“We haven’t been that big on outing our stars in Canada. The music business, I guess, has the most free-speakers and even then, once you’ve pointed to k.d. lang, Ashley MacIsaac and Rufus Wainwright, the pickings get kinda slim. But once you get into the world of actors, there are a lot fewer willing to stand up and be counted … as I discovered this week, especially those who act in the more conventional or commercial theatres.”