One of my favorite features in The Advocate each issue is its "Big Gay Following" page where a straight celebrity beloved by gays is interviewed. The March 27 issue features Rachel Griffiths who we first got to know as the bride's best friend in "Muriel's Wedding" then as Brenda in "Six Feet Under" and now as big sister Sarah on ABC's "Brothers & Sisters."
Here is some of what she had to say:
On co-starring in "Ned Kelly" with Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom: "A very good day at work. I got to make out with Orlando and get tied up by Heath. It was fun."
On "Brothers & Sisters" gay character, Kevin, Sarah's younger brother: "I'm proud to be on a family drama that's totally mainstream and can integrate a gay character who's in no way "other" and who's not deprived of any of the joys and difficulties that his straight siblings go through."
On a homophobic fan: "This lady told me she loved 'Brothers & Sisters' then said, 'But I hope you pass this on to the producers, that we could really do without all that gay kissing.' I told her a story my grandmother told me: She went to Paris in 1932 and saw a black man holding the hand of a white woman, and she felt so horrified she almost threw up. My grandmother told me she knew that reaction was wrong, but it was the way she had been brought up. So I told this lady, 'Maybe when you're 98 you'll tell your granddaughter how you saw two men kissing one day, and how you felt, but you know that's wrong, and that was just how you were brought up.' She was shocked. I said, 'So I'm not going to tell the show's creators that. that's for you to work out.'"

Wow. I think Rachel's big gay following just got even bigger!