Michael Urie is a "member of the LGBT community" but would rather talk about his work

Michael Urie and Thomas Jay Ryan from The Temperamentals

New York magazine's Vulture Blog recently got to chat with Ugly Betty scene-stealer Michael Urie and the discussion eventually took a turn to his sexual orientation, which has been a matter of speculation and a topic that Urie has avoided in the past.

However, as the interview notes, on his own website Urie described himself as "a member of the LGBT community" and asks about the disparity:

Well, that's my M.O. I'm interested in keeping — you know, actors have to be able to do lots of different things, and while I'd say there's an ongoing theme [to the parts I play], I'm also not interested in having any real publicity about who I am and what my private life is and things like that. I'm an actor and I don't want to be a [fill-in-the-] blank actor.

Does that mean that he'd rather not discuss being gay, fearing it means he'll only be offered gay roles? Not really, he says he'd just rather be talking about his work than himself:

That's not really the point. By using publicity to say something like that, it could become a person's M.O, and I'm not interested in that. I really think this article should be about The Temperamentals. I understand where you're coming from and why you think this is important and that this is a play about being true to yourself. But artists and activists are not quite the same thing, and I feel like support can come from lots of different ways.

I'm happy to see Urie feeling free to write something like that on his blog and not backing away when asked about it. It's nothing new for a performer to try to maintain some degree of privacy and as long as that doesn't mean awkward verbal dodges or glaringly gender-neutral pronouns, I think it's cool for Urie to say he'd rather be discussing his work. What do you think?