People News

Gay icon Jake Gyllenhaal

Jun 3, 2008, 9:30 GMT

Jake Gyllenhaal has topped a poll of the Hot 100 gay icons. Reese Witherspoon (L) and Jake Gyllenhaal pose for a photo during the photocall for the film 'Rendition' by South African director Gavin Hood, at the Rome Film Festival, in Rome, Italy, 21 October 2007. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO

Reese Witherspoon (L) and Jake Gyllenhaal pose for a photo during the photocall for the film 'Rendition' by South African director Gavin Hood, at the Rome Film Festival, in Rome, Italy, 21 October 2007. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEOThe 27-year-old actor - who famously starred in a homosexual love scene with Heath Ledger in 'Brokeback Mountain' - came first in the survey of 100,000 people on gay website AfterElton.com, for the second consecutive year.The website said: "What accounts for Jake's ongoing appeal to gay men? His doe-eyed, boy next door (yet somehow smouldering) looks certainly don't hurt, but we suspect what really makes gay men go for him is that he doesn't have an issue going for us."Jake has done as much as any actor to show straight guys there isn't a good reason to be afraid of gay guys or gay roles."Jake beat 'Torchwood' star John Barrowman and 'Brothers and Sister's actor Luke McFarlane to the top spot. Meanwhile, on AfterEllen.com - the lesbian counterpart to AfterElton.com - '30 Rock' comedienne Tina Fey came top of the Hot 100 gay women list.Tina beat US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, her girlfriend Portia de Rossi and 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' star Kristanna Loken to first place.(C) BANG Media International

View blog reactions

Latest Headlines in People

Talkback

Add your comment (no registration required)

page: 1

TonyJun 3rd, 2008 - 17:03:09

'Jake Gyllenhaal has topped a poll of the Hot 100 gay icons.'

Nice to see that gay closeted actor can be still accepted as a gay icon.

Report this comment

EvanJun 3rd, 2008 - 18:05:17

82 guys on the list are straight or supposedly straight. SELF-HATRED MUCH? Gay people value heterosexuality OVER homosexuality. It's sick. After hundreds of millions of gay people throughout history were forced to live by straight people's demands or else gay people should be disgusted by those overlords instead of worshipping them. Gross. Michael Jensen and Brian Juergens said they would not write about MIKA because he's in the closet and that's not supporting the gay 'community.' Yet they post articles about straight people who have done zero for gay people every day. Shameless and repulsive. Stop perpetuating self-hatred.

I'm proud that 4 out of the top 5 are gay but that is little consolation.

Report this comment

page: 1

Add your comment (no registration required)