Gay actor Jim Parsons is on board to produce a new Netflix comedy series together with his husband Todd Spiewak
The Big Bang Theory star is producing the new comedy series ‘Special’, based on Ryan O’Connell’s autobiography ‘I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves’.
Ryan O’Connell himself is writing and starring in the eight-episode comedy series.
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The series is about Ryan’s “own upbringing and experience as a gay man navigating the world with cerebral palsy. He stars in the series as a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.”
Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper on ‘The Big Bang Theory’, has previously produced ‘Young Sheldon’, a spin-off of the monster hit comedy series.
James Joseph Parsons was born March 24, 1973 in Houston Texas, U.S.A. He currently lives in New York City’s Gramercy Park neighborhood and keeps a residence in Los Angeles, California.
What is he famous for?
Parsons is an actor, most famous for the role of Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The show ran for 12 seasons and Parsons received multiple awards for the role, including four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.
Parsons has also acted on Broadway in the plays “The Normal Heart” (2011), “Harvey” (2012), “An Act of God” (2015) and most recently, “The Boys in the Band” (2018) alongside Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells and Zachary Quinto.
A New York Times article published May 23, 2012 stated that Parsons is gay. He is married to his long time partner, art director, Todd Spiewak. They married in May 2017.
In an interview with James Lipton Parsons recalls that he never considered himself closeted since he always brought Spiewak with him to events, but he also never had a “coming out piece” to the public.
When The New York Times reporter Patrick Healy asked him if working on “The Normal Heart” was meaningful to him as a gay man, he said yes and was relieved that “it was suddenly out there and official”.
Gay actor John Barrowman is famous for his sci-fi TV roles and says he also enjoys some naughty sci-fi role play with his husband
“I have Captain Jack’s coat. I have one of the Doctor’s coats,” John says in an interview with Gay Star News. “Scott and I sometimes put them on… ahem!”
John played Captain Jack Harness in Torchwood, a British sci-fi series that ran from 2006 to 2011.
He adds: “All I’ll say is, in a healthy gay relationship and straight relationship, you should have role play and do fun things!”
Couldn’t agree more with you there, John?
John has revealed that he has a celebrity crush on retired British footballer Jamie Redknapp, so it’s not impossible that Scott may be wearing some shorts and stockings when they’re having fun.
John was also asked if he would like to play Captain Jack again outside the bedroom.
‘If I was asked, I’d do it at the drop of a hat. I’d love to interact with the new Doctor. Captain Jack changed my life. I know what an iconic figure he is,’ John replied.
In November 2018, John brought Scott to Australia to celebrate their 26 years together.
The “Arrow” and “Dr Who” star is very popular down under and combined appearances at the comic convention Supernova in Adelaide and Brisbane with a dream vacation with his husband.
“I absolutely love coming to Australia and I have never been to Adelaide, and I’ve only ever flown out of Brisbane. So I’ve never really been to Brisbane either.
“My husband Scott will be coming with me. There’s an island [Moreton] that does snorkelling and dune sledding so we may take a vacation.”
John posted this on Instagram with an adorable picture of the couple celebrating their 26 years together.
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The British actor is well versed in Comic Con circles. In July 2017 he appeared at the San Diego Comic Con in a Tardis gown to defend BBC producers casting a female Doctor Who.
“I am the transgender Tardis,” John screamed as he entered the stage.
He then went on to speak about the casting of a woman as the next Doctor Who:
“When we did the first regeneration, from Christopher Eccleston to David Tennant. People weren’t happy”
But the fans got over the age gap between those two actors and John believe they will get over the casting of a woman (Jodie Whittaker) too.
There is nothing that says that Doctor Who is a he and always has to be a he. Doctor Who can just as well be a woman, John argues.
“It could conceivably happen if we believe it as that world.
“This is my point today. We all get on that TARDIS, with the doctor, for the journey and the experience.”
John Scot Barrowman was born March 11, 1967 in Glasgow Scotland. His family immigrated to the United States in 1975.
What is he famous for?
Barrowman is an actor, singer, author and comic book writer. In the UK he is best known for playing the role of Captain Jack Harkness on “Doctor Who” when the program was revived in 2005. His role sparked the spinoff show, “Torchwood” which ran for four series.
On the stage, Barrowman was active in London’s West End through the 1990’s. He played many prominent roles in plays such as, “Anything Goes”, “Phantom of the Opera”, “Hair”, “Miss Saigon” and “Sunset Boulevard”. He reprised the role of Joe Gillis in “Sunset Boulevard” on Broadway where he also played Barry opposite Carol Burnett in the Stephen Sondheim Revue “Putting It Together”.
Barrowman has been featured as a judge and panelist on many television reality programs in the UK including = BBC One’s “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” and “Eurovision: Your Decision” on BBC 1. He has also appeared in scripted television shows “Central Park West”, “Desperate Housewives” and the CW’s superhero show, “Arrow”.
