‘Love, Victor’ star says gay role sparked homophobia from his family, death threats

Michael Cimino, the straight star of Hulu’s gay-themed coming-of-age series “Love, Victor,” says he has been attacked by some in the LGBTQ community and even some of his own family members.

“It’s weird … is liberal when it comes to things about Latinos, but when it comes to gay rights, it’s like, eh, question mark,” Cimino said in the interview.

In the Attitude interview, Cimino said, “There’s nothing wrong with being gay.

The messages of hate — I came into it knowing that would happen, regardless of how good I was,” he told Attitude, which did not detail the threats or their sources.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, straight-identifying actor Richard E.

“Part of being an actor to me, it’s an anthropological exercise.

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