Throughout Seinfeld’s run, quite a lot of jokes were made at the expense of George’s sexuality. Today, I watched an early Seinfeld episode, The Note, and one of the plot points was George’s sexual insecurity. This, combined with remembrance of all the other jokes made about his sexuality, got me wondering - was George actually supposed to be some super-closeted gay man, or am I mining far too much from the jokes? Or did this depend on the writer?
No. I never thought that at all.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
No, George Castanza was not gay, not that there’s anything wrong with that. He was just a slightly neurotic very close friend of Jerry’s. Remember the episode where he was dating the girl who looked like Jerry and he was kind of grossed out by it?
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That’s not evidence that he’s straight. Everyone in the show is so superficial that I could see any of them faking disgust just so they don’t break out of their norm.
That said, it never even crossed my mind that George might be gay.
No, George wasn’t gay. Yes he asked his girlfriend to have a threeway with her male room mate, yes he finds it particularly hard admitting a guy’s good looking, and yes, it moved.
But no, I’m quite sure he wasn’t, unless he was in DEEP denial. Maybe bisexual or bi-curious.
He slept with women, and seemed to be happy with that.
George was just a bundle of insecurities, but straight.
George was kinda a sociopath, but not gay. And, yes, there is something wrong with that.
No. I think Kramer might have been bisexual, but not George. Neurotic as hell, but not gay.
George wasn’t gay, just extremely insecure about his masculinity and terrified that he might have subconscious gay feelings.
Did anyone see Love! Valor! Compassion! (1997)? I always wondered if Jason Alexander chose to play a gay character in response to his George’s anti-gay attitude on Seinfeld.
No, George wasn’t gay, but he claimed that his father was, due to seeing Frank and Kramer draped over each other in their underwear on a pool table, and Frank wearing a bro, or mansierre, and Frank buying the young George dolls for Christmas.
George? Gay? Not a chance.
No television character of comparable attractiveness and attitude will ever score as many babes as George Costanza did. If the writers were trying to secretly make him gay, they did a very poor job of it.
The gay jokes in Seinfeld were aimed more at straight men’s paranoia about ever being thought gay. Jerry shared this tendency too.
George was propbably the straightest man in the history of television.
It’s not something we straight guys are proud of.
George was based on series creator Larry David who is definitely not gay.
Or, as Kramer put it, “George’s man-love for a she-Jerry.” 
Well, there was the episode where he had a crush on that mountain climbing dude (I think he was played by Dan Cortese) that Elaine was dating.
I strongly disagree.
George was never happy with the women he slept with.
OK, maybe the one who he could also watch TV and eat pastrami sandwiches with.
It’s funny, that’s what came to mind when I wrote that – The one who he could also watch TV and eat pastrami sandwiches with. There always seemed to be barriers George built up in his head that prevented him from enjoying himself. We do know he was attracted to women, and that he wanted to have sex with them.
This says it perfectly.