Ricky Martin, Kevin Spacey and Ellen Page
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 23, 2018 3:08 AM |
Guillermo Diaz (of "Scandal")
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 23, 2018 3:08 AM |
Richard Hatch.
Johnny Weir.
Adam Rippon
Frankie Grande
Andy Cohen
The entire cast of both versions of QUEER EYE.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 23, 2018 3:11 AM |
Going way back now... Roy Stuart (Corporal Boyle from "Gomer Pyle USMC")
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 23, 2018 3:12 AM |
Robert Reed from The Brady Bunch
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 23, 2018 3:23 AM |
Joey Pollari and Connor Jessup
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 23, 2018 5:18 PM |
Samantha Fox munches box?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 23, 2018 5:23 PM |
Samantha Fox came out years ago. Her long-term girlfriend is/was a market stall trader or something like that. It was in the papers in a kind of 'how the mighty have fallen' way with Sam Fox being papped working in a market.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 23, 2018 5:33 PM |
Matt Bomer. I had no idea; didn't ping to me at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 23, 2018 5:37 PM |
Kelly McGillis Meredith Baxter (She thought she was straight, too, though.)
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 23, 2018 5:41 PM |
R20 True when they were famous. Now it's pretty obvious.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 23, 2018 5:44 PM |
I knew someone who was sincerely shocked when George Michael was outed in the 90s. No, not a straight frau. A gay guy.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 23, 2018 8:25 PM |
I know a gay guy who was shocked when Kevin Spacey came out
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 24, 2018 5:36 PM |
Will Estes has never been married and hasn't dated anyone as far as I know
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 24, 2018 6:00 PM |
Still embarrassed , even as a straight woman that George Michael being outed shocked me. Of course my Generation Z daughter had me upload Wham videos on youtube and humiliated me by being extra ,going over the "clues". The only "clue" which, back in the day I put in the recesses of my mind was Andrew and George in the pilot's uniforms in the Club Tropicana video.
My daughter said with me missing all the tennis ball short stuffing, the Bouffant and getting a very small clue that George would never impregnate me because him and Andrew wore pilot's uniform in a video meant that I was either nearly "too sophisticated for my own good" or real fool. I said that it was a different time outside of the Gay community. Gays were seen as either sexless or "sex animals " who got AIDS and died. I'm glad she has to think hard to conceive of that paradigm.
To think that there was a time that I thought that if George Michael impregnated a lot of English women the teeth of the nation would improve. Him and Princess Diana were the first white English people who I saw with good, white teeth in the media.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 24, 2018 6:11 PM |
I remember a female co- worker being stunned when Rosie O'Donnell came out. She was genuinely surprised.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 24, 2018 6:17 PM |
What the hell is R32 on about?
I agree with Kate Pierson, that one surprised me.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 24, 2018 6:40 PM |
[quote] [R28] He has seven kids
He's also circumcised, but that doesn't make him Jewish.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 24, 2018 6:49 PM |
Nick Scotti (ex- YOUNG & THE RESTLESS; KISS ME, GUIDO)
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 25, 2018 3:35 AM |
Justin Bieber, i thought she was straight
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 25, 2018 3:41 AM |
[R32} You know back then a lot of men look feminine hell look at Prince. The only reason your daughter is saying that is because George was gay. If David Bowie, Prince, Michael Jackson or Marin Gore were outed as gay people will be saying the same thing.
Those of us who lived during that time, granted it was twenty yeast ago. People were shook when the news hit. George took Clinton of the news circle for awhile.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 25, 2018 3:52 AM |
R42 is right R32, pretty much every male artist looked they might be gay in the 80s. They wore more eyeliner than I did, and that's saying something.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 25, 2018 3:57 AM |
Jane Velez-Mitchell Steve Kornacki
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 25, 2018 3:57 AM |
Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian and actor.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 25, 2018 3:59 AM |
Since when is Nick Scotti gay r39?
