Dr. Crane Happy to Make the Gay Marriage "Cut"
Actor secretly wed in California
Friday, May 29, 2009 | Updated 12:45 PM PST
Brian Hargrove and David Hyde Pierce pose for the camera.
Don't tell Daphne but the usually private Dr. Niles Crane is gay and happily married.
After keeping his personal life out of the spotlight for years, actor David Hyde Pierce, who played Crane on "Frasier," announced his marriage to longtime partner Brian Hargrove to a national audience in the wake of the California Supreme Court's ruling to uphold Proposition 8 this week.
The wedding band wearing actor spoke candidly to the ladies of "The View" about his relationship and tying the knot "very quietly" in California on Oct. 24.
The actor and Hargrove, a producer, are still legally wed despite the court's decision. The gay-marriage ban was approved by voters in November, stopping legal nuptials going forward.
Angered by the ruling, Hyde Pierce said Thursday: "It's like, `Oh great, we made the cut."'
"What we thought was a private, personal decision turned out not to be," he said. "We now find out that legally we are still married and that's a mixed thing too."
The actor said he understands the religious undertones to the issue but in the end what he decides to do is nobody's business. He called it a "very odd thing" that strangers have a vote on his private decision to marry.
Copyright Associated Press / NBC Bay Area
Posted Friday, Jul 17, 2009 - 1:05 PM PST
