The Lesbian Star of Criminal Minds Goes Noir

Criminal Minds star Kirsten Vangsness has flown just under the radar, but in seven seasons on the hit drama, she’s earned a ferocious fan base — gay and straight.

Shemar Moore isn’t the kind of guy you’d expect to turn a girl gay.

In fact, the former fashion model, who spent much of the ’90s on the steamy daytime drama The Young and the Restless is considered one of the sexiest men in Hollywood. He’s more likely to be joked about as someone who could make men gay.

Yet in 2005, Moore unwittingly helped his Criminal Minds costar Kirsten Vangsness figure out that she is, as she says, “super queer.” Over brunch at her favorite café in the Larchmont Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, Vangsness laughs as she tells the story.