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 25, 2018 4:10 AM |
Nate Berkus. Even my mom called it and she was shocked at how bad my gaydar was with this one
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 25, 2018 4:16 AM |
It was only in the last seasons of Frasier that I found out the dad was gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 25, 2018 6:19 AM |
Duff Goldman, Ace of Cakes
I'm hardly ever surprised by the women for some reason
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 25, 2018 6:37 AM |
r53 Duff Goldman is engaged to a woman.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 25, 2018 4:00 PM |
r30 -- you are aware that gay men can have kids, right?
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 25, 2018 7:39 PM |
R3, Nobody on the planet thought the Queer Eye guys were straight or Frankie Grande. You have got to be kidding me.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 25, 2018 7:46 PM |
I thought r3 was facetious, r57
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 25, 2018 7:47 PM |
R58 Yeah, you're probably right. Let's hope so.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 25, 2018 7:53 PM |
What's the deal with Roger Stone? He seems so gay but isn't he a straight swinger?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 25, 2018 8:15 PM |
^ I assumed he was gay and in denial
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 25, 2018 9:35 PM |
I think he's just a cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 25, 2018 10:29 PM |
Him wear pilot’s uniform. Him have good teeth. You cave woman r32? Og grab you by hair. Drag you grammar lessons.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 25, 2018 10:38 PM |
Luke Evans is the most masculine out actor there ever was.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 25, 2018 10:46 PM |
Aaron Hernandez. Never would have taken him for gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 25, 2018 11:48 PM |
This will probably sound absurd, but I never once twigged Manilow was gay.
Also, the actor Richard Wilson (largely famous in the UK for the long-running sitcom One Foot in the Grave). Never pinged once in interviews.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 25, 2018 11:58 PM |
Roger Stone has always seemed like the gayest man in the room. I met him during Watergate. No one could believe he was married to a woman.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 26, 2018 12:11 AM |
Maurice Chevalier (really!)
Claudette Colbert
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 26, 2018 1:31 AM |
When they were single, actors David Monahan and Larry Sullivan.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 26, 2018 1:46 AM |
Earl Holliman - one of my earliest in life crushes - had no idea but delighted when I found out....
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 26, 2018 2:16 AM |
Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson)
Tom Selleck (Magnum PI)
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 26, 2018 2:28 AM |
Another vote for Victor Garber
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 26, 2018 2:31 AM |
Nic Robuck (one of the Ford brothers from ONE LIFE TO LIVE)
He is on the left in the first pic.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 26, 2018 2:32 AM |
Van Johnson.
Earl Holliman.
Damon Evans (fake Lionel from THE JEFFERSONS)
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 26, 2018 2:51 AM |
I didn't have a clue that Van Johnson was gay until I started posting on the datalounge
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 26, 2018 3:42 AM |
R54 Really!? I thought I read it somewhere he was! I guess I have perfect gaydar after all.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 26, 2018 4:02 AM |
R86 I want to say Aaron as well. I remember watching a Superbowl one year, and I kept trying to figure out what the deal was. I think he was pinging to me, but I was thinking, no a pro football quarterback can't possibly be gay, so I was confused.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 26, 2018 4:07 AM |
r87 is correct. No quarterback has ever been gay. We are ALL straight, all of us.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 26, 2018 3:51 PM |
As R40 said, Abraham Lincoln was a practicing homosexual.
Also, Sherman Hemsley surprised me.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 27, 2018 11:54 PM |
[quote]Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian and actor.
Not a surprise to me.
There was talk about him for years before he came out.