Barrowman says he knew he was gay at the age of 13 but had known it deep down since he was nine.
He came out to his parents as gay in 1992. Barrowman came home from London where he was playing Raoul in “The Phantom of the Opera” and told his parents that he was gay and was afraid that he might have HIV.
His parents were not surprised that their son was gay and neither were his two siblings. He was tested for HIV the next day and received a negative result.
Barrowman didn’t come out publicly until 1995. At the time he was starring in “Central Park West” and dating, his now husband, Scott Gill and felt the time was right to be open about his personal life. He and Gill married in California in July 2013.
Sexy and talented gay actor Dan Amboyer moves back to theatre and is making his directorial debut
Dan is best known for his roles in Younger and William & Catherine: A Royal Romance, but he’s real love lays with the theatre and he has always been a theatre nut.
“As a kid, I was obsessed with the Toronto sit-down production of Phantom [of the Opera]. I geeked over Colm Wilkinson and Rebecca Caine,” Dan says in an interview with Playbill magazine.
“I created some colored pencil “phan” art for them, huddled outside their stage door in a blizzard, and then actually got invited in for a backstage tour by Rebecca. I was in awe.”
Dan is currently directing his first play; the Off-Broadway eco comedy Whirlwind.
Whirlwind tells the complicated love story about a relationship between a plant manager and a wildlife advocate. The play runs from January 23to February 10, 2019.
Back in March, 2018, Dan witnessed a horrible homophobic attack on the subway in New York and urged witnesses to contact the NYPD so that the low-life criminal could be arrested.
Dan wrote on Twitter: “Repost please. Marissa Lesch and I just witnessed this horrible man attack two 17 year old girls on our subway car—punched them, spit on them—and yelled racial and homophobic slurs. He then ran away. Was heading uptown on the A from West 4th. Help NYPD find him.”
Dan, who celebrated his 10 years anniversary with his husband Eric P. Berger in February 2018, publicly came out as gay after their marriage.
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The couple married in front of family and friends on October 7, 2017 in New York City.
“Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet,” Dan told People.
“That was hard to live with. But I’ve never played a gay role before and I didn’t want to be limited by some strange perception.”
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“There are some actors out there now who just keep it as an unspoken aspect of their life and never discuss it in public. But then there are men like Matt Bomer and Zachary Quinto. I look up to them and see how them being so open affected other people and the country’s perception of gay people. And Nico Tortorella, who is also on Younger, has inspired me by the way he’s become such an advocate for sexual fluidity. I think the more open actors can be the less stigma there will be attached, which will be a positive thing moving forward,” he said.
“I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride,” Dan told People. “We might start a family one day and I would feel so strangely if I didn’t celebrate that with all of my family and friends and share that with the fans. This is just the beginning of a wonderful future.”
Eric said that he has accepted Dan’s choice of not coming out earlier both as “a personal decision and a business decision”, and that he has never wanted to push him to come out.
The wedding took place at New York’s Marble Collegiate Church and was attended by family and friends, among them Tony winner Patina Miller, Paloma Guzman and ‘Younger’ creator/producer Darren Star.
Dan Amboyer is an actor. He is best known for best known for his starring role as Prince William of Wales in the 2011 Hallmark Channel original film William & Catherine: A Royal Romance, and for his role in The Blacklist Redemption and in Younger.
Dan Amboyer came out as gay in October, 2017. In an interview with People magazine, he explained that it was his recent marriage to boyfriend Eric Beric that fueled his desire to be more open.
“I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride,” he said. “We might start a family one day and I would feel so strangely if I didn’t celebrate that with all of my family and friends and share that with the fans. This is just the beginning of a wonderful future.”
Amboyer also said he got a lot of advice from industry insiders to stay closeted. “That was hard to live with,” he said. “But I’ve never played a gay role before and I didn’t want to be limited by some strange perception.””
Austin Armacost was born on March 28, 1988 in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. He splits his time living in New York, Los Angeles and the U.K.
What is he famous for?
Armacost is a model and reality television star. He was first featured on Logo TV’s “The A-List: New York” in 2010. The show followed 6 bisexual and gay men living in New York City. In 2015, Armacost was runner-up on “Celebrity Big Brother”, season 16. In 2017, he returned to season 19 of the same show but placed 15th.
He is often featured in British tabloid magazines, where his lifestyle is depicted as provocative and controversial. He currently owns a line of underwear.
Is Austin Armacost gay?
Austin Armacost is openly gay. He has hosted PRIDE events in cities throughout the UK including Liverpool and Birmingham. Before gay marriage became legal in the U.S., Armacost was married for 8 years to a British man, Jake Lees. They divorced in 2016.
