An anomaly in Hollywood?

Luke has played it fast and loose, once he transitioned into films.

His last statement on the issue is: I've realized that there is very little you can keep private. So, I'm protecting the only bit that I have any control over, my private life feels like the last thing I can keep hold of.

What that declares on the topic was never a clear answer in my opinion.

I feel I know what he is, gorgeous, talented, conflicted, but all together a decent human being.

From watching his onscreen performances, I just assumed he was straight and likely married, with young children.

Like you Neurtrino, I assumed the same thing! I just found out yesterday that he is gay, and was really surprised by it. Surprised only because he's very convincing as a straight man and it just seems like he'd be quite the hit with the ladies! Haha!

I just recently started liking him after seeing him as Bard in The Hobbit movies and in Dracula Untold, so I haven't looked him up Online to really know a whole lot about him yet. It doesn't matter to me if he's gay or not, though, because that's his business. What should matter is that he is happy, and happy with who he is and who he's with, and I hope he is!

He is a very talented actor (obviously, since he had me fooled into thinking he was probably a married man with kids, lol), and I will continue to enjoy his work!



People on board a ship that's capsizing don't use that many exclamation marks.

He does have an interesting career. What fascinates me is that he seems to be having a successful career as a B-movie action star, but up until he was 30 he was having a successful career in musical theater. Hugh Jackman comes to mind--maybe it's easier for non-Americans to do this sort of thing.

Looking forward to seeing what he does next. He's quite refreshing compared to the current clutch of UK theater nobs and their Oscar-bait dramas.

Are there any other gay male actors enjoying his level of success?

Ian McKellen and Zachary Quinto are very successful!

Irrelevance is the ultimate goal of equality is it not? He's just a guy who acts in stuff.

I'm really pleased to discover that he is gay, because it's true that he has somehow managed to take on a range of high-profile roles in various genre movies often as a hero/action star, something which has sadly eluded many other similarly talented openly gay actors thus far.

I just hope that he isn't pushed into playing the villain/heel/romantic antagonist, as he will be playing in 'Beauty and the Beast'. I've noticed that in the past that particularly handsome and athletic gay actors who might otherwise be cast as romantic leads/action heroes, often end up getting cast as the villain/romantic rival. Richard Chamberlain (The Towering Inferno), John Barrowman ("Arrow"), Steve Anton (The Goonies), Rupert Everett (in terms of his voice-work in the Shreck movies), and other openly gay actors have often ended up in these parts, as if movie studios are concerned that a female audience would not be able to fantasise over a gay lead the way they could over a straight one, or worse, associate gay characteristics with some type of deviancy (for example, it does bother me that one of the animators of the otherwise brilliantly conceived 'Gaston' on Disney's animated Beauty & the Beast, suggested that the narcissistic antagonist was partly based on the gay bodybuilders he observed in Californian gyms).

Instead, I hope Evans will play more parts like The Bard in The Hobbit movies, one of the most obviously heroic and admirable characters in the entire franchise.

Luke Evans still lives in the glass closet though he isn't talking to the gay media so he isn't a gay man well respected by the LGBT community. Zachary Quinto by contrast, is very outspoken about gay rights issues. Charlie Carver just came out a few days ago and understands the political importance of being out. Luke Evans wants the accolades of being a gay man YET he seems to want it both ways. Luke isn't political and that is disappointing especially when he has a platform to advance gay rights.

I agree 100%.