Oscar winning screenwriter Graham Moore is not gay – please adjust your gaydar and get on with your day

I know, I’m scratching my head too.

Graham Moore’s acceptance speech was one of the most buzzed-about moments of Sunday night’s Academy Awards and I was certain he was gay.

Turns out he is not.

The Imitation Game screenwriter told the rapt crowd at the Dolby Theatre that he had attempted suicide at the age of 16 because ‘I felt weird and I felt different and I felt like I did not belong.’

He then encouraged others out there to ‘stay weird and stay different.’

His content of his speech and the fact that the movie he wrote is about a gay man, Alan Turing, led to an assumption that Moore cleared up after the show.

‘I’m not gay,’ he told BuzzFeed News at the Governor’s Ball.

‘But I’ve never talked publicly about depression before or any of that, and that was so much of what the movie was about, and it was one of the things that drew me to Alan Turing so much.

‘I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons. Alan had his share of them and I had my own, and that’s what always moved me so much about his story.’

Moore said he did have his speech ‘loosely in my head’ in the event that he won.

‘It’s the kind of thing that I’ve imagined since I was a teenager,’ he said. ‘It was weird to get on the stage and say the things that I’ve been imagining in the shower and in front of mirrors.’