Was he gay?
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richard.fuller1 — 19 years ago(June 06, 2006 05:41 PM)
And if you go to someone like Harvey Fierstein, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Richard Chamberlain, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres or anyone else in particular you can think of, there won't be a post asking "Was he or she really straight all along?"
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Johnny2006 — 19 years ago(September 29, 2006 04:48 AM)
Yeah what is it about homosexuality that seems to obsess people in these forums.
Gay or not Gay what difference does it make to an actor's performance on screen?
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richard.fuller1 — 19 years ago(September 29, 2006 05:30 PM)
I thought about going to Rock Hudson, LIberace, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, George Takei, Lance Bass, Richard Chamberlain, Lily Tomlin, Tab Hunter and whoever else and just start posting "Is he straight?" or "Is she straight?" and seeing what happens and just do that with any noted homosexual person.
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scoey — 10 years ago(July 11, 2015 10:44 PM)
At the risk of adding legitimacy to the question, which is really none of our business, I should say that the reason no one would ask if gay actors were secretly straight is that straight actors never had to hide who they were.
Please don't ever forget that our two-faced, quasi-religious American culture, always giving lip service to the intended founding principles of "freedom" and "liberty and justice for all" only very recently stopped putting gay people IN JAIL for what they did behind closed doors in what should have been the privacy of their own homes.
Now, we face another problem, or at least, celebrities do. If they are gay, or bisexual, or have any other form of atypical but legal sexual variation, they must either "come16d0 out", in other words, share their most private aspects of life with everyone, or they face being called "closeted" or "disloyal" to whatever "community" wants them to play the role model.
It is a necessary evil. I see it as a short-term evil that will eventually lead to a better society. When we eventually get tired of hearing about celebrities', especially actors' sex lives, the question will lose its prurient nature, lose its mystery. People are what people are and we have to take them as they come. We will know if we have improved when the only time a person is asked about their sexual preference is when the person asking is looking for a date.
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namaGemo — 10 years ago(July 06, 2015 03:09 AM)
Why didn't the marriages work out? Maybe because it's two people who just aren't right for each other. I had a gay friend giving me this line of crap because I dated a lot of women, and the reason they don't work out is because when dating women, you have to put up with a lot of their hormonal crap. They are emotional, and being a rational thinker, it's a lot of crap to deal with, or maybe they have other problems, like drinking, drugs, prescription drugs and taking to excess, mental health issues. There are a million reasons not to stay in it with someone.
Are you saying every marriage with 100% straight couples works all the time? Do all gay couples stay married all the time? Some people just believe in the idea of marriage and they marry over and over thinking "This time, I'll get it right."
It send to me that only a homosexual might question a straight man's sexuality IF they have women problems. Maybe because they don't deal with women in the same way, they don't get how complicated it is. Doesn't matter if you're staying or gay, all relationships have their complications.
I had a gay friend and after he asked me if I "might have troubles with women for.You knew.another reason" implying that somehow, I'm secretly gay, I asked him if maybe he's secretly straight, and that's why he had issues with other gay men.
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milotian — 18 years ago(August 08, 2007 07:16 PM)
Definitely not gay. I have meet him and talked to him quite frequently as has my wife. He would visit the video store on weekends where my wife worked when he was visiting his Mom. A very very gracious and humble man and again not gay.
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backofthevan — 13 years ago(August 03, 2012 12:30 AM)
Why on5b4 earth are people so obsessed with other people's sexuality? Is it anyone's business? I am quite sure that anyone who wonders if this person or that person is gay is probably gay themselves and very insecure about it. Although they have no reason to be. If you're gay and someone doesn't like the fact, that's their problem, not yours. You were born gay, that's how it is, it's perfectly okay. If anyone thinks otherwise they are uninformed, misguided and possibly bigoted.
Live and let live.