This was my thought when Sigfried and Roy “came out” last year.
Nearly everyone. I am clueless when it comes to this.
Sigfried and Roy are gay? I had no idea! :eek:
OK, maybe I had a little idea, because I thought they had been out for years.
Ellen’s wife. You know…whatserface… Portia DeRossi.
Shut. UP.
Really?
I have no freekin’ gaydar. NONE.
Jodie Foster didn’t surprise me so much as she disappointed me. She’s the same age as me. and I’ve had a crush on her ever since the 70’s.
… so does anyone have the number of the Secret Service?
She (Jodi) was kind of “tomboyish” when she was young (on SNL, specifically), but I never figured her for gay. She was a complete surprise…but then so is everyone, to me. I just don’t see teh gay.
John Inman is dead???
That’s the biggest surprise of this thread right there for me.
Rob Halford gay? Whoever woulda thunk it? “Screaming Hot Metalflakes!”
Damn it Hinckley, how many times do you have to be warned about socks!
Bob Mould. At the time he came out, there was nothing in his music (or image) to suggest it. Of course, after he came out, it started to make its way into the songs as a theme.
Dude. First of all, this thread isn’t about me; you should stick to the subject at hand. Second, I’m 45 and have worked in various arts-related situations for my entire adult life, so have met once or twice a great number of people that other people have heard of. That coupled with the various degrees of separation of having a cousin and two school friends who are well known actresses, and one friend who’s a bestselling author, and a family member who played professional sports, means, yeah, I’ve met a few people over the years. The Rollins thing is I worked in a Chicago record store in the eighties that was the club DJs’ go-to place for bootleg 12-inches, so I knew a lot of gay clubbers and music people. Not really that unusual; I met most of the eighties acts, with various instores and show passes. I saw Billy Idol naked; I can tell you what Lena Lovich smells like; I can tell you which member of the Romantics is gay, and which member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood is not. Collateral career trivia. I don’t usually like to get that specific, but I also don’t like being called a liar.
I’m more surprised to find out he’s dead.
I would genuinely like to know - what does Lena Lovich smell like?
12 inches whatzies?
Interesting term to use in a thread about gays
Liar, liar, a Pit Thread on fire.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10219919
[nitpick] lene lovich[/nitpick]
I’m gonna surprise everyone here by coming out…
and saying that although I am a total square, I actually know who Lene Lovich is!
(Only because I remember her on old episodes of Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert.)