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Newsweek gay actor controversy
The ''Newsweek'' gay actor controversy refers to the reaction to a piece written by ''Newsweek'' magazine writer Ramin Setoodeh in which he asserts that openly gay actors are not capable of convincingly playing straight characters. Setoodeh's article provoked strong reactions from both within and outside the entertainment industry.
==Straight Jacket==
In a ''Newsweek'' article titled "Straight Jacket" dated April 26, 2010, journalist Ramin Setoodeh reviewed the Broadway revival of ''Promises, Promises'' starring Sean Hayes as the male lead. Hayes had recently come out as gay in an interview with the LGBT-interest ''The Advocate'' magazine. Setoodeh found Hayes's performance "wooden and insincere, like he's trying to hide something, which of course he is". Setoodeh also challenged the acting ability of openly gay actor Jonathan Groff, who had recently joined the cast of ''Glee''. While recognizing Groff as "a knockout singer and a heartthrob" for his Broadway performance in ''Spring Awakening'', Setoodeh found that Groff's television performance was "off" and distracting. From these two performances, along with how Setoodeh's perceptions of the performances of actors Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Van Johnson and Anthony Perkins—closeted or semi-closeted during their careers but now known to have been gay—changed with his knowledge of the actors' homosexuality, Setoodeh concluded that once the public learns that an actor is gay the actor can no longer convincingly play straight characters. Setoodeh acknowledged the ability of actors Neil Patrick Harris and Portia de Rossi to play straight characters on television (on ''How I Met Your Mother'' and ''Better Off Ted'' respectively) but dismissed them with the claim that they are playing caricatures, not characters.
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