Gay TV actors Harris and Glover headed for the stage

Here's a great double-dip of news for you theatre fans: out television actors Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and John Glover (Smallville) are headed for the stage in the coming months.

Glover, who has been out for years, will be hitting Broadway to take over the role of Man in Chair (kind of the narrator) in the hit The Drowsy Chaperone. Although Glover is a theatre vet, this marks his first Broadway musical role. In a TV Guide interview, the affable actor had this to say about the recent high-profile comings-out of stars like Harris and T.R. Knight:

Good for them for daring to do that because it used to be you'd lose your job. People had to hide. I mean look at what Rock Hudson had to go through. He had to get married or else he wouldn't have had a career. I'm hoping, though, that we'll come to the time when it doesn't matter. We just say, "This is who I am," and that's that.

On the opposite coast, Broadway acting vet Harris will be making his stage directing debut with I Am Grock, a comedy by Amanda Rogers about a successful family therapist and author dealing with unexpected (and nutty) inlaws and an important media appearance.

Hats off to both gents in their ventures.