I remember reading it as a fact, not as a rumor, although I don’t remember where it came from; it’s not as if I keep a close tab on these things. Just another bit of random useless knowlege lodged in my brain.
Freddy Mercury had a son? Really? I have never, ever heard that before.
Is Mercury junior alive today?
Re: Jorja Fox, the best reference I could find (which is still not the best) was her name on the uncontestedly-gay list on Wikipedia.
Rob Halford from Judas Priest is gay, he came out in the last few years though it didn’t seem to surpise many people. It is funny though to go back and see the “gay” lyrics in some of the songs.
Creater, producer and writer of Fraiser David Angell and his wife were on Flight 11, the first one to strike the World Trade Tower. Let’s not paint such a broad stroke.
I know Village Person Policeman Ray Simpson, his wife and daughter.
There’s plenty of talk about theatre producer Cameron MacIntosy, actor Michael Ball and Prince Andrew’s activites as a trio in the theatre world.
I’m a straight female, but…you say Jodie Foster is gay? reconsidering
Apparently everyone but me has always known that Barry Manilow is gay.
Nathan lane!!! ;)*
<whacks gaydar on side of cabinet to get the circit cards seated> Is this thing even on? I wonder if they still have a tube tester down at the Sropuse-Reitz dime store.
*Really I know he’s gay. Terri Schaivo knows he’s gay. He described Timmon and Pumbaa from The Lion King as the first openly gay couple in a Disney cartoon.
David Brock’s book, Blinded by the Right (in one of its many salacious moments) claims that Matt Drudge came on to him pretty openly, several times.
I recall an interview some years ago with Nathan Lane, in which the interviewer asked him flat-out if he was gay. He said something to the effect of, “I’m over 40, I live with my mother and I dress better than she does. You do the math.” I have no cite for this, but I remember laughing about it when I read it.
Someone mentioned Fried Green Tomatoes - I was surprised to find that the author, Fannie Flagg, is gay, and apparently had a turbulent long-term relationship with Rita Mae Brown. But that also brings up another celeb I’ve wondered about - Mary Stuart Masterson (for whom I would not only cross the street, but I’d run across, dodging sportscars the whole way.)
Langston Hughes. I only recently found out. I have read short biographies of his and no one mentioned it. It seems like a big thing to leave out.
When watching TV, my mom would point to stars like Rock Hudson and say, “He’s gay.” She did not condemn it, she just was letting us know that gay people are out there.
I remember the quote: “I’m over 40, I’m single and I work in the musical theater. Do the math.” I might be wrong, or it might have morphed through retellings.
I read the same Nathan Lane interview years ago- I’m thinking GQ or ESQUIRE.
As a childhood watcher of Fannie on various late 1960s-early 70s game shows, I was surprised she was a novelist as much as that she was gay.
Mary Stuart- I think not. I seem to recall she is happily married to a man & is a mom.
I think the complete version includes “over 40, single, live with my mother & work in the musical theatre”.
Yes, it’s actually true that the only boy who could ever reach her was the son of the preacher man.
F. U. Shakespeare? What did you just say about Shakespeare? You couldn’t have said what I thought you said. 
Actually the above is just an excuse for me to mention the idea that many of Willy’s sonnets were written to men.
P.S. To be excruciatingly technical, this article seems to support LifeOnWry’s memories, but with the word “love” in place of :" work in the". That is to say:“I’m single, I’m 40, and I love musical theater—you do the math.” That doe not exclude the possibility that Lane used the words F. U. Shakespeare quoted in a different interview, or that the article was misquoting.
I’ve even heard that his heterosexuality was long hushed-up, because it would have been bad for the band’s image.
I wish that “Famous and gay” list had something in the way of cites, because I’m frankly skeptical about many of them.
Francis Bacon? Isn’t that sheer speculation at this date?
Basquiat? His bio-pic, my only source of information about him, claims otherwise.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke? Has he ever come out? Didn’t he fight a pedophile charge a few years ago? Is that what his inclusion is based on? If any of the people on this list are “officially” straight (even if they’re widely assumed to be closet cases), I think that should be respected.
I have it on second- (but not third-) hand that half of the Village People are gay and half straight. This seems to be backed up by Annie.
I’m guessing that qualifies for both ‘surprised to find out they’re gay’ and also ‘surprised to find out they’re straight’ lists, depending.
See post 12 and following in this thread.
FTR, I’ve hardly read any Shakespeare – I’m a semi-educated American. I just thought it was neat to form a username by juxtaposing two things that don’t seem to belong together, like Mojo Nixon or Jello Biafra. And Rose’s utterance gave me the specific idea.
Joan Baez is gay? Hmmm… I know that she’s active in gay and lesbian causes, but she has also been active in civil rights causes. That doesn’t mean she’s black or even semi-black. Given her famous romance with Bob Dylan, her marraige to David Whatshisname, and absent any evidence or claims by the site as to her lesbian or bisexual status, I’m doubtful.
I’m going to have to ask for a cite for this.
His girlfriend in college was Mary Austin, who he remained very close friends with throughout his life (and who he left the majority of his estate to, including Garden Lodge); but I’ve never heard of him fathering children with her. She does have children that Freddie was close to, but they were fathered by a man that Austin subsequently divorced.
At the time of his death, and for years and years before, Freddie was partnered with Jim Hutton.