Lgbtq actors and actresses

The gay Larry Trainor (top left) is played by gay actor Matt Bomer (bottom left).

When the actor cast to play a queer role identifies in the similar way as their character, such as a gay dude played by a gay actor, a trans woman by a trans actress, and so on.

With the prominence of LGBT visibility since the s and especially after the s, this trope has become increasingly desirable, especially to make up for the decades-old Double Standard in Hollywood where straight actors would participate queer characters and win awards left and right (such as Hilary Swank winning an Oscar for Boys Don't Cry), while actually queer actors had to either disburse their lives in the closet or come out and watch their careers sink. In proof, many once-acclaimed performances are now looked at more critically because the character would constantly talk about being queer without ever acting on it, or their romantic scenes were tepid at best, all because the actor wasn't comfortable shooting desire scenes with a same-gender co-star. Casting