Can you name the people who appeared on TV and at some point became out as gay or lesbian? by sproutcm

Can you name the people who appeared on TV and at some point became out as gay or lesbian?

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Note: Many of these people came out years later, and just a sample of them on TV is given. Some of them are less famous, but are historically important. This is not meant to be a complete list.
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Out on TV Quiz

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Created May 24, 2012 in Television
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	Margann:	May 25th, 2012 at 04:17 GMT		2 points
	I just read that Jim Parsons has been in a relationship with a man for a decade. That's so cute! I love it!

	MovieGuru:	May 25th, 2012 at 04:39 GMT		7 points
	From the, "What? No way!" to the "duh..." .. Fun quiz!

	LastTimelord37:	May 25th, 2012 at 04:59 GMT		7 points
	Just so you know, that isn't Donald Glover. Donald Glover is a black actor who plays Troy on Community. That man's name is JOHN Glover, and he plays Lionel Luther on Smallville.

	pcull1016:	May 25th, 2012 at 06:14 GMT		1 point
	Yup. That's John Glover, not Donald. Also please accept Pierce for the Frasier actor.

	sproutcm:	May 25th, 2012 at 06:26 GMT		8 points
	@All Thanks, I don't know why i always confuse Donald and John Glover. They look SO similar. I was inspired to make this quiz with several prominent comings out this week, and realizing that when I was a kid, there were absolutely no such role models out there, and how awesomely the world has changed.

	dummo:	May 25th, 2012 at 13:16 GMT		1 point
	Some of these I've never heard of... Some of these are obvious... There's some which I had recognize but had no idea were gay and surprised me. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Great quiz.

	Annie1:	May 25th, 2012 at 14:59 GMT		1 point
	Not just actors and actresses in your quiz, so maybe change the name? Kept thinking Sean Maher was Zachary Quinto. Surprised he's not on the list.

	sproutcm:	May 25th, 2012 at 15:01 GMT		1 point
	@Annie1 I was going to save Zachary Quinto for my movies version, but it turns out that Raven-Symoné has not come out but just declared that her sexuality is none of anyone's business, so I have to swap him in later today.

	double_a08:	May 25th, 2012 at 19:36 GMT		3 points
	Maybe accept character names as well...I kept wanting to put those when I couldn't remember the real last name.

	rockgolf:	May 25th, 2012 at 20:12 GMT		3 points
	@Sprout: That's so Raven!

	rockgolf:	May 25th, 2012 at 20:13 GMT		2 points
	You could go old school and put Charles Nelson Reilly up.

	sproutcm:	May 25th, 2012 at 20:42 GMT		1 point
	@Rockgolf Good call. I added him from the Match Game. I didn't realize he had been out but he was. I wanted to find a good picture of him from the Ghost and Mrs. Muir which I loved when I was a kid.

	rockgolf:	May 25th, 2012 at 20:59 GMT		2 points
	I like the picture you have. On YouTube, there's a one-man show he did near the end of his life called "The Life of Reilly". It's a terrific performance from a guy mostly known for buffoonery, but also a very talented classical actor and director. At one point in the play, Reilly does a role call of people in the same small acting class as him (taught by Uta Hagen). It included Steve McQueen, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Geraldine Page, Jack Lemmon, Orson Bean, George Segal, Harvey Korman, Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara.

	shawnfrawn:	May 26th, 2012 at 01:31 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz. 5 Globes all the way.

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	Tahnan:	May 30th, 2012 at 06:18 GMT		12 points
	I think, Krys2485, that decades upon decades of heterosexuality being the only sexuality represented in the media did little enough to convince homosexuals that they should date people of the opposite gender, so no amount of "glamourizing" is going to give children any kind of impression about who they should be dating. Nor is any amount of "glamourizing" going to particularly reduce the overwhelming number of heterosexuals in the media.

	rockgolf:	May 31st, 2012 at 00:33 GMT		19 points
	@krys: I wouldn't worry much about it either. But as someone with 50 years of television-watching experience, it seems that right now gays are in about the same position on TV that African-Americans were in the late 60s. That is, there are a few of them around, but they only seem to be shown as people with positive traits. In the late 60s the only significant black actors on network TV were Bill Cosby on I Spy and Diahann Carroll on Julia. Greg Morris of Mission: Impossible was probably the first black actor on a TV series where the character could have been cast as a black or white person - his race had no real effect on his character. You could never have a black person as the killer on Perry Mason, or as a villain in Batman, because that would have been seen as racist. And that "positive-only" portrayal for a few years allowed America to get comfortable with African-Americans as regular presences on TV. It was a necessary step at the time. "Out" gay characters are still overwhelming seen in only positive light on TV, I suspect much for the same reason. With Modern Family, I think we're seeing on network TV the next big step: gays as people, rather than role models. True equality will only be achieved when a gay character is as natural, and just as unnoteworthy, to any large cast show as any visible minority is now.

	brez002:	May 31st, 2012 at 16:55 GMT		5 points
	@Krys2485 Let's say that this ridiculous "worst case scenario" comes true and more people start being gay.......where's the problem?? Who cares? As long as no one is forcing you or anyone else to be gay why would you care at all? Also: what Tahnan and rockgolf said.

	barnztormre:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 21:53 GMT		2 points
	Row 3, second from left is a dead-ringer for Katie Couric in that pic. Looks nothing like she did in her most famous role.

	cocky:	Jun 5th, 2012 at 12:46 GMT		5 points
	Is it a positive sign that I really don't care about any of these people's sex lives?

	leviper:	Jun 10th, 2012 at 20:13 GMT		2 points
	BARROWMAN!!!!!!!!!!!

	sproutcm:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 23:45 GMT		2 points
	@All I have updated this to include newly-out Anderson Cooper and Bravo pioneer Andy Cohen. They have replaced Nigel Hawthorne who was hardly recognized and inadvertently outed and Randy Harrison who no one remembered as being the out gay actor on the American Queer as Folk.