Isn’t 90% a bit…generous? I suppose his role in the Bill and Ted movies wasn’t a demonstration of a complete inability to act, but there’s certainly a disability there.
Someone please tell me there are rumors about Toni Collette. I know she’s married (to a man) now, but it would make my day.
You had to read a book for that? A few years back Bowie himself was saying he was quite bisexual! Well, maybe more than a few years back…it’s been some time now since he publicly swore off men. But he spent a goodly portion of his career openly sleeping with…well…practically everyone. He and Mick may or may not have done the deed (Angie Bowie probably played up the anecdote to sell her book), and despite rumors to the contrary Iggy Pop says he never slept with Bowie either, but there were men in Bowie’s life. He always seems to have preferred women, but not exclusively.
So far no one has mentioned:
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George Michael
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Pete Townsend (of the Who)
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Greg Louganis (Olympic diver)
I remember reading a quote from Pete Townsend where he said something to the effect of: “The first time I ever met Mick Jagger, it was the first time I knew I wanted to f&*k a man”. Guess Mick Jagger has quite an effect on people!!!
Wasn’t he living with E! News host Steve Kimetko at one time?
Well, it is a thread about people you’re surprised are gay. Is anyone really surprised to find out George Michael bats left handed? Then again, a few people in here were surprised about Alan Cummings, so I guess anything’s possible.
I just don’t get this. As a hetero female I can’t even understand why women would want to have sex with the man. Really, if he wasn’t a rich and famous rock star would anyone want to sleep with him?
And I think you’d have to be a necrophiliac to find Keith Richards attractive.
I think it said she was bi.
YEah, Cary Grant very well could have been bisexual. But GAY? No, I think he liked women too.
LifeOnWry-you’d have to fight a bunch of us other female Dopers.
Yeah, the historical gays sometimes puzzle me-it’s often on very flimsy evidence. Anne Frank, for example.
Oh, now THERE’S one who surprised me. Grampa Walton? It’s just kind of an odd image. I didn’t know Ellen Corby was gay.
Derek Jacobi?!? Oh hell on toast…
Earlier someone mentioned that hysterical headline about Doris Day teaching Rock Hudson how to kiss. Well, she was an expert at kissing women, that’s for sure. Since she’s a lesbian.
What?
Who?
How? When?
Really?
Cumming himself, on the topic of labeling his sexuality, from The Advocate:
(Courtesy AlanCumming.Com)
Kathy Najimy is undoubtedly gay friendly (she appeared in the movie Jeffrey and Melissa Etheridge and kd lang sang “Ave Maria” as a duet at Najimy’s wedding) but I don’t believe that I’ve ever seen anything from her mouth (on say, her “Lifetime Intimate Portrait” or A&E “Biography” for which she’s been interviewed extensivey) to say that she is bisexual, and I don’t see why she’d deny it given her support for GLBT people/issues. I honestly and truly wonder if the rumors aren’t based upon her gay-friendliness and her Lebanese heritage.
To the best of my knowledge, Steve Kmetko from E! is still with Greg Louganis, but I don’t think that they live together. I don’t know that they ever did.
I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised by Anderson Cooper and Dave Koz. Men I find witty, talented and attractive are now running a good 90% chance of being gay. Maybe it’s time for Mr. TeaElle to do a personal inventory.
I can take ya. I may be little, but I’m dense.
No one here’s disputing that, I don’t think. My anecdote was regarding a friend who works in theater, has several gay friends, and certainly knows that Gandalf (or Magneto, for that matter) isn’t gay. If Ian McKellan were playing a murderer, she would say “Gandalf’s a killer.” I, and she - by proxy - resent any insinuation otherwise.
Oh, and she’s crushed about Anderson Cooper. And I can’t find anything to support the assertion. Can someone provide me with a link?
Considering the standard of evidence that appears to be necessary judging from this thread, what exactly would constitute proof that someone isn’t gay? We seem to have people here who apparently wouldn’t be willing to believe a celebrity is straight even if he or she has been monogamously married to a member of the opposite sex for decades and is the natural parent of seven children.
Yeah, he was pretty much forced out of the closet in the mid '90s, but he’s been pretty quiet about it.
Speaking of Hüsker Dü, Grant Hart may or may not be gay as well. I say “may or may not” because I remember reading about him being gay in Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, a book that didn’t seem very gossipy and that I highly recommend. That was the first and the last time I’ve read about his alleged homosexuality, though. (I find it kind of ironic that Greg Norton, with his stereotypically gay leatherman moustache, ended up being the straight man of the band.)
