35 Celebs You Didn’t Know Were Gay

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Society is becoming more and more accepting of the gay community. Being that that is the case actor and actresses are able to come out and not feel like their careers will be affected by such a personal thing to talk about. We see more and more celebrities coming out as gay and it is a beautiful and powerful thing to see. Here are a couple celebrities you might not have known were actually gay. 

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Cynthia Nixon starred in Sex and the City. Her partner is Christine Marinoni. The pair have been together for years. They married in 2012. 

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Wentworth Miller is an actor, model, producer and screenwriter. Famous for his role in Prison Break, Wentworth Miller makes the ladies swoon. However, he openly likes men. Ladies will just have to look somewhere else. 
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Adam Lambert was a runner up on American Idol. He has used his fame and fortune to advocate for LGBT rights. He is one of the most popular openly gay artists in America. He is shown here with his boyfriend. 
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Michael Sam publicly came out as gay after completing his college football career. He became the first publicly gay player to be drafted in the NFL. Still, he has been dropped from two NFL clubs. He is now taking a break from the game. 
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Raven Symone came out a few years ago. She announced that she was dating America's Next Top Model contestant AzMarie Livingston. She got her start on The Cosby Show as a four-year old. Then she moved on to her own show, That's So Raven. 
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Victor Garber has had a long and versatile career. He is known for his roles in Sleepless in Seattle, Legally Blonde, and others. He tends to play strong, manly, straight men. In 2012, he went public with his relationship with Rainer Andreesen.
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Jim Parsons is best known as the awkward Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory. His character on the show is straight, but Jim himself is not. He confirmed his gayness in 2012 via the New York Times. His partner is the handsome Todd Spiewak. 
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Maria Bello is an American actress and writer. She has played a succession of straight characters. Her credits include A History of Violence, Payback, Coyote Ugly, and others. Maria Bello came out in 2013. 
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The coming out of Ellen Page made history. Her face made the cover of thousands of magazines. She is a popular Canadian actor born in 1987. She has 1.4 million followers on Twitter. 
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Neil Patrick Harris used to play a role as a child genius who became a doctor at the age of 16. Later, he starred in How I Met Your Mother. Now he's married with two kids. He married his long time partner, David Burtka. 
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Zachary Quinto starred in Heroes. Then he delivered a spot-on performance of Mr. Spock in the new Star Trek. Women love him, but they'll just have to get over it. His partner is Miles McMillan. 
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Portia de Rossi is famously paired with Ellen deGeneres. The couple have been married for a number of years. Ellen is one lucky woman. Then again, so is Portia. 
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When David Hyde Pierce was romancing women on the hit show Frasier, we wondered if he was really serious. That's a polite way of saying you can totally tell this guy is gay. They hired him because he happens to resemble Kelsey Grammar. Pierce came out in 2007. Then he married his partner, Brian Hargrove.
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Gay men everywhere rejoiced when Jonathan Groff came out. He described himself as “gay and proud” on broadway.com. But on the show, he plays the guy who finally got the girl. It is unclear if or not he has a partner. 
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Sara Gilbert is the half sister of Melissa Gilbert. She is best known for her role as Roseanne's tomboy daughter, Darlene. She came out in 2010, but that was hardly necessary. She once said, “I grew up playing Darlene on Roseanne. Anyone who couldn't tell I was gay wasn't paying attention.” She is currently married and has three children. 
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Matt Bomer, star of White Collar, recently came out of the closet. He is a family man. His partner is Simon Halls. They have three children. 
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Sir Ian McKellen is best known for Lord of the Rings. However, he has played many other roles. He is also known as being openly out of the closet. Take pride, Ian!
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Carey Grant was a real movie star. He was also a real gentleman. He came from the times when sexual matters were simply not discussed. So Carey Grant was always known as a lady's man. Other gay ladies' men of the day included Montgomery Clift and Rock Hudson. 
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Jane Lynch is known for her performance in Glee. She has been openly gay throughout most of her career. She married Lara Embry in 2010. They divorced in 2014. 
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Ricky Martin is a former member of the 70s boy band called Menudo. He still sings and dances today. Supposedly, he broke the ladies' hearts when he came out in 2010. But really, wasn't it kind of obvious? 
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John Mahoney is another gay member of the cast of Frasier. Still, he plays a straight man on screen. It's called acting. Is Kelsey Grammar the only heterosexual or what? 
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Rosie O'Donnell was a stand up comic in the 1980s. She was the queen of daytime talk shows back in the early 2000s. She came out as gay in 2002. Rosie and her partner have two children. 
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Jonathan Bennett is well known for his starring role in “Mean Girls.” Yet, he would never have really gone for the girl. At some point, Jonathan came out. He is pictured here with his ex, the equally hunky Matt Dallas. 
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TR Knight comes from Minneapolis. He is known for his role in Grey's Anatomy. However, many other roles preceded this. TR is not at all shy about his orientation. He married his long time partner, Patrick Leahy, in 2013. 
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Jodie Foster has been acting since childhood. She recently came out, despite the fact that we always knew she was obviously gay. She announced that she was gay at the Golden Globe Awards. We all kinda thought, “Well, duh.” Jodie has two children.
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Russell Tovey is a British actor. He is best known for his role in Being Human. Being Human is an American drama based on a BBC series of the same name. Russell has spoken openly about being gay. 
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Richard Chamberlain was an extremely successful actor in the 1980s. He is famous for epic dramas like Thornbirds, among others. He officially came out in 2003, but he was a bit too late. The media had already outed him back in the 1980s. 
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In 2001, Lily Tomlin finally admitted that she would rather date a woman than a man. But Lily is a brilliant comic. We don't care that she's gay. Besides, we already knew. 
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Nate Berkus is an interior designer and TV personality. Nate claims that he has always recognized his homosexuality. He lost his longtime partner in the 2004 tsunami. He is now married to Jeremiah Brent. 
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Jillian Michaels is a trainer on The Biggest Loser. She's been in the spotlight ever since the show first aired. She is currently in a relationship with her longtime partner. Her partner happens to be a woman. 
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Rock Hudson never officially came out as gay, despite plenty of speculation. Back in the day, you just didn't talk about those things. Sadly, Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985. He was the first famous victim of the disease. Others soon followed.
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George Michael came out on live TV. But the news of his run-ins with the law for committing lewd acts in public parks had already preceded him. However, he survived. He is now 34 years old and proud to be gay. 
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Fashion designer Marc Jacobs is a proud supporter of the gay community. In 2012, he was ranked one of America's most powerful gay men. But what about other famous fashion designers? Aren't they powerful and gay, too? 
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Meredith Baxter didn't realize she was gay until the early 2000s. That was the first time she'd been with a woman. She came out on the Today Show. Then she married her partner, Nancy Locke. 
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Cara Delevingne “hates labels.” What that means is that we should all mind our own business about the fact that Cara is gay. Here she is with her girlfriend, Michelle Rodriguez. They seem perfectly happy together. 
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Sarah Paulson appears in American Horror Story. She has always been open about her gender preferences. She dated Cherry Jones until 2009. Sarah never really came out of the closet, because she was never exactly in it. 
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David Harris and Tre'Darrius Anderson recently made history. They are the youngest gay couple to marry in America. Both of them are 19. They look so... natural. 
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