There is a still a fear in Hollywood of getting typecast for playing gay, and that if you take more than one or two gay roles, you’ll be in a career cul-de-sac. It’s the same fear that stops a lot of famous folk from coming out – that suddenly you won’t be cast as straight characters (which of course is most roles).
However, Michael Urie has been playing gay roles on screen since WTC View in 2005, before becoming far more famous as a scheming gay assistant in Ugly Betty. During the run of that show he also came out publicly. Since then he’s played several other gay roles, both on stage and screen, including in thre TV show Partners and the indie movie Such Good People.
However, talking to Metro Source, he’s suggested that people have been telling him since he first became an actor, he shouldn’t have played gay or come out. He says, “When I first came on TV, there were people who said to me, “Don’t come out of the closet because if this doesn’t work out, you won’t be able to play straight roles.
“Even recently people have told me that I need to stop playing so many gay roles. But I just think: I work! I’m busy!”
He adds, “I do a lot of gay roles because they’re awesome! And because they’re different. I think the concern is being typecast as gay. But being typecast as gay is as silly as being typecast as straight. The idea that there’s only one type of gay character is an antiquated idea.”
Indeed, Urie thinks playing gay has actually helped his career, saying, “If I didn’t play gay characters – if I wasn’t out of the closet – I would just not work as much. You wouldn’t know who I was.”
Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy is undoubtedly a classic piece of gay theatre. The three-part play, which debuted in 1982, won the writer/star a pair of Tony Awards, got adapted into a movie in 1988 and has been revived numerous times. Now it’s coming back, with the announcement that Michael Urie will play the central role in a slightly altered version of the piece.
It feels like we’ve been waiting eons for Such Good People. We first reported on it 
A couple of years ago it looked like gay people were going to take over US TV comedy, with Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal (about a gay couple having a baby), and Partners, which saw a couple of friends, one of them gay, going into business together.
Back in late 2012 
Before the start of the new US television season there was much interest in two new gay-themed shows that were bidding to find success with audiences. Now one of them has been cancelled, with