Jim Parsons Says It's Been a Long Time Comg to Be Out an Gay Actor

Contents:

• BIG BANG THEORY'S JIM PARSONS SCRIB HIS JOURNEY TO PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY
• NETFLIX ORRS JIM PARSONS-PRODUCED SPECIAL, A EDY SERI ABOUT A GAY MAN
• ‘BIG BANG THEORY’S’ JIM PARSONS OUT AS GAY
• ‘SPOILER ALERT’ TRAILER: JIM PARSONS STARS IN A LIFE-AFFIRMG GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT INTIMACY, GRIEF, & REVERY
• JIM PARSONS, BEN ALDRIDGE ON WHY SPOILER ALERT’S GAY LOVE STORY IS UNIVERSAL
• JIM PARSONS SAYS 'IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMG' TO BE AN OUT GAY ACTOR HOLLYWOOD

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

"'The Normal Heart' ronated wh him on a few levels, " Patrick Healy wrote, referrg to a play about young gay men and the AIDS crisis that Parsons had prevly been . Parsons is gay and a 10-year relatnship, and workg wh an ensemble aga onstage was like nourishment, he said.

The Hollywood Reporter lled this "sual reference" a "new era" for gay celebri, notg that Parsons had long been open about his sexualy Hollywood circl.

NETFLIX ORRS JIM PARSONS-PRODUCED SPECIAL, A EDY SERI ABOUT A GAY MAN

Earlier this year, the Universal-backed Bros hoped to go where no major stud edy had gone before by beg the first LGBTQ rom- starrg two out gay actors — Billy Eichner and Le Macfarlane — to top the box office charts. (Some nservative mentators ma siar arguments after Walt Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World — which featured out gay edian, Jaboie Young-Whe, as the pany's first out gay teenager — unrperformed s openg weekend, reportedly stg Disney upwards of $100 ln.

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

)Flash-forward a few months, and Universal's specialty label, Foc Featur, is releasg s own LGBTQ love story wh out gay actors ont and center: Spoiler Alert, produced by and starrg former Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons. It's a mystery why people turn out for thgs or don't a lot of the time; I don't know that the homosexual aspect of has very much to do wh or not.

"For his part, Parsons says he was specifilly drawn to Spoiler Alert bee afford him the opportuny to portray one-half of a gay uple that don't get to live out a picture-perfect "happily every after" story. "I feel like I've spent so much of my life seeg movi that pict that, but they're not normally about a gay uple.

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‘SPOILER ALERT’ TRAILER: JIM PARSONS STARS IN A LIFE-AFFIRMG GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT INTIMACY, GRIEF, & REVERY

The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons has reflected on g out as gay at the height of his Emmy-wng s's Parsons's iends and fay knew he had been a relatnship wh partner Todd Spiewak for many years, the actor discsed his sexualy publicly for the first time 2012 after playg an HIV-AIDS advote The Normal a wi-rangg discsn on the new seri of ‎David Tennant Do a Podst Wh…, Parsons told the former Doctor Who star that his upbrgg the Bible Belt fluenced him to separate his personal and profsnal liv for years.

JIM PARSONS, BEN ALDRIDGE ON WHY SPOILER ALERT’S GAY LOVE STORY IS UNIVERSAL

I mean, I uld feel off her, and maybe she even said to different gre, of like, 'How would work to be a succsful actor… pay your bills wh , and be gay? "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.

"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.

Jim Parsons (left) and Andrew Rannells a scene om Netflix’s remake of gay classic The Boys the Band. Jim Parsons on all-gay The Boys the Band remake for Netflix: ‘There was a tribal aspect I didn’t realise I belonged to’.

JIM PARSONS SAYS 'IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMG' TO BE AN OUT GAY ACTOR HOLLYWOOD

The Big Bang Theory actor leads an all-gay st that clus Zachary Quto, Andrew Rannells, and Matt Bomer, who all acted a 2018 Broadway revival of play.

Published: 10:15pm, 4 Oct, 2020 Updated: 10:15pm, 4 Oct, 2020 Jim Parsons (left) and Andrew Rannells a scene om Netflix’s remake of gay classic The Boys the Band. The seri, tled Special, is loosely based on wrer Ryan O’Connell’s memoir I’m Special: And Other Li We Tell Ourselv, which the thor discs growg up as a Millennial gay man wh cerebral palsy, navigatg ternships, datg, and g out. O’Connell, who has wrten for TV seri such as Will & Grace and Awkward, is due to star Special as a gay man wh d cerebral palsy who revents his inty as an accint victim to fally get the life he wanted, Deadle reported.