Bert and Ernie, come on now it’s time to admit it.
OK do you realize Bert is always telling Ernie to “Clean up his room.” OK Ernie lives in a flat with another man and HE HAS HIS OWN ROOM!!! Yet he chooses to share a bedroom with Bert. OK it’s seperate beds but we probably just don’t see the times they push the beds together.
I’ve had a lot of jobs over the years- a lot. Everything from retail management to working in fast food to supermarkets to professional admin positions. And I stand by my assertion that I can count the number of gay coworkers I’ve had on one hand.
Talking about people’s sexuality isn’t a big topic of conversation at work (for obvious reasons) but when every one of your coworkers talks about their opposite sex partner (many of whom you’ve met personally) or their (corroborated) stories about searching for an opposite sex partner, it’s a pretty safe bet your co-workers aren’t gay.
Even if they were, it’s not like there’s anything wrong with it. But I honestly believe that that there are simply not as many gay people in the real world as some of the activists would like to think there are.
What on Earth are you talking about??? 
What activists, and what numbers are they throwing out? I’d toss out the high and low numbers, and I don’t think anyone yet has come up with a way to ever know for sure.
The LGBT crowd at Uni and on the boards here often mention figures in the 10-15% of the population range. My personal feeling is that it’s probably closer to 3-5%.
The 10% number is from the Kinsey sexuality study back in the 40s and 50s. It has since been widely discredited (even most gay activist groups only cite numbers between 3 and 5%).
So congratulations, you’re right and the people throwing around numbers are right too.
Quentin was able to get a date… a lot of dates?.. before he was famous? Wow. I though that was the whole reason he became famous. Because he is about as sexually unappealing as it gets. Between the hyper personality, the geekitude, and his overall Frankensteinian looks… can’t see it.
They were smart chicks investing in futures…?
Yeah, I know. When I used to see him (before I knew who he was) I remember thinking how odd looking he was - he especially stuck out like a sore thumb in “pretty boy” West Hollywood. But he was always friendly and gave a smile and a nod. Don’t think we ever exchanged more than a “hi” whenever we would pass each other on the sidewalk.
And yes, he really did always seem to have some decent looking woman next to him, even before he got famous - what can I say; maybe he has some other “asset” other than his looks that attracted the ladies?
You mean, like, a great stamp collection?
I guess I’m really out of the loop, but what is it with Anderson Cooper? Why does everyone think he’s gay?
What about that guy on that entertainment show in the evenings? Mario what’s-his-name. Or is he already out?
Anderson Cooper is 43, beyond rich, never been married, never linked with any women, doesn’t parade around town with arm candy, “refuses to discuss his personal life”, and has been spotted in discreet gay bars. He doesn’t feel he has to make a BFD announcement to the world, but just lives his life without comment… Mario Lopez has been married to Ali Landry (?) and last month he announced he and his girlfriend are expecting a baby, so I HOPE he isn’t ‘already out’. But he is a beautiful specimen and I wouldn’t doubt he gets hit on by men and women hopefuls all the time.
Well, that last bit would pretty much be a wrap.
I have to wonder why these famous guys who want to stay in the closet go to gay bars.
Still wondering why there’s no juice to gossiping that someone with an opposite-sex partner may actually be bi.
I’m going to assume that, since both gays and straights tend to be squicked by bis, such rumors wouldn’t sell ad space, so they don’t happen.
(sigh) If you are referring to Anderson Cooper, HE IS NOT IN THE CLOSET. He is living his life, including going to gay bars. He is not cowering in the closet, he is not braying about his sex life to the world, and if anybody should demand to know which way he swings, his answer is “I don’t discuss my personal life”.
Anderson, is that you? Call me!
Oprah or course.
dont know if you’re being facetious (?) or I guess I wasn’t really that clear.
Yes, he was MALE. So… --?? who knows, maybe he’s BI and I’m just very naive and people with expanded brain capacity (thetans??) have no “limits” and experience things in a much broader sense.
Really…who am I to guess~
Hands off, bitch! He’s mine! (You should see the way he looks at me when he’s sending me coded messages on his show.)
(Emphasis mine.)
So there’s a deadline here?
Though it does make me wonder: what percentage of straight men find someone they want to marry (and who wants to marry them) by, say, 45? How does that jive with people’s assumptions about how many do (and thus, begin to suspect, well, you know)?
No deadline, but combined with picking up men in gay bars it is indicative of gayness.