There’s a kind of “coming out” that’s still scary and potentially career-threatening in the gay-friendly town of Hollywood: telling the world you’re a conservative.

So said radio host Larry O’Connor and producer Kevin McKeever, two Tinsel Town veterans who have exposed themselves as “stage right,” during a seminar on “Getting Started in Hollywood” at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.

Young conservative wannabe-actresses, set designers, et. al., came armed with questions about how to break into the L.A. system. Half the gurus’ answers were age-old apolitical nuggets — send thank-you notes, return calls the day you get them, empty the trash with a big smile on your face. But interspersed with that advice came conspiratorial instructions on how to bolster and take refuge in the “secret society” that is, according to O’Connor, the 1500-strong conservative network of Hollywood.