Btw, Rick Mercer tried to get Conservative Cabinet Minister John Baird to officially come out, but he wouldn't do it.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 28, 2018 12:24 AM |
Alec Baldwin Daniel J. Travanti Joseph Mazello( he was a real cute nerd in The Social Network)
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 28, 2018 12:47 AM |
He didn't come out. He is GAY though.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 28, 2018 12:58 AM |
Squiggy from Laverne And Shirley
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 28, 2018 12:59 AM |
David Cassidy from The Partridge Family seemed gay to me. I saw a video on youtube. He was singing on some show ca. 1973 , his legs were pushed together the whole time as if he had a vagina.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 28, 2018 1:01 AM |
[quote]Also, the actor Richard Wilson (largely famous in the UK for the long-running sitcom One Foot in the Grave). Never pinged once in interviews.
People on DL will know who Richard Wilson is if you remind them that he played Merlin's mentor Gaius on "Merlin" from 2008-2012. That's what he's best known for in these parts.
But there was talk about Richard Wilson being gay for years. It wasn't a surprise to me when he finally came out, although it may have surprised the UK public since he waited until late in life.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 28, 2018 1:04 AM |
Sondheim, but I mean like way back when.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 28, 2018 1:39 AM |
[quote]Lily Tomlin
I think Tomlin had been hinting at it for many years in some of her films, but some people may not have picked up on it.
Examples:
She played a divorced mother in "Nine To Five".
By the time of "Tea With Mussolini", she was playing a lesbian character who was dancing with women.
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 28, 2018 2:41 AM |
[quote]David Alan Grier
That was for the other thread.
Gay I thought were straight.... ALL SPEEDSKATERS
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 28, 2018 2:49 AM |
And thank you Jesus for that
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 28, 2018 2:51 AM |
Kristen Stewart before 2013
I though she was straight not bi/lez
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 28, 2018 4:13 AM |
R119, if you were on DL a number of years ago during the Twilight films, there were loads of posters here who identified her as liking girls.
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 28, 2018 4:14 AM |
R120 if you were on DL a number of years ago during the Twilight films
I wasn’t!
after 2012 she was openly dating girls but wasn't announcing it and her mother outed her as bisexual in 2015
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 28, 2018 4:32 AM |
Bieber's beard Selena Gomez
people still think she's straight lol
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 28, 2018 4:40 AM |
I think Lily came out in a MS. Magazine interview back in the 70s.
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 28, 2018 4:51 AM |
This should only be for confirmed gays.
I thought Portia was straight during Ally McBeal.
Ricky Martin, TK Knight
| by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 28, 2018 5:23 AM |
Yes, Richard Chamberlain! We were watching Centennial when my mother casually mentioned that while he was very handsome, everyone knew that Richard was gay gay gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 28, 2018 9:44 AM |
R125, do you mean T. R. Knight?
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 28, 2018 9:52 AM |
Oh yes Joseph Mazello! Gay or not, he was in The Cure, I love that movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 28, 2018 10:21 AM |
English 60s actress - Amanda Barrie.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 130 | August 28, 2018 10:27 AM |
R32, rumours that George Michael was gay had been doing the rounds for a long time. Perhaps you missed them because you're straight.
| by Anonymous | reply 131 | August 28, 2018 10:27 AM |
What are you talking about, r18? Samantha Fox's long-term partner was her manager Myra Stratton, who sadly died of cancer a couple of years ago. I haven't heard anything about this working down the market thing you're talking about.
| by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 28, 2018 10:36 AM |
Definitely Russell Tovey - never before had I sensed such masculinity.
| by Anonymous | reply 135 | August 28, 2018 1:16 PM |
R132 - it was in one of the tabloids many years back. Possibly The Sun or The Mirror. I've had a quick google and can't find anything but this was pre-internet.
