Theater fags rejoiced last night as freshly outed David Hyde Pierce took home the Tony Award for his leading musical performance in Curtains. Meanwhile, the cast of the Duncan Sheik scored Spring Awakening couldn't believe their luck - and talent! - when they swept the 61st annual ceremony, snagging statues for Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Featured Musical Actor for John Gallagher Jr. Christine Ebersole won for her role in the musical Grey Gardens.

Nobody celebrated more, however, than the cast of The Coast of Utopia. Tom Stoppard's eight hour saga earned Best Play, Best featured Actor for Billy Crudup, Best Featured Actress for Jennifer Ehle, Best Direction for Jack O'Brien (all pictured). That's the first time in history one play has won those four top honors.

Get the full list of winners here!

We've had a somewhat unsettling crush on David Hyde Pierce for decades, so we're relieved that the actor has finally come clean about his dick loving ways. Pierce, who you may recognize from his work on the long-running sitcom, Frasier, has never made any secret of his sexuality, but he's also never come forward to discuss it - a guilty silence that led Michael Musto to include Pierce in his infamous "Glass Closet" piece for Out.

Unlike some of the more recent celebrity outings (TR Knight, Lance Bass and Neil Patrick Harris), Pierce did not send out a press release. Nor did he make any personal statement. In fact, according to AfterElton, the outing came in the form of a routine Associated Press-provided description of Pierce's ever-successful career (he's currently appearing :

[Pierce] worked at Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park and a lot of regional theaters such as the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Chicago's Goodman and Long Wharf in New Haven, Conn. Pierce got to Los Angeles in the early 1990s when his partner, actor-writer-producer Brian Hargrove, wanted to write for television.

Not a smoking gay gun, so AE did a little digging (read: called Pierce's publicist) and received the confirmation that, yes, Pierce digs dude. Or, one dude: the aforementioned Hargrove.

Congrats on your sort of coming out, David Hyde Pierce! We're just sorry it took so long. And that the AP did it for you…