# Jim Parsons is out (and in the New York Times, no less) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000 "2012-05-24T20:21:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/41 "2012-05-27T03:50:55Z")
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait… the Earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool, neanderthals developed tools, we built a wall, we built the pyramids. Math, science, history, unravelling the mysteries, of whether Jim Parsons is really gay. Gay! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/42 "2012-05-27T05:03:10Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Johnny Galecki has been the subject of gay rumors, perhaps because he’s unmarried and has played so many gay characters on stage and screen, but in fact what he kept closeted was that he was involved with Kaley Cuoco until recently. The Alicia Keys factor. People used to speculate that Keys was a lesbian because she’d refuse to talk about who she was dating. So everyone assumed the secret she was hiding was a girlfriend. The reality was that Keys was seeing a married man. Once he split from his wife and got divorced, they went public. ---
**Author:** ![ExVoxMachina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@ExVoxMachina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExVoxMachina)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/43 "2012-05-27T06:27:23Z")
You can’t come out if you were never in. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/44 "2012-05-27T14:18:55Z")
Wikipedia told me he was gay months ago. Old news! ---
**Author:** ![Rampant\_Coypu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/439d5e/32.png) [@Rampant\_Coypu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rampant_Coypu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/45 "2012-05-28T07:28:44Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Me too. When I saw that he was gay it barely registered. When I saw that he was 39 I thought, I’ll never look at his character the same again. Maybe I’m an age-aphobe. Jim Parsons has long attributed his ability to play the much younger Sheldon Cooper to the low elevation, high air pressure, and high humidity of his native Houston. Heat, humidity, and temperature inversions are good fro the skin. As for sun damage? Some summers you will never see the sun. I’ve seen Parsons a few times at Stages Rep and I think once or twice at The Alley, but I cant find the Alley programs to be sure. He was pretty big on stage here before he went to LA. Count me not shocked. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/46 "2012-05-28T13:49:36Z")
> [@Rampant\_Coypu](#): > > Jim Parsons has long attributed his ability to play the much younger Sheldon Cooper to the low elevation, high air pressure, and high humidity of his native Houston. Heat, humidity, and temperature inversions are good fro the skin. As for sun damage? Some summers you will never see the sun. > > I’ve seen Parsons a few times at Stages Rep and I think once or twice at The Alley, but I cant find the Alley programs to be sure. He was pretty big on stage here before he went to LA. > > Count me not shocked. Yeah, I grew up in Houston, lived there for 18 years. Houston doesn’t make you younger. It just makes you fatter, and desperate for AC. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/47 "2012-05-28T14:51:11Z")
I have probably the least functional gaydar in captivity, and even I am having difficulty being surprised. But I love that show, and I love Parsons’ work in it. For Father’s Day I want a T-shirt that says > [@](#): > > I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested. Not that it matters, but who is his partner? Another actor? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/48 "2012-05-28T15:04:22Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > How about [“gay” and “orthodox rabbi”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Greenberg_%28rabbi%29)? And he’s hardly the only one. By “‘gay’ and ‘orthodox Jew’”, he was referring to Parsons and Mayim Bialik (sp?). ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/49 "2012-05-28T15:16:33Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Interview here](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/theater/jim-parsons-prepares-for-his-lead-role-in-harvey.html?hpw). > > And in other words, the sun came out this morning. Whenever I read a story like this, I remember what a Doper wrote when Ricky Martin came out: This just in. Gay man is gay. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/50 "2012-05-28T16:43:54Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I know it’s a bit icky when a man and a woman get together, and have sex. Well, it was when Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman did. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/51 "2012-05-30T21:25:23Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Well, it was when Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman did. To this day, Borgnine does not answer questions about his marriage to Ethel, remembering it apparently as one of the worst hours of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000/52 "2012-06-01T01:44:05Z")
I honestly didn’t know he was gay until I read it here when I first found this thread a while back but I hadn’t really given it much thought to begin with. Either way, I just ran across [this picture](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/392459_10151001054431420_746755078_n.jpg) on facebook and it was certainly the most shocking thing to me when I read the article. As an avid BBT viewer, it’s common knowledge that they’re much older then the people they portray and that Sheldon was considerably older the everyone else. But it’s been a while since I’ve thought about it and I thought ‘they’ were all about 32 or 33 and he was like 35. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-parsons-is-out-and-in-the-new-york-times-no-less/623000.md?page=2)