Celebrity Gays :: Matt Bomer comes out
The out-than-in Matt Bomer is out (at last).
The star of the hit USA-network series "White Collar" made it official on Saturday, according to the Huffington Post.
"Having been the subject of tabloid and blogosphere rumors for some time, Matt Bomer has finally gone public about his sexuality, thanking his partner in an acceptance speech over the weekend," that website reported citing Towleroad as a source.
He made his announcement at a speech at the Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards in New York on Saturday, February 11, 2012.
At the award ceremony Bomer "received the New Generation Arts and Activism Award for his work in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Upon accepting the award, he thanked his partner Simon Halls and his three children.
"I’d really especially like to thank my beautiful family: Simon, Kit, Walker, Henry," he told the crowd. "Thank you for teaching me what unconditional love is. You will always be my proudest accomplishment."
His coming out on Saturday follows a report on the website OK! USA last week that said the "actor shares three kids with his partner, Simon Halls."
He also said that he would like to play actor Montgomery Clift in a biopic. (Clift was a handsome, closeted Hollywood actor from the 1950s.)
Bomer’s sexuality has long been the speculation of gossip sites and tabloids since "White Collar’ became a hit in 2009. At that time Perez Hilton reported that Bomer was involved with Halls, the chief executive of public relations firm PMK/HBH, one of the largest and most powerful PR firms in entertainment industry.
About that time AfterElton.com reported that "Bomer’s Wikipedia page was briefly changed to say he was gay, only to be changed back again."
AfterElton also contacted Bomer’s publicist at the time, who had "no comment," adding, "We don’t comment on any of our client’s personal lives."
In an interview in the 2010 issue of Details, Bomer was asked about the gay rumors.
"I don’t care about that at all. I’m completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life," he responded.
"I have a network and a show riding on my shoulders, I would say a big difference between my character and me is that I can be too trusting. And I’ve realized in this business, that’s not necessarily the smartest thing to be. I definitely have a thing or two to learn from the con artists."
Not that Bomer has been avoiding gay-friendly projects. He recently signed on to play Darren Cross’s older brother on upcoming episodes of "Glee." He is also working with that show’s creator Ryan Murphy on the film version of Larry Kramer’s "A Normal Heart."
Next month he will appear in a star-studded stage reading of Dustin Lance Black’s "8" in a Hollywood theater. Black’s play will be performed on March 3 in a cast that features George Clooney, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis and George Takei. The starry reading is the first of some 40 readings that will take place around the country in the ensuing weeks.
And in June he appears as one of the strippers in the highly anticipated "Magic Mike," Steven Soderbergh’s new film about male strippers based on Channing Tatum’s real-life experiences in a Tampa club when he was 19 years old. Tatum also appears in the film, along with Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughy and "True Blood" hunk Joe Manganiello.
In the film Bomer has two routines as two different characters: one called Doctor Love and the other Ken Doll. "Yes, [my character’s] name is Ken, and his Ken Doll is Plasticine, well put together, and it’s a play on the fantasy," Bomer told NY Magazine about appearing in the film. "What if a little girl’s Ken Doll came to life? Wasn’t that your fantasy? I don’t know if little girls fantasized about that, but we go there."
Watch Matt Bomer’s speech from this past Saturday night:
