The Hollywood Reporter Pride 2020
June 8, 2020 9:41 AM Subscribe
The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood: In its inaugural Pride Issue, The Hollywood Reporter honors the most powerful LGBTQ people in the industry who are making global culture more inclusive
I think it's very telling how some of the answers are some bland, while others are demanding so much better. Thanks for this!
posted by Braeburn at 10:10 AM on June 8, 2020
posted by Braeburn at 10:10 AM on June 8, 2020
Where’s Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson?
posted by ursus_comiter at 10:30 AM on June 8, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by ursus_comiter at 10:30 AM on June 8, 2020 [8 favorites]
Billy Porter was photographed at a safe distanceposted by schmod at 11:20 AM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
Which leads me to wonder, is this a COVID thing, or is it simply that Biily Porter is such a major force that you have to seek out a minimum safe distance or else be overwhelmed by fabulousness.
posted by hippybear at 11:27 AM on June 8, 2020 [16 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 11:27 AM on June 8, 2020 [16 favorites]
No Tim Cook?
posted by PenDevil at 11:35 AM on June 8, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by PenDevil at 11:35 AM on June 8, 2020 [2 favorites]
I think everyone's going to have folks who they think should be on the list and aren't.
(Rutina Wesley.)
posted by dlugoczaj at 11:39 AM on June 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
(Rutina Wesley.)
posted by dlugoczaj at 11:39 AM on June 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
I think it's the including of those names here which helps flesh out what is obviously a good list but is not complete. That's part of what MetaFilter does best -- include those who have been left out of lists like this.
posted by hippybear at 11:40 AM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 11:40 AM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
is it simply that Biily Porter is such a major force that you have to seek out a minimum safe distance or else be overwhelmed by fabulousness.
Go watch this and see if that answers the question.
posted by JoeZydeco at 11:49 AM on June 8, 2020
Go watch this and see if that answers the question.
posted by JoeZydeco at 11:49 AM on June 8, 2020
Would have loved to see Bryan Fuller on this list too.
posted by fancyoats at 12:21 PM on June 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by fancyoats at 12:21 PM on June 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
While we're talking about Billy Porter - Season 2 of Pose is finally coming to Netflix this week (June 11th) in the US, for anyone else who's been waiting!
posted by needs more cowbell at 12:35 PM on June 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by needs more cowbell at 12:35 PM on June 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
How do you not include Noelle Stevenson after that fifth season of She-Ra? What more does she need to do?
posted by Katemonkey at 12:56 PM on June 8, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Katemonkey at 12:56 PM on June 8, 2020 [3 favorites]
How do you not include Noelle Stevenson after that fifth season of She-Ra? What more does she need to do?
Make a show for adults? I think actors from Euphoria and Dear Evan Hansen are the younger ones on this list.
(Don't bother telling me that adults can watch and love She-Ra, I've already been yelled at irl because I will watch garbage anime, but barely made it through two episodes of She-Ra.)
I think it's great that this list exists and I enjoyed reading about everyone's dream project, but the real reason Showrunner A or Director B didn't make the list is that their agent didn't lobby the HR for it, or their company didn't buy enough ad space or whatever.
posted by betweenthebars at 1:21 PM on June 8, 2020 [2 favorites]
Make a show for adults? I think actors from Euphoria and Dear Evan Hansen are the younger ones on this list.
(Don't bother telling me that adults can watch and love She-Ra, I've already been yelled at irl because I will watch garbage anime, but barely made it through two episodes of She-Ra.)
I think it's great that this list exists and I enjoyed reading about everyone's dream project, but the real reason Showrunner A or Director B didn't make the list is that their agent didn't lobby the HR for it, or their company didn't buy enough ad space or whatever.
posted by betweenthebars at 1:21 PM on June 8, 2020 [2 favorites]
Billy Porter is a force of nature.
posted by hototogisu at 3:18 PM on June 8, 2020
posted by hototogisu at 3:18 PM on June 8, 2020
This is awful. Queerness isn't about celebrating "powerful players" - that very phrase is a turn-off. We want to dismantle oppression and power structures (at least any of us who are worth a damn do). And jeez, you have to be really behind the times to think Ellen Degeneres is a queer role model in 2020.
