If they wanted to call out Andrew they should have done it a while ago. No, he shouldn’t be badgered or “cancelled”, and I don’t even think this article should exist. Some of y’all set the standards incredibly low, especially when it comes to conventionally good-looking, “straight presenting” guys. If you’re looking to be a genuine “ally” (and profiting off of it and winning awards for it as Andrew is) or looking to own your queerdom and use it for clout and promo, then you are expected to do better. After experiencing a good amount of push-back.
There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that. Lori Harvey's Bikini Photos Have Us Running to the Gym Last year, Andrew Garfieldmade headlinesfor saying he was a gay man without the physical act.
Andrew has said a couple of questionable things. It reminded a bit of when Nico Tortorella said that they aren’t “gay” because they mostly hang out with females (one of the many ignorant, insecure, cringe-y, “problematic” things Nico has said or done). After experiencing a good amount of push-back as a result of his comments, he wants to. “Straight presenting” people sincerely saying shit like that has to be called out. Last year, Andrew Garfield made headlines for saying he was a gay man without the physical act. A percentage of queers have put all this effort into trying to get folks to understand sexuality and its variance, respect people’s identities and preferences and lifestyle, understand the gender, sexual, affection, affirmation, romantic attachment, emotional investment, relationship comfort, commitment spectrum. However, the dude did sincerely reduce the life of a “gay man” to hanging out with “gays” and watching RuPaul’s Drag Race. That’s the whole point of people understanding fluidity, preferences, dimensions, the spectrum. There is nothing wrong saying “I want this right now, but maybe I’ll want something else in the future”. The one thing they definitely should have left off this list was him talking about his dimensions. “What if MJ is a dude? Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking! So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys.” “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ (Spider-Man’s love interest),” he told Entertainment Weekly. While speaking about his turn as the web-slinging superhero in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Garfield said that he had talked with the film’s producer about exploring the character’s sexuality on film. Here are five such moments: 1) Asking why Spider-Man can’t be gay Indeed, his entire career has been punctuated by earnest but uneven attempts at showing his LGBTQ allyship. Garfield’s pin-wearing gained applause from most Twitter users, though some criticized him for not doing more for trans rights. At this weekend’s GLAAD Awards ceremony, actor Andrew Garfield wore a pin bearing the colors of the transgender Pride flag while presenting an award to transgender actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez for her work toward eliminating queerphobia in media.