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• GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
• IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY?
• 19 GAY, LBIAN AND BI ACTORS WHO GAVE AMAZG PERFORMANC STRAIGHT ROLSTEFANIA SARBBA·FOLLOW7 M READ·AUG 21, 2018--LISTENSHARECOBIE SMULRS AND NEIL PATRICK HARRIS HAD A GREAT CHEMISTRY ON HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. | PHOTO: CBSTHE CISN TO ST STRAIGHT ACTOR JACK WHEHALL AS DISNEY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STIRRED THE NEVER-ENDG NTROVERSY ON WHETHER GAY CHARACTERS SHOULD BE PORTRAYED BY NON-LGBTI ACTORS. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER WAY ROUND?PLAYG GAY IS OK FOR 70% OF PEOPLEFRH MEAT’S WHEHALL WILL PLAY A ‘HUGELY EFFETE, VERY MP AND VERY FUNNY’ CHARACTER THE UPG MOVIE JUNGLE CISE, ALONGSI DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON AND EY BLUNT.FOLLOWG THE STG, YOUGOV SURVEYED 3,276 ADULTS RIDG GREAT BRA AND FOUND 70% OF RPONNTS BELIEVED PLAYG GAY IS FE.YOUNGER PEOPLE (18–24) ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE UPSET AT THE STG OF A CIS, STRAIGHT PERSON AS AN LGBTI CHARACTER. NOHELS, OLR RPONNTS SAID THEY ARE OK WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY.THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF ACTG IS, FACT, TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE ELSE AND NVEY THE EMOTNS OF THAT GIVEN CHARACTER TO A GREATER DIENCE. THAT IS WHY A LERAL STG MIGHT FEEL RTRICTIVE FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE ACTG AS A PROFSN.HOWEVER, AS LONG AS OPPORTUNI FOR LGBTI ACTORS REMA UNEQUAL — AND THAT IS TE PECIALLY FOR TRANS ARTISTS WHO FACE A STGGLE TO BE ST AS ANYTHG BUT TRANS — A STG CISN WILL ALWAYS BE MORE THAN JT THAT. MANY ARE URGG STG DIRECTORS AND MOVIE PRODUCTN PANI TO DO BETTER THAN GOG FOR THE SAFT OPTN.LGBTI ACTORS STRAIGHT ROLON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL LGBTI ACTORS HAVE PLAYED STRAIGHT ROL THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.WHILE IS TE THAT, CERTA S, MANY DID SO AN ATTEMPT TO NCEAL THEIR SEXUAL INTY OM THE PUBLIC, MORE RECENT TIM OPENLY GAY AND BI ACTORS PLAYED STRAIGHT AND DID SO AMAZGLY.HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’S NEIL PATRICK HARRIS PORTRAYED WOMANIZER BARNEY STSON ON THE CBS SHOW FOR NE SEASONS. ALTHOUGH BEG ONE OF THE MOST FAMO GAY ACTORS TO HAVE STEPPED THE SHO OF A STRAIGHT CHARACTER, HE WASN’T SURELY THE ONLY ONE.HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE BT PERFORMANC BY LGBTI ACTORS HETEROSEXUAL ROL.1. DAVID BURTKANEIL PATRICK HARRIS PLAYG STRAIGHT BARNEY IS MON KNOWLEDGE, BUT DID YOU KNOW HIS HBAND, AN ACTOR AND PROFSNAL CHEF, PLAYED A STRAIGHT ROLE ON THE SAME SHOW?DAVID BURTKA, FACT, WAS SOTER, LILY’S (ALYSON HANNIGAN) PUPPY-EYED EX-BOYIEND NSTANTLY TRYG TO W HER BACK.HARRIS AND BURTKA TIED THE KNOT ITALY 2014, WH