# Doogy Howser is gay! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173 "2006-11-05T09:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/1 "2006-11-05T09:35:08Z")
Not that that’s a big deal but it surprised me a bit. Anyway he came out officially (and said he was “content” as a gay man). Way to go Doogy! ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/2 "2006-11-05T10:03:00Z")
Somehow I think Starship Troopers might have been responsible. Marc ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/3 "2006-11-05T10:13:58Z")
[thread=394844]MPSIMS beat you to it.[/thread] ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/4 "2006-11-05T11:54:48Z")
Rumour has it that he is not the only one. Apparently there are dozens of gays around. Maybe hundreds. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/5 "2006-11-05T13:45:58Z")
Not that there’s anything wrong with that… It’s brave of him to come out but I still wish that one’s sexual preference wasn’t such a big issue for anyone. Thinking on it now I wonder why it wasn’t more obvious and then I realized that I never considered Doogie Howser to ever be sexual at all, with anyone or anything. He’s still just a kid to me. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/6 "2006-11-05T15:51:54Z")
Some how this will make How I meet your Mother all the funnier. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/7 "2006-11-05T16:40:46Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] It’s brave of him to come out but I still wish that one’s sexual preference wasn’t such a big issue for anyone. [/QUOTE] I actually thought the understated way he came out was really classy and really downplayed the ‘big issue’ aspect of it. There were reports that he’d denied that he was gay, and the statement was like ‘Huh, what, no. I’d never deny that, of course I’m gay, duh.’ (Though much more artfully written than that.) It was a nice little comment that the problem is not with the being gay, but with the denying. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/8 "2006-11-05T16:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=MrJackboots] [thread=394844]MPSIMS beat you to it.[/thread] [/QUOTE] :mad: No fair! I thought about MPSIMS but I figured he was an actor so… And Wile, just was I was thinking, he never seemed to have any sexuality. So his coming out as having a very definate sexuality seemed a bit strange. But I say again, good for him, for having the balls to say who he really is. ( :eek: Doogy Howser has balls???) Now I’ll be off to read the other thread by the miserable bastard\*who started it before me. \*And I mean that in the nicest possible way! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/9 "2006-11-05T17:25:07Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Now I’ll be off to read the other thread by the miserable bastard\*who started it before me. \*And I mean that in the nicest possible way! [/QUOTE] Accepted in the spirit that it was offered. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/10 "2006-11-05T20:27:51Z")
NPH wouldn’t do that type of thing. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/11 "2006-11-05T21:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Thinking on it now I wonder why it wasn’t more obvious and then I realized that I never considered Doogie Howser to ever be sexual at all, with anyone or anything. He’s still just a kid to me. [/QUOTE] You must have missed the one third-season episode where he did the nasty with Wanda, then. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/12 "2006-11-05T23:42:40Z")
Not to be rude or anything, but… so what? I liked Doogie. I never saw anything else he’s been in. But to me, this is about as revelatory as “Paris Hilton drinks Perrier at dinnertime.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/13 "2006-11-06T00:24:20Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] Rumour has it that he is not the only one. Apparently there are dozens of gays around. Maybe hundreds. [/QUOTE] Not true. UL. There was one documented case of a real homosexual, but he died while under observation at Bellevue in 1958. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/14 "2006-11-06T00:43:57Z")
I predict a deluge of Doogie/Vinnie slashfic. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/15 "2006-11-06T01:17:59Z")
Good Lord! Somebody though he was straight? I’d heard about his boyfriend back when he was in _Cabaret_ – and I’m _not_ a celebrity watcher; it was discussion at work over lunch. Wherein no one there was really surprised. Nor terribly interested. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogy-howser-is-gay/379173/16 "2006-11-06T02:44:57Z")
Since there’s another thread on this topic in MPSIMS, I’m going to suggest you go there: [Doogie Howser's gay? - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=394844) for discussion. I’m closing this one. For the record, it doesn’t matter much where usch a thread goes, but as long as the MPSIMS thread was opened first, we’ll go with that one.