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When The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann had a chance to speak with Sparks and filmmaker Edgar Wright ahead of today’s release he asked them about that moment in The Sparks Brothers and the importance of acknowledging the band’s gay fans in the documentary. Hal Sparks, 31, was best known for being the genial host of E!’s “Talk Soup” until his latest gig, playing discount-store worker Michael Novotny, who happens to be gay, on Showtime’s new soap.

Nicholas Sparks, the prolific author of romance novels, is facing renewed allegations that he discriminated against gay students at his Christian school in North Carolina. Hal Sparks Starred As The Gay Michael Novotny In The Groundbreaking Series, ‘Queer As Folk.’ Sparks Has Been An Ally Of The LGBTQ Community For A Long Time. The romance author testified in a federal lawsuit brought by an ex-headmaster of the Christian school he founded—and said he is “personally” for gay marriage.

Already contributed? Log in to hide these messages. Sparks also appears as a regular guest and fill-in host on The Stephanie Miller Show , a national radio show, providing three hours of commentary and humor on Wednesday mornings. In my life growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid -- 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

So in the long run, I guess, the short answer is people will ask you why you care about gay rights or why you care about LGBT issues, and my question would be, "Why wouldn't you? And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

I think the AIDS crisis was a shock to the community. It required sort of a new level of commitment to all of these issues. And once you get past the life and death of it, you know you get to the life of it. All new Lab Rats episodes air through the summer on Thursday nights at p. I just wish they would make a reunion film for Queer As Folk.

That would definitely be must-see viewing. Hal resides in Los Angeles and is a proud new father to son Camden. For two decades, HuffPost has been fearless, unflinching, and relentless in pursuit of the truth. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 — we can't do this without you. We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves.

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