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JASON STUART is an out actor/comedian with over 100 film and TV credits, most recently seen on "The Closer" and his new Logo online chat show "Name-Dropping with Jason Stuart." He is chair of the Screen Actors Guild National LGBT Actors Committee. www.jasonstuart.com

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When Opportunity Meets Talent

3 Comments | Posted December 27, 2011 | 10:35:29 (EST)

When opportunity meets talent, we can soar. This is what the SAG LGBT Committee is all about. Our committee's mission is to equal the playing field for openly gay actors by giving them opportunities to be considered for all sorts of roles, not simply ones defined by their gender or...

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Support Our Gay Youth... So They Won't Feel Alone Like Me

Posted March 9, 2011 | 18:57:38 (EST)

I was the first openly gay comedian to headline mainstream comedy clubs and had a lot of success in the 90s touring around the good old USA. I worked in comedy clubs around the country for over twenty years. Five years ago I was booked at Zanies Comedy Club in...

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I Was That Kid

Posted October 19, 2010 | 18:55:25 (EST)

I could have been Asher Brown, Seth Walsh, Tyler Clementi or any of the other teens that recently ended their young, precious lives. I grew up in the 1970s when being gay was still considered to be a mental illness by some. I would go to sleep hoping not to...

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If the Straightjacket Fits

Posted May 21, 2010 | 18:37:38 (EST)

Much has been said and written about the recent Newsweek article "Straight Jacket: Heterosexual actors play gay all the time. Why doesn't it ever work in reverse?" Contributor Ramin Setoodeh contends that audiences do not accept openly gay actors playing straight roles, such as Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises and...

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