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Kristy and homosexuality

posted 13 years ago by marcusman48
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I'm probably not the only person to have noticed this, but I think I'm the first to bring it up on this board.

Have you noticed that Kristy has (by my count) played a lesbian or bisexual character three times (four if you count playing the same character twice)? I find that extremely interesting. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it is unusual: there've been plenty of cases where a LGBT actor has played straight roles, but I've never heard of any straight actor playing so many LGBT roles.

So does Kristy Swanson have an affinity for - or at least an interest in - American LGBT culture? I would guess that she does; after all, she was a guest at the 2008 Outfest. On the other hand, she also visited U.S. troops in Afghanistan for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, along with a number of politically conservative celebrities. So I don't really know what to think.

Maybe I shouldn't be asking this question. But I want to try to get an answer, because I have been pro-gay rights for as long as I can remember, and I'm always interested to learn to what extent my favorite movie and TV stars share my views.

[–] timeslord 8 years ago

I doubt she's become a born-again Christian, she's simply having a much calmer and levelheaded lifestyle after having a son. She's been playing "safer" roles lately, and for example her Christian-like films, "What If" and "A Christmas Wish", I actually found them not preachy at all unlike a lot of Christian movies out there which are unbearable. She doesn't strike me as a conservative person at all from interviews and such.

In any case, I like a lot of actors/actresses whom from what has been written of them, they looked like people you'd want to have nothing to do with and that doesn't affect the pleasure I have when watching them act.