SING OUT LOUISE!!!!

If Holland and his apologists think they've heard the end of this -- they're wrong.

It's absolutely a dilemma for the young gay actor.

The activists are essentially saying: Come out, now! It may hurt your career, but it's the right thing to do and will make things easier for the gay actors of tomorrow.

You can imagine the young actor saying, "what's this about it maybe hurting my career?"

Actors, after all, aren't the least self-involved, most societally-minded people walking the planet. So how do we answer?

It won't hurt your career? (What do we base that on?) It shouldn't matter? There is no closet in the age of Twitter so take your medicine?

It seems clear that, at minimum, the goals of being out and of being a leading man are in conflict. More actors coming out would probably change that, and we can certainly encourage them to do so. We can absolutely do everything in our power to create a more accepting professional environment for them to come out into.

Ultimately, though, who becomes a star and who doesn't is decided by the public, and there is much -- but only so much -- that we can do to move them to a place where a star's sexuality becomes a non-issue. And in the meantime, I, at least, am not prepared to dictate to a gay actor how he or she must respond to the bigotry that stands between them and their life's dream.

Your truest words were "There is no closet in the age of Twitter." So why should you lie?

Aremyou saying the industry will "respect" you if you lie?

Fucking pathetic!

"It seems clear that, at minimum, the goals of being out and of being a leading man are in conflict."

It seems to me that the goal of being a leading man isn't worth sacrificing your self-respect for.

Putting sexual orientation aside, getting to be a leading man is no easy thing -- especially today when preciosu few stars can be counted on to even "open" a movie.

"I, at least, am not prepared to dictate to a gay actor how he or she must respond to the bigotry that stands between them and their life's dream."

That's a duty I'm happy to take on. This should make gutless wonders like yourself ever-so-delighted, no?

"It seems to me that the goal of being a leading man isn't worth sacrificing your self-respect for."

I happen to agree with you. There is nothing that being a star has to offer that, to me, could replace the pleasures and virtues of living an openly, honest life. However, I am not an actor; I can't know how any of these trade-offs feel to them.

I do know the situation they find themselves in is not fair and is not of their own creation. I, personally, choose to direct my anger at the bigots in the equation, but then again unlike some I am not made of the stuff.

" I, personally, choose to direct my anger at the bigots in the equation,"

So do I. And they include any actor who would go along with such a charade.