Dan Butler

I'm an actor.

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.