‘The Flash’ Actor Rick Cosnett Just Came Out

“Hi everyone … dramatic pause. Um, I’m gay.”

Mikelle Street

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.

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Mikelle Street

February 14 2020 3:31 AM EST

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Sometimes you want to get something off your chest. Not a big, long, drawn out hullabaloo, you just want to pick up your phone, say what you need to say, and get out. And that's just what actor Rick Cosnett did on Thursday.

Cosnett, who plays Eddie Thawne on The Flash, Wes Maxfield in The Vampire Diaries and Elias Harper in Quantico, took to Instagram yesterday evening to open up about his sexuality. (Fun fact: Cosnett is a cousin of Hugh Grant) It wasn't a long video at all, and quite straight to the point at that.

"Hi everyone," he says in a short clip. "Dramatic pause. Um, I'm gay and I just wanted everyone to know because I've made a promise to myself to live my truth every day and sometimes that is a really hard thing to do when you have all these subconscious things that you don't even know about from childhood and society and from just life. There you go. I'm sure most of you probably knew anyway. And ... um yeah. That's actually all I wanted to say.