Jim Parsons Didn't Discs Beg Gay Durg 'Big Bang' Out of Fear

Contents:

• BIG BANG THEORY'S JIM PARSONS SCRIB HIS JOURNEY TO PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY
• 'BIG BANG THEORY' MYSTERY: IS SHELDON GAY?
• ‘BIG BANG THEORY’S’ JIM PARSONS OUT AS GAY
• ‘BIG BANG THEORY’ STAR JIM PARSONS IS GAY, BY THE WAY

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

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. 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. Parsons said: "There's fely this spectm: I thk the fight, as were, is not about havg only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all Kle//Getty Imag"It's important that gay characters are portrayed as well-round and pletely human dividuals.

"Parsons sgled out Brokeback Mounta's Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as exampl of straight actors "who have played gay characters brilliantly". "I thk Brokeback Mounta is one of the most touchg gay movi and love stori I have ever seen, and those two straight actors [Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal] were the bt choic for those rol, " he FeaturMeanwhile, Parsons recently revealed that he once dned for a part the US remake of The Office even though he thought the show was a pretty bad ia. Gay?

'BIG BANG THEORY' MYSTERY: IS SHELDON GAY?

Straight, gay or… “other”?

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. "I n't remember the exact qutn, but he asked about somethg to the effect of, 'Was more meangful to be a part of The Normal Heart beg gay? "RELATED | TV's Hight Paid Actor, Jim Parsons, Is Gay, and So Are Many of His Contemporari.

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

While Jim Parsons never flat-out nied his sexualy, he admted to The Hollywood Reporter 2020 that he was "sred enough to make [his] missn not to talk about , " as he thought news of him beg gay "might e trouble" for the succs of The Big Bang Theory.

Neverthels, a role 2011's Broadway n of The Normal Heart, a show about gay men dyg durg the AIDS crisis, seemed to shake his fens. In a 2012 terview wh The New York Tim, he matter-of-factly revealed he was gay and a 10-year relatnship. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ star Jim Parsons is gay.

‘BIG BANG THEORY’ STAR JIM PARSONS IS GAY, BY THE WAY

PHOTOS: Gay celebri Although Parsons has had an extensive reer the theater, ’s his role as Sheldon Cooper on ‘The Big Bang Theory’ that’s ma him a star. ’ Last year, he spent the break starrg the drama ‘The Normal Heart, ’ about gay men dyg of AIDS. 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.