For Gay Actors, How Candid Is Too Candid?

“Hollywood, with its depictions of cowboy lovers and lesbian neighbors, has done much to make gay men and women part of mainstream American life. … Yet for most gay actors, Hollywood is not a warm and fuzzy episode of ‘Will & Grace.’ Today, it is certainly more acceptable to be openly gay. But these actors must still answer wrenching questions: Just how candid do you want to be? Would you be happy appearing only in comedies, or being pigeonholed as a character actor? And what does the line ‘You’re just not right for the role’ really mean?”