If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.