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 Joshua Grannell could hardly keep his emotions in check as he listened to teenage girls go wild for openly gay actor Chris Colfer as he stepped onto the stage for the Glee Live! concert this spring at the HP Pavilion in San Jose.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52034649-78/gay-grannell-film-lake.html.csp

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San Jose is not, after all, San Francisco, and yet here were hundreds of girls giving the loudest screams for Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel, a gay character on the show.

“I didn’t know this was happening,” Grannell said. “Maybe being gay and famous wasn’t quite as scary as it once was.”

Then again, the San Francisco filmmaker knows better than that. There are still plenty of closeted actors in Hollywood who don’t dare openly disclose their sexual orientation for fear of what coming out might do to their careers, Grannell said.

I love this quote, but feel the need to include the last paragraph because people too often forget the truth of it.