The quote was pounced upon as a flippant and perhaps ignorant view of what it means to be gay, particularly given the subject matter of the play in which he was performing. I am a gay man right now, pretty much, just without the physical act - that's all.' 'Every Sunday, I would have eight friends over, and we would just watch Ru - that's literally it,' he said at the time, referring to RuPaul's Drag Race. In a July Q&A panel about Angels in America, he infamously said that he was essentially a gay man, 'just without the physical act.' But his sexuality has been a frequent topic of conversation over the past year.
