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John McNeill, 85:"They were in desperate need of more cannon fodder—they didn’t care whether we were gay or straight." The 50-year-old musical theater superstar first graced Broadway in the early 90s and has since taken home many accolades including an Emmy Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Pose in 2019 . Deaf activist and winner of America's Next Top Model Nyle DiMarco came out as sexually fluid in 2015.

But he’s done plenty of things since, including short drama film Raceland and crime comedy Easy Does It.I was 10, sitting in church and horrified that I might be a homosexual. Whatever that word meant, I knew that I probably was one,” the singer told People at the time. “And I know there’s a lot of those kids still out there. Telling my story is an opportunity to help just one of them.” Aside from his Glee character, real-life Jonathan Groff is a sweetheart and is making his way through Hollywood. He’s the star of Netflix drama Mindhunter. My So Called Life alum Wilson Cruz was the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay teen on primetime TV, making history in 1994. He spoke of the experience with TODAY in 2021, saying, “I have great pride in being that person, but the freedom and the relief and the strength that people were able to garner, just from seeing him, and the feeling of validation they received by his existence — his very existence of being on a national television show about teenagers, that people like him felt seen, and included and were a part of the story.”

Charlie Carver came out in 2016 and has been a big advocate for changing LGBTQ+ stereotypes on screen. Some of y’all already know, some of y’all don’t care…but before this month ends I want y’all to listen closely to c7osure,” he tweeted. Norton wasn’t sexually active in Vietnam—"I would numb myself and avoid anything sexual"—and it was only years later that he realized that some of the men in his social circle there were gay. "A group of enlisted gay men that seemed to be at ease with who they were. They smoked a lot of marijuana, and they would mince heroin in with their cigarette tobacco—that was kind of the drug of choice. Medevac companies, we were treated differently than other military units just because of the danger of our job. Our life expectancy was so short they let us do our own thing. I literally got shot down over twenty times—I stopped counting at twenty. It’s just a miracle, really, that I didn’t get killed." I have one day off from The White House and this dude is unironically watching cars go around and make left turns? Next thing you know, it’s been a couple months and we’re watching NASCAR every Sunday,” Penn, who worked in the Obama White House, shared of how he and his partner bonded, per People. I’m like, ‘What is happening?’ I wanted the reader to enjoy the love and the humor through all of those stories.”Navy #1 (lieutenant, fourteen years): "There’s always been a fear that people would find out and then hold it over you for some kind of leverage. I have seen it happen: ’If you don’t do this, I’m going to report you.’ " Air Force #3:"It’s a sanity issue. Guys I’ve flown with for a couple of months, they all know because for my mental sanity I can’t handle being this close to these guys and keeping that charade up. It’s like: How many times can you lie before you go completely nuts?" We dare you to listen to Tyler Glenn singing for the Neon Trees and not love him. Go ahead, try it. AW:"In January ’45, the Belgian Bulge occurred, and American troops, Patton’s Third Army, were slaughtered, and the army decided: We don’t need any more hot pilots, we need more infantry, so I did go overseas as an infantry rifle replacement in the spring. This man tried to rape me on the troop ship between Boston and Le Havre. I was small and I was cute—who wasn’t cute at 19, 20?—and he was a big, horny guy. I was afraid to scream, because people would wonder, ’Why was he after you?’ I was afraid I had it coming to me because I was made that way."

As the first gay male rapper to reach astronomical success, Lil Nas X has made history. The rapper officially came out as gay in his song June 2019 “c7osure.” Hairstylist to the stars Chris Appleton, who reportedly just got married to You star Lukas Gage, is proud to be gay, but he didn’t come out until later in life. “Some people know straight away, I didn’t and it took me a minute to understand that and accept that and then come out,” he told longtime friend and client Kim Kardashian for Gay Times. “Everybody has got their stories and some people are ready with it straight away, I just wasn’t. I didn’t have that realization.Colman Domingo has been openly gay for pretty much his whole life, and even met his husband of nearly a decade Raul Domingo on Craigslist. He credits his supportive family for his confidence, telling Advocate, “It was a nurturing environment, and I was loved by my mom and stepdad, and my sister and brothers. The neighborhood was community-centric. We were all there to support each other. I couldn’t have done all the things I’ve done in my life without all that love and support I had when I was growing up.”

In addition to Modern Family, Ferguson’s spent a lot of time on Broadway. In 2016, he starred in Fully Committed, and he was also in Log Cabin, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison. According to Playbill, in Log Cabin, “a tight-knit group of gays and lesbians considers the new mainstream through the eyes of their transgender friend.”Bottoms come in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Our interest varies too. Not all of us fit the stereotypes some people assign to us. We loved him as Dr. George O’ Malley on Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), and he played Jordan on The Good Wife (CBS). We swooned at the Hobbit star’s portrayal of the muscly Gaston in the live-action Beauty and the Beast. But it was his role in The Alienist that truly garnered attention and acclaim.