# How many of the Kids in the Hall are gay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976 "2003-12-25T05:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/1 "2003-12-25T05:42:40Z")
I know that Scott Thompson is openly gay. I don’t know anything about the others from the troupe, though. Was Scott the only gay member? I’d heard from someone that they were under the impression that all five members (Scott, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Kevin McDonald, and Bruce McCullough) were gay, though I can’t find a cite to support anything, one way or the other. Does anyone know for sure? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/2 "2003-12-25T06:26:11Z")
Scott’s the only one that’s (openly) gay. The rest are very gay friendly, though, and IIRC, Bruce appeared shirtless on the cover of a gay magazine (don’t remember which). ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/3 "2003-12-25T06:43:19Z")
I don’t have a cite or anything, but I was under the impression that all of them were. Only Scott was ‘flaming’ tho. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/4 "2003-12-25T06:52:32Z")
Dave Foley has been married for some time, whatever that means to people. It’s my impression that Mark McKinney is bi. And Bruce McCullough? Well, he’s named Bruce, ain’t he? Kevin MacDonald just seems to obvious to be anything but straight. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/5 "2003-12-25T06:55:20Z")
From IMDB Mark McKinney has a wife Kevin McDonald had a wife Dave Foley has a wife and a child, and 2 children with an x wife. It says nothing about Bruce McCulloch. Scott Thompson is definately gay. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/6 "2003-12-25T07:02:21Z")
I appreciate that, **drm** , but that’s not exactly 100% meaningful, especially in Show Biz. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/7 "2003-12-25T07:18:33Z")
I dunno…seems very unlikely to me that any of them are closeted. Not conclusive evidence, but persuasive nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/8 "2003-12-25T07:20:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Superdude_ > **I appreciate that, drm, but that’s not exactly 100% meaningful, especially in Show Biz.** True enough. This is the best I can do… > [@](#): > > from an [article](http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesArtistsT/thompson_scott.html) entitled _Scott Thompson Goes Bi_ > > Forever “the gay one” from Kids In The Hall, Thompson… This appears in the second article down. It’s entirely possible that a few of them are very different in their private lives I suppose, but it seems like the author of the article assumes Scott Thompson is the only gay one. Whatever the groups sexuality, they’re wicked funny. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/9 "2003-12-25T07:58:34Z")
They seemed to enjoy dressing up as women an awful lot. That was the main reason I initially thought they were all gay (I thought that was their schtick - the gay troupe of skit comedians). But when I came to realise that Dave Foley pretty much definitely wasn’t gay, I saw my assumption was likely inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/10 "2003-12-25T08:09:10Z")
For God’s sake they’re not gay, just Canadian! Easy mistake though. I kid, I kid. I kid because I love. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/11 "2003-12-25T08:22:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > **They seemed to enjoy dressing up as women an awful lot. That was the main reason I initially thought they were all gay (I thought that was their schtick - the gay troupe of skit comedians).** By that logic, we should be counting how many members of Monty Python are gay. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/12 "2003-12-25T09:04:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*By that logic, we should be counting how many members of Monty Python are gay. \*\* Once again, of course, the answer is one. (Graham Chapman, who dressed up as a lady a lot less than the others, actually.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/13 "2003-12-25T10:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*By that logic, we should be counting how many members of Monty Python are gay. \*\* Well, it’s more unusual for American (Canadian) comics to dress up as women, than it is in the UK where it is pretty much a requirement. It was tenuous logic I know, but it was never anything more than a casual assumption. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/14 "2003-12-25T13:13:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*By that logic, we should be counting how many members of Monty Python are gay. \*\* Don’t forget Milton Berle and Tom Hanks. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/15 "2003-12-25T13:39:03Z")
What is this obsession with the sexuality of actors? And what is with this juvenile and derivative “well, they do \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in the course of their work, so they just must be gay!” thing? Actors **act** , which by definition means playing roles, sometimes those roles require costumes and hey, guess what, in comedy, (and drama) there’s a long tradition of drag/crossdressing. The fact that an actor dons the garb of the opposite gender in order to play a part is about as indicative of their personal sexual orientation as the way that they sip a cup of coffee. This “Is X gay?” or “You know, X is gay, I heard it from a guy who knows a friend who said he saw him at a party one time…” schtick is getting really, really old. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/16 "2003-12-25T15:46:38Z")
The reason the Kids and the Pythons dressed up as women is because they wrote sketches with female characters in them. That’s all. In both cases, when they needed actually attractive women who didn’t need to be funny, they used real women. And I think, in the case of the Kids in the Hall, the fact that three of them are or have been married is a pretty good indication that they aren’t gay. I know it isn’t always conclusive, but they aren’t typical phony showbiz guys. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/17 "2003-12-25T16:08:34Z")
If Bruce really is gay, then I’ve got a lot of unfulfilled fantasies that need to be shaken out and brought back into circulation. And if anyone can find an online photo of that shirtless magazine cover, I’d really, really, really appreciate it… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/18 "2003-12-25T17:01:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaElle \* > \*\*What is this obsession with the sexuality of actors? And what is with this juvenile and derivative “well, they do \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in the course of their work, so they just must be gay!” thing? Actors **act** , which by definition means playing roles, sometimes those roles require costumes and hey, guess what, in comedy, (and drama) there’s a long tradition of drag/crossdressing. > > The fact that an actor dons the garb of the opposite gender in order to play a part is about as indicative of their personal sexual orientation as the way that they sip a cup of coffee. > > This “Is X gay?” or “You know, X is gay, I heard it from a guy who knows a friend who said he saw him at a party one time…” schtick is getting really, really old. \*\* Are you closeted? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/19 "2003-12-25T18:51:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > If Bruce really is gay, then I’ve got a lot of unfulfilled fantasies that need to be shaken out and brought back into circulation. Shaken out, rubbed out, vigorously discussed with attention to hedonism… On a slightly more serious note, am I the only one more than slightly annoyed by the expression “gone [sexuality]”? I can’t put my finger on it, it just seems so … dismissive. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976/20 "2003-12-25T19:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > **They seemed to enjoy dressing up as women an awful lot. That was the main reason I initially thought they were all gay (I thought that was their schtick - the gay troupe of skit comedians).** By that logic, just about every major actor to appear on TV or in the movies or on stage must be gay. Transvestitism has a long, honorable history in theater and its various incarnations. My favorite has always been John Denver doing drag on the Muppet Show (as Grandma whilst singing “On Grandma’s Feather Bed”). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-are-gay/220976.md?page=2)