Brave Teen Comes Out to Entire School After Receiving Award for Class Actor: 'I've Been Acting as Someone I'm Not' Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/23/13 03:10PM After accepting his award for "Class Actor," a high school senior from Parsippany, New Jersey, bravely pulls back the curtain in front of over 300 students, parents, and faculty members, and reveals that he is gay.