Apparently her family were market traders so perhaps I misremembered it but I definitely remember seeing a pic of her working on a market stall a long time after her successful years.
| by Anonymous | reply 136 | August 28, 2018 1:25 PM |
Tammy Lynn Michaels on Popular. I had no inkling she was a lezzie until the Melissa Etheridge connection.
| by Anonymous | reply 139 | August 28, 2018 11:45 PM |
Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane)
Sheila Kuehl (Zelda)
Roy Stuart (Corporal Boyle)
Richard Deacon (Fred Rutherford, Mel Cooley)
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | August 29, 2018 3:52 AM |
Everyone knew Rock Hudson was gay, too. When I was little, pre-internet, I thought he was the hottest thing ever. I watched all his old movies. (I'm a woman.) I read those old movie magazines about him and took a look at his bride that he was married to for five minutes in the 1950s. His agent's secretary or something. At age 11, or however old I was, I said, "Okey doke, he is gay, and I don't care." Who the hell ever thought he wasn't gay?
I thought for a long time Cary Grant was straight and the gay rumors were just rumors, but really, when you look at his movies, as absolutely wonderful as he is, he's not generating heat. He just comes off as the kind of actor an actress would LOVE working with because there's no line crossing or funny business, no matter how intimate the scene. I think Bette Davis used to talk about that - said a strong woman opposite him on camera would eat him alive. Maybe that's why he and Katherine Hepburn had anti-chemistry in Bringing Up Baby.
Speaking of Katherine Hepburn
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | August 29, 2018 3:58 AM |
"Who the hell ever thought he wasn't gay?"
Pretty much everyone, that's why he had a career as a leading man.
| by Anonymous | reply 143 | August 29, 2018 4:00 AM |
No, pretty much everyone knew he was gay and pretended they didn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 144 | August 29, 2018 4:26 AM |
No, why would they pretend they didn't know? It's the opposite - people like you pretend they "always knew" when they didn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 145 | August 29, 2018 4:27 AM |
No, I always knew, my mother always knew, everyone I knew always knew.
| by Anonymous | reply 146 | August 29, 2018 4:29 AM |
Translation - they claim they knew and you claim you knew
| by Anonymous | reply 147 | August 29, 2018 4:33 AM |
Most straight people have lousy gaydar. Of course they didn't know.
| by Anonymous | reply 148 | August 29, 2018 4:34 AM |
Ricky Martin, George Michael and Ian McKellen
| by Anonymous | reply 149 | August 29, 2018 6:25 AM |
Of course people knew Rock Hudson was gay, I used to sit around Fire Island listening to the guys talk about all the times he was helped out of parties drunk. These guys don't live in a gay bubble, they tell their family and friends, none of whom dropped dead in shock. And believe it or not when people think someone is straight and it turns out they are gay, they don't think: "OMG!! And to think I saw his movies believing he was straight! The more fool I! I better tell people I knew all along!"
They don't care that much. When an actor who looks like Rock Hudson is unmarried with no visible girlfriend for decades on end people - even people who read fan magazines - get the picture. He was in a big TV show too - McMillan and Wife, and when he promoted it never dragged a beard along and alluded to his straight romantic life, so basically, yes, PEOPLE KNEW.
| by Anonymous | reply 150 | August 29, 2018 6:29 AM |
[quote]Most straight people have lousy gaydar. Of course they didn't know.
I agree.
It's a little different with the younger generation today -- they are a little more tuned in to gay culture.
But the majority of straights still have no clue who is gay.
I've been on this board for years and I remember the days when we had fangirls insisting Wentworth Miller was straight. And Clay Aiken.
And now it's happening with Shawn Mendes.
| by Anonymous | reply 154 | August 29, 2018 9:52 AM |
do we have any proof on Duff Goldman? I always thought he pinged (and is hot)
| by Anonymous | reply 157 | August 29, 2018 12:45 PM |
Kelly McGillis. What girl wouldn't want to be leaning on Tammy's shoulder in the Top Gun poster?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 159 | August 29, 2018 1:03 PM |
[quote]Duff Goldman? I always thought he pinged (and is hot)
Well, you were wrong about one. You might as well be wrong about the other.
| by Anonymous | reply 160 | August 29, 2018 3:30 PM |
[quote] Steve Kmetko.
Haven't thought about him in years. He's looking unrecognizable these days.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 163 | August 29, 2018 6:59 PM |
