Reviewing a play starring Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes, Setoodeh wrote: “It’s weird seeing Hayes play straight.

It was a rhetorical question but, in 2010, Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh suggested exactly that. “ Now I’m gay, I can’t play a straight person?” she asked. Rupert Everett said he didn’t work in Hollywood for a decade after coming out, and last year Ellen Page complained that she was suddenly only being offered gay roles. Thorn Birds heartthrob Richard Chamberlain, who came out in 2003, later said he “ wouldn’t advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out”.