It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.

I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.