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Michael C. Hall Comes Out as Fluid: 'There’s a Spectrum. I Am on It.'

Michael C. Hall Comes Out as Fluid: 'There’s a Spectrum. I Am on It.'

For the first time, the Dexter star has opened up about his own sexuality. 

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Ever since his role as the closeted David Fisher in Six Feet Under, Michael C. Hall has become someone what of an idol in the LGBT community, especially in the political landscape of 2001 when playing a gay role was sometimes looked at as career suicide. Hall has continued to outspokenly support the LGBT community and even played the titular transgender character in Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Itch

Now for the first time ever, Hall opened up about his sexuality in an extremely personal interview with The Daily Beast.

“I think there’s a spectrum. I am on it. I’m heterosexual. But if there was a percentage, I would say I was not all the way heterosexual. I think playing the emcee required me to fling a bunch of doors wide open because that character I imagined as pansexual." Hall went on, "Yeah, like I made out with Michael Stuhlbarg every night doing that show. I think I have always leaned into any fluidity in terms of my sexuality.”

He might think of himself as fluid, but he goes on to say that he's never been attracted to a man or had sex with one. "I’ve never had an intimate relationship with a man. I think, maybe because of an absent father, there has definitely been a craving for an emotional intimacy with a man. I don’t mean to suggest that an emotional relationship between a father and son is any way homoerotic. I mean an emotional intimacy or connection that at least in the milieu I grew up in was considered fey. I had an appetite to have emotional connections with men beyond beer, sports, and fist-pumping that were considered ‘gay.'"

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He adds, "I was attracted to John Cameron Mitchell when I saw Hedwig. But no, as a rule I am heterosexual."

Read the full interview here

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