It's not easy playing gay. (notes from a blond).

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 18-FEB-03

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My friend the openly gay actor was bitching over his sugar-free, fat-free, flour-free, and flavor-flee chocolate mousse: "I've played so many gay parts, people are beginning to think I'm straight." Well, that is a hazard of the profession. A gay actor can't play very many gay parts; otherwise people will forget he's an actor and just assume he's one of those gay people who show up and let themselves be filmed and fool everyone into thinking they're acting. Whereas straight actors really have to work at it to get to the core of the homosexual (when we all know that leaving a phone number would get them to...

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