TOM LENK UPDATE: HE'S GAY??!!

[The Tomtrek]

Tom Lenk, aka Andrew from"Buffy", is officially out !

The latest issue of The Advocate features icon Harvey Milk on the cover, but a minor icon of geekdom, Tom Lenk (who played Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), also makes news by officially coming out in the issue (the online site doesn’t feature the article).

After the jump, read more about Lenk’s gay role on a recently canceled sitcom, his homophobic management and more!

It probably doesn’t come as that big of a shock to fans of Buffy that Tom is gay, which probably isn’t fair, as no doubt Lenk is capable of playing a wide-range of characters. Nonetheless, Lenk pinged quite a few gaydars including Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who told The Advocate that Andrew hadn’t been planned as gay, but when Lenk auditioned they decided to take the character that way since "Tom has a bit of a fey thing going on in his persona that, you know, you can’t really deny."

Technically, Andrew was never gay, but when we included him on our list of the "Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters", Whedon himself wound up weighing in on the topic.

Lenk says his coming out now was supposed to be timed to coincide with his first television same-sex kiss. The Buffy alum had been cast as the boyfriend of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s character on Fox’s Do Not Disturb. Alas for Lenk, DNR didn’t make it past its second episode before Fox showed mercy on us all and canceled the sitcom.

Lenk also discusses his less-than-pleasant childhood growing up in Camarillo, California, a town north of Los Angeles, where he was "constantly tormented", how theater was his escape, and how, post-Buffy, he learned his own management company was mocking him behind his back for being less than butch.

Despite the setbacks, Lenk stays optimistic about his future. And as Whedon says about Lenk, "He’s very, very f**king talented." Here is hoping Lenk finds the right vehicle to express that talent.

http://whedon.info/Tom-Lenk-makes-out.html

HOLY SHIT he hid it so well!!

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I really would've liked to have known this about five years ago. Used to think he was pretty cute.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

This is as shocking as Clay Aiken's announcement. Now if only Barry Manilow would come out...

 

[Fuddlemiff]

And Justin.

 

[CaptainWacky]

He was good in Buffy, though of course it was hypocritical of Buffy just to let him run around free after he MURDERED JONATHAN even though Faith had to go to jail when she killed.

And that Angel where he went out with the two Italian girls at the end, wtf omg hitler.

 

[The Tomtrek]

And that Angel where he went out with the two Italian girls at the end, wtf omg hitler.

I hate that SO MUCH.


(because it should've been Dawn talking to Angel and Spike in that episode but I think Michelle Trachtenberg was filming Eurotrip at the time so she couldn't do it.




I don't know if she was going to go out with the Italian girls if she had been in the episode)

 

[CaptainWacky]

Of course it wasn't really Buffy shagging the immortal, just her decoy or something.

 

[The Tomtrek]

I love every single other part of that episode (The Girl in Question).

Fuck people who don't like that episode.

"Gypsies! *spit* We shall speak of them NO MORE!"

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I am so shocked, I can't go on.

DUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'm sorry he went through so much turmoil on his way to this inevitable moment.

And I always thought he was cute.

 

[whisky]

When it came to gaydar he was flying the anti-stealth plane

 

[CaptainWacky]

Where's the Italian Wesley?

 

[Big Dick McGee]

What about Raven??

 

[CaptainWacky]

Fat.