(I'm not saying there aren't a bunch of cool folks included too, I'm just saying the premise is a little tone deaf.)
posted by splitpeasoup at 3:56 PM on June 8, 2020 [11 favorites]
(I'm not saying there aren't a bunch of cool folks included too, I'm just saying the premise is a little tone deaf.)
posted by splitpeasoup at 3:56 PM on June 8, 2020 [11 favorites]
I am never gonna not hate these lists, because I loathe the whole concept of "power." If there's one thing Hollywood, and entertainment in general, doesn't need, it's the obsession with power. Sure, fine, it's about "making global culture more inclusive," but there are other ways to frame it. When I worked tangentially to the film industry, that toxic focus on "power" made me sick enough to get out. Gah.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 3:56 PM on June 8, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by kitten kaboodle at 3:56 PM on June 8, 2020 [3 favorites]
Queerness isn't about celebrating "powerful players" - that very phrase is a turn-off. We want to dismantle oppression and power structures (at least any of us who are worth a damn do).
I'm pretty sure if you ctrl-F the article, you'll only find the word "queer" in the title of a TV show. It is an article in an industry publication celebrating LGBT people in that industry. I can guarantee you that gay people in Hollywood are just as power hungry as straight people, and that doesn't make them less gay.
posted by betweenthebars at 4:59 PM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
I'm pretty sure if you ctrl-F the article, you'll only find the word "queer" in the title of a TV show. It is an article in an industry publication celebrating LGBT people in that industry. I can guarantee you that gay people in Hollywood are just as power hungry as straight people, and that doesn't make them less gay.
posted by betweenthebars at 4:59 PM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
(Don't bother telling me that adults can watch and love She-Ra, I've already been yelled at irl because I will watch garbage anime, but barely made it through two episodes of She-Ra.)
I mean, fine, but then maybe don't word your post in a way that demeans those of us who've found quite a bit of personal meaning in it as adults? Not everyone got to live out preteen/teenage years in which they knew their sexuality and finding joy in media that validates my queerness and gives me an outlet for some of the Big Teenage Emotions I'm feeling for real for the first time at 36 doesn't mean my tastes are inferior to yours.
posted by augustimagination at 11:34 PM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
I mean, fine, but then maybe don't word your post in a way that demeans those of us who've found quite a bit of personal meaning in it as adults? Not everyone got to live out preteen/teenage years in which they knew their sexuality and finding joy in media that validates my queerness and gives me an outlet for some of the Big Teenage Emotions I'm feeling for real for the first time at 36 doesn't mean my tastes are inferior to yours.
posted by augustimagination at 11:34 PM on June 8, 2020 [4 favorites]
Make a show for adults?
I won't "yell at" you about not enjoying the show, but as a Gen X nonbinary trans person I so, so, soooooo would have loved to have seen any kind of positive queer representation in any of the media I grew up with. Whatever your personal take on the show, creating wholesome content with unabashed queer representation in children's media is a noble act, and deserves celebration.
posted by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 1:19 AM on June 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
I won't "yell at" you about not enjoying the show, but as a Gen X nonbinary trans person I so, so, soooooo would have loved to have seen any kind of positive queer representation in any of the media I grew up with. Whatever your personal take on the show, creating wholesome content with unabashed queer representation in children's media is a noble act, and deserves celebration.
posted by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 1:19 AM on June 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
I'm actually curious now. What about Dear Evan Hansen is more "adult" than She-ra?
posted by augustimagination at 5:38 PM on June 9, 2020
posted by augustimagination at 5:38 PM on June 9, 2020
I really liked Jeremy O. Harris's response to "person I think doesn't get enough credit for their activism":
The 12-year-old black queer child in Texas who goes to school every day looking and speaking however the fuck they want — parents, teachers, friends or loneliness be damned. That's activism to me. There's blood on the line there.
It's an interesting list, well worth posting for the tidbits about what some of these folks are up to next, if nothing else. I do get the criticism of power rankings like this, for sure, but as an LGBTQ person who is addicted to many forms of popular culture, I enjoyed reading about many of the folks listed, many of whom are not at Ellen Degeneres-levels of privileged grossness.
Yet, I suppose.
posted by mediareport at 8:06 AM on June 13, 2020
The 12-year-old black queer child in Texas who goes to school every day looking and speaking however the fuck they want — parents, teachers, friends or loneliness be damned. That's activism to me. There's blood on the line there.
It's an interesting list, well worth posting for the tidbits about what some of these folks are up to next, if nothing else. I do get the criticism of power rankings like this, for sure, but as an LGBTQ person who is addicted to many forms of popular culture, I enjoyed reading about many of the folks listed, many of whom are not at Ellen Degeneres-levels of privileged grossness.
Yet, I suppose.
posted by mediareport at 8:06 AM on June 13, 2020
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Was nice to see Lilly Wachowski and have a quote from her. She's been so quiet in the press, I get the impression these past few years have been hard.
A little sad not to see BD Wong here, although it was nice to see Bowen Yang give a shout out to him.
posted by Nelson at 9:51 AM on June 8, 2020 [3 favorites]