Happy Birthday to Robert Gant!

The handsome and studly out actor Robert Gant turns 41 years old today!

Best-known for his role as gay college professor  Ben on Queer As Folk has been plenty busy since the end of that Showtime series with both straight and gay roles.

Gant decided to come out publicly. several years before such young stars as T.R. Knight, Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass and Luke Macfarlane followed suit.

He has no regrets but it’s taken awhile for the industry to realize that he is just as capable of playing straight roles as he was before he went public. He believes  “the last real frontier in Hollywood”  is an openly gay leading man type actor playing a romantic straight role.

It’s not that Gant has shied away from gay roles since the end of Queer as Folk.

He starred opposite Chad Allen and Judith Light in the acclaimed independent film Save Me as man struggling to live by the rules at an “ex-gay” ministry. He also played the lead role in Kiss Me Deadly, a gay spy in the adventure flick co-starring Shannen Doherty – the first of a planned series of Jacob Keane movies.