Ricky Martin didn’t fool anyone and he’s hot with women drooling all over him even now.

Don’t you mean Hayes?

Who writes this slop?

- I’ll take Sidekicks for $20000, Alex Trebek Jr.

- This homosexual actor played Will’s flamboyantly gay best friend in the 90′s sitcom Will & Grace, without anyone even imagining this actor is a homosexual in real life. Just in case I didn’t say it, this actor is one big homosexual

- Mmmm, I dunno, who is Debra Messing?

- I am sorry, it was Sean Hayes. Yes, it’s hard to believe he is gay, because he was later cast to play the Rhett Butler character in the now classic 2026 remake of “Gone with the wind”, costarring Amanda Lepore. Better luck next time.

Couldn’t agree with you more!

Ellen’s coming out led directly to the cancellation of her sitcom, which had been enormously popular beforehand.

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Ok, lets go down your list one by one…
1. Ellen sitcom was NOT enormously popular beforehand. It was doing the long slow death that sitcoms do. The coming out episodes gave it a HUGE ratings boost. It was cancelled more than a season later because the storylines ceased to be comedic and became all about Ellen struggling in a relationship. Most of my gay and lesbian friends stopped watching because it wasn’t funny and got depressing.
2. Chad Allen….he didnt’ have a career before he came out, hadn’t really done anything since Dr. Quin. Now he is constantly working in those here DVD’s about the Private Eye etc… so a small career boost for him.
3. Rupert Everett. He was a hollywood “It” guy, then he made some of the worst career choises in history. he goes from “My Best Friends Wedding” do doing a horrible and offensive movie with Madonna that was unwatchable if you were gay.
4. Rosie O’Donnell. She waited until her show was ending before she came out so you can’t blame the shows demise on her. then she completely changed her personality. She went from being the “Queen of Nice” to attacking people, and becoming very in your face. There was a consensus amoung fans that she had been playing them for years pretending to be sweet, so was it her lesbianism, or the fact that she litterally became a different person publicly?

Lastly….just how good has Sean Haye’s career been for staying in the closet? He hasn’t done crap since Will and Grace so how exactly was staying in good for him. That is what he realized and the only reason he is coming out now. He could have come out on Will and Grace any time he wanted and was in no danger of being fired.

Perhaps if all you bitter old queen armchair activists passing judgement on how others choose to express their sexuality had their lives ripped open on the pages of newspapers, tabloids and blogs you’d feel a little different.
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Really? Thats funny, isn’t it incredible that people can take a picture of Matt Damond out with his girlfriend, or ask Jennifer Aniston if she is dating anybody and they don’t get attacked for “Invading their personal life”. Is being a woman part of Angelina Jolie’s personal life? Nobody here is saying that Sean Hayes should tell us who he is fucking. Just the fact that he denied who he is like it was a dirty secret, and now when he needs the braodway gays to see his play he grgingly comes out on the attack shows me that if anybody is the bitter queen it isn’t anybody on here.

I am so sick of people saying that its no one’s business. It most certainly is our business! He’s an actor! We the public gave him his career. An actor is constantly in the public eye. An actor needs the public to survive. If nobody watches your show or buys tickets to your play or movie, you are finished! So an actor owes a great deal to the public. You give up your privacy the moment you become a star. Period. That’s how it works in showbiz. Ask anyone who’s been there. The only one who ever completely pulled off the privacy thing was Greta Garbo, some 70 or more years ago. If Mr. Hayes wanted to be so private, he was in the wrong line of work! And yes, the timing reeks of publicity/attention getting for that play he’s appearing in. His career could stand a bit of a boost now.

One more thing. Portraying a funny but also annoying and grating stereotype on a tv show is hardly doing something monumental for the gay community or the advancement of the gay movement. (On a side note, actor Craig Chester auditioned for the role of Jack but did not get the part because, as he was told, he wasn’t gay enough). The Jack character as portrayed by Sean Hayes was a source of laughter and ridicule and did not do much more than reinforce the stereotype. That’s about it. Made people laugh and entertained them, for sure, but monumental for the gay movement? Hardly!

I no, I don’t want to “fucker” either shithead. I’m not a fag.

He got publicity, yes, but will this help his career? My gut reaction is to answer NO, because I can’t see the LGB folks suddenly wanting to embrace him, and most straight folks I knew assumed he was gay anyway, so his “TADA” moment might not matter to them.

His success will probably depend less on whether he came out than on the projects he takes on as an actor. I’m thinkjng that I’m prob in the minority here, but I watch a show or movie based on the story and the acting, so if he signs onto something worth watching, I’ll see it. It’s a bad analogy but I think we can agree there are actors (M or F) whose personal lives are a hot mess but whose shows/films are still worth the 11 bucks, two hours –or whatever– to see.

Analogy: When Tiger Woods starts winning tournaments again, we all may think he’s a jerk, but the ratings will still be there. And yes, I’ll watch….

Coming Out didn’t ruin Chad, Rosie or Rupert’s careers. Dig a little deeper. Rupert has a drug problem that makes it difficult to work with him. He’s had a career for over 25 years so I don’t think you can say his career was “ruined” by coming out. The man works more than many straight actors his age.

As for Chad, how many child stars are able to bridge their careers from childhood through adolescence? Not many. NPH did it.

Then there’s Rosie. Don’t you think her self destructive behavior killed her career and not her coming out? If you think back it was Rosie’s deciscion to leave her talk show at it’s height after she came out. Then a couple years later she got THE VIEW. She was hired with everyone knowing she was an out lesbian. Her fat mouth and ego got in the way. Not her sexuality.

Ellen’s coming out led directly to the cancellation of her sitcom, which had been enormously popular beforehand. Then she tried to come back with another one that flopped instantly. After laying low for years, and returning to standup in the meantime, she basically had to reinvent herself from as a ‘personality,’ as opposed to an actress.

Chad Allen was a prominent child star, who was on the verge of evolving past that, thanks to his successful coming of age stint on Dr. Quinn. After he was outed, he couldn’t even be arrested in Hollywood…despite his Dr. Quinn role still being very recent. He said himself that CBS (despite his having worked there for five, six years) wouldn’t give him a pilot after Quinn ended. Since then he has had to reinvent himself as an activist-actor on the underground film circuit.

Rupert Everett had all sorts of buzz and the right outward ingredients to be leading man material. Once it came out that he was gay, he was relegated to supporting roles in lighthearted comedies. He even said himself that coming out was limited his career opportunities and warned that anyone with huge Hollywood aspirations shouldn’t do it.

Not saying that people shouldn’t come out, but again…it’s naive to look at someone like Neil Patrick Harris (who had the security of already being part of an ensemble cast to a popular sitcom when he came out. Timing was on his side. Had he done it during the downtown between Doogie and Mother, I have to wonder if his story would have turned out very differently) and think that no career repercussions can happen. Let’s face it, image is everything in their business. And “gay” in the public eye can often times puts a label on you, and relegate you to a box.

But, if someone who is obviously gay takes a half step out of the closet by saying they are bi (like Mike Manning), well then, they are to be believed about their proclaimed sexuality and shame on you for questioning it.

His publicist, if he still has one, did him no favors in helping Mr Hayes re-amp his career, and in allowing Sean’s resentment or bitterness to become a focal point of the interview.

I won’t say it again for at least 24 hours, but he should’ve gone on Oprah or Ellen!

So far, it’s a badly needed scoop for the Advocate, and a wash — or net loss — for Sean.

If his personal life is his own business, why is he on the cover of the Advocate then?

I know that doesn’t seem to hold much weight, but here’s my opinion. Who gives a F about what he does or does not say to the public? You guys all act like he should be totally out of the closet no matter what. Not everyone is a champion of gay rights, and not everyone has that fire inside of them to billboard their sexuality to everyone they meet.

Actors fear being type-cast and he probably took advice from Agents and Managers telling him to remain closeted. They tell them that all the time (I know, I used to work in an agency). Hollywood may look very open and liberal from our outside vantage point, but from the inside it’s still very homophobic and worried about what the general public thinks.

So lay off Queens…let the man be and stop giving him shit for not wanting to do something you expect him to do. Remember, it’s not your life, it’s his.

Perhaps if all you bitter old queen armchair activists passing judgement on how others choose to express their sexuality had their lives ripped open on the pages of newspapers, tabloids and blogs you’d feel a little different.

Remember: We all take different paths in life and no one, but no one, has the right to tell others what path you or I should take.

Posters on this site often sound like a bunch of self righteous children. Grow up and mind your own business.

It isn’t his own business when he is claiming to have done such amazing things for gay rights. Additionally, I’m tired of this whole “They are a priviate person” B.S. There are MANY MANY other professions that do not involve being a public persona. People that audition for TV shows are not private people. They desire the spotlight.

It’s hardly the same. Hayes is chubby, unattractive and best known for playing a campy nelly-queen. Bomer is hot, good looking and known for playing a womanizer. The queens want to claim Bomer as their own, but they are not bothered about Hayes.