{"id":41640,"date":"2016-07-22T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-being-gay\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:26:06","slug":"how-looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-being-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-being-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/Screenshot-Looking-Jonathan-Groff.png\" alt=\"Screenshot-Looking-Jonathan-Groff\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/jonathan-groff\">Jonathan Groff<\/a> had been openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> for years before starring in the HBO show&nbsp;<em>Looking,<\/em>&nbsp;but he claims the series &mdash; particularly the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scenes &mdash; led him to embrace his sexuality in ways he&rsquo;d never been able to before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/will-looking-movie-top-series-sexiest-moments-20160720\">Will &ldquo;Looking: The Movie&rdquo; Top The Series In Sex Appeal?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appearing in the show meant &ldquo;really publicly owning my sexuality,&rdquo; he tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/20\/how-looking-helped-jonathan-groff-learn-to-like-being-gay.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>. &ldquo;It was a different step. I mean, now I&rsquo;m <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">fucking<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> on TV.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Though that runs the risk of sounded glib, Groff claims playing Patrick Murray was a genuinely transformative experience, and a positive one at that. &ldquo;The show has changed me for good,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and in every scene having to explore <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> identity, you can&rsquo;t help but think of your own <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> identity and of where you fit in the community and who you are and the issues we talk about.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/trailer-looking-movie-ready-now-20160620\">The Trailer For &ldquo;Looking: The Movie&rdquo; Is Ready For You Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And here&rsquo;s the sentence we&rsquo;ve waited our whole lives to write, but never thought it would actually arrive: The actor&nbsp;confides that he&rsquo;s particularly fond of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ass<\/a>-eating scene in his upcoming film.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love doing those scenes!&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;These <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scenes are an opportunity to illuminate something in a character but also in life for people. Like this is what actually goes down.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And to think that when he first came out to his parents, he told them not to worry &mdash; because he&rsquo;s not <em>too&nbsp;<\/em><a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, but I&rsquo;m not going to be in a parade or anything,&#8217;&rdquo;&nbsp;he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/where-did-looking-go-wrong-20150325\">Where Did &ldquo;Looking&rdquo; Go Wrong?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The irony that he subsequently&nbsp;accepted the invitation to be&nbsp;Grand Marshall of the New York Gay Pride Parade in 2014 isn&rsquo;t lost on him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Doing the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> pride parade, I really realized that I was proud to be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. It&rsquo;s one thing to be out and it&rsquo;s another to be proud of it. I think when I first came out it was like OK I&rsquo;m <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, but if I could not be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> I&rsquo;d not be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, but I&rsquo;m <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. That&rsquo;s how it was when I first came out. But <i>Looking<\/i> really was an experience that changed all of that for me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/looking\" target=\"_blank\">The final episode of&nbsp;<em>Looking&nbsp;<\/em>airs June 23.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=u03kDaRbFBI:JPdCMoSIAUI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=u03kDaRbFBI:JPdCMoSIAUI:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/u03kDaRbFBI\/looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-gay-20160722\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/u03kDaRbFBI\/looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-gay-20160722<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay Jonathan Groff had been openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> for years before starring in the HBO show&nbsp;Looking,&nbsp;but he claims the series &mdash; particularly the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scenes &mdash; led him to embrace his sexuality in ways he&rsquo;d never been able to before. Related:&nbsp;Will &ldquo;Looking: The Movie&rdquo; Top The Series In Sex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-being-gay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-looking-helped-jonathan-groff-love-being-gay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How \u201cLooking\u201d Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay Jonathan Groff had been openly gay for years before starring in the HBO show&nbsp;Looking,&nbsp;but he claims the series &mdash; particularly the sex scenes &mdash; led him to embrace his sexuality in ways he&rsquo;d never been able to before. 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