Who was the first homosexual

To win the Best Actor or Actress award?

Jimmy Hollywood
• Emil Jannings

• Adam

• I think "Who was the first homosexual?" would be a better question.

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• Oh, I thought that was the question....silly me.

• Justin Timberlake

• Spencer Tracy

  http://www.afterelton.com/tags/spencer-tracy-gay

• Hattie McDaniel?

• Janet Gaynor -- long claimed to have been lovers with Mary Martin -- won Best Actress at the very first Academy Awards (1927/28). For Best Actor, I suspect we'd have to go with Charles Laughton, who won Best Actor in the 1932/33 race for "The Private Life of Henry VIII," co-starring his long-time beard, Elsa Lanchester.

• r8 is correct: Janet Gaynor. She and her frequent screen partner, Charles Farrell, were both known to be gay in Hollywood circles, and many jokes were made about them at their expense.