What'd Gandalf do between sets?
I'm sure neither of us want to know.
The knothead blathered on and on about how this (LOTR) was proof that gay men could be good in dramatic roles, yada, yada, as if no gay men had ever done so before ! Had someone mentioned as an aside that he was homosexual, my response would have been "so what". But when he shoves it in our faces on television and in print, it becomes an issue. "So what" becomes "yuck".
Similarly the political issues. When I hear the name Barbara Streisand, I don't think "actress" or "singer", I think "hypocritical communist radical".