# I don't think Tom Cruise is gay **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880 "2005-12-31T19:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/61 "2006-01-02T23:33:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > But if he IS gay, I say he’s banging David Miscaveige. (or however you spell it) Who? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/62 "2006-01-02T23:35:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Who? [This guy](http://davidmiscavige.rtc.org/index.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/63 "2006-01-02T23:41:46Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > “Tom, you’re so much more experienced than I am, if you say we are supposed to use a turkey baster, then I believe you.” Pwah hah hah! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/64 "2006-01-03T00:05:22Z")
BTW, if he’s gay I want him for one night. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/65 "2006-01-03T01:03:31Z")
He probably swings both ways. There was his rumored trist with Rob Thomas and how the Katie Holmes thing was just a diversion. The wildest one I’ve heard is Cruise having a long time relation with an asian airplane pilot out of chicago or soemthing. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/66 "2006-01-03T01:36:35Z")
C’mon, people! This is all just bullshit rumor and gossip, you people are common slanderers. The real reason you guys are slinging shit is because he dared oppose the authority of your God, ALMIGHTY SCIENCE! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/67 "2006-01-03T01:41:10Z")
> [@Burrido](#): > > There was his rumored trist with Rob Thomas… Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas? Things that make you go “hmmmmmmm.” Remember the gorgeous young woman dancing in the upstairs window in the “Smooth” video? That’s his wife. Doesn’t exactly look gay to me… And it’s “tryst.” ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/68 "2006-01-03T03:41:55Z")
Whatever. He’s a damn fine actor…of late. He’s done some of his finest work in the last few years. I used to despise him for his work, now I respect him (especially for speaking his mind about Psychopharmaceuticals.) ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/69 "2006-01-03T03:56:02Z")
Are you serious? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/70 "2006-01-03T04:13:50Z")
Yes. His performances in The Last Samurai, Collateral, and War of the Words were all Oscar worthy. ---
**Author:** ![Poonther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Poonther](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poonther)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/71 "2006-01-03T04:24:16Z")
It’s a whoosh…right? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/72 "2006-01-03T04:34:39Z")
I like Tom Cruise okay, enjoy his work for the most part, and am not that interested in his alledged shortcomings but you seem a little … passionate in your last couple posts, **devilsknew**. Please remember to take your shoes off if you feel a sudden urge to hop on the furniture. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/73 "2006-01-03T04:41:36Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Katie was a self-proclaimed virgin Which I’ve never understood. She was engaged to and lived with Chris Klein for years. (Of course, maybe he’s gay too…) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/74 "2006-01-03T08:00:29Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > (especially for speaking his mind about Psychopharmaceuticals.) For repeating the Church of Scientology’s lies about useful medicines that have saved the lives of many thousands of people? Tom Cruise, despite his couch-hopping ways, does not know the history of psychiatry. He knows the BS line he’s been fed by the people in the Church of Scientology, who were indoctrinated to hate psychology by a man who was a paranoid delusional scam artist. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/75 "2006-01-03T15:39:13Z")
Pointless tidbit #1: I used to work with a woman who previously worked for an attorney in the Hollywood community (this was during the time that Tom & Nicole were married). She said it was well-known around Hollywood that they were **both** gay and that the marriage was just for appearances. Pointless tidbit #2: I really enjoy Bravo’s _Inside the Actor’s Studio_, but the Tom Cruise episode is the only one that I couldn’t watch all the way through. The guy comes across as completely disingenuous, like he has no real personality of his own and his public image is just another character he plays. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/76 "2006-01-03T16:03:27Z")
> [@McNew](#): > > Pointless tidbit #2: I really enjoy Bravo’s _Inside the Actor’s Studio_, but the Tom Cruise episode is the only one that I couldn’t watch all the way through. The guy comes across as completely disingenuous, like he has no real personality of his own and his public image is just another character he plays. Well, that’s just 'cause he’s so close to clear. With the Thetans gone, he has no personality left. Soon he’ll just be the perfect actor, like a pathological liar. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/77 "2006-01-03T16:26:17Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas? Things that make you go “hmmmmmmm.” Remember the gorgeous young woman dancing in the upstairs window in the “Smooth” video? That’s his wife. > > Doesn’t exactly look gay to me… > > And it’s “tryst.” Yes that rob thomas. Apparently he was rumored to be bisexual as well for quite some time now. The story according to Hollywood Reporter Mike Evans is that his wife walked in on tom and rob. The agents paid her several million to keep quiet. Then they went out and arranged Tom’s new relationship. Katie was actually 3rd down the list. A contract was signed and Tom went on Oprah [http://mirror.randomfoo.net/memes/2005/06/Tom\_Cruise\_Kills\_Oprah.mov](http://mirror.randomfoo.net/memes/2005/06/Tom_Cruise_Kills_Oprah.mov) Personally I don’t care if he is or not as well. The World of warcraft servers are down for maintence and I’m pretty bored atm. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/78 "2006-01-03T16:44:19Z")
I don’t care one way or the other, but it does fascinate me when obscenely rich and successful people lie about their sexuality. I, for one, think his career would have survived it had he been up front about it when questioned. Not that it’s anybody’s business…just my opinion. Re: the Mimi Rogers story. I never heard her say that he was saving himself or anything like that. I had heard that she said he was a lousy lay. But I chalked that up to divorce-related mud-slinging. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/79 "2006-01-03T17:05:41Z")
Me and a co-worker had a discussion about this. I said I didn’t think Cruise was a practicing homosexual, but I’m 100% sure he had to suck some Hollywood higherup’s cock to get work. I also thought that EVERY actor in Hollywood pooped somebody’s schoon at one time or another. My co-worker replied that he bet Charleton Heston never did that. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880/80 "2006-01-03T18:21:26Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > BTW, if he’s gay I want him for one night. And if he’s an actor, I want him to retire! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-tom-cruise-is-gay/337880.md?page=5)