10 straight actors who slayed the Broadway stage

This story originally appeared on Out.Broadway has long been synonymous with gay culture, but that doesn’t mean all the stars are gay.While the theater has always been a safe haven for the queen community, and the stereotype is that if you’re a Broadway star, you must be gay, that’s not actually true. Some fans may raise an eyebrow at straight male stars of the stage, but there are some famous actors out there who have made a splash on Broadway and even won Tony Awards who are straight as an arrow.Their sexuality may be regularly called into question, but according to these stars, they are, in fact, not gay.Hugh JackmanHugh Jackman may have become famous starring in action films, but he’s also a stellar song and dance man. The world got a taste of this when he starred in the movie musicals Les Misérables and The Greatest Showman, but may not know that he’s a Tony Award-winning Broadway Star.In 2003, he made his Broadway debut in The Boy from Oz and since then has starred in Broadway plays like A Steady Rain and The Music Man, and he's hosted the Tonys four times. Daniel RadcliffeYou may know Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, but others may have had their gay awakening seeing him naked in Equus on Broadway. The straight actor has also starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lifespan of a Fact, Merrily We Roll Along, and Every Brilliant Thing.Josh GrobanJosh Groban has sold million of records, starred in films like Crazy, Stupid, Love and Muppets Most Wanted, and been nominated for a Tony award for his work on Broadway.Groban made his Broadway debut in 2016 in the musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and then returned in 2023 to play the titular character in a revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Ethan SlaterSadly, he may be better known for his short-lived romance with Ariana Grande than his acting skills, but Ethan Slater is also an actor who first rose to fame on Broadw