Common folk usually look up to celebs and influential faces to bring about a change in the society and break its clichéd norms.
Nevertheless, celebrities are ambassadors of change and they have brought about a very optimistic revolutionary transformation in the attitude of the general public towards gays. They are often perceived as different and not normal. Time and again the issue of equal rights for gays has been raised at several platforms, levels and at different enormity however, even today societal acceptance of gay men and women is not very easy to come by.
That façade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.Homosexuality was a taboo until well-known faces such as these came out of the closet and talked about gay rights and their own sexual orientation. About his early life, he said, “I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. Huck and Quinn might have a crazy, topsy-turvy relationship in Scandal, but Guillermo Diaz is openly gay in real life. In real-life, however, she and Ellen DeGeneres have one of the most enviably adorable marriages. Portia’s played many straight characters on screen, the most recent one being Elizabeth North in Scandal. George O’Malley might have crushed on Meredith for years in Grey’s Anatomy, but in real-life TR Knight has been married to Patrick Leahy since 2013. She married Lara Embry in 2010 and divorced her in 2014. Jane Lynch’s portrayal of sex-crazy Paula in The 40-Year-Old Virgin might have made you laugh, but in real-life she’s openly gay. Wentworth Miller, famous for playing Michael Scofield in Prison Break, came out in 2013, when he declined an invitation to attend the Saint Petersburg International Film Festival because of the Russian government's treatment of gay citizens. You know that Mean Girls heartthrob Aaron Samuels’ hair looks sexy pushed back, but do you also know that in real life, he’s gay? Or at least that’s the general assumption after Julianne Hough accidentally outed him in 2014. We’ve all lusted over Matt Bomer, who played handsome conman Neal Caffrey on White Collar, but in real life he’s been married to Simon Halls since 2011, and has three sons via surrogacy. She married her wife Christine Marinoni in 2012. Cynthia NixonĬynthia Nixon was one of the four girls trying to find the right man in Sex And The City, but in real life she’s bisexual. Sheldon Cooper might have just slept with Amy for the first time on The Big Bang Theory, but in real life, Jim Parsons has been in a relationship with partner Todd Spiewak for over a decade.
He came out in 2006, and said, “I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest.” Jim Parsons Possibly the most popular womanizer in pop culture, the actor behind the 'legendary' character Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother is happily married to David Burtka. From Barney Stinson to Miranda Hobbes, some of the most famous straight characters on television have been played by actors who’re either homosexual or bisexual in real-life, and big champions of the LGBTQ movement.