Sean Maher, who previously played Dr. Simon Tam in Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” and “Serenity,” and a current cast member of “The Playboy Club,” recently came out of the closet in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He and his partner of nine years have two children.
“I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that’s wrong or that there’s shame in that or that there’s something to hide actually turns my stomach… What would [my daughter Sophia] think if I said, ‘Oh honey, you can’t come with me to work because they don’t know I have an adopted daughter and they don’t know that I’m gay.’ My children and our family, I’ve really never been as proud of anything in my life.”
The actor knew that he was gay even before getting acting jobs in the late ‘90s, and was in the closet when he was doing “Firefly,” but considered his castmates his “family.”
Congratulations and thanks to Mr. Maher for his courage and honesty!
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