Ellen DeGeneres got a Time magazine cover when she came out as a lesbian in 1997. A decade or so later, Lance Bass got a People magazine when he announced to the world that he was a gay man and so did Clay Aiken a short time after that.

But in 2o12, several high-profile celebrities came out as gay and didn't find themselves at the center of a media frenzy. Among them: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Emmy winning actor Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), and Broadway star-turned TV actor Andrew Rannells (The New Normal).

Matt Bomer fans who wanted to see more of the White Collar star in last summer's box office hit Magic Mike can rejoice.

Instinct.com has posted this video of the openly gay actor which includes his deleted solo strip scene from the movie in which he played a male stripper alongside of Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer and Joe Manganiello.

There were plenty of Matt Bomer fans who wanted to see more of the actor in the summer box office hit Magic Mike in which he played a male stripper alongside of Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Joe Manganiello.

But much of his solo stripping scene ended up on the editing room floor.

That's why images from the scene, which surfaced on various websites including Queerty.com Wednesday (17 October), are getting plenty of attention.

Gay actor Matt Bomer has spoken about growing up gay and closeted in an award acceptance speech.

Speaking at a Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network ceremony in Palm Springs, the actor and his partner Simon Halls were honored with the Inspiration Award.

‘When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind,’ Bomer said.

It was at an awards ceremony in Palm Springs last February that Matt Bomer publicly thanked his longtime partner, publicist Simon Halls, and their three children for the first time.

In October, he will be accepting another award - this time with Halls, a well-known Hollywood publicist whose clients include Ridley Scott, Sam Mendes, Ang Lee, Tom Ford, Jude Law, and Annette Bening.

Dustin Lance Black's play chronicling the historic trial challenging California’s Proposition 8 has just booked its 200th reading which will take place in Fargo, North Dakota, the Oscar winning screenwriter said Wednesday (18 July).

The play, simply called 8, has been performed in two star-studded benefit readings in New York and Los Angeles attracting such talent as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jane Lynch and Matt Bomer.

When they were students studying acting together at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Joe Manganiello and Matt Bomer probably could not have imagined that they would one day be two of the stars of one of the summer's most highly-anticipated movies.

The two television hunks, best known for HBO's True Blood and USA Network's White Collar, respectively, both have roles in Magic Mike as male strippers.

Matt Bomer  admits that before he began filming his role as a stripper in the upcoming feature film Magic Mike, he went waxing.

He and three of his co-stars, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Joe Manganiello, reveal such manscaping secrets in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly - part of the major promotional push for the movie which hits theaters on June 29.

The trailer for gay pin-up Matt Bomer’s latest movie starring as a stripper alongside Hollywood hunk Channing Tatum has hit YouTube.

Bomer will be flexing his pecs and flashing his flesh as Ken, a member of a stripper posse which is headed by ‘Magic’ Mike Martigano and includes Tito (Adam Rodriguez) and Big Richie (Joe Manganiello), managed by stripper-turned-owner Dallas (Matthew McConaughey)

Alex Pettyfer stars as rookie stripper The Kid, who Tatum’s character mentors before discovering his real talent lies in making bespoke furniture.

Matt Bomer will leave his regular TV character of Neal Lafferty on White Collar far behind when he guest stars on Glee next week as the estranged older brother of Blaine Anderson (played by Darren Criss).

The Fox hit, which has been on hiatus since late February, returns to the air April 8 with Bomer and Criss performing some powerful duets including the Gotye hit Somebody That I Used to Know.

A reading of the play 8, with an all-star cast headed by Brad Pitt and George Clooney, raised approximately $2 million for the American Foundation of Equal Rights (AFER).

The reading, held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, sold out and an additional 210,000 viewers watched live on YouTube.

(More than 277,000 people had watched the performance as of noon PST on Monday (5 March).

It wasn't news to Matt Bomer's co-stars on the TV drama White Collar that the actor is gay.

But Tim DeKay and Tiffani Thiessen are both showing their support for Bomer's decision to publicly acknowledge his longtime partner, Simon Halls, and their three kids as he accepted an award last weekend in Palm Springs.