Jonathan Groff, most recently a regular on the Kelsey Grammer series Boss that was set in Chicago, is returning to television in a new series set in San Francisco.

Groff, openly gay in real life, heads the cast in the new untitled HBO series about a group of gay friends who live in The City By the Bay.

Also starring in the series will be Frankie J. Alvarez and Murray Bartlett.

A gay man is blaming ITV reality competition show Britain’s Got Talent for his life now being at ‘rock bottom’.

Scott Whitley, 29, got Simon Cowell and the rest of the judges and audience working out along to his ‘funkacise’ routine during his audition shown in the fourth episode.

After he filmed the audition in January, he took a job as an entertainer with Thomas Cook in Lanzarote.

Freddie Smith knows he's a part of something special.

The young actor, who received his first Daytime Emmy nomination this week, plays one half of a gay couple on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives in a storyline that fully integrates the characters with the rest of the fictional small town of Salem.

‘I never imagined that it would be this great,' Smith told Gay Star News in a recent interview. 'We had expectations but I just really love this storyline from the bottom of my heart. It’s nice to go to work every day and have such a positive impact.’

Gay British actor Rupert Everett is in trouble for accidentally using some 'fruity language' on daytime television yesterday (1 May).

The ‘Hysteria’ actor was appearing as a guest on ITV’s Loose Women when he said ‘fuck’ during a discussion about HIV.

Everett was talking about when he was convinced he had contracted HIV when shooting a television show in the 1980s.

He said: ‘For the first few years of HIV, you couldn’t test for it. When my whole career started I thought I was on a death sentence.

Russell Tovey says it is more of a ‘risk’ for a gay man to play gay than it is for a straight actor.

The British actor, famous for roles Being Human and The History Boys, has said his career is unique because all the characters he plays are heterosexual.

Actor Tuc Watkins appeared on Marie Osmond's Hallmark Channel talk show in an episode that aired Monday (29 April) and shared with the audience a photo of himself with his twins.

Watkins became dad to son Curtis (left) and daughter Catchen (right), who were born via surrogate, four months ago.

When the BBC science fiction series Dr. Who was revived in 2005, John Barrowman began a recurring role as time traveler Captain Jack Harkness.

The 51st century character proved so popular that Barrowman was given his own spinoff series, Torchwood, which has run four seasons.

But Barrowman, currently co-starring of The CW series Arrow, will not be a part of an upcoming Dr. Who 50th anniversary television special.

It's a surprise to fans and to the actor himself.

Community’s Gillian Jacobs and Gossip Girls’ Leighton Meester has started filming their new film about same-sex marriage.

In The Life Partner, Jacobs plays a woman who drunkenly promises her lesbian best friend she will not get hitched until gay marriage is legal.

But when her boyfriend, played by The OC actor and Meester’s real life boyfriend Adam Brody, proposes, things get complicated.

Canadian actress Simone Bailley has been tweeting pictures from the set since they started filming on 21 April.

Sir Ian McKellen, the star of new sitcom Vicious which is based around a gay couple, has said he is glad gay people no longer mostly bear the brunt of jokes in comedy today.

Speaking about the show to The Sun, he said: ‘In the past, gay characters in sitcoms have been figures of fun. They were funny because they were gay.

‘But I like the fact that these characters are funny because of the people they are. That’s a real advance.’

Hobbit star Ian McKellen has posted an obituary to Margaret Thatcher calling her ideology against gay marriage ‘hypocritical and now pointless’.

McKellen, who is world-famous because of his role as Gandalf in blockbuster films Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, published the post about the late former UK Prime Minister on his website from Montreal.

GLAAD, the US LGBT media advocacy organization, announced that the Egyptian/Canadian actor and LGBT advocate Omar Sharif Jr. will join its staff as spokesperson.

Sharif Jr. will become the organization’s co-spokesperson, alongside Wilson Cruz, and will also be helping with fundraising.

Commenting on the appointment, Sharif Jr said: ‘I’m thrilled to be joining GLAAD in their culture-changing work.