# What celebrity would you go gay (or straight) for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952 "2007-10-25T12:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 25, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/1 "2007-10-25T12:57:06Z")
Looking over the Cafe Society landscape, I note a disturbing dearth of threads objectifying celebrities in an superficial and sophomoric fashion. No one need apologize; it’s my fault and no one else’s. During my brief absence from the boards, maturity apparently crept in. That said, we don’t have to let it STAY. So today’s objectifying question: If you’re straight, what actor, model, singer, etc. of your own gender would you go gay for? Likewise, if you’re gay, whom would you switch go straight for?\* And, of course, if you feel moved to explain why, please feel free. My own answer: Mandy Patinkin. Because he was INIGO freaking MONTOYA, and also his amazingly versatile voice. \*If you are into lovers of a different species or metabolic state (i.e., dead) please keep it to yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Smith8762](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Smith8762](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smith8762)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/2 "2007-10-25T13:03:32Z")
Sean Bean…that accent gets me everytime. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/3 "2007-10-25T13:29:11Z")
Nigella Lawson. Good _God_, that woman is hot. First, she is just gorgeous, with a bodacious figure. Then, the first time I saw her she was making croissant bread pudding with caramel sauce - for dinner. And if that isn’t tempting enough, she then ate it in bed, wearing black silk pajamas. If she showed up at my front door offering to take me away, cook for me, and sex me up, I would be hard pressed to say no. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/4 "2007-10-25T13:33:22Z")
I could probably go gay for Demi Moore. She looks gorgeous all the time. If we’re including actresses of the past, I’d have to say Grace Kelly. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/5 "2007-10-25T13:37:28Z")
If you check out the video clips at [Rove](http://www.rovedaily.com.au/video.htm) the last question in **$20 in 20 seconds** is always, “Who would you turn gay for?” See what the famous have to say. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/6 "2007-10-25T13:58:44Z")
**Cary Grant** , if he were still alive and looked like he did in **Gunga Din** …or **Gaston** from **Beauty and the Beast** if he weren’t a toon. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/7 "2007-10-25T14:26:28Z")
I long time celebant, but I would change that in a heartbeat for Hugh Laurie, Matthew Gray Guber, Wayne Brady or David Hyde Pierce. But I can’t think of one woman I would want to have sex with. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/8 "2007-10-25T14:40:21Z")
I once caught part of an old Clark Gable movie on PBS. I’m not sure what it was about except ol’ Clark flouncing around in a billowy shirt open to his navel. I was mesmerized. Among the living, though, probably nobody. Maybe Hugh Jackman. No one should be that good looking. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/9 "2007-10-25T14:42:10Z")
Brad Pitt in Fight Club. I can’t exactly explain it (the scene where his pants are falling off his abs), but it was the one time I questioned my sexuality. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/10 "2007-10-25T14:45:32Z")
George Clooney Brad Pitt The actor who played Will’s policeman boyfriend on Will and Grace The Rock My wife and I have played this game lots of times. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/11 "2007-10-25T15:13:21Z")
Jennifer Aniston. I’d go lesbian in a _second_ for her. If, you know, I was a chick. Sorry, I got nothin’ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/12 "2007-10-25T15:20:00Z")
Jodi Foster. IMO, the most beautiful woman in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/13 "2007-10-25T15:22:24Z")
Rupert Everet At least one of us will know what he’s doing. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/14 "2007-10-25T15:23:15Z")
Ooh…Angelina Jolie’s star must be fading. Usually she’s listed within the first ten posts of a thread like this. But…yeah, I’d do her. Or Kate Winslet. Or[Morena Baccarin](http://browncoats.com/UserFiles/431ba1b696633/Image/ChelliesPictures/morena3.jpg) . Y’know, when I answer this question, I wonder if I’m not as straight as I think I am… ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/15 "2007-10-25T15:24:05Z")
Jamie Lee Curtis. : d & r : ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/16 "2007-10-25T15:25:06Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Brad Pitt in Fight Club. I can’t exactly explain it (the scene where his pants are falling off his abs), but it was the one time I questioned my sexuality. [/QUOTE] Shit yeah. When they find me in the gym dead from overexhaustion, it’ll be that movie’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/17 "2007-10-25T15:25:25Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Jodi Foster. IMO, the most beautiful woman in the world. [/QUOTE] I like that answer! I could go straight for her. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/18 "2007-10-25T15:28:30Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Jodi Foster. IMO, the most beautiful woman in the world. [/QUOTE] Ditto on Jodie. Also Janine Turner, of Northern Exposure fame. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/19 "2007-10-25T15:33:04Z")
Without a doubt, [Mariska Hargitay](http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/images/photo_board_hargitay_m.gif). She is an uncommonly lovely woman with a humantiarian, nurturing love for people. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/20 "2007-10-25T15:34:25Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Brad Pitt in Fight Club. I can’t exactly explain it (the scene where his pants are falling off his abs), but it was the one time I questioned my sexuality. [/QUOTE] Oh, I can explain it. IT’S THE SCENE WHERE HIS PANTS ARE FALLING OFF HIS ABS! [(Hips, actually.)](http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/061025/15381__fight_club_l.jpg) What more explanation does anyone with a pulse need? He’s f’ing hot, that’s all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952.md?page=2)