It does if you’re a man.
Lovely combination of post and user name…
I was a little surprised to discover Graham Chapman was gay…oddly, Eric does peg me a bit as gay, even though I know (or at least am 99% sure) he’s not.
Reid had been married, and his daughter played bit parts on two episodes of The Brady Bunch.
A slight nitpick, in case anybody might want to look him up, but his name is spelled “Reed”.
Just buzzing through the posts I see “Reid” and think “Tara! Holy shit I need to see that sex tape!!!”
You’re kidding me right?:eek: Darlene was SCREAMING gay. I do think that if the show’d been on in the 00’s, they would have made the charector be gay.
Total stereotypical tomboy lesbian type if you ask me. So not surprised the actress came out.
And it’s funny… I know I’m bi b/c I’d do either Leslie Winkle or Leonard. 
Oh, middleman so Jim IS offically out? My sister corresponds with his boyfriend, and is going to meet Jim at the wedding of my friend! 
I wouldn’t say so. I’m just saying that in college, before he was famous, it was not a secret. Fame has a way of putting people back in the closet, so I have no idea. I’ve never seen him subject of any rumors intended to make him look straight, so I think he might fall into the David Hyde Pierce category while he was filming Frasier: it went unsaid, but no one was stunned.
All of this “armchair analysis” is pure speculation on my part. I didn’t really know him very well, and didn’t realize he was “that guy from that play you saw” until a friend reminded me who he was.*
[sub]*The first time in the history of the internet that someone downplayed their connections to a celebrity!?[/sub]
Gay and Communist. The Wiki page doesn’t mention the homosexuality though.
(Also - did you know Grampa Walton’s first name was “Zebulon”? How cool is that?)
I was surprised to learn that Stephen Fry is gay. I don’t make a point of finding his work, but I have seen him in a few things and he struck me as someone just old enough to have the odd upper crust English mannerisms that spawned the phrase, “Is he gay or is he British?”
Ok really, Have we gotten any conformation on John Mahoney?
Hm, didn’t anybody else notice Jim Bullock was in gaydar ? :dubious: 
And many of the studio contract talent did not get star wages because they were the B list and lower … and besides, same sex roommates were ok, whereas nonmarried opposite sex roomies were living in sin … and NOT good for studio reputations.
Whoa, just read this. John Glover? Victor Garber? Gawrsh, my gaydar sucks.
It doesn’t surprise me that Victor Garber’s gay but I didn’t realize he was openly so. I’ve always thought he was very sexy for a guy who isn’t a conventional stud muffin.
David Garrison- best known for playing Steve on Married- With Children (alongside openly gay Amanda “Marcy” Bearse) is either gay or exceptionally gay friendly. He’s never been married that I can find, he makes his living in musical theater, and I’ve seen him on a float in a gay pride parade (though I’ve also seen straight celebs who have gay friends and family on them [Cyndi Lauper being the biggest staple in this category]*).
One who surprises me for not being out is Rip Taylor. He makes Liberace look like Steve Buscemi and he marshals Gay Pride parades but then falls back into the “I don’t discuss my private life” line of refusing to confirm or deny.
Gore Vidal also refuses to identify as gay, saying that “a person is not homosexual, an act is homosexual”. I understand his logic, and I know he’s had sex with women in the distant past, but I don’t agree. (You could just as easily say that a person is neither black or white; their skin [which is very rarely actually black or actually white] and hair texture just happen to differ a tiny amount- and if we lived in a world where this made no difference you’d have a point but there’s a bit of distinction made isn’t there?) c’mon old man- give Buckley this much, you’re queer. (There were many rumors about Buckley’s sexuality as well; of course Vidal started some of them.)
*Best moment was when Elizabeth Montgomery co-marshaled a Gay Pride Parade with Dick Sargent. (Hard to believe that there was a time so very recent when Dick Sargent, even then a long-past-his-sell-by-date actor who most people recognized but never thought of as having a private life one way or the other, was big news when he came out- about the same time as Sheila Kuehl who was even further past her celebrity days from playing Zelda on Dobie Gillis and was in fact a lawyer.)
Anyway, Montgomery was a very private person. You hardly ever saw her when she wasn’t acting- she rarely did talk shows or interviews of any kind even when she had a new project- so it was a surprise to see her as herself in a controversial public event. When a reporter asked her why she did it she responded, sweet and smiling, “I’m here for the same reason as everybody else… I love Dick.”
Seeing George Nader on the Wiki list made me think of Jeff Chandler (beefy handsome types), so I looked him up. Married with children but per Wiki, Esther Williams broke off an affair with Chandler because (she says) he was a cross-dresser.
I’m also surprised about Raymond Burr and Daniel J. Travanti.
Yeah. I was fairly into Trek growing up and had two die-hard good friends and then later lived with two other die-hards… It wasn’t an open secret to anyone. It was a lot of guessing but not the “Ohhh we all knew!” BS that goes on now.
I didn’t know Raymond Burr until this thread.
And Neil Patrick Harris was a surrpise. People who go the “well, wasn’t it obvious” route usually only cite “He did theater!” as their evidence.
One that surprised me was Marjorie Main (‘Ma Kettle’).
Looking back, it seems rather obvious. But when I first saw those movies, I had no idea what coming out or ‘gay’ was at all.
Robert Raushenberg (once married) and Jasper Johns apparently were once lovers.
So two of the giants of American 20th Century art were even more closely connected than the art history books imply.
And the two giants of avant garde dance and music , Merce Cunningham and John Cage not only collaborated on many works but were also in a long term relationship together.
Victor Garber’s gay? I had no idea.
I never thought it was obvious (especially not in Starship Troopers), but after you hear it, you can’t imagine him being straight.
That should of course be Rauschenberg not Raushenberg(sic)
I hate it when the post edit window times out so soon.
Secrest in, or Secrest OUT?