ELTON JOHN PLAYG AT THE CEREMONY OFFICIATED BY HIMYM’S DIRECTOR PAMELA FRYMAN.2. CYNTHIA NIXONCURRENT GUBERNATORIAL NDIDATE FOR NEW YORK CYNTHIA NIXON HAS PLAYED STRAIGHT THE UNFETTABLE ROLE OF OUTSPOKEN, SASSY MIRANDA HOBB SEX AND THE CY. HER CHARACTER GETS MARRIED TO STEVE BRADY.THE OPENLY BISEXUAL ACTRS BEGAN DATG CHRISTE MARONI AFTER THE END OF HER MARRIAGE TO DANNY MOZ. THE TWO WOMEN MARRIED 2009 AND WELED A SON 2011. NIXON ALSO HAS TWO CHILDREN OM HER PREV MARRIAGE, ONE OF WHOM IS TRANSGENR.3. MATT BOMERVERY MUCH LIKE HARRIS, MATT BOMER ROSE TO POPULARY FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF N ARTIST NEAL CAFEY WHE COLLAR. CHARMG, CUNNG AND STRAIGHT AS HELL, CAFEY HAS SEVERAL FEMALE PARTNERS THROUGHOUT THE SIX SEASONS.HE ALSO PLAYED KEN, A STRAIGHT STRIPPER MARRIED TO MIRCEA MONROE 2015 CULT MOVIE MAGIC MIKE.4. ELLEN PAGEBEFORE G OUT TO THE WORLD HER BETIFUL SPEECH AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S TIME TO THRIVE 2014, THE CANADIAN ACTRS PORTRAYED THE TULAR ROLE JUNO, ALONGSI MICHAEL CERA AND JENNIFER GARNER.THE 2007 MOVIE, WHERE PAGE PLAYS A BRAZEN TEENAGER ALG WH AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY, WAS A HUGE H. THE ACTRS WAS NOMATED THE BT ACTRS TEGORY AT THE AMY AWARDS BUT LOST TO MARN COTILLARD. SCREENWRER DIABLO CODY WON THE OSR FOR BT SCREENPLAY.SUBSEQUENTLY, PAGE PLAYED STRAIGHT SEVERAL OTHER MOVI AND NOTABLY A GAY CHARACTER FREEHELD, STARRG OPPOSE JULIANNE MOORE.5. WENTWORTH MILLERAMERIN ACTOR WENTWORTH MILLER PLAYED THE ROLE OF MATE MICHAEL SFIELD PRISON BREAK. SFIELD MARRI DR. SARA TANCREDI THE SHOW.DPE SEVERAL NIALS, MILLER FALLY ME OUT AS GAY 2013. HE THEN REPRISED HIS ROLE PRISON BREAK FOR A FIFTH SEASON 2017.6. PORTIA ROSSIATRALIAN ACTRS PORTIA ROSSI PLAYED STRAIGHT ON SEVERAL OCSNS.ELLEN DEGENER’ WIFE ROSE TO FAME FOR THE ROLE OF LAWYER NELLE PORTER AND JOHN CAGE’S LOVE TERT LEGAL DRAMEDY ALLY MCBEAL.SHE ALSO PORTRAYS THE STRAIGHT, PROMISCUO LDSAY BLUTH FüNKE ARRTED DEVELOPMENT, ORIGALLY AIRED BETWEEN 2003 AND 2006 AND LATER PICKED UP BY NETFLIX FOR A REVIVAL.7. JIM PARSONSOPENLY GAY ACTOR JIM PARSONS PORTRAYS SHELDON COOPER ON THE S THE BIG BANG THEORY.ALTHOUGH THE THEORETIL PHYSICIST VELOPS A ROMANTIC TERT FOR FELLOW SCIENTIST AMY FARRAH FOWLER (MAYIM BIALIK), MANY NSIR SHELDON TO BE ASEXUAL. THE SHOW’S CREATORS HAVE ALWAYS NIED SUCH CLAIMS.PARSONS MARRIED ART DIRECTOR TODD SPIEWAK 2017, AFTER A TEN-YEAR-LONG RELATNSHIP.8. SARA GILBERTPARSONS ISN’T THE ONLY GAY ACTOR ON THE BIG BANG THEORY. LBIAN ACTRS SARA GILBERT PLAYS SCIENTIST LLIE WKLE, A STRAIGHT CHARACTER SEXUALLY VOLVED WH TWO MA CHARACTERS, HOWARD (SIMON HELBERG) AND LEONARD (JOHNNY GALECKI).FUNNILY ENOUGH, GALECKI AND GILBERT -STARRED ON THE ORIGAL ROSEANNE AND BRIEFLY DATED BEFORE THE ACTRS REALIZED SHE WAS TO WOMEN.GILBERT MARRIED TO 4 NON BLONS ONTWOMAN LDA PERRY 2014.9. KRISTEN STEWARTBISEXUAL ACTRS KRISTEN