Adam got this delightfully sly look in his eyes and replied "The first what? The first friend of... you?" The guy doesn't let anything shake him, which I love, but even more than this latest demonstration of how at ease he is in his own skin, I loved how amused he seemed by it all. This isn't someone trying to pass as straight or even trying to dance around the issue, as so many celebrities have done. I can't wait until he is done with the show and can finally use the word gay to describe himself.
Speaking of AfterElton, they also had news today about the latest celebrity to come out as a gay man, MASH star David Ogden Stiers. The veteran actor notes that there was a lot of pressure on him to stay in the closet for the past twenty years so that he wouldn't jeapordize his voice work career in Disney films:
“From the late 1980’s until about seven or eight years ago, you would find certain individuals coming up to you, me, and advocating the position that since we were doing family fare that it would be best were the actors to maintain a certain palatability to parents,” Ogden Stiers said. “These parties likely had heard rumors or harbored suspicions about me and wanted to make sure no embarrassing incidents were forthcoming.”
I think it's awesome that Stiers finally felt able to come out of the closet. Way to go, David!
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