In 2005, we had two actors duke it for Best Actor who were both playing gay characters. Philip Seymour Hoffman ended up taking Oscar home for Capote over Heath Ledger's Brokeback Mountain. Three years later, Sean Penn won for Milk. And, a year after that, Colin Firth played A Single Man, but would end up winning a year later for The King's Speech (trading Oscars with Jeff Bridges). In that space of four years, gay-for-pay was good...
