20 Straight Characters We Didn't Know Were Openly Gay In Real Life

Contents:

• ‘WHE COLLAR’S’ MATT BOMER OFFICIALLY COM OUT AS GAY AT AWARDS SHOW (VIO)
• ‘WHE COLLAR’S’ MATT BOMER IS A TERRIFIC ACTOR GAY OR STRAIGHT - AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS
• 'WHE COLLAR'S' MATT BOMER REVEALS HE'S GAY
• 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
• WHE COLLAR ACTOR MATT BOMER’S FAY IGNORED HIM AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY

‘WHE COLLAR’S’ MATT BOMER OFFICIALLY COM OUT AS GAY AT AWARDS SHOW (VIO)

Whe Collar star Matt Bomer officially me out as gay on Saturday when he publicly thanked his partner, Simon Halls, and their three children while acceptg an award. In s January 2010 issue, Details magaze asked the actor if he red about the mors qutng if he was gay.

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‘WHE COLLAR’S’ MATT BOMER IS A TERRIFIC ACTOR GAY OR STRAIGHT - AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS

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'WHE COLLAR'S' MATT BOMER REVEALS HE'S GAY

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Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, My So-Called LifePlayed by: Wilson CzRickie, a gay 15-year-old prone to wearg eyeler and flamboyant clothg, is eventually kicked out by his abive uncle and fds a new home wh his gay English Dennis Hanck, Chigo HopePlayed by: Vondie Curtis-HallA doctor the h CBS show that ran for six seasons, Curtis-Hall's character only me out after the David E. Her dream subject: a black actrs om the 1930s known for playg the stereotypil role of the "mammy" early Hollywood and Randall, Get on the BPlayed by: Isaiah Washgton and Harry LennixWashgton and Lennix play an Ain-Amerin uple the midst of breakg up who jo several other men on a b head for the Milln Man "Evie" Roy, The Incredibly Te Adventure of Two Girls  LovePlayed by: Nile Ari ParkerIn Maria Maggenti's take on a lbian romantic edy, Parker plays a high school girl who falls for tomboy Randy, a whe girl om her school who works at the lol gas Keane, OzPlayed by: Derrick SimmonsKeane is an Ain-Amerin gay mate Emerald Cy seen a few episos of the HBO seri' first season.

20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE

Kennedy, Buffy the Vampire SlayerPlayed by: Iyari LimonA late seri addn as one of several "potential slayers" wag traed by Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Kennedy beme Willow's (Alyson Hannigan) girliend the cult seri' seventh and fal, Chutney PoprnPlayed by: Nisha GanatraWrten and directed by Ganatra herself, the film follows a young Indian-Amerin woman livg New York who offers to be a surrogate for her sister, spe their mother's disapproval of Reena's, UndrsedPlayed by: Jon HuertasBefore starrg ABC's Castle, Huertas played a gay llege stunt MTV's famo anthology seri about love, sex and Dexter, Big EnPlayed by: Eric SchweigPike is a quiet Native Amerin storeowner who harbors a csh on the film's leadg man, a whe New York Cy artist who has returned to his hometown Montana to re for his, The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic ComedyPlayed by: Billy PorterTony wner Porter plays a man who was left for another man; "and not jt any other man, a traer, " he says.

WHE COLLAR ACTOR MATT BOMER’S FAY IGNORED HIM AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY

PatrickKeh is an openly gay LAPD officer at the start of HBO's funeral home show; he is David Fisher's (Michael C. Seymour is a famed Amerin Indian poet who stggl wh rencilg his life as a gay man a relatnship wh a whe man as he returns to the rervatn for a iend's Devone Ltle, The WirePlayed by: Michael K. WilliamsOmar is a notor stick-up man whose shotgun and facial sr, not to mentn his personal moral and homosexualy, set him apart om the crime-ridn world of Baltimore.

Michael Flor, CampPlayed by: Rob JMichael is a gay teenager we learn was beaten by his classmat when he showed up to his junr prom a Cz, Nip/Tuck Played by: Roma MaffiaThe head anthlogist for the McNamara/Troy practice, Liz is an out lbian whose relatnships wh women, a pre-op trans woman and even Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), are as central to Ryan Murphy's plastic surgery FX show as those of s two male and Bce Nugent, Brother to BrotherPlayed by: Anthony Mackie and Roger RobsonIn Rodney Evans' medatn on gay black life the 20th century, Perry is an art stunt who beiends Bce, a homels man who turns out to have been a key figure the Harlem Renaissance. MartOne of the most famo gay upl Broadway history, Angel is a drag queen and street mician livg wh AIDS, while Colls is an HIV-posive anarchist and philosophy Torr, Grey's AnatomyPlayed by: Sara RamirezOrigally troduced as a possible romantic tert for Gee O'Malley (T. Knight), Callie, an attendg orthopedic surgeon, has had relatnships wh both men and women on Shonda Rim' long-nng ABC seri, eventually marryg girliend and pediatric surgeon Arizona Robbs (Jsi Capshaw) Martez, The OfficePlayed by: Osr NuñezAn acuntant at the Dunr Miffl Scranton office the NBC mockumentary seri, Osr was outed by Michael Stt (Steve Carrell) durg the show's third-season opener, "Gay Wch Hunt.

At s heart is Noah, a stgglg Patel, WeedsPlayed by: Mlik PancholyInially hired as a tutor (and later as a pot salman), Sanjay out the show's third, QuceañeraPlayed by: Jse GarcíaA gay man disowned om his fay bee of his homosexualy, Carlos grows closer to his Magdalena (Ey Rs), tranged om her own parents due to her unplanned Suarez, Ugly BettyPlayed by: Mark InlitoJt is protagonist Betty's (Ameri Ferrera) nephew. He fds his life tted yet aga when he fds out his son, J, is gay.