STEWART HAS PLAYED MOSTLY STRAIGHT CHARACTERS HER WHOLE LIFE.FROM HER PORTRAYAL OF BELLA SWAN THE TWILIGHT SAGA, WHERE SHE STARRED OPPOSE HER THEN-BOYIEND ROBERT PATTSON, TO HER MOST RECENT ROL, STEWART HAS NEVER BEEN A SAME-SEX STORYLE. UNTIL NOW.SHE WILL BE BRIDGET SULLIVAN THE UPG VICTORIAN THRILLER LIZZIE. CHLOë SEVIGNY WILL PLAY THE TULAR ROLE AND THE TWO WILL HAVE A RELATNSHIP LEADG TO TERRIBLE NSEQUENC. THE MOVIE WILL H THEATERS ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2018.10. LE EVANSWELSH ACTOR LE EVANS HAS BEEN OUT AS A GAY MAN EVER SCE 2002. HOWEVER, HE HAS MOSTLY PLAYED STRAIGHT CHARACTERS.HE PORTRAYED WONR WOMAN’S CREATOR WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON 2017 MOVIE PROFSOR MARSTON AND THE WONR WOMEN. IN THE FILM, HE AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH (REBEC HALL) BEE VOLVED A POLYAMORO RELATNSHIP WH STUNT OLIVE (BELLA HEATHTE).EVANS WAS ALSO THE OBNOX GASTON THE 2017 DISNEY CLASSIC’S LIVE-ACTN BETY AND THE BEAST. FURTHERMORE, HE PLAYED THE ROLE OF STT HIPWELL THE GIRL ON THE TRA.11. JODIE FOSTERTHE LBIAN ACTRS HAS PLAYED HETEROSEXUAL ROL FOR ALL OF HER LIFE.FROM HER TOP PERFORMANC THE ACCED AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS — THE LATTER PERCEIVED AS BLATANTLY NCEALG HER CHARACTER’S SEXUALY — FOSTER PLAYED MEL GIBSON’S WIFE 2011 MOVIE THE BEAVER, WHICH SHE ALSO DIRECTED.FURTHERMORE, SHE PORTRAYED PENELOPE LONGSTREET, JOHN C. REILLY’S WIFE, CARNAGE, DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI.12. T. R. KNIGHTT. R. KNIGHT IS KNOWN PRIMARILY FOR THE ROLE OF GEE O’MALLEY ON ABC’S GREY’S ANATOMY.DPE THE SHOW CREATED BY SHONDA RHIM HAS BEEN A ONTNNER PORTRAYG RELATABLE LGBTI STORYL, O’MALLEY WAS ONE OF THE HETEROSEXUAL DOCTORS WORKG AT SEATTLE GRACE HOSPAL.AS FANS OF THE SHOWS MAY RELL, O’MALLEY FALLS FOR THE MA CHARACTER MEREDH GREY (ELLEN POMPEO), GETS MARRIED TO BISEXUAL DOCTOR CALLIE TORR (SARA RAMIREZ) AND LATER BE VOLVED WH HIS BT IEND IZZIE STEVENS (KATHERE HEIGL).13. JANE LYNCHBACK 2011, LBIAN ACTRS JANE LYNCH ADDRSED THE NTROVERSY SAYG GAY ACTORS WOULD NEVER LAND LEAD STRAIGHT ROL.DURG HER LONG REER, LYNCH HAS PLAYED SEVERAL HETEROSEXUAL CHARACTERS. THE MOST INIC STRAIGHT ROLE IS SURELY THAT OF PLA ON THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG. SHE ALSO PLAYED STRAIGHT ON ARRTED DEVELOPMENT AND GLEE.HOWEVER, SHE PLAYED A LBIAN 2000 ENSEMBLE MOVIE BT IN SHOW.14. ZACHARY QUTOQUTO ME OUT AS GAY 2011 AND HE HAS PLAYED SEVERAL GAY CHARACTERS EVER SCE.HOWEVER, HE PLAYED SPOCK STAR TREK. THE CHARACTER BE ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH MUNITN OFFICER UHURA, PLAYED BY ZOE SALDANA, THE 2009 STALLMENT OF THE ANCHISE.QUTO ALSO PLAYED DR. OLIVER THREDSON ON AMERIN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM. THE PSYCHIATRIST VELOPS AN OBSSN FOR LANA WTERS (SARAH PLSON).15. SARAH PLSONNOW A RELATNSHIP WH FELLOW ACTRS