'Hero' Actor Thomas Dekker Adms He's Gay After Beg Outed by Bryan Fuller

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Known for his edgy fictn, Ted Dekker also has a way of phg the envelope his blog postgs, most recently addrsg “The Challenge of Beg Gay” (, Jan. 8). Havg grabbed people's attentn, he...

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"HERO" ACTOR THOMAS DEKKER SAYS HE WAS OUTED BY A "PROMENT GAY MAN""THIS MAN CLAIMG THAT I ME OUT IS NOT TE. BEE I HAVE NOT 'OFFICIALLY' UNTIL THIS MOMENT." {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYJULY 14, 2017/6:34 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}KABOOM/DPERATE PICTURBY DAN AVERYJULY 14, 2017 / 6:34 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"\"HERO\" ACTOR THOMAS DEKKER SAYS HE WAS OUTED BY A \"PROMENT GAY MAN\"","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-07-14T10:34:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-07-14T10:34:41.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERO ACTOR THOMAS DEKKER HAS E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY A POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WHERE HE BLAM "A PROMENT GAY MAN" FOR OUTG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN ONCE AGA ME TO QUTN THIS WEEK WHEN A PROMENT GAY MAN ED AN AWARDS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH TO ‘OUT’ ME," DEKKER, WHO ALSO APPEARED TERMATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICL, WROTE ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHILE HE DID NOT MENTN ME BY NAME, THE EXPLIC TAILS OF HIS REFERENCE MA EASY FOR THE PUBLIC AND MEDIA TO NNECT THE DOTS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE DIDN'T MENTN HIM BY NAME, BUT S CLEAR DEKKER WAS REFERRG TO BRYAN FULLER, WHO ED HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT OUTFT LAST WEEKEND TO DISCS THE DIFFICULTI HE'S HAD TRODUCG LGBT CHARACTERS ON TV.MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAG FOR STARZNORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 28: PRODUCER/SHOWNNER BRYAN FULLER SPEAKS ONSTAGE DURG THE AMERIN GODS FYC EVENT AT SABAN MEDIA CENTER ON APRIL 28, 2017 NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAG FOR STARZ){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I HAD A BRIEF STT ON HERO, WHERE THE GAY CHARACTER WAS ‘HETWASHED’ AFTER THE ACTOR’S MANAGEMENT THREATENED TO PULL HIM OM THE SHOW IF HE—THE CHARACTER, NOT THE ACTOR— WERE GAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE TIME, WAS WILY REPORTED THE CHARACTER QUTN WAS DEKKER’S CHARACTER, ZACH, AND THAT DEKKER’S MANAGEMENT WAS WORRIED WOULD AFFECT HIS STG AS YOUNG JOHN CONNOR ON THE TERMATOR TV SERI.HERO/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DEKKER NIED THE CHARGE AT THE TIME, WRG 2007, "I HAVE PLAYED A GAY CHARACTER THREE TIM BEFORE MY REER, ONE WHEN I WAS 12 (WHICH IS ON YOUTUBE), ONE WHEN I WAS 15, AND ANOTHER WHEN I WAS 17. I, NOR MY MANAGEMENT, HAVE EVER HAD ANY KD OF PROBLEM WH CREATG A GAY CHARACTER." HE MATAED THE SUATN WAS "SOMETHG FAR MORE PLITED" THAN BEG AAID TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER. (SCE THEN, DEKKER HAS ALSO PLAYED GAY GREGG ARAKI'S KABOOM AND THE HBO BPIC CEMA VERE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT A 2011 OUT TERVIEW THE ACTOR MATAED HE WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I’VE ONLY REALLY HAD RELATNSHIPS WH WOMEN, BUT I'M CERTALY NOT CLOSED TO . IF THERE ARE POSSIBILI OF BEG ABLE TO DO ANYTHG LIFE, WHY WOULD YOU SAY YOU WOULD NEVER TAKE ANY UP?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DEKKER ALSO REVEALED HIS LATT INSTAGRAM THAT HE'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHILE IS AN ODD SUATN, I THANK HIM BEE PRENTS A PRIME OPPORTUNY FOR ME TO PUBLICLY SAY THAT I AM ED A MAN WHO PROUDLY LOV OTHER MEN. IN FACT, THIS APRIL, I MARRIED MY HBAND AND I ULD NOT BE HAPPIER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Known for his edgy fictn, Ted Dekker also has a way of phg the envelope his blog postgs, most recently addrsg “The Challenge of Beg Gay” (, Jan. Havg grabbed people's attentn, he go on to clare himself “happily heterosexual, ” g the example of how the word “gay” ed to mean happy and ntent, to discs changg fns of Christian fictn. Frh off the succs of his very gay Starz seri Amerin Gods, Fuller had this to say about havg would-be characters his past work "hetwashed, " or changed om homosexual to heterosexual:"I had a brief stt on Hero where the gay character was 'hetwashed' after the actor's management threatened to pull him om the show if he--the character, not the actor--were gay, " Fuller said.

"The character beme straight and the actor me out as gay. " The actor he relsly talked about is Thomas Dekker, who had never publicly e out as has talked openly about sexualy the past, but never explicly claimed he was gay.

In 2007, he rebed the story that his management refed to let his Hero character, Zach, e out bee would damage his reer, statg, "I, nor my management have ever had any kd of problem wh creatg a gay character. " Now, a week after Fuller's thly veiled outg durg his speech, Dekker has taken to Instagram to e out as a happily married gay man. "My sexual orientatn once aga me to qutn this week when a proment gay man ed an awards acceptance speech to 'out' me, " he nced.

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" While 's great that Dekker has taken Fuller's ments relatively lightly, 's still sential that we all remember that g out is an dividual procs that nobody should be ma to feel forced sexual orientatn once aga me to qutn this week when a proment gay man ed an awards acceptance speech to "out" me. "I'm gay". If we are to stand strong the gay muny, our missn should be support, not excln; love, not shame.

Hero actor Thomas Dekker has e out publicly as gay a post on social media, where he blam "a proment gay man" for outg him. “My sexual orientatn once aga me to qutn this week when a proment gay man ed an awards acceptance speech to ‘out’ me, " Dekker, who also appeared Termator: The Sarah Connor Chronicl, wrote on Instagram. “I had a brief stt on Hero, where the gay character was ‘hetwashed’ after the actor’s management threatened to pull him om the show if he—the character, not the actor— were gay.

"At the time, was wily reported the character qutn was Dekker’s character, Zach, and that Dekker’s management was worried would affect his stg as young John Connor on the Termator TV nied the charge at the time, wrg 2007, "I have played a gay character three tim before my reer, one when I was 12 (which is on YouTube), one when I was 15, and another when I was 17. I, nor my management, have ever had any kd of problem wh creatg a gay character.

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'Hero' Actor Thomas Dekker Adms He's Gay After Beg Outed by Bryan Fuller .

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