Darryl Stephens opens up a little about his personal life...

There was a time when "Noah's Arc" star Darryl Stephens did not want to talk about being gay. But that has changed some and in the current issue of Instinct - he';s the current cover guy - he talks about why he has chosen to be relatively low-key about his sexuality.

"I think people who don't work in the industry don't understand that actors really get one body and one face. And we kind of get one chance," he said. "What the public sees is pretty much our entire livelihood. If you step up and say, ' I want you to see me, an actor who gets paid to be other people, as only this one type of person,' it just doesn't make sense - particularly to a young actor who is looking for work. What I was honestly doing at the beginning was biding my time and hoping that I would be allowed to play a variety of roles, so when the time came to answer the question I could say, 'Yes I'm gay but I was able to play this and able to play that, and people believed it and responded to it."

"I'm still private about my personal life but my being gay certainly does not have to be any big mystery or secret," he also said. "I'm not ashamed of it, it;s not something I'm hiding."