HOLLAND TAYLOR, PLSON HAD PREVLY DATED CHERRY JON. SHE ALSO DATED MEN AND FED HER SEXUALY AS ‘FLUID’.PLSON HAS PLAYED LGBTI CHARACTERS, NOTABLY ON AHS AND 2015 MOVIE CAROL. NOHELS, SHE HAS PORTRAYED HETEROSEXUAL CHARACTERS AS WELL, SUCH AS AMANDA BLUE JAY, ALONGSI MARK DUPLASS. THE BLACK AND WHE MOVIE CENTERS AROUND TWO HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS WHO BUMPED TO EACH OTHER AFTER TWENTY YEARS.THE ACTRS ALSO RECENTLY PLAYED A STRAIGHT, BORED WIFE AND MOTHER OCEAN’S 8.16. VICTOR GARBERCANADIAN ACTOR VICTOR GARBER PLAYED STRAIGHT ON BOTH TV SHOWS ALIAS AND CHARMED.HE ALSO PLAYED PROFSOR MART STE ON LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, ONE OF THE SHOWS OF CW’S ARROWVERSE. STE IS MARRIED TO CLARISSA, PLAYED BY ISABELLA HOFMANN.GARBER HAS BEEN A RELATNSHIP WH MOL RAER ANDREEN SCE 2000, BUT ONLY PUBLICLY ADDRSED HIS HOMOSEXUALY 2012. THE PAIR GOT MARRIED 2015.17. RAVEN-SYMONéWHILE RAVEN MIGHT HAVE BEEN A B TOO BOY-OBSSED ON DISNEY CHANNEL’S SHOW THAT’S SO RAVEN AND THE SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL RAVEN’S HOME, THE ACTRS PORTRAYG THE FUNNY CHARACTER IS TO WOMEN.SHE ONLY ME OUT AS A LBIAN 2016, AFTER HAVG REFED TO OFFICIALLY INTIFY AS SUCH PREV TERVIEWS. SHE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH MOL AZMARIE LIVGSTON FOR THREE YEARS BEFORE THE PAIR SPL UP 2015.18. JONATHAN D. BENTIT’S ONLY THANKS TO JONATHAN D. BENT IF ‘OCTOBER 3RD’ HOLDS A SPECIAL MEANG FOR ALL THE MEAN GIRLS OUT THERE.THE ACTOR, WHO ME OUT AS GAY 2017, PLAYED AARON SAMUELS, REGA GEE’S (RACHEL MCADAMS) BOYIEND AND THEN CADY HERON’S (LDSAY LOHAN) LOVE TERT 2004 LTLE GEM MEAN GIRLS.19. HEATHER MATARAZZO

GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

” Of his character, Elijah, he told New York Magaze 2012: “As a gay man, I thk there’s a rponsibily to show a fully realized person, so even though Elijah might not be the the bt person the world, I want to make him as fully flhed out and human as possible. The actor and “Billy on the Street” creator has been publicly queer sce his early stand-up days, appearg a show at Joe’s Pub lled “Billy Eichner: Gay, Whe, and Terrified!

” He played a fictnalized versn of himself on “Difficult People” (also gay), but “Billy on the Street” fans should know any man who is that obssed wh Meryl Streep is probably a homosexual. “Teen Wolf” and “Arrow” star Colton Hayn revealed he was gay a 2016 terview wh Entertament Weekly, statg that he was advised to hi his sexualy by entertament profsnals to further his reer. “Scht’s Creek” creator Dan Levy lled himself a member of the LGBTQ muny a 2015 terview, and said he was “obvly gay” a 2020 terview wh Andy Cohen.

IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY?

After years as a gay in, Elvira portrayer Cassandra Peterson revealed her 2021 memoir that she was queer and had been a relatnship wh another woman for 20 years.

