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(#17) Zachary Quinto
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Zachary Quinto publicly came out in 2011. He supports several gay rights organizations. Quinto has played several straight characters, including Dr. Oliver Thredson on "American Horror Story: Asylum."
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(#27) Guillermo Díaz
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Guillermo Diaz has played several straight characters, including Guillermo Garcia Gomez on "Weeds." Gomez is openly gay, but he says that hiding his sexuality in his youth actually helped him to become a better actor.
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(#26) Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes has played many straight characters throughout her career, including Biggie Shorty in "Pootie Tang." She publicly came out in 2008, after she married her wife, Alex.
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(#21) Russell Tovey
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Openly gay actor Russell Tovey is best known for playing straight werewolf George Sands on "Being Human." The character has had several romantic relationships and was engaged to Julia Beckett at the start of the series.
Tovey has stated that he had a very difficult time being accepted by his family after he came out.
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(#23) Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin has played several straight characters throughout her career, including Vivian Jaffe in I Heart Huckabees. Tomlin married her longtime partner Jane Wagner in 2013.
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(#8) David Hyde Pierce
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David Hyde Pierce played Niles Crane on "Frasier" from 1993-2004. By the end of the series, Dr. Crane was married with a son. Pierce publicly came out in 2007. He married Brian Hargrove, his partner of over 20 years, in 2008.
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We all would like to see more gay actors playing different roles, anyone can play any role equally, this is what it should be. For a long time, a narrow opinion is that gays should play gay roles,. Looking back at the history, a number of gay actors got great achievements which have nothing to do with their gender orientation, they played not only straight characters, and their performances are not inferior to anyone.
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