In this series of posts leading up to this year’s Emmy Awards (going down on August 25th), we’re highlighting the 13 LGBT actors who were nominated for playing LGBT characters in years past, in honor of the fact that a whopping 7 new additions to that list have been nominated this year (Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Laverne Cox, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Nathan Lane, Joe Mantello and Kate McKinnon).
We’re going in chronological order, with the posts so far looking John Glover and his nomination for 1985’s TV movie “An Early Frost” (read that here, along with some more background on Emmy’s history with LGBT nominees), Ian McKellen and Ellen DeGeneres, who collectively are the only two LGBT people to receive two different nominations for playing LGBT characters, Angelina Jolie, the only bisexual person ever nominated for an Emmy for playing another bisexual person, and Sean Hayes, Victor Garber and Leslie Jordan — all for “Will & Grace” (and two of them winners). Today, we move into the 2010s with a five time Emmy nominee…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Check back tomorrow for the next nominee… and check out the previous posts below:
John Glover
Ian McKellen
Ellen DeGeneres
Angelina Jolie
Sean Hayes
Victor Garber
Leslie Jordan
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