Neil Patrick Harris being gay has nothing whatsoever to do with gay kissing scenes ending up on the cutting room floor. The directors wanted it. The actors wanted it. The producers didn't. A simple kiss between two men might keep audiences away from the ticket booth.
Females kissing, however, is box office gold.
Again, maybe you're not understanding me, because this is a controversial subject.
I don't for one second believe hollywood is homophobic and anti-gay, I also don't fully believe the sports industry is anti-gay, or the music industry is anti-gay.
I believe that we run, I mean we as the LGBT community, run a big portion of all these media liaisons.
Due to that, I can't sit here and say a gay actor can't be successful, a gay athlete can't be successful, a gay hip hop musician can't be successful, and in can't sit here and say that just because one kiss scene in one show that I never watched or heard of was axed, that means hollywood is homophobic? No.
I brought up Neil Patrick Harris is because he's very much A list and you can stop me if I'm wrong or prove me wrong, but he's probably the most richest gay man in hollywood. If Neil Patrick Harris tomorrow decided to make a movie or a film with him and a lover of the same gender, it wouldn't be skin off his nose. If the movie does bad or good. He still will have a good reputation because everyone and their grandmother knows that NPH is homosexual.
So it all depends on the person and the situation.
The only thing I agree with you is reception to those who are religious or overtly homophobic, but that's just a small percentage. If the movie is gay themed, why would someone like that want to see it anyways?
What I don't agree with you is thinking that Hollywood rejects everything gay and we don't ever get any spotlight, because I'm trying to tell you that it's not necessarily true.
I just mentioned that Hollywood is run by a secret elite. Empire has had so many gay kiss and love scenes it's not funny, yet do you watch Empire? I'm black and don't even watch it.
But I'm sure if they made a gay superhero movie all hell would probably break loose, so I do see that point of it.