When compared to fellow “Celebrity Big Brother” contestant Perez Hilton, Armacost said he would like to “redeem gay American men and America as a whole”.
Professional wrestler Anthony Bowens has come out twice; first as bisexual and now again as gay
Anthony opened up about being bisexual in a video on his boyfriend Michael Povano’s YouTube channel about two years ago.
Now the 28-year-old pro-wrestler says he no longer identifies as bisexual and would rather be labeled as gay.
In a New Years greeting on Facebook, Anthony writes:
“..just about two years ago I came out as bisexual which was truely how I viewed myself at the time. However, over the last six months or so I’ve started to less identify less and less with that label to the point where it doesn’t feel like “me” anymore.
“As people move on in their lives, the way they view the world and themselves tends to change and I’m no different. Which is why if you are to label me, I prefer to identify as gay.”
He has also posted a video on Michaels’s YouTube channel where he explains the process he has been going through.
“As you get older, your viewpoints change,” he explains. “The way you look at the world changes, the way you look at yourself changes.”
In Attitude’s 2018 Body issue, the 27-year-old athlete/model talked about his journey from a bullied child to pro-wrestling stardom under the name ‘Vigilante.’
Anthony says he turned to pro-wrestling to overcome his crippling shyness, but he feared coming out as bisexual would become his toughest battle.
“I think it was somewhere in the middle of high school”, he recalls. “I was sitting at a table and a couple were walking down the street and I was like ‘Wow that girl’s beautiful.’
“Then I noticed that I was also looking to see who she was holding hands with and I was like ‘That guy’s kind of attractive too…'”
However, by coming out as bisexual Anthony faced stigma from both the gay and straight community.
“I didn’t know that there was this big — I wouldn’t say ‘war’ — but discrepancy. Which wasn’t the point of me coming out” he says.
“If I was with a woman — or anybody was with a woman — and they married her, and they were with her for the rest of their lives, that doesn’t change the fact that they’re still stimulated by men.
“That doesn’t make you straight, you’re still bi.”
Anthony says he doesn’t care what label people put on him though:
“If you were to call me gay I’d be like ‘OK’. I’m not going to get pissy over it, you can call me what you like.”
Anthony had no plans on coming out of the closet when he joined his boyfriend in a video on his YouTube channel, but that’s just what happened.
“It was this past fall and I was three months into a relationship with my boyfriend, Michael Pavano. Mike and I had uploaded a video to YouTube on his channel called ‘The Laughing Challenge,’ where he described me as his boyfriend,” he writes on OutSports.
“The video was a blast to do, but I worried that someone from the wrestling world would stumble across it and learn my secret. I decided to let it be posted anyway.”
“My job description is to entertain fans through body language, story lines featuring over-the-top characters and, well, grappling other men dressed in a similar way.”
“Understandably, being openly bisexual could be perceived as a problem. It’s what kept me closeted to all but a few from the time I started wrestling as a pro five years ago. It took a Youtube video to make me see that coming out was not going to be the problem I thought it would be.”
He didn’t think much about until a couple of weeks later when he received a text from a wrestling buddy that made his stomach drop.
“Bro, why didn’t you tell me?” the text said.
“Much to my great relief, he told me he didn’t care and that I was one of his best friends in the business,” Bowens writes.
Encouraged by the positive response, Bowens decided to announce his sexuality to the World on Facebook:
“After hitting send, I immediately turned off my phone. I didn’t want to think about what people would write. After about 30 minutes I told Mike to check his phone,” Bowens writes. “He had the biggest smile on his face, our friends in the room cheered, and I made the decision to turn on my phone. The response was overwhelming positive.”
“I can’t even begin to tell you how many people I’ve spoken to over the years who are hiding and suppressing themselves out of fear of being judged. If I can help inspire at least one person to fight past their struggles through my journey or inspire at least one person to live their dreams, it’s all worth it for me. The journey and the fight is just beginning!”
After his announcementmen on Facebook, Bowens has been sharing tons of cute posts of him and his boyfriend. And we say: Keep them coming. You’re an inspiration!
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About Anthony Bowens
Anthony Bowens was born in Nutley, New Jersey, USA on 12/18/1990.
What is he famous for?
Anthony Bowens is an athlete and a model. He is best known for being a pro-wrestler and for accidently “coming out” in a goofy video on his boyfriend Mike’s YouTube channel. His wrestling buddies discovered the video, prompting Anthony to come out on Facebook. Fortunately, the reaction from fans and his wrestling collegues was positive.
Is Anthony Bowens gay?
Anthony Bowens came out as bisexual in January, 2017. He posted this message on Facebook: “I’m not going to make this a long winded post but I think it’s time. Just wanted to let everyone know im Bisexual. I look forward to changing perceptions and breaking stereotypes as I continue on my journey. I have zero patience for negativity so if this bothers you please delete me. Thanks!”
