Jim Parsons out as gay in NY Times article →

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Jim Parsons, best known for playing Sheldon Cooper on the TV show The Big Bang Theory, officially revealed that he’s gay and in a long-term relationship in a recent New York Times article. 

The article doesn’t focus on Parsons’s sexuality but on his up-and-coming theatre career. The “coming out” itself, if you could call it that, doesn’t happen until the third page of the online article:

“The Normal Heart” resonated with him on a few levels: Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship, and working with an ensemble again onstage was like nourishment, he said. As the production was ending last summer, he heard that the Roundabout Theater Companywas considering a revival of “Harvey” — initially with John C. Reilly under consideration for Elwood — and last November the play’s director, Scott Ellis, asked him and Ms. Hecht to do a private reading of the work in Los Angeles.

“Jim was solid in ‘The Normal Heart,’ ” Mr. Ellis said, “but his character didn’t really change in the journey of that play, so I wanted to see if Jim could take on a challenge and float a couple of feet off the ground, so to speak, in that magical way Elwood has. And in the reading he was just smart, smart, smart.”

Regardless of whether this was common knowledge in some circles or suspected in others, good for him for being able to talk about himself like this in a public forum. Woo!

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