Broadway lovers know the adorable Jse Tyler Fergon om his scene-stealg turn “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spellg Bee, ” but he beme an ternatnal celebry as the more uptight half of the beloved gay uple on “Morn Fay, ” Mchell and Cameron.

19 GAY, LBIAN AND BI ACTORS WHO GAVE AMAZG PERFORMANC STRAIGHT ROLSTEFANIA SARBBA·FOLLOW7 M READ·AUG 21, 2018--LISTENSHARECOBIE SMULRS AND NEIL PATRICK HARRIS HAD A GREAT CHEMISTRY ON HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. | PHOTO: CBSTHE CISN TO ST STRAIGHT ACTOR JACK WHEHALL AS DISNEY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STIRRED THE NEVER-ENDG NTROVERSY ON WHETHER GAY CHARACTERS SHOULD BE PORTRAYED BY NON-LGBTI ACTORS. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER WAY ROUND?PLAYG GAY IS OK FOR 70% OF PEOPLEFRH MEAT’S WHEHALL WILL PLAY A ‘HUGELY EFFETE, VERY MP AND VERY FUNNY’ CHARACTER THE UPG MOVIE JUNGLE CISE, ALONGSI DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON AND EY BLUNT.FOLLOWG THE STG, YOUGOV SURVEYED 3,276 ADULTS RIDG GREAT BRA AND FOUND 70% OF RPONNTS BELIEVED PLAYG GAY IS FE.YOUNGER PEOPLE (18–24) ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE UPSET AT THE STG OF A CIS, STRAIGHT PERSON AS AN LGBTI CHARACTER. NOHELS, OLR RPONNTS SAID THEY ARE OK WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY.THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF ACTG IS, FACT, TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE ELSE AND NVEY THE EMOTNS OF THAT GIVEN CHARACTER TO A GREATER DIENCE. THAT IS WHY A LERAL STG MIGHT FEEL RTRICTIVE FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE ACTG AS A PROFSN.HOWEVER, AS LONG AS OPPORTUNI FOR LGBTI ACTORS REMA UNEQUAL — AND THAT IS TE PECIALLY FOR TRANS ARTISTS WHO FACE A STGGLE TO BE ST AS ANYTHG BUT TRANS — A STG CISN WILL ALWAYS BE MORE THAN JT THAT. MANY ARE URGG STG DIRECTORS AND MOVIE PRODUCTN PANI TO DO BETTER THAN GOG FOR THE SAFT OPTN.LGBTI ACTORS STRAIGHT ROLON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL LGBTI ACTORS HAVE PLAYED STRAIGHT ROL THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.WHILE IS TE THAT, CERTA S, MANY DID SO AN ATTEMPT TO NCEAL THEIR SEXUAL INTY OM THE PUBLIC, MORE RECENT TIM OPENLY GAY AND BI ACTORS PLAYED STRAIGHT AND DID SO AMAZGLY.HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’S NEIL PATRICK HARRIS PORTRAYED WOMANIZER BARNEY STSON ON THE CBS SHOW FOR NE SEASONS. ALTHOUGH BEG ONE OF THE MOST FAMO GAY ACTORS TO HAVE STEPPED THE SHO OF A STRAIGHT CHARACTER, HE WASN’T SURELY THE ONLY ONE.HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE BT PERFORMANC BY LGBTI ACTORS HETEROSEXUAL ROL.1. DAVID BURTKANEIL PATRICK HARRIS PLAYG STRAIGHT BARNEY IS MON KNOWLEDGE, BUT DID YOU KNOW HIS HBAND, AN ACTOR AND PROFSNAL CHEF, PLAYED A STRAIGHT ROLE ON THE SAME SHOW?DAVID BURTKA, FACT, WAS