Can anybody shed some light on cross-dresser Eddie Izzard? From his Internet Movie Database bio…
So, is he gay, or bi, or straight but willing? 
(Nonetheless, he’s an interesting character.)
I’m just waiting for a professional team-sport athlete to come out of the closet. It would make for some very interesting news, I have to say. Have any retired pro team athletes ever come out? I seem to recall hearing something about a former pro baseball player.
The only hockey player I’ve ever heard mentioned as possibly being gay is former Edmonton Oiler Glenn Anderson. Has anybody else heard that one before? He’s never been married, but does have a teenage son from a “casual relationship” he had in the late 80s. The mother took him to court for unpaid child support a couple of years back.
I was surprised to hear that Jesus Christ was gay.
Anyhoo…
Holy shit!! EVERYONE IS GAY!! 
About the Rollins thing:
Is that clip from the same show (1995, I think?) where he talkes about being “domesticated”? I believe it is. He talks about getting older and how he used to be a punk icon, out rockin’ America every night, and now he’s stuck with his girlfriend looking at blinds for their new place. Something like, “I used to be out on the road, speadin’ the word, and now my damn girlfriend has me looking at fuckin’ window blinds?!?!” He mentioned having a girlfriend several other times during the show too.
Anyway, I remember at that show he also went into that “gay” rant. It was funny to hear him talk about how he’s not homosexual (“not that there’s anything wrong with that!”). I think he worked “not that there’s anything wrong with that!” into the monologue about 100 times!
Honestly, I think if ANYONE were gay and didn’t care if it was a secret, it’s be ol’ Hank. I met him after the show. Aside from being surprisingly short, he seems pretty heterosexual to me.
David Kopay, who played football for San Francisco, Detroit, Washington, New Orleans and Green Bay, “came out” in his 1977 autobiography, “The David Kopay Story: An Extraordinary Self-Revelation.”
There have been rumors abound that Mike Piazza, who plays catcher (no jokes, please) and first base for the New York Mets, is gay. He’s always denied these allegations.
Well, a good reason not to mention Townshend is that he’s straight. He’s been gay-friendly since the mid-1960s at least and even shared an apartment with gay Who manager Kit Lambert, and for years refused to actually come right out and deny rumors about being bisexual. (These rumors were fueled by Townshend’s often cryptic remarks about his sexual identity.) He implied that reports of his gay sex life were exaggerated, but said on several occasions that he didn’t want to offend his many gay/bi friends and fans by treating such rumors as something to get upset over and formally denounce.
However, Rolling Stone eventually dragged it out of him in this rather unpleasant 2002 interview. The straight dope is that on two or three occasions decades ago Townshend did some partially drug-induced, partially horniness-induced “experimenting” with other men (it’s unclear whether this actually included sex), but has never considered himself to be homo/bisexual and has never been romantically involved with another man.
I remember Cobain claiming to be “bisexual at heart”. At the time I was an angry teenager and this really ticked me off – I saw it as a pathetic and rather offensive attempt to seem cool and edgy by feigning an “alternative” sexuality. Looking back I’m more inclined to be charitable and presume that he was just trying to show support for gay/bi friends and fans. To the best of my limited knowledge Cobain never had any romantic or sexual experience with other men, but I could be wrong about that.
On the subject of Ian McKellan and the character of Gandalf…
Ten years ago, when I first read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it never crossed my mind that any of the characters seemed gay, except in one instance. (I saw no possible gay relationship between Merry and Pippin, or between Gimli and Legolas. Of course, I wasn’t looking for one back then.)
Back then, I had never even heard of Ian McKellan, and didn’t even know about the animated film adaptions. I was still years away from getting the internet, and never considered reading the books again until news of the movies began. (Oh, no! I got the internet! I should have used protection. )
But, I do remember entertaining the idea that Gandalf had more than a friendly interest in Samwise the Hobbit. And that the feeling wouldn’t be mutual but, what with Gandalf being such a powerful authority figure, Sam wouldn’t have put up much of a fuss when the wizard tried to get him alone, or under his cloak.
For some reason, I think Gandalf seemed like a “dirty old man” to me when I first read the books, more so than him actually being gay. Despite my idea that his attentions were directed towards Sam. (Of course, there weren’t any young female characters to fill the role.) Nowadays, I call Ian McKellan, in relation to LOTR, “Gandalf the Gay”.
Anyhoo…