That Neil Patrick Harris coming out as a gay Broadway-lover would help his career reinvention as an onscreen avatar of hyper-heteromasculinity is kind of weird, but then “taking artifice to 11” has a long tradition at the intersection of gay and performance arts

That George Takei debuting an offscreen personality as “gay memejoker” would help land him a bunch of Serious Patrician roles is even more weird, but I guess the guy knew how to read the zeitgeist

That Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen would use their existing recognition in Serious Patrician roles to launch an offscreen brand as a mixed-sexuality pair of South Beach queens is just… well, helllllo, postmodernity