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Let us get one thing straight – I am not gay.

Growing up as a theater kid who played basketball, I heard all of the comments, and members of my basketball team never did know what to make of seeing me on stage wearing makeup, but … nope. My eye has always been captured by the female of the species.

When I went to New York and tried my hand at the professional stage, it was a rather rude awakening. A guy saying, “You want to go get a beer?” wasn’t always intended as just – ‘getting a beer.’

So, I found myself wearing football jerseys to auditions on purpose, and acting as...