Newsweek gay actor controversy
Setoodeh also challenged the acting ability of openly gay actor Jonathan Groff, who had recently joined the cast of Glee.She accused Setoodeh of engaging in selection bias through his choices of actors upon whom he focused the article and found the entire piece "horrendously homophobic".[4] Following Chenoweth's response, Glee creator Ryan Murphy called for a boycott of Newsweek, writing in an open letter, "This article is as misguided as it is shocking and hurtful.It's when the author peddles tired stereotypes like a [sic] "queeny" that the piece leans away from reality and tilts toward openly gay Setoodeh's own issues with sexuality and femininity.But whatever the reason, with the stakes so high for gay Americans at this moment, it is no excuse for his editors inflicting such hurtful — and baseless — musings on the readers of Newsweek.[8] Several openly gay actors, including Cheyenne Jackson, Michael Urie, Jane Lynch and Cynthia Nixon strongly criticized Setoodeh's article."[11] Newsweek culture editor Marc Peyser sat down with Dustin Lance Black and Jarrett Barrios to discuss the fallout from Setoodeh's article and the broader issues of being openly gay in Hollywood.[12] Screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin wrote a piece for The Huffington Post in which he asserted that people being critical of Setoodeh were missing the point.