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managing a work-life balance in Hollywood, but Matt Bomer makes it look effortless. The Texas-born heartthrob is easily one of Tinseltown’s brightest stars, and history will show him to be one of the first modern gay actors to challenge the norms of what out LGBTQ performers can play on-screen. Since launching to fame in USA Network’s , Bomer has played a stripper in , a closeted writer in the TV adaptation of Larry, a 105-year-old man in the Justin Timberlake-led science fiction thriller , and recently Larry Trainor/Negative Man in , based on the DC Comics title. He’s managed, with surprising ease, to transition from queer roles to straight ones, with virtually no backlash from conservative audiences. That in itself is new territory for an out gay actor.