Openly Gay ‘Firefly’ Actor Sean Maher, a Metro Detroer, Honors Late Father By Raisg Money for Alzheimer’s Associatn - Pri Source

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• OPENLY GAY ‘FIREFLY’ ACTOR SEAN MAHER, A METRO DETROER, HONORS LATE FATHER BY RAISG MONEY FOR ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATN
• 'FIREFLY,' 'PLAYBOY CLUB' ACTOR SEAN MAHER REVEALS HE'S GAY
• 'FIREFLY' ACTOR ADAM BALDW COMPAR GAY MARRIAGE TO INCT
• ‘FIREFLY’: REBEC GAYHEART WAS FIRED AFTER ONLY 1 DAY ON SET
• DO SEAN FALLY TELL HIS PARENTS THAT HE’S GAY FIREFLY LANE SEASON 2 PART 1?

OPENLY GAY ‘FIREFLY’ ACTOR SEAN MAHER, A METRO DETROER, HONORS LATE FATHER BY RAISG MONEY FOR ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATN

The openly gay Metro Detro-based actor will be at the mall today until 7 p.

'FIREFLY,' 'PLAYBOY CLUB' ACTOR SEAN MAHER REVEALS HE'S GAY

“Not gog to lie, I may have received some lerature om the church where my dad nfid to a prit his battle about havg a gay son.

He was a sweet, simple, old-fashned man, and he jt uldn’t unrstand how I uld be gay and live a happy life.

Addnal TV creds clu "The Mentalist", "Human Target, " and "Warehoe 13" 2011 while playg closeted gay man 'Sean Beasely' 1960s Chigo on NBC's provotive "The Playboy Club" Maher ed the role as a platform to e out publicly as a gay man himself. Firefly alum and Playboy Club actor Sean Maher has worked steadily Hollywood for 14 years, and durg that time, he ma the choice to be closeted about his personal life as a gay man — until now. "At that moment, I didn't thk to say, 'Oh, I'm gay, ' bee right before I left New York [where he went to llege at NYU], I had my manager tell me: 'You need to get a girl on your arm or people will start talkg.

'FIREFLY' ACTOR ADAM BALDW COMPAR GAY MARRIAGE TO INCT

' I remember tellg him: 'I'm gay.

"I'm thkg, What is the potential that if they ught wd that they had st a gay lead actor that they would fire me? So that sort of started the ia of, okay, well, I'm workg a lot, I gus I'll jt keep that gay part of my life on the back burner for now. Two mentors of his are Craig Zadan and Neil Meron — a pair of powerful and openly gay producers behd movi like Hairspray and Chigo, as well as TV shows like Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva — wh whom he has worked wh on two TV movi, ABC's Brian's Song (2001) and A&E's Weddg Wars (2006).

" In Weddg Wars, Maher actually did play a gay character — a sry posn for a gay actor attemptg to appear straight. " Although there have been famo s of homophobia Hollywood (ex.

‘FIREFLY’: REBEC GAYHEART WAS FIRED AFTER ONLY 1 DAY ON SET

Knight a gay slur on the set of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and was subsequently fired), Maher says he never enuntered much hostily — mostly bee he was never out and was very apt at actg straight.

"Although I wnsed a lot of , whether be makg fun of gays or gay jok.

DO SEAN FALLY TELL HIS PARENTS THAT HE’S GAY FIREFLY LANE SEASON 2 PART 1?

That was part of the reason that I didn't e out earlier — bee there was an energy on set, and I felt like my beg gay would have offset that, pecially wh the crew. "What would she thk if I said, 'Oh honey, you n't e wh me to work bee they don't know I have an adopted dghter and they don't know that I'm gay. 19, his character is volved wh lnchg the Chigo chapter of the Mattache Society, an unrground gay-rights group om the '50s and '60s.