# Anyone know what is supposedly up with John Travolta? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529 "2012-05-10T17:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/81 "2012-05-16T23:31:49Z")
In the news today, I read that the first accuser has now hired Gloria Allred to represent him. Does this mean that he still intends to sue John Travolta or will Ms. Allred simply hold press conferences to keep this issue alive and kicking? Because I don’t remember Ms. Allred engaged in any reall lawyering in recent history. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/82 "2012-05-17T13:32:57Z")
I don’t care in any ethical, moral way whether he’s gay or not. Just in a pop-culture, Hollywoodland secrets kind of way. And ever since I saw [these pics of him lip-locking a dude on a private airstrip](http://www.popsugar.com/Travoltas-Lip-Lock-26542) I’ve figured he’s bi. I also find it funny how we’ve complete flipped around from the press hounding a celebrity for suspected gayness to hounding them for suspected closetedness! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/83 "2012-05-17T17:11:22Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Good, because your earlier posts indicated that you were not aware of that. OK, now that we’ve finally settled that I’m not as dumb as you think I am, why are you so insistent he’s gay instead of bi? ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/84 "2012-05-17T17:54:42Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I don’t care in any ethical, moral way whether he’s gay or not. Just in a pop-culture, Hollywoodland secrets kind of way. And ever since I saw [these pics of him lip-locking a dude on a private airstrip](http://www.popsugar.com/Travoltas-Lip-Lock-26542) I’ve figured he’s bi. I also find it funny how we’ve complete flipped around from the press hounding a celebrity for suspected gayness to hounding them for suspected closetedness! I’ve seen pictures of Russian communist party leaders giving each other more lip that that and I don’t think anyone would call them gay or bi. Not to their faces anyway. I think some people have a hard time believing a large, straight, white guy can dance as well as Travolta. Something just isn’t right there. He can’t deny being white or large or a guy so what’s left? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/85 "2012-05-18T03:19:19Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > I’ve seen pictures of Russian communist party leaders giving each other more lip that that and I don’t think anyone would call them gay or bi. Not to their faces anyway. > > I think some people have a hard time believing a large, straight, white guy can dance as well as Travolta. Something just isn’t right there. He can’t deny being white or large or a guy so what’s left? Maybe, but that’s a decidedly European thing. America still has good ole’ fashioned Victorian homophobia ingrained in it, and maybe that says more about me, but I just can’t see any straight American male A-list celebrity casually kissing another guy like that. Again, consenting-adults-in-private who cares, but it just doesn’t make logical sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/86 "2012-05-18T04:08:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’ve never seen it. that is so John Travolta. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/87 "2012-05-18T04:58:56Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > OK, now that we’ve finally settled that I’m not as dumb as you think I am, why are you so insistent he’s gay instead of bi? I never said anything about his sexuality one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/88 "2012-07-07T07:30:00Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > A masseur claims that John Travolta sexually harassed him… He’s not gay! Just look —\> [LINK](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2164761/John-Travolta-puts-PDA-wife-Kelly-Preston-kiss-Savages-premiere.html). Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/89 "2012-07-07T10:19:52Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Yes, but unless you have evidence every single one of the kids was a turkey baster baby I’m going to take the Occam’s Razor approach of the man and woman involved having penis+vagina sexual intercourse to conceive. I just don’t understand why people are so resistant to the notion of bisexualism being a possibility here. Being gay doesn’t mean that you can’t perform with a woman, just that it requires some effort to get hard. For a male in his 20s or 30s, I suspect that a blowjob from a very talented goat would get you hard - not interested; hard - regardless of the fact that it’s a goat and you (presumably) have no sexual interest in goats. It’s just the way we’re built. Now if someone is bisexual, that means that they’re sexually interested in and fully satisfied by relations with people of either sex. It doesn’t mean that they feel a need to have sex with both men AND women in order to feel satiated. If you’re bisexual and happily married to a woman, there’s no need to go around soliciting gay sex. You’re either gay or you’re not happily married. If he was bisexual and unhappily married, we would expect to hear people of both sexes complaining that he tried to molest them, not just men. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/90 "2012-07-07T21:36:53Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > He’s not gay! Just look —\> [LINK](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2164761/John-Travolta-puts-PDA-wife-Kelly-Preston-kiss-Savages-premiere.html). > Creepy. That looks very much like a bunch of the Tom Cruise- Katie Holmes pictures that I’ve been seeing since their divorce announcement. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/91 "2012-07-07T23:17:03Z")
It’s amazing that someone that ugly still has a career in Hollywood. I can see that some may have thought him handsome when he was younger, but he looks like Spuds McKenzie today. I don’t care if he’s gay but it makes me wonder about Beck. Seems that the most often mentioned closeted men are also Scientologists. I doubt that many care who Kirstie Allie is doing it with. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/92 "2012-07-18T00:10:28Z")
In order to dispell the rumours of his homosexuality, Travolta goes to t[he Gay Mecca of Mykannos](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2174891/John-Travolta-takes-Kelly-Preston-romantic-holiday-Mykonos-tries-gay-sex-scandal-him.html) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/93 "2012-07-18T02:04:49Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > He’s not gay! Just look —\> [LINK](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2164761/John-Travolta-puts-PDA-wife-Kelly-Preston-kiss-Savages-premiere.html). > Creepy. Where the hell did he get that horrible hair cut? It makes him look like something from the TV series V. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/94 "2012-07-18T03:39:46Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Being gay doesn’t mean that you can’t perform with a woman, just that it requires some effort to get hard. For a male in his 20s or 30s, I suspect that a blowjob from a very talented goat would get you hard - not interested; hard - regardless of the fact that it’s a goat and you (presumably) have no sexual interest in goats. It’s just the way we’re built. Relevant [Buffy the Vampire Slayer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533448/quotes) quote: [QUOTE=Xander] I’m 17. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/95 "2012-07-18T05:46:09Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Carrie Fisher essentially outed him in very casual fashion in an Advocate interview. It’s mostly been swept under the rug. [http://m.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/12/everyone-knows-john-travolta-gay-says-carrie-fisher](http://m.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/12/everyone-knows-john-travolta-gay-says-carrie-fisher) > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Assuming Travolta is gay/bisexual, there are probably dozens of people who know it and could confirm it. But the irony is that only ones who actually go public are the ones who are least credible - those who are looking for publicity or money - so they’re the easiest ones to denounce. The interviewer asked: “I know you and Travolta go way back, so let’s get really blunt here: Does his (Travolta’s) legal team have any business demanding Gawker remove a recent post suggesting that he’s given (bleep) jobs?” Carrie Fisher answered: “Wow! I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don’t care. Look, I’m sorry that he’s uncomfortable with it, and that’s all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be.” I’d say Carrie Fisher wasn’t looking for a quick buck, and she’d be considered pretty credible, no? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529/96 "2012-07-19T14:37:27Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > He also played the villain - a “mad bomber” - in _Swordfish_, which also starred Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry’s tits. _ahem_ listed in reverse order of importance, I’m sure. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-is-supposedly-up-with-john-travolta/621529.md?page=4)