SOTER, LILY’S (ALYSON HANNIGAN) PUPPY-EYED EX-BOYIEND NSTANTLY TRYG TO W HER BACK.HARRIS AND BURTKA TIED THE KNOT ITALY 2014, WH ELTON JOHN PLAYG AT THE CEREMONY OFFICIATED BY HIMYM’S DIRECTOR PAMELA FRYMAN.2. CYNTHIA NIXONCURRENT GUBERNATORIAL NDIDATE FOR NEW YORK CYNTHIA NIXON HAS PLAYED STRAIGHT THE UNFETTABLE ROLE OF OUTSPOKEN, SASSY MIRANDA HOBB SEX AND THE CY. HER CHARACTER GETS MARRIED TO STEVE BRADY.THE OPENLY BISEXUAL ACTRS BEGAN DATG CHRISTE MARONI AFTER THE END OF HER MARRIAGE TO DANNY MOZ. THE TWO WOMEN MARRIED 2009 AND WELED A SON 2011. NIXON ALSO HAS TWO CHILDREN OM HER PREV MARRIAGE, ONE OF WHOM IS TRANSGENR.3. MATT BOMERVERY MUCH LIKE HARRIS, MATT BOMER ROSE TO POPULARY FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF N ARTIST NEAL CAFEY WHE COLLAR. CHARMG, CUNNG AND STRAIGHT AS HELL, CAFEY HAS SEVERAL FEMALE PARTNERS THROUGHOUT THE SIX SEASONS.HE ALSO PLAYED KEN, A STRAIGHT STRIPPER MARRIED TO MIRCEA MONROE 2015 CULT MOVIE MAGIC MIKE.4. ELLEN PAGEBEFORE G OUT TO THE WORLD HER BETIFUL SPEECH AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S TIME TO THRIVE 2014, THE CANADIAN ACTRS PORTRAYED THE TULAR ROLE JUNO, ALONGSI MICHAEL CERA AND JENNIFER GARNER.THE 2007 MOVIE, WHERE PAGE PLAYS A BRAZEN TEENAGER ALG WH AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY, WAS A HUGE H. THE ACTRS WAS NOMATED THE BT ACTRS TEGORY AT THE AMY AWARDS BUT LOST TO MARN COTILLARD. SCREENWRER DIABLO CODY WON THE OSR FOR BT SCREENPLAY.SUBSEQUENTLY, PAGE PLAYED STRAIGHT SEVERAL OTHER MOVI AND NOTABLY A GAY CHARACTER FREEHELD, STARRG OPPOSE JULIANNE MOORE.5. WENTWORTH MILLERAMERIN ACTOR WENTWORTH MILLER PLAYED THE ROLE OF MATE MICHAEL SFIELD PRISON BREAK. SFIELD MARRI DR. SARA TANCREDI THE SHOW.DPE SEVERAL NIALS, MILLER FALLY ME OUT AS GAY 2013. HE THEN REPRISED HIS ROLE PRISON BREAK FOR A FIFTH SEASON 2017.6. PORTIA ROSSIATRALIAN ACTRS PORTIA ROSSI PLAYED STRAIGHT ON SEVERAL OCSNS.ELLEN DEGENER’ WIFE ROSE TO FAME FOR THE ROLE OF LAWYER NELLE PORTER AND JOHN CAGE’S LOVE TERT LEGAL DRAMEDY ALLY MCBEAL.SHE ALSO PORTRAYS THE STRAIGHT, PROMISCUO LDSAY BLUTH FüNKE ARRTED DEVELOPMENT, ORIGALLY AIRED BETWEEN 2003 AND 2006 AND LATER PICKED UP BY NETFLIX FOR A REVIVAL.7. JIM PARSONSOPENLY GAY ACTOR JIM PARSONS PORTRAYS SHELDON COOPER ON THE S THE BIG BANG THEORY.ALTHOUGH THE THEORETIL PHYSICIST VELOPS A ROMANTIC TERT FOR FELLOW SCIENTIST AMY FARRAH FOWLER (MAYIM BIALIK), MANY NSIR SHELDON TO BE ASEXUAL. THE SHOW’S CREATORS HAVE ALWAYS NIED SUCH CLAIMS.PARSONS MARRIED ART DIRECTOR TODD SPIEWAK 2017, AFTER A TEN-YEAR-LONG RELATNSHIP.8. SARA GILBERTPARSONS ISN’T THE ONLY GAY ACTOR ON THE BIG BANG THEORY. LBIAN ACTRS SARA GILBERT PLAYS SCIENTIST LLIE WKLE, A STRAIGHT CHARACTER SEXUALLY VOLVED WH TWO MA CHARACTERS, HOWARD (SIMON HELBERG) AND LEONARD (JOHNNY GALECKI).FUNNILY ENOUGH, GALECKI AND GILBERT -STARRED