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I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that - working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don't think the two are the same.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'