, that should be enough and it’s progress from the Philadelphia days. Leave Paul alone.
To be honest, I'm not surprised at people try to force Paul out of an imaginary closet. The sad truth is that testosterone makes you a dog, sexuall speaking. You're only seeking after new flesh in the market all the time. The (equally) inconveinent truth is that being a public person exposes you to outings, unfortunately. Actors or any other public person should expect that kind of things as banks should expect burglars coming in. Why? People will never learn to behave. It's simply utopic, best wishes kind of thinking.

Second and also in this line of thought, the aforementioned actor who apologized for gay-baiting in How to Get Away With Murder, is still doing it. I'm not going to drop names, but he has a thread in this forum, and you should see the kind of content he posts in social media. He keeps posting things addressed to a non-straight male audience (pit pics, sensual swim/run workouts, etc), so guys like me still wonder if he was really honest. To my experience he might be really more sexually fluid than we think, without the need to label himself. Now if you're ask him to be transparent, probably he will never be... And still he hasn't been in any new major project to my knowledge... So well
 
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There's a new interview clip of him with andrew, and the reporter asks him if it's okay for him, as a straight man, to play a gay character. To which he replied, "assumptions are dangerous.., thats all im gonna say" and andrew had to kinda step in and i thought it was very interesting
I rolled my eyes at that. Grown ass rich and famous man too pussy to say he’s bisexual or whatever like give me a break
 
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To be honest, I'm not surprised at people try to force Paul out of an imaginary closet. The sad truth is that testosterone makes you a dog, sexuall speaking. You're only seeking after new flesh in the market all the time. The (equally) inconveinent truth is that being a public person exposes you to outings, unfortunately. Actors or any other public person should expect that kind of things as banks should expect burglars coming in. Why? People will never learn to behave. It's simply utopic, best wishes kind of thinking.

Second and also in this line of thought, the aforementioned actor who apologized for gay-baiting in How to Get Away With Murder, is still doing it. I'm not going to drop names, but he has a thread in this forum, and you should see the kind of content he posts in social media. He keeps posting things addressed to a non-straight male audience (pit pics, sensual swim/run workouts, etc), so guys like me still wonder if he was really honest. To my experience he might be really more sexually fluid than we think, without the need to label himself. Now if you're ask him to be transparent, probably he will never be... And still he hasn't been in any new major project to my knowledge... So well
He’s too grown to not just say he’s bisexual or whatever acting like we’re crazy for assuming he’s straight when he publicly only dates women is dumb
 
Did you not learn from Kit Connor? Speculating on an actor's sexuality because they play a gay role, then when they give an ambiguous answer you accuse them of gaybaiting. Anytime an actor plays a role and isn't openly gay they get harassed about their sexuality. Keep it up and people won't want to play gay roles anymore.
Ah god stfu like ..
 
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Sorry Paul mescal is straight, he may of maybe dabbled with a guy who knows but anyone from Ireland especially to where he used to go to college knows that’s a straight man! so his queer baiting …grow up
 
Sorry Paul mescal is straight, he may of maybe dabbled with a guy who knows but anyone from Ireland especially to where he used to go to college knows that’s a straight man! so his queer baiting …grow up
Omg can you spill the tea on the homophobic bully rumors?
 
i still don't get why people feel like celebrities are obligated to label their sexual orientation and present said label to the whole world

I wouldn’t say “obligated,” but we do live in a world where our enemies have historically told us that we don’t exist, and if we do, we should remain hidden at all times, and if we don’t remain hidden, we should be denigrated for it.

Amidst this context, you can’t understand the appeal of openly queer celebrities or other public personalities? Especially the hot and charming ones who fuel our imaginations?
 
To be honest, I'm not surprised at people try to force Paul out of an imaginary closet. The sad truth is that testosterone makes you a dog, sexuall speaking. You're only seeking after new flesh in the market all the time. The (equally) inconveinent truth is that being a public person exposes you to outings, unfortunately. Actors or any other public person should expect that kind of things as banks should expect burglars coming in. Why? People will never learn to behave. It's simply utopic, best wishes kind of thinking.

Second and also in this line of thought, the aforementioned actor who apologized for gay-baiting in How to Get Away With Murder, is still doing it. I'm not going to drop names, but he has a thread in this forum, and you should see the kind of content he posts in social media. He keeps posting things addressed to a non-straight male audience (pit pics, sensual swim/run workouts, etc), so guys like me still wonder if he was really honest. To my experience he might be really more sexually fluid than we think, without the need to label himself. Now if you're ask him to be transparent, probably he will never be... And still he hasn't been in any new major project to my knowledge... So well
Thirst traps aren't gaybaiting.

Sexy pictures aren't gaybaiting.

(And anyway straight and bi/pan women like ... well maybe not the pits but sexy running shots? They absolutely like that.)

The behavior that he apologized for was deliberately implying that he was gay and concealing that he dated women for the specific purpose of making folks comfortable with his accepting of a groundbreaking gay role. Not "sensual" IG posts. C'mon.
 
Some of y’all are truly wild lmao someone posits that there’s a chance Paul could be queer and you lose your minds insisting that he’s straight :joy:

Paul has never stated either way, so if you disagree with someone else’s opinion or speculation on this topic and are incapable of having an adult conversation about it, keep your trap shut.
 
I knew this page would have a discussion about Paul's sexuality hahaha many yags think the world revolves around them, now no "straight" actor can play a gay man in films that already want to kiss his feet and turn him into an icon gay man in Hollywood without him having admitted anything.

and he joins your list of non-gay Hollywood gay icons, the same list that Jacob Elordi and Nicholas Galitzine are on. Good luck to anyone who continues reading this nonsense.
 
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I knew this page would have a discussion about Paul's sexuality hahaha many yags think the world revolves around them, now no "straight" actor can play a gay man in films that already want to kiss his feet and turn him into an icon gay man in Hollywood without him having admitted anything.

and he joins your list of non-gay Hollywood gay icons, the same list that Jacob Elordi and Nicholas Galitzine are on. Good luck to anyone who continues reading this nonsense.
Yeah I wanna kiss his feet, got a problem ?
 
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Wasn’t really homophobic just the crowd he was around was, GAA (Irish sport) crowd he was mostly a bit of a pig with women so there’s chance his even a little gay
So those rumors about him bullying and beating up a gay boy are false?

Guess I can now stan him instead of just jerking off to him