That’s not much of a cite. Is there a better one somewhere?
He’s always struck me as a genuinely nice guy.
Wait, what?! Okay, I’m gonna need to see actual video proof of him lovin’ up a woman before I buy him as straight!
koxinga’s example of Rock Hudson aside, it feels wrong to me – like a whie guy going around in blackface and speaking like the crows in Dumbo so he can get on “Live at the Apollo” or something.
I thought of another one: George Sanders. I think this was just because my first experience of him was with All About Eve, where he played an Oscar Wilde-esque theater critic. Although his Addison DeWitt claimed to “want” one of the women in the cast, I always felt that was more for beardy purposes (or a power-grab) than sexual attraction.
David Alan Grier was another surprise. It has nothing to do with the character he played in the “Men on ____” skits of In Living Color but his persona on talk shows and interviews. I just assumed he was open, but, apparently not.
Jon Cryer (Alan on Two and a Half Men). They’ve played it up on the show. In one episode Allison Janney questions his heterosexuality and Alan says something like “No, I’m just witty and urbane.” (Which is funny, because the character is neither.) In other episodes, Alan wonders if he’s gay because he gets along so well with a gay friend, clerks in stores assume he’s gay, and he pretends to be gay because Charlie wants to impress a gay man who can help with his career.
On that note, there’s a funny story he told during an NPR interview. He was acting in a play and there was one scene where he had to french kiss another guy. Well, during one of the shows someone in the audience yells out, “No, Wolverine don’t do it!!” And he starts cracking up on stage and just keeps on kissing the guy, because he’s afraid he’ll burst out laughing if he stops.
Entertainment columns mention that Seth Green is engaged to an actress named Clare Grant. This surprised me as I assumed he was gay (not that this is proof he isn’t, but it is indicative of hetero at least).
From a few years ago, on Royal Canadian Air Farce’s English as a Second Language News:
“Two surprises in the news tonight: One, Prince Edward’s getting married! Two, to a woman!”
He makes my Steve Martinometer max-out.
Bump.
David Schwimmer from Friends is engagedto a 24 year old photographer. Not that this is proof he’s straight, but it is surprising; I’d always suspected he was gay. (The comments on the Huffington Post show that so did several others.)
Saying that gay OR straight people do or do not have ‘gaydar’ is like saying that black people are good dancers or jews know how to bargain-hunt. It may help with your stand-up routine, and in certain contexts you’ll be able to find lots of examples that seem to support your statement, but the reality that resulted in these folks having those abilities doesn’t really spring from a direct causal relationship between being black and able to dance, etc.
Now, if anyone wants to claim that autistic people have lousy gaydar, I’m listening.
My cousin dated Schwimmer for years. He’s definitely not gay.
No, it is not a racial stereotype. But that would be a discussion for another thread.
Four members of Frasier INCLUDING Bulldog were gay.
Niles - David Hyde Pierce - gay - David Hyde Pierce - Wikipedia
Martin - John Mahoney - gay - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_actor_John_Mahoney_gay
Bulldog - Dan Butler - gay - Dan Butler - Wikipedia
Gil - Edward Hibbert - gay - Edward Hibbert - Wikipedia
I keep forgetting that Tom Hollander is straight.
Nor was I suggesting that it was; that wouldn’t make much sense. I was merely pointing out that the kind of logic (or lack of logic) involved is similar. The most important part of my point is the part you didn’t quote. Suggesting that autistic people have lousy gaydar might have some basis in a factual understanding of what it means to be autistic-among other things, autistics are notoriously bad at ‘reading’ the emotions/intents of others. I know of no scientific data suggesting that either gays or straights are better at interpreting body language or whatever it is one uses to suss someone’s orientation via ‘gaydar’.
Did any of your cousins date Matthew Perry by any chance? And if so were they he-cousins or she-cousins?
While good restaurant chefs need a little bastard in them, and he was a good chef, he is a good and generous person.
I’m a bit surprised to find out that Kevin Kline is straight (or at least married to a woman).
(Not so much for A FISH CALLED WANDA as for PIRATES OF PENZANCE).
I thought you said he was straight?