'Brothers & Sisters'' David Marshall Grant Developg Comedy About Gay Friends at HBO, Drama at CW

IS DAVID MARSHALL GRANT GAY?

He also memorably played a gay character the Philalphia-set TV seri, “thirtysomethg, ” om 1989 to 1990. I tried to be straight, I was gay.

If we n talk about your reer, I’m cur first about your playg gay rol and how you navigated that pecially an era where beg an out actor or playg queer was reer suici? I had jt graduated om drama school and to be [openly] gay would have been the end of my reer before had started — and was certaly how I felt. I was jt termed not to be seen as gay, but jt kept happeng.

HBO ORRS COMEDY PILOT ABOUT GROUP OF GAY FRIENDS

I was begng to leave my dreams of beg a movie star behd, so maybe 1986, maybe, there was a place to be a gay actor — maybe? I did “And the Band Played On, ” and I wrote a play, “Snakeb, ” about my life as a gay man, and I end up “Angels Ameri. ” That was when the gig was up, and I was jt gog to be gay.

My pot is that I tried so hard to be somethg I wasn’t — a heterosexual movie star — and I end up beg who I was, a gay man who was a wrer and actor. All are gay — and all posed joyfully wh their partners.