Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons weighs on straight actors playg gay characters: ‘The fight is to ensure that all parts are open to all actors’ | The Inpennt

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• BIG BANG THEORY’S JIM PARSONS WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘THE FIGHT IS TO ENSURE THAT ALL PARTS ARE OPEN TO ALL ACTORS’
• ARE ANY OF THE ST OF THE BIG BANG THEORY GAY?
• 'BIG BANG THEORY' MYSTERY: IS SHELDON GAY?
• ‘BIG BANG THEORY’S’ JIM PARSONS OUT AS GAY
• BIG BANG THEORY'S JIM PARSONS SCRIB HIS JOURNEY TO PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY
• GUS WHO'S NOT GAY ON THE BIG BANG THEORY!

BIG BANG THEORY’S JIM PARSONS WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘THE FIGHT IS TO ENSURE THAT ALL PARTS ARE OPEN TO ALL ACTORS’

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ARE ANY OF THE ST OF THE BIG BANG THEORY GAY?

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'BIG BANG THEORY' MYSTERY: IS SHELDON GAY?

Then bee of gay-lsac's law of ial gass shows. While society was certaly more tolerant than the past, Parsons rells wasn't "even close to the era we are now, as far as what meant to tell somebody you were gay. " In rponse, he never really nied he was gay, but he also ma a pot of not talkg about publicly.

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‘BIG BANG THEORY’S’ JIM PARSONS OUT AS GAY

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BIG BANG THEORY'S JIM PARSONS SCRIB HIS JOURNEY TO PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY

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"I'm not aaid to be my quirks on stage and brg who I am and my sensiv, but I am aaid of revealg [I'm] gay, " he said of that time Kle//Getty ImagRelated: Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons adms he "wouldn't have been able to handle" fame if he was youngerTennant asked whether Parsons felt prsure bee he was qutng his sexualy at the time, but Parsons explaed: "That would have been around the time I was g out, so I don't thk there was much more hidg , as far as that go.

GUS WHO'S NOT GAY ON THE BIG BANG THEORY!

"I do thk I was aaid of not beg able to play anythg but gay parts, not only if I me out, but bee I would appear effemate.

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"Parsons sgled out Brokeback Mounta's Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as exampl of straight actors "who have played gay characters brilliantly".