Why does everyone think Tom Cruise is gay? He may be a little douche-tastic and strident in his beliefs, but there’s nothing in his public (non-movie) persona that seems gay in the least.
My mother thinks that he’s gay.
As for my answers, I don’t know. The only person I predicted was gay before she came out was Rosie O’donald.
Good for gays…any of the successful young actors like Zac Efron probably.
Bad for gays, anybody currently reviled like Mel Gibson probably.
Chief Justice Roberts
or
The entire offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys.
I’d be surprised.
There have been rumors for a long time, along with stories in German tabolids sparking lawsuits from him. Anyway, my point was that Cruise is someone The Great Gay Council would say, “Um…no thanks. You straight folks can keep him. In fact, we’ll give back Portia de Rossi and Jodie Foster if y’all just keep Cruise.”
But I agree that Michael Jackson is the biggest example of that.
Maybe not a superstar, but Billy Bean is only the second major league baseball player to ever come out of the closet. The law of averages would seem to demand that there are a number of deeply closeted gays in professional sports.
Manny Rameriez, a super-star baseball player and arrogant prick.
He’d be all “I’m gay and fuck you. Give me more money!”
I can’t really think of any that would shock me.
There were some rumours about Michael Jackson. We don’t want him.
Sure about that? Never had sex with a woman, ran around with a bunch of guys who all slept together. And the record shows that when he first entered Jerusalem he came on some guy’s ass.
I would give a great deal to get Portia de Rossi back.
Even the pedophiles don’t want him.
My mother referred to Spanish VP Fernández de la Vega as “that dyke” a couple times before I pointed out that, one, if any unmarried woman above the age of 40 is a dyke that would make Mom a dyke’s mother and second, I’m reasonably sure that many Spanish dykes wouldn’t want to have anything to do with our esteemed VP, thank you much 
Count her as a number two for me.
The person I was happiest to see come out in recent years was Neil Patrick Harris. This is because (in addition to his being sinfully cute)
1- There was no scandal that prompted it (tabloid rumors and the like, but nothing involving a men’s room [George Michael, Robert Clary {if he can be called a celebrity} or screw-n-tell-with-photos {Chad Allen, Clay Aiken} or explicit gay sex web page type prompt)
2- He’s on top… careerwise I mean- and didn’t need the publicity (i.e. not Richard Chamberlain or Tab Hunter trying for some nostalgic press)
3- He seems like a genuinely nice, intelligent, and decent guy (which of course means he probably kills kittens just to watch them die, but at least he’s discreet)
4- He’s never been married or had kids or seriously linked with a woman (the studio marriage and “starlet on the arm” thing bugs me (something Chamberlain was still doing as recently as a few years before he came out)
5- While there were rumors, they weren’t conclusive and even had the tabloids outed him there was plausible deniability (and in fact one of the reasons NPH came out was because he was p.o.d when his publicist did deny the gay rumors as damage control before the tabloids, which weren’t a story about snorting coke off rent boy’s asses anyway but just “Doogie is gay and here are non-graphic pics of him with his boyfriend” type stuff)
6- He plays a total hetero horndog on TV (I understand, I don’t watch the show)
So that’s the type of celebrity that’s absolutely ideal.
Agree with Michael Jackson and Tom Cruise as the ones I don’t want to see come out and don’t think there’s any danger of them doing it. (I don’t think either is as normal as just gay- I think they’re both seriously messed up individuals whose issues go way deeper).
POSITIVE OUTCOMINGS
Disclaimer: I have no proof or personal knowlege that any of the following individuals are actually gay beyond suspicion and rumor.
John Travolta: If he came out not only would it be a great headline grabber itself (except to Kelly Preston) but it’d be interesting, if the rumors are right, to see what he’d spill about Scientology.
Tyler Perry: Because of his base with evangelical black people he could potentially do a lot of good (though if he is gay I think we’ll see the Second Coming before he admits it in his tell all autobio Tyler Perry’s HOMOSEXUALITY).
Seth Green: he’s always pinged my gaydar and while he isn’t a romantic lead he is extremely popular with wide variety of people and doesn’t have any real scandals I can think of.
Shepard Smith: the Fox news correspondent who’s as “known to be” gay as Anderson Cooper. (I’d super love to see him come out by tongue-kissing Sean Hannity.)
A black male rapper who’s in good standing career wise and comes out voluntarily as it’s a demographic that needs to be reached with a positive role model.
Is Suze Orman officially out?
