Posted on 05/07/2026 2:52:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The award-winning actress, who has long been an LGBTQ+ ally, returns to her iconic role of Miranda Priestly in the upcoming 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'.
Acting royalty Meryl Streep is returning as sharp-tongued fashion editor Miranda Priestly in the upcoming The Devil Wears Prada 2, which hits cinemas worldwide next week.
During the press tour for the sequel to the 2006 film, Streep commented on the popularity of The Devil Wears Prada with the LGBTQ+ community.
“It makes me so happy! Would we have fashion without gay people?” she told Out magazine. “Forgive me, would we have anything? I wouldn’t know how to put together anything. It’s a joy to have made it with [the LGBTQ+] community in mind. Top of mind.”
She added that the new film has been well received by people from a wide variety of backgrounds, saying: “It’s cross culture. We’ve just been around the world with this. The reaction is the same in Mexico City as Tokyo, as Seoul, as Shanghai... I honestly was surprised. I really was surprised by the universality of the response and from so many different kinds of people.”
The Devil Wears Prada 2 sees Streep joined by returning cast members, including Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.
Streep said of her cast members: “I feel so lucky to be able to come back to something we did 20 years ago. Who gets to do that? We've had a whole lifetime. Look at Stanley Tucci! He's blossomed! [Emily Blunt] blossomed at birth.”
Streep has long been an LGBTQ+ ally, expressing support for the queer community on numerous occasions.
In 2004, during her Golden Globes acceptance speech for Angels in America, she spoke out in support of marriage equality, condemning then-president George W. Bush for his anti-gay marriage stance.
In 2017, the Human Rights Campaign honoured her with its Ally for Equality Award, saying she had used her voice throughout her career to support LGBTQ+ people. In her speech, she took aim at anyone threatening to disrupt the progress women, people of colour and the accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community.
“We should not be surprised that fundamentalists, of every stripe, are exercised and fuming,” she said. “We should not be surprised that these profound changes come at a steeper cost than we originally thought. We should not be surprised that not everyone is actually cool with it.”
Streep also memorably ended her speech by saying: “There is a prohibition against the establishment of a state religion in our Constitution, and we have the right to choose with whom we live, whom we love and who and what gets to interfere with our bodies. As Americans, men, women, people, gay, straight, L, G, B, T, Q, all of us have the human right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And if you think people got mad when they thought the government was coming after their guns, wait till they come and try to take away our happiness!"
At least we would have “super models” that were actually attractive.
Ask Jaguar how good gay fashion was for them.
We would have BETTER fashion without sodomites ... Women's clothing would be designed by women ... or by men who actually LIKE women.
Would we have show business without gays? Same sort of thing, rreally.
Lol! I don’t know but it is when he wore that black balloon outfit and walked along the Brit award carpet and someone made a youtube video of him doing so walking with noises like squidward from Sponge Bob. I thought it was hilarious.
Ask Jaguar how good gay fashion was for them.
They should have listened to Dudley Moore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCiGusVYOgY
Nicholson said they had an affair in the 80's. She is still married to Gummer, but she is "dating" Martin Short.
Would we? Yes, of course we would.
It would be decidedly less effeminate, but we would still have fashion.
Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Oscar de la Renta not gay.
How could we go on without things like the Met Gay-la?
Vladimir Illych Ulyanov did a lot to revolutionize Russian fashion.
Mao Tse Tung di a lot to revolutionize Chinese fashion.
Revolutionizing is not necessarily a good thing.
I agree. And look, back in the 30’s and 40’s women had much more attractive clothes.
Hugo Boss revolutionized German fashion.
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Dumbest question I’ve heard today.
Interesting question ... for sure we'd have fewer molested children without sodomites. Show business is one venue for grooming and molesting ...
Pretty much. Seen tons in my lifetime now and don’t even watch tv now. I have a fairly large dvd collection just gathering dust. If I did ever feel like a movie they would be my first go to though. I was a movie buff. Saw tons of classics including many silent ones. Its all dead for me now. Same with spectator sports although I do check occasionally the standings and stuff. I’m actually surprised how completely flatlining my former interests are now.
I’m actually surprised how completely flatlining my former interests are now.
Same here.
Whoever is deciding today’s clothes hates women. I can only think that it is gay men who are doing this because no woman would design dresses for six and a half feet, 100 lb women with no breasts or butts. When I go looking for a clothing, specifically dresses, they are all made out of plastic/polyester and are called maxi dresses which are about 6 ft in length.
Our weather is getting warmer and a majority of the women are under 5 foot 5 so why in the world would anybody make clothing that is designed for amazons unless it is specifically people who hate women. The clothes are just terrible - no linen sundresses, nothing flattering. Just hideous sisterwife stupid dresses. I cannot even begin to estimate how much money all of these major stores are losing because they are not actually thinking about the people who are paying good money for their clothing.
They will still exist in the universe. Nothing gets destroyed out of existence.
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