THOMAS DEKKER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALITY IN OUT

Actor Thomas Dekker, who I have had the biggest crush on since Sarah Connor Chronicles opens up about his sexuality in the latest issue of OUT magazine:

“I’ve only really had relationships with women, but I’m certainly not closed to it. If there are possibilities of being able to do anything in life, why would you say you would never take any up? In the later chunk of my teen years I was so all over the place with sex. It was terrible. I never really had a real relationship at all. During puberty, it’s all about sex, and it’s all about figuring yourself out. I think I overdid it when I was younger.”

Dekker also opened up about the big hoopla surrounding his character on the now-defunct NBC series Heroes, where his character was supposed to come out as gay but instead it never happened. Dekker says it was because he had been playing his character straight and they sprung the change on him with no warning:

“I went through the f**king roof! If you’re going to have a gay character on your show come out and be a pioneer for kids, I would’ve liked to play that from the get-go from my perspective. I went to set and said to the writers, ‘I really wish that it wouldn’t have been five hours before I come into work that I get this news that [the character] I’d been playing for the last 12 episodes knows and is comfortable with the fact that he is gay. Because I would’ve played this very differently.’ But I said I’d do it, and then a couple hours later the creator, Tim Kring, showed up and said, ‘No, no, no. We’re going to change it [back to him being straight].’”

I guess NBC thought people wouldn't believe that there are actual gay teens that don't act like Kurt on Glee. I actually remember hearing that his character was supposed to come out to Claire Bennett (Hayden Pannetierre) but the episode came and then...nothing. Maybe we can get a youtube video from you to add to James Duke Mason's campaign as well? Check out the trailer for HBO's Cinema Verite below, in which Dekker plays Lance Loud, the first openly gay teen to premiere in the reality show An American Family, the groundbreaking 1973 PBS series that introduced reality TV to America. Dekker also plays a bisexual teen in Greg Araki's film KABOOM!