ON THE ORIGAL ROSEANNE AND BRIEFLY DATED BEFORE THE ACTRS REALIZED SHE WAS TO WOMEN.GILBERT MARRIED TO 4 NON BLONS ONTWOMAN LDA PERRY 2014.9. KRISTEN STEWARTBISEXUAL ACTRS KRISTEN STEWART HAS PLAYED MOSTLY STRAIGHT CHARACTERS HER WHOLE LIFE.FROM HER PORTRAYAL OF BELLA SWAN THE TWILIGHT SAGA, WHERE SHE STARRED OPPOSE HER THEN-BOYIEND ROBERT PATTSON, TO HER MOST RECENT ROL, STEWART HAS NEVER BEEN A SAME-SEX STORYLE. UNTIL NOW.SHE WILL BE BRIDGET SULLIVAN THE UPG VICTORIAN THRILLER LIZZIE. CHLOë SEVIGNY WILL PLAY THE TULAR ROLE AND THE TWO WILL HAVE A RELATNSHIP LEADG TO TERRIBLE NSEQUENC. THE MOVIE WILL H THEATERS ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2018.10. LE EVANSWELSH ACTOR LE EVANS HAS BEEN OUT AS A GAY MAN EVER SCE 2002. HOWEVER, HE HAS MOSTLY PLAYED STRAIGHT CHARACTERS.HE PORTRAYED WONR WOMAN’S CREATOR WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON 2017 MOVIE PROFSOR MARSTON AND THE WONR WOMEN. IN THE FILM, HE AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH (REBEC HALL) BEE VOLVED A POLYAMORO RELATNSHIP WH STUNT OLIVE (BELLA HEATHTE).EVANS WAS ALSO THE OBNOX GASTON THE 2017 DISNEY CLASSIC’S LIVE-ACTN BETY AND THE BEAST. FURTHERMORE, HE PLAYED THE ROLE OF STT HIPWELL THE GIRL ON THE TRA.11. JODIE FOSTERTHE LBIAN ACTRS HAS PLAYED HETEROSEXUAL ROL FOR ALL OF HER LIFE.FROM HER TOP PERFORMANC THE ACCED AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS — THE LATTER PERCEIVED AS BLATANTLY NCEALG HER CHARACTER’S SEXUALY — FOSTER PLAYED MEL GIBSON’S WIFE 2011 MOVIE THE BEAVER, WHICH SHE ALSO DIRECTED.FURTHERMORE, SHE PORTRAYED PENELOPE LONGSTREET, JOHN C. REILLY’S WIFE, CARNAGE, DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI.12. T. R. KNIGHTT. R. KNIGHT IS KNOWN PRIMARILY FOR THE ROLE OF GEE O’MALLEY ON ABC’S GREY’S ANATOMY.DPE THE SHOW CREATED BY SHONDA RHIM HAS BEEN A ONTNNER PORTRAYG RELATABLE LGBTI STORYL, O’MALLEY WAS ONE OF THE HETEROSEXUAL DOCTORS WORKG AT SEATTLE GRACE HOSPAL.AS FANS OF THE SHOWS MAY RELL, O’MALLEY FALLS FOR THE MA CHARACTER MEREDH GREY (ELLEN POMPEO), GETS MARRIED TO BISEXUAL DOCTOR CALLIE TORR (SARA RAMIREZ) AND LATER BE VOLVED WH HIS BT IEND IZZIE STEVENS (KATHERE HEIGL).13. JANE LYNCHBACK 2011, LBIAN ACTRS JANE LYNCH ADDRSED THE NTROVERSY SAYG GAY ACTORS WOULD NEVER LAND LEAD STRAIGHT ROL.DURG HER LONG REER, LYNCH HAS PLAYED SEVERAL HETEROSEXUAL CHARACTERS. THE MOST INIC STRAIGHT ROLE IS SURELY THAT OF PLA ON THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG. SHE ALSO PLAYED STRAIGHT ON ARRTED DEVELOPMENT AND GLEE.HOWEVER, SHE PLAYED A LBIAN 2000 ENSEMBLE MOVIE BT IN SHOW.14. ZACHARY QUTOQUTO ME OUT AS GAY 2011 AND HE HAS PLAYED SEVERAL GAY CHARACTERS EVER SCE.HOWEVER, HE PLAYED SPOCK STAR TREK. THE CHARACTER BE ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH MUNITN OFFICER UHURA, PLAYED BY ZOE SALDANA, THE 2009 STALLMENT OF