HE didn't shout it from the rooftops, but Jim Parsons has revealed he's gay.

The information about The Big Bang Theory’s actor’s sexual preference - and the fact he’s been in a 10-year relationship with a man - was mentioned toward the bottom of a New York Times story today.

Times writer Patrick Healy, discussing a Broadway play the 39-year-old actor was in last year wrote, "The Normal Heart resonated with him on a few levels: Mr Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship…"

Unlike other actors who identify as gay, such as Ellen DeGeneres or Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Parsons has been very quiet on the subject.

Although he starred as a gay man in the Broadway play The Normal Heart, in his Emmy winning role as Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory, he plays a nerdy scientist who has little social or romantic skills.

