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Who is the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar?

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Who is the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar?

Ariana DeBose is the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar._x000D_

What about the rest?

_x000D_While Tilda Swinton openly identified in 2021 as queer, that was not the case when she won the Oscar for Michael Clayton in 2007. Kevin Spacy came out publicly in 2017 amid sexual assault accusations against him, 18 years after winning the Best Actor award for American Beauty. The late John Gielgud publicly acknowledged his relationship with his long-time lover, Martin Hensler, in 1988 – seven years after winning his Oscar for Arthur.

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