THE ANCHISE.QUTO ALSO PLAYED DR. OLIVER THREDSON ON AMERIN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM. THE PSYCHIATRIST VELOPS AN OBSSN FOR LANA WTERS (SARAH PLSON).15. SARAH PLSONNOW A RELATNSHIP WH FELLOW ACTRS HOLLAND TAYLOR, PLSON HAD PREVLY DATED CHERRY JON. SHE ALSO DATED MEN AND FED HER SEXUALY AS ‘FLUID’.PLSON HAS PLAYED LGBTI CHARACTERS, NOTABLY ON AHS AND 2015 MOVIE CAROL. NOHELS, SHE HAS PORTRAYED HETEROSEXUAL CHARACTERS AS WELL, SUCH AS AMANDA BLUE JAY, ALONGSI MARK DUPLASS. THE BLACK AND WHE MOVIE CENTERS AROUND TWO HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS WHO BUMPED TO EACH OTHER AFTER TWENTY YEARS.THE ACTRS ALSO RECENTLY PLAYED A STRAIGHT, BORED WIFE AND MOTHER OCEAN’S 8.16. VICTOR GARBERCANADIAN ACTOR VICTOR GARBER PLAYED STRAIGHT ON BOTH TV SHOWS ALIAS AND CHARMED.HE ALSO PLAYED PROFSOR MART STE ON LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, ONE OF THE SHOWS OF CW’S ARROWVERSE. STE IS MARRIED TO CLARISSA, PLAYED BY ISABELLA HOFMANN.GARBER HAS BEEN A RELATNSHIP WH MOL RAER ANDREEN SCE 2000, BUT ONLY PUBLICLY ADDRSED HIS HOMOSEXUALY 2012. THE PAIR GOT MARRIED 2015.17. RAVEN-SYMONéWHILE RAVEN MIGHT HAVE BEEN A B TOO BOY-OBSSED ON DISNEY CHANNEL’S SHOW THAT’S SO RAVEN AND THE SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL RAVEN’S HOME, THE ACTRS PORTRAYG THE FUNNY CHARACTER IS TO WOMEN.SHE ONLY ME OUT AS A LBIAN 2016, AFTER HAVG REFED TO OFFICIALLY INTIFY AS SUCH PREV TERVIEWS. SHE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH MOL AZMARIE LIVGSTON FOR THREE YEARS BEFORE THE PAIR SPL UP 2015.18. JONATHAN D. BENTIT’S ONLY THANKS TO JONATHAN D. BENT IF ‘OCTOBER 3RD’ HOLDS A SPECIAL MEANG FOR ALL THE MEAN GIRLS OUT THERE.THE ACTOR, WHO ME OUT AS GAY 2017, PLAYED AARON SAMUELS, REGA GEE’S (RACHEL MCADAMS) BOYIEND AND THEN CADY HERON’S (LDSAY LOHAN) LOVE TERT 2004 LTLE GEM MEAN GIRLS.19. HEATHER MATARAZZO

“Bridgerton” leadg man Jonathan Bailey first spoke about beg gay 2018, when he starred as a gay man a genr-flipped adaptatn of “Company, ” wng an Olivier Award for the role. He will next star the gay romance limed seri “Fellow Travelers” wh Matt Bomer, before playg heartthrob Fieyero th “Wicked” film adaptatn. She buted as a featured player on “Saturday Night Live” 2012, makg her the first openly gay st member of the legendary sketch show.

The reigng queen of Cann (and Osr nomee), Kristen “I’m like, so gay” Stewart me out wh a vengance on “Saturday Night Live” 2017. Toml never formally me out publicly, but acknowledged Wagner the prs several tim, and said 2015 that, “Everybody the bs knew I was gay, and certaly everybody I worked wh and everythg like that. Gay dienc have been swoong for this mtached Asi ever sce his turn on HBO’s short-lived “Lookg, ” and had been wag to see more of him ever sce that show’s unceremon ncelatn after jt two seasons.