Gay for pay in our cult-of-celebrity era

While there are some signs that gay-for-pay actors in today's cult of celebrity era are less afraid of being linked to their gay characters or typecast like Brokeback Mountain's Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, Colin Farrell, (shown here kissing Dallas Roberts in A Home at the End of the World), however, reasserted his own heterosexuality in a 2004 interview in with GQ:

"I was very uncomfortable doing it. As much as I love Dallas -- and I got on great with him -- I didn't enjoy it. I'd prefer to lift weights for 20 minutes than kiss a guy for two seconds. It taught me what I knew already: I don't like kissing boys. When you feel his stubble against your lip, it's repulsive to me, as repulsive to me as for a lot of gay men the idea of putting their tongue near a pussy is—something that, for me, is akin to heaven sometimes." - Colin Farrell

"Every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy." - Jake Gyllenhaal

"I'm big enough and brave enough to do it." - Heath Ledger

We are all at various levels of accepting who we are and what we are willing to do and not everything or everyone is going to turn our crank. Both personal boundaries and chemistry are important.

When Van Hansis (Luke on As The World Turns) learned that his character would be gay, he said he was hoping that the actor who would play his character's love interest would at least be "cool".

I've kissed many guys and girls in my life. One of the worst kissers was this lesbian I dated before she came out. Ironically, her gay male friend was one of the best kissers I've had. I've only kissed them each one time and it was in the same room and 5 minutes apart.

Thought of the day: If you're going to kiss someone, chemistry is definitely important.