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Matt Bomer reflects on high school friend Lee Pace’s being out: “I don’t think he stands anything to lose”
Lee Pace and Matt Bomer, friends since high school, are both openly gay actors currently on Broadway is gay-themed pays: Angels on America and Boys in the Band, respectively.
In a profile this week in The New York Times, Bomer was asked about what he told Pace about going public:
“My counsel to him was, basically, when you decide to make it public, it can feel like you’re operating in a void,” Mr. Bomer said. “Nothing about you has changed, but maybe certain people’s opinions about you have changed. The beautiful thing about that is out of that void come all the people who truly want to engage with you and want to embrace your most authentic self. To me that’s always been far more rewarding than whatever mass appeal you have if you chose not to.”
“That’s assuming that that even happens,” he said. “I don’t know if that happens anymore.”
When asked if he had experienced negative repercussions after his own coming out, Mr. Bomer paused.
“The shorter answer is yes,” he said. “I hate to say it, I really do. I wish the answer were a resounding no. But I wouldn’t change it for the world. What happened was, an entire world of artists who I had always dreamed of working with and who wanted to engage with me on the most authentic level all came to the forefront.”
Mr. Bomer is appearing in the Broadway production of “The Boys in the Band,” just a few blocks away from “Angels in America.”
“I don’t think he stands anything to lose,” he said. “I don’t think any of us do, really, anymore. And if they do, let it fall by the wayside.”
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Ed John says:
Good advice from one good man to another; continued success and best wishes to you both.