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Jim Parsons on the new LGBTQ love story 'Spoiler Alert' and his bumpy exit from 'The Big Bang Theory': 'I was doing what I had to do'
Yahoo! News ^ | Fri, December 2, 2022 | Ethan Alter

Posted on 12/03/2022 1:29:08 AM PST by nickcarraway

Earlier this year, the Universal-backed Bros hoped to go where no major studio comedy had gone before by becoming the first LGBTQ rom-com starring two out gay actors — Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane — to top the box office charts. Despite critical acclaim and sold-out screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, though, the movie had to settle for fourth place during its opening weekend and a cumulative gross just shy of $15 million.

Eichner — who also wrote the movie — didn't shy away from expressing his disappointment in interviews and on social media. In a since-deleted Twitter post, he suggested that "straight people... just didn't show up for Bros," potentially contributing to the film's financial woes. (Some conservative commentators made similar arguments after Walt Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World — which featured out gay comedian, Jaboukie Young-White, as the company's first out gay teenager — underperformed in its opening weekend, reportedly costing Disney upwards of $100 million.)

Flash-forward a few months, and Universal's specialty label, Focus Features, is releasing its own LGBTQ love story with out gay actors front and center: Spoiler Alert, produced by and starring former Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons. Based on the memoir by TV journalist, Michael Ausiello, the movie strikes a very different tone than the proudly raunchy R-rated Bros, recounting the story of Ausiello's romance with his husband, Kit Cowan (played by Ben Aldridge), from their first meet-cute in 2002 to Cowan's death from cancer in 2015. It's a sweet, funny and sad love story in the tradition of past heteronormative hits like... well, Love Story — with a dash of Terms of Endearment thrown in via the presence of Kit's loving parents, played by Bill Irwin and Sally Field.

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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; nothanks
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1 posted on 12/03/2022 1:29:08 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

LGBTQWERTY


2 posted on 12/03/2022 1:33:39 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: nickcarraway

Not even gays want to see a gay love story in the movies. At best, if every ticket sold in that movie had been bought a homosexual, less than 5% of the homosexual population bought a movie ticket.


3 posted on 12/03/2022 1:52:46 AM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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To: nickcarraway
What the Woke/LGBTQ community cannot comprehend is that the revulsion towards homosexuality is ingrained in humans (not just due to religion or old-fashionedness). It seems to be innate...a natural part of human nature. It might be that deep down inside we know homosexuality is potentially dangerous to our health (both mental and physical) and humans, like all animals, have built-in aversions to danger.

Woke students in college (and thereafter) may be conditioned to ignore that revulsion by indoctrination and brainwashing, but it cannot be erased from human nature.

We may be able to learn to tolerate homosexuality at the margin of society because we can look away, but it will never occupy a prominent place.

4 posted on 12/03/2022 2:09:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: nickcarraway

I never watched Big Bang Theory because I didn’t find Sheldon’s gay persona to be at all entertaining.

But the annoying thing was that a lot of my friends and even family loved that show, and would insist Sheldon wasn’t meant to be gay - just a science nerd.

Right.


5 posted on 12/03/2022 2:23:11 AM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

You forgot the P.


6 posted on 12/03/2022 2:54:07 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: nickcarraway

All the woke crap is bombing. ALL of it.


7 posted on 12/03/2022 2:58:59 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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In the early episodes Sheldon expressed a great deal of sexual interest in Penny. In the later ones he started enjpying sex with Amy.

Chachter was straight but for much of the run sim0ky nit interested in sex vs. intellectual pursuits.

Sheldon was never portrayed as gay. Parsons coming out was a bit of a surprise.


8 posted on 12/03/2022 3:03:49 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, the audience has already showed no interest in gay ‘love’ stories. And, some men, straight or gay in entertainment are popular when very Young, but after thirty just give off a creepy vibe and their career goes down the drain. Reality is what it is.


9 posted on 12/03/2022 3:07:01 AM PST by Pigsley (I)
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To: freedumb2003

“Sheldon was never portrayed as gay.“

Then why all the gay mannerisms?

LOL!!! Your naiveté is endearing.

Let me explain what’s going on:

The Hollywood Leftist agenda is to “normalize” homosexuality and other deviant behavior. The only way to normalize the abnormal is through deception.

So they pick a gay actor, give his character all the gay mannerisms, but put him in non-gay relationships (that never go anywhere, because HE’S GAY).

This sort of deception only works on certain people - and I’m not one of them.


10 posted on 12/03/2022 3:39:49 AM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: enumerated

I think your friends and family were correct in their assessment of the Sheldon character on TBBT.


11 posted on 12/03/2022 4:08:59 AM PST by sjm_888
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Sheldon Cooper wasn’t interested in sex, or ‘coitus’ as he routinely called it. I think that is considered more asexual, not homosexual. The character fancied himself more of a Spock in thought process, and definitely displayed some form of social disorder like Aspergers or something similar.

The Big Bang Theory is pretty funny IMHO, with plenty of science fiction and gamer jokes. None of the main characters are out and out homosexual, they’re just all nerds that have a hard time scoring with babes thanks to all their social awkwardness.


12 posted on 12/03/2022 4:10:26 AM PST by KobraKai
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You are 100% correct. You’ll see the same actions in normalizing pedophilia, Islam and anti-Christianity. It’s everywhere. Satan is very clever-most people don’t even know why the gay community has a rainbow as their universal symbol.


13 posted on 12/03/2022 4:11:44 AM PST by GMThrust
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To: enumerated

Sheldon is annoying, straight or gay. Everybody caving to his whims was the worst part of the show.


14 posted on 12/03/2022 4:22:20 AM PST by ronniesgal (Just GET A JOB already. )
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I never watched it either. I’m just not interested in science. The cast really didn’t do much for me anyway.


15 posted on 12/03/2022 4:59:30 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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During my grad school days, I shared a cube with a PhD candidate who
could have been Sheldon...absolutely brilliant guy but on the spectrum,
severely lacked empathy, socially awkward and pretty much a-sexual
though what I would call somewhat prissy but definitely not gay...the only
thing he was interested in was his research. He commented once on a girl I
was dating; said she was pretty and that he hoped to have a girlfriend
someday. One of the reasons that I liked TBBT so much was that I knew
all the characters in real life.
16 posted on 12/03/2022 5:00:26 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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Go to YouTube and watch the original unaired pilot.

Sheldon was most definitely not gay in that. His character was not some conspiracy. He’s played as a genius who is most definitely on the spectrum…. Nothing more.

But seriously, everyone, take 10 minutes to see an alternative universe where Sheldon is a horny genius.


17 posted on 12/03/2022 5:03:30 AM PST by laxcoach (The secret to happiness is a bait pen full of pinfish.)
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To: nickcarraway

Rip-roaring huge snotty faggot. Never could stand his obnoxious attitude toward non-Alphabet-Nazi people.


18 posted on 12/03/2022 5:19:09 AM PST by laweeks
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To: nickcarraway

He does fit into all of these categories: a fanny farming, rump ranger, screaming bender, gerbil felcher, butter-cheeked, chutney ferret, knob-gobbling, rump ranging, Barbie hugging, Broadway-showgirl, tootsie-roll-eating, lizard worshipping, post pulling, brown-wind-loving, scroat slurping dingleberry biting, pole pushing, vacuum-lipped anal warrior, or a carrot-swallowing, poodle owning, skipping little hotdog-eating, or a chalk-licking, lavender sniffing, cheeky merry-monkey pole-vaulter, a cigar smoking, giggling little donut-puncher, or a Crisco-hoarding, rainbow-prancing, fuchsia puffed batty boy, a feminine-acting, stick-twiddling parade-marching ball-juggling, a gerbil-feeding, flower sniffing, rainbow-squatting, bottoms-up boy, or a glitter-loving, tail-tickling, Cleveland Steamer pooftah, a ham-slamming organ grinder, a latte-swilling, boy-texting, pump-a-loaf bread-boffer, a limp-wristed prancing knob-jockey, a loafer-lightening grass-tickling pounder of fudge, a merrily-hopping, NPR-listening musical-favoring chin-trauma patient, turd beglaring, a merry delicate lightly-prancing dress-favoring protein-burper, a pearl-necklace adorned tumblebunny, a petal-covered swishing basket-burglar, a gym bunny, a pink-sequin-adorned squeeze-friendly rectum-flagellator, or a quiche-slurping, glitter-coated nimble-dancer, a rose-sprinkling, first-chair rusty-trombone pole-vaulter, a rump-radar-pinging, butter-butt loving, feathered drag princess, a sibilants-pronouncing girl-drink-swilling fruity little ball-tender, Okla-homo, a silent-screaming bed-bouncing pump-wearing butt pilot, a skipping lavender-scented going-in-dry pillow-biter, a soap-dropping, spanks-wearing, cabana-boy-loving, turd burglarizing rug bumper, or a Hershey highway loving butt pirate, sodomite Sally, polishers of floorboards, muff divers, or carpet muncher.


19 posted on 12/03/2022 5:22:37 AM PST by laweeks
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

WTF is a “meet-cute”?!!!


20 posted on 12/03/2022 5:30:46 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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