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Tom Cavanaugh stars in gay hockey movie
Hockey may be a macho world, but the Toronto Star reports that isn't keeping Tom Cavanaugh (Ed) from starring in Breakfast with Scot, a movie about a gay hockey player. Based on a novel by Michael Downing, Breakfast tells the story of a gay couple who who end up adopting an 11 year old boy. Gay adoption isn't exactly unheard of these days, so what makes the movie really noteworthy is that the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs have given the go ahead for the filmmakers to use the Maple Leafs' name and logo. Said Cavanaugh about that decision:
"I never in a million years thought when we finally went to shooting we'd be donning Leaf sweaters. I thought it'd be that thing where it's the Toronto Razorbacks or whatever."
 Remember, though, this is Canada where they do crazy things like let gays marry. Frankly, it's hard to imagine the Pittsburgh Penguins giving a go ahead to the movie. But the Maple Leafs didn't have the least bit of a problem with it. Leafs' general Scott Ferguson said that while they aren't trying to make a statement, it wasn't hard for them to give permission once they had permission from the NHL.
I think it's absolutely fantastic the NHL and the Maple Leafs are doing this and without any big fuss. They're wrong about it not sending a message. It not only sends a message to the general public that being gay is not a big deal, but that they don't have any problem with there being gay hockey players. And maybe that message will finally encourage a hockey player (or basketball or football player) to come out before they retire.
 BTW, the premise of the movie is that Cavanaugh is rather closeted until he and his partner, played by Ben Shenkman (Angels in America) adopt a young boy who seems to be channeling an eleven year old Truman Capote. This forces the rather macho Cavanaugh to confront some of his own attitudes about what it means to be gay.
Maybe this will finally help Peter Lefcourt's wonderful baseball book The Dreyfus Affair finally make it to the big screen. Among the many actors attached to that project over the years has been Ben Affleck, but for some reason the film never quite gets made. Hmmm, I wonder is keeping that from getting the greenlight?
Breakfast with Scot hits theaters in December of next year.Submitted by on Fri, 2006-11-24 18:57. |
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It's great that the NFL let them use the Maple Leafs' logo and all but I'm not too thrilled that another straight actor is cashing in on another gay role. They do these movies expecting critical acclaim because they are playing gay and even if it does recieve acclaim they don't want to be associated with it down the road.
Honestly I don't really care who's starring in it as long as it makes its way down to Texas, things are starting to feel awfully lonely down here and im starting to think I might just be the "only gay in the village", or at least the only one in my High School.
Trevor, I have to disagree with you. I really want a time to come when it doesn't matter what an actor's orientation is nor the role he is playing. But if that is going to happen then there shouldn't be any reason to be critical for a straight actor playing gay. There was a time not so long ago when actor's wouldn't even play gay so I don't think Cavanaugh is doing anything wrong. Sure, if he disavows the role later on, then criticize him for that.
That time is a long way away.
I find it disturbing that straight people are defining what it is to be gay by playing these roles constantly. And this is nothing new in Hollywood which has defined being gay for a century. By the time a gay person is able to play one of these roles it will be tired. Straight people are not the ones that will make gay life any easier by playing gay. Only gay people can do that. At the end of the day Tom Cavanaugh and Ben Skenkman are still straight and other people recognize that and move on. It doesn't change their prejudice against gay people.
A few weeks ago, the coach for Tampa Bay Lighting, Jim Tortorella, had a comment about how glad he was to be on the the road, and how it would be good for the players, not being distracted by "wives, kids, girlfriends, boyfriends." I just about lost it when I read that!
This is how change happens. Bit by bit outside of the easy spotlight. I think when the times comes when it doesn't matter if a gay actor is playing straight, or a straight actor is playing gay, is the time when things are getting better. Right now, we are too early into this to know. It took the African American civil right s movement to get this far, and we still have a long ways to go. I can't imagine the gay equality stuff is going to happen any faster.
Joseph, do you have any idea where you read that? I would love to find a link to it!
Michael, here's the full quote:
"I think it's good we are getting out on the road for an extended period of time with the Xs and Os and all the teaching we have done and the time we have spent trying to teach our team concept," Tortorella said. "I think when you go on the road and are together with no wives, no babies, no girlfriends, no boyfriends or whatever it may be, you end up being together, and that's where your chemistry starts coming together in the locker room."
And link: http://www.tbo.com/sports/lightning/MGB3KJMM0UE.html
Thanks, Joseph!
[...] Perhaps Tortorella is simply a really progressive guy who always uses progressive language. Or perhaps Tampa Bay might be home to a real life Breakfast with Scot, the upcoming Tom Cavanugh movie about a gay hockey player. [...]
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