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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.

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

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

There's no Hollywood tradition of maybe not telling people that you're gay to protect your future ambitions. The YouTube world is a little unprecedented. I think what people are seeing is that the more true to yourself you are, the more an audience will connect with you.

Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'