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He supported Hillary Rodham Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 2008. Gant supports such organizations as Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) and Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH). In June 2004, Gant starred in the short film Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer!, an homage to 1950s educational films.
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The movie about the ex-gay movement was distributed by Mythgarden, the production company formed by Gant, Allen, and Christopher Racster in 2004. In 2007, Gant, Chad Allen and Judith Light acted and produced Save Me. He also appeared in the independent films Special Delivery, The Contract, Fits and Starts and Marie and Bruce.
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In 2011, Gant made a cameo appearance in season 1, episode 8 of TV Land's Happily Divorced. He plays the role of the Famous Director in the 2012 feature film Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean. Other guest appearances on television programs include Melrose Place, Ellen, Friends and Nip/Tuck, among others. Prior to Queer as Folk, he appeared in recurring roles in Popular and Caroline in the City. In 2009, Gant appeared in Personal Affairs, a BBC Three-produced drama set in London's financial sector. In 2005, he appeared in an episode of the television crime drama The Closer. Gant cited that QAF was a ground-breaking show and that he could not live his life sheltered or in the closet after playing the character of Ben. Gant later came out as gay and was on the cover of THE ADVOCATE. Gant even mentioned his small role on FRIENDS where his character was in love with Phoebe. When King approached Gant with this question, Gant very coyly avoided answering the question by saying that as an actor, he had played many different characters who had been in love with people he was not in love with himself - that it was all a part of acting. During the shows second season, the actors were guests on LARRY KING LIVE, where King asked the straight actors if they had trouble identifying with their gay characters. In fact, QAF only had two actual gay actors portraying gay main characters (Randy Harrison as Justin, and Peter Paige as Emmett). When Gant first took on his role in QAF, he identified himself as a straight man. The gang from Liberty Street was last seen in Canada in a bike race and at the wedding of Michael Novotny (Hal Sparks) and Professor Ben Bruckner (Robert Gant). He currently resides in Los Angeles.īetween 20, Gant appeared on television in Showtime's QUEER AS FOLK as Ben Bruckner, his best-known role to date. Gant is involved in a number of philanthropic organizations with a great deal of focus going to the issue of aging in the gay community.
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Rather than continuing his career in law, he decided to focus on acting thereafter. The international firm's Los Angeles office was closed soon after. It was his career as a lawyer that brought him to Los Angeles when he accepted a position with the LA office of Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie. He majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and then studied law at Georgetown University Law Center. At the age of 11, he performed a soft-shoe routine with Bob Hope as part of Hope's USO tour. He began acting in television commercials and joined the Screen Actors Guild at the age of ten in his home state of Florida. Gant was born in Tampa, Florida, of Spanish, Italian, Cuban, Irish, and English descent.
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But that’s changing with developments such as the Massachusetts court ruling allowing same-sex marriage and legal action in San Francisco.55 Robert Gant is an American actor, he portrayed main character Ben Bruckner who was a university professor teaching Gay studies in the Showtime drama series Queer as Folk. Michael’s entrenched view of marriage as unattainable reflects real-life gay attitudes, Lipman said.
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“I thought they dealt with the issue very well, in a way that people watching the show can relate to, straight or gay,” said Macias. Stephen Macias, national entertainment media director for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD, previewed the episodes. They created the story for this Sunday’s episode (along with Shawn Postoff, who wrote the teleplay) and wrote the July 18 finale in which Michael poignantly questions whether his Canadian marriage, discounted back home in Pittsburgh, meant anything. Series producers Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman are eager to do some revision of their own on attitudes toward gay marriage in America, especially as the stakes rise with the proposal of a constitutional ban.