# She's a lesbian and he's gay. And in other news, the pope is Catholic **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046 "2006-01-02T05:09:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Citizen\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Citizen\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen_Bob)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/41 "2006-01-02T16:32:39Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Bob, on _Sesame Street_ . He’s been “dating” Linda, the deaf librarian, for how long? HEH! and Big Bird, all the way. He disappears occasionally to “visit” Snuffy! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/42 "2006-01-02T16:39:23Z")
Moderator Speaks in Very Official Tone: **Fabulous Creature** : personal insults and baiting are NOT permitted in this forum. Come to think of it, baiting is not permitted in ANY forum. I have deleted your message, and you will refrain from such in future. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/43 "2006-01-02T16:40:29Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > Starbuck: Gay. Both of 'em. If the new Starbuck’s gay, she’s deeply, deeply closetted, since she really seems to like sex with men. Really like it. A lot of it. Including Baltar, who, if it weren’t for the evidence of Starbuck and Six, I’d call as gay; and, who, as it is, is the gayest straight man I ever did see. I’ll give you Original Flavour Starbuck, though. > [@Menocchio](#): > > Plus she wondered if the male whores in “Heart of Gold” serviced women. Kaylee likes boys. A LOT. She gets all moon-eyed around Inara because she wants to have as much sex as she’s having, and is jealous. I’m not sure if it’s the sex - which, if circumstances were a little different (ie, no mooning after Big Doofus Simon), she could probably get easily enough. (Who here would turn her down? Anyone? Didn’t think so.) She clearly, though, wants to be as pretty and glamourous as Inara, even if it didn’t come with nookie. > [@Green Bean](#): > > Radar: gay. He maintained an immature persona because it helped him avoid having to deal with his feelings. Nobody expected a guy who drank grape Nehi to go skirt-chasing, so his apparent lack of sexuality was a non-issue. Nah…boy never scored, but he was a freaking peeping tom, once getting distracted watching a nurse on the way to the shower when he was supposed to be helping Hawk cheat. Radar was a socially inept dweeb who dug the girlies. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/44 "2006-01-02T17:29:55Z")
Bobby Hill! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/45 "2006-01-02T17:44:15Z")
Lenny and Carl. There, I said it. I also think Mima from 24 was bi and while there were rumors about Chloe that was all squashed when they found her and Edgar taking a “break” in the parking lot. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/46 "2006-01-02T17:51:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I don’t get that vibe from her. She doesn’t have a very eventful love life (so far as we know), but I have seen her get laid by at least one guy (a sleazy newspaper reporter, and she had cause to regret it), and I’ve never seen her even flirt with a woman. She slept with Munch’s former partner and he got all clingy about it. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/47 "2006-01-02T17:51:45Z")
Did you ever get the impression that _The Fonz_ was … overcompensating? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/48 "2006-01-02T17:53:21Z")
And by Mima I mean Nina. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/49 "2006-01-02T18:58:03Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Moderator Speaks in Very Official Tone: **Fabulous Creature** : personal insults and baiting are NOT permitted in this forum. Come to think of it, baiting is not permitted in ANY forum. I have deleted your message, and you will refrain from such in future. Dex, what message of mine are you referring to? I don’t recall baiting or insulting anyone, and if I seemed to do so I apologize. But I think you’re mistaken; can you email me the message in question? Thanks, M ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/50 "2006-01-02T19:09:12Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#): > > In my opinion, if you pay close attention through Firefly, it is clear that Inara and Kaylee are fuckbuddies. They’re not having a serious relationship, but they are definitely having friendly sex on a fairly regular basis. > > Go on, watch it again. You’ll see that I’m right. Nope. No chance. There’s hero-worship and maybe even a crush on Inara from Kaylee, but they were NOT sleeping together. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/51 "2006-01-02T19:16:01Z")
Ripley. She’s clearly got a thing for Winona Ryder’s character in **Aliens IV**. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/52 "2006-01-02T19:29:52Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Ripley. She’s clearly got a thing for Winona Ryder’s character in **Aliens IV**. Only the reconstituted Ripley with Alien DNA. In Alien3 she threw herself at the prison doctor. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/53 "2006-01-02T19:31:20Z")
Squidward Space Ghost He-Man ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/54 "2006-01-02T19:40:54Z")
Some of you may find this hard-to-believe, or even possibly _shocking_, but I think there might have been something going on between **Xena and Gabrielle**. It’s very subtle, and I don’t think anyone else has noticed. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/55 "2006-01-02T20:15:39Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > Some of you may find this hard-to-believe, or even possibly _shocking_, but I think there might have been something going on between **Xena and Gabrielle**. It’s very subtle, and I don’t think anyone else has noticed. You know that Ares had both of them, right? But not both of them together. I think you’d have to be Apollo or Zeus himself to pull that off. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/56 "2006-01-02T20:17:55Z")
> [@Fabulous Creature](#): > > What TV and movie characters could be most plausibly revealed as being gay without doing violence to the character’s previous history? Going strictly by their TV personas, Fred Rogers and Bill Nye (the Science Guy) both just absolutely scream “non-threatening confirmed bachelors” to me. It’s not out of the question to suspect Mr. Greenjeans and Capatain Kangaroo were having a torrid affair. I’m beginning to see how slashfic got started… ---
**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:** [January 2, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/57 "2006-01-02T20:18:33Z")
On an upcoming very special episode of _Lost_, Kate and Sun are working in the garden. Kate starts talking about how screwed up her situation with Jack and Sawyer has become. Sun says that her marriage with Jin has also become a problem. They’re both happy because they’ve found a friend who understands. Then they both reach for the same plant and their hands touch. They look up into each other’s eyes… ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/58 "2006-01-02T20:34:26Z")
.[70s porn soundtrack]…Whump whump WHAM WHAM whump whump WHAM WHAM…thumpin’ thumpin’ thumpin’ thumpin’…[/70s porn soundtrack) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/59 "2006-01-02T20:47:11Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > there were rumors about Chloe that was all squashed when they found her and Edgar taking a “break” in the parking lot. > > ::shudder:: I have no memory of that happening on 24. Is this a joke, or a whoosh, or did I miss this key revelation? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046/60 "2006-01-02T21:08:41Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > I have no memory of that happening on 24. Is this a joke, or a whoosh, or did I miss this key revelation? Joke, thank god for my eyes, a joke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-a-lesbian-and-hes-gay-and-in-other-news-the-pope-is-catholic/338046.md?page=4)