September 27, 2011 | Arts / Entertainment

Actor who plays gay is gay!

Sean Maher is gaySean Maher, the cute young actor who played Dr. Simon Tam in Firefly, and is currently starring in NBC's The Playboy Club, revealed this week that he's a homo. And the timing couldn't be better; in The Playboy Club his character Sean is a closeted man who’s married to lesbian Playboy Bunny Alice.

He opened up about his sexuality this week, telling Entertainment Weekly, “I was nervous coming here today because I’ve just never talked about it. But, it’s so liberating. It was interesting to be coming to have a conversation that I was always afraid to have.”

He admitted that one of the reasons for not coming out sooner was because he was told not to.

" ... right before I left New York [where he went to college at NYU], I had my manager tell me: ‘You need to get a girl on your arm or people will start talking.’ I remember telling him: ‘I’m gay.’ He had no idea. And he said: ‘All the more reason to get a girl on your arm.’ My agent was also like, ‘It’s best if you keep your options open. Maybe bisexual?’”

Maher said keeping the secret was hard, and emotionally exhausting. He finally decided to come out partly for his own mental health, and partly for his children.

“I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family,” Maher said, “and to think in any way shape or form that that’s wrong or that there’s shame in that or that there’s something to hide actually turns my stomach.”

Isn't it about time gay actors can live as openly as anyone else?

You can read the full interview with Maher here.

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