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Actor Sam Elliott goes on homophobic tirade against gay Western drama “The Power of the Dog”
Shirtless cowboys and allusions to homosexuality seem to have upset this cranky 77-year-old actor.
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Remembering the gay man who saved 17 million lives
The WWII hero saved millions of lives before being chemically castrated for being gay. He killed himself two years later.
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Cumberbatch, Fry urge UK to pardon gays convicted under ‘gross indecency’ law
Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch has joined others in calling for the British government to pardon gay and bisexual men convicted in the past under the defunct “gross indecency” law.
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Review: Cumberbatch shines as gay wartime codebreaker Alan Turing
‘Tis clearly the season for Oscar-worthy performances by British actors playing mathematical geniuses facing daunting personal odds. Sound overly specific? Consider: A few weeks ago we had “The Theory of Everything,” starring Eddie Redmayne as the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking. And now we have Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing…
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The ‘enigma’ Alan Turing, chronicled in new film ‘The Imitation Game’
Germany’s top-secret World War II code was called “Enigma,” and the gay Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code — Alan Turing — was very much an enigma himself. CBS News’ Anthony Mason reports on Turing’s life, which is chronicled in the new film, “The Imitation Game” (out next month). It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as…