Jodie Foster has officially acknowledged her lover (not by calling her “my wife” or “my lover” but as her beloved Chelsea or whatever), but I’d like to hear her say “I’m gay”.
Negative
Any married homophobic religious figure or married conservative Republican politician who is outed by scandal. While I LOVE the schadenfreude element due to their hypocrisy, in the first place it’s been done to death and in the second they don’t make any “well if he’s gay then they must not be so bad” converts.
Ann Coulter- please don’t let her be one of us, please don’t let her be one of us, please don’t let her be one of us. (Though I’m sure if she is gay then she pukes after sex in case that pubic hair may add a calorie.)
Anyone who comes out solely due to overwhelming evidence that they simply cannot plausibly deny (pictures, arrests, etc.).
Kevin Spacey- I don’t think it’d hurt the gay community, but the time to do it was when he was much bigger career wise and yet denying it even when there were pics of him cradling his boy toy. You deny-a us, we deny-a you.
Another negative: Ricky Martin, same reasons as Spacey. The time to come out was when he was a superstar and he denied it in the press (three times before his cock grew). Fuck you Ricky; you couldn’t stick with just “I don’t discuss my private life” while having your favorite decorator on tour with you could you? (And unlike Clay Aiken you knew damned good and well what team you batted for.)
OTOH, as much as I dislike gay celebrities who pointedly deny it, I have allowance for some with extenuating circumstances. Three examples from American Idol:
Speaking of Clay Aiken: he’s a celebrity I felt genuinely sorry for when he came out. For starter the boy was to’ up from the flo’ up for most of his life so it’s not like he was fighting off male attention, then suddenly due to fame and fortune and makeover he’s surrounded by attention from hot guys who’d most likely have given him a wedgie in high school and sneered in gay clubs before Idol. Next up, he strikes me as just ‘dummer than a hundred and seven chickens’ so he was completely over his head and unable to improvise any kind of evasive answers and thus when he said outright “No, I’m not gay, stop asking!” (very possibly thinking he was telling the truth) he felt and looked like a trapped animal on the verge of complete insanity. Then there’s the fact he’s the son of a felonious father and a super religious southern mother- maaaaaaaaaajjjjjoooooor baggage, and I honestly believe he never thought of himself as gay until he was a celebrity but as a “Christian boy who has some disturbing fantasies about what he’d like to lick on that jock but they’ll all go away when I marry and have babies” denial track that I couldn’t estimate to the nearest hundred how many times I’ve seen (the “Not Gay By Virtue of Jesus” crowd). Then his fan base is largely tween girls and “he’s such a nice boy” Christians who are the least likely to be accepting or forgiving of their Idol’s admissions (some actually wanting refunds for his CDs at the time). Aiken I wouldn’t be surprised for him to have a complete nervous breakdown in the near future.
Another I’d love to see come out but it’ll take a while if it ever happens is David Archuleta. Currently his father has him on a short leash and I think the religious and family baggage is chained to his ankles but I also think he knows on some level he’s not just shy around girls. While I don’t think he’s likely to perfect cold fusion I don’t agree with Kathy Griffin’s “he’s half tard” statement, I just think he’s incredibly shy and neurotic, but if he can one day get some confidence and come out it might be good for fellow gay Mormon boys. And if not, at least it would really piss off his dad.
I understand Sanjaya wrote a book recently, though I also understand it flopped. (Apparently his half life long ago burned out.) Does anybody know if he mentions any (ahem) girlfriends in it? (I wanted to punch Jimmy Kimmel when he was asking Sanjaya about the gay rumors and why he “seemed to go out of your way to deny being gay” on his show one night- Kimmel, the boy’s 17 and a few weeks ago was a total unknown being picked on in school. If he is gay and denied it, as a gay elder I completely absolve him. Leave him alone.")
No cite, but I heard there is some very specific (maybe even photographic) evidence that he works VERY HARD to keep under wraps.
There’s already been just such a one in recent history, namely, Andrew Cunanan.
Yes she is.
The host of the Discovery show Man Vs Wild, Bear Grylls, is pretty much the last person on earth I expect could possibly be gay. That would surprise me. I dunno about the good for gay rights thing though, maybe just the fact that one of the most badass people on earth is gay would be something?
Well played.
It is logically impossible for Ann Coulter to be a lesbian. The definition of lesbian includes human. Holographically-disguised alien lizards don’t count. She’d only come out of the closet if her commanders in the Visitor army decided that was a logical precursor to their final invasion.
I find it helps that I can mildly identify with her wife.