The 13 Greatest Sissies of All Time

Fmr. Rep. Aaron Schock will soon be a convicted felon sissy.

Add Repug Sen. Orin Hatch to the list.

Lamar from "Revenge of the Nerds."

Not even an honorable mention for Franklin Pangborn?

No love for Mr. Smithers?t

Dr. Zachery Smith from "Lost In Space"

Tony Randall

Tim Gunn, the fashion sissy

If one mentions Franklin Pangborn without mentioning either Edward Everett Horton or Clifton Webb immediately, one will have bad luck all day.

Nathan Lane's character in the Birdcage.

Nathan Lane in person.

Franklin Who?

R12, that joke does't work when you could as easily have typed his name into Google.

Richard Simmons

Charles Nelson Reilly

Steven Cojocaru

Uh, me.

Snagglepuss?

Paul Lynde?

Roger DeBris and Carmen Ghia

[quote] Paul Lynde?

Yes, Paul Lynde as OP named.

Noel Coward????

Weren't Capote and Lynde too vicious to be sissies?

Mr. Humphries from Are You Being Served

James Baldwin was no sissy. Neither Paul Lynde nor Little Richard could have written "the Fire Next Time".

future Hall of Flamers:

Lohanthony

Michael K

Leslie Jordan

Carson Kressley

R12 I get it even if R13 doesn't. Thanks for the chuckle.

Presumably (although we never saw him) Sheridan Bucket

Monty Woolley

Miss Lindsay Graham.

Top hatted tappers from Blazing Saddles.

Stephen Stucker from the "Airplane!" movies.

Bert Lahr

Stephan Tennant,

Terry Sweeney/SNL

Only ONE of them has won an Oscar-- Sissy Spacek!

I OWN this thread bitches!!!

According to Larry Kramer's new book, 'The American People:' George Washing was a big ol' queen.

Tony Perkins

Another vote for Leslie Jordan.

Stinky Davis

Lord Fairfax was George's first love.

what about Monroe from Two Close For Comfort.

Anthony from Designing Women

Ronald Firbank

Cecil Beaton

Andy Warhol

David Burtka

It doesn't make sense that there are real people and then TV characters. Should just stick with realeople.

Oh, R46/ Sammy . Get with itttt!!

Danny Pintauro in Who's the Boss

Miss J. Edgar Hoover herself deserves a place in the Big Sissy Hall of Fame. Bitch took out all of her fucking issues on the entire fucking country, and in high-heels no less.

Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson, Sex and the City)

Lamar Latrell!

Definitely Jim J. Bullock "Monroe", that bitch has had aids for 30yrs and he all faghagging it with Tammy Fucking Faye! That is deep.

Also John Ritter, as Jack Tripper or as anyone, really. And Mr. Furley too!

r48. he turntn into a muscleman, he did some allegded porn i thank

how bout chandler fatty massey?

Over fifty posts and nobody has mentioned the brilliant Kenneth Williams? You all need to turn in your gay cards.

Then there is Charles Hawtrey who could out sissy the best.

And lastly, Frankie Howerd, the butchest sissy of them all.

Robert Conrad, once you got him in the bedroom.

Quentin Crisp somehow always seemed incredibly tough to me. He said he liked London the best during the WWII bombings and spend his whole live fighting off gay bashers without suffering psychologically. He moved to NY when he was in his late 70s and wasn't even remotely intimidated by the Hell's Angels in his neighbourhood. More a closeted butch gay, if you ask me.

Real people vs TV characters? I think that Ronald Firbank would be the first to deny that he was a real person.

You forgot Tammy Cruise, homosexual tinymeat Brad Pitt, homosexual Obama, homosexual Harrison Ford, Popess Benedicta, etc etc etc

[quote] James Baldwin was no sissy. Neither Paul Lynde nor Little Richard could have written "the Fire Next Time".

Agreed. Though I like the fact that they gave him props for writing the greatest gay novel of all time, Giovanni's Room.

Baldwin was an intellectual and artist of the highest order. And while he may have been flaming in his mannerisms, during his lifetime he done more than any writer of his generation to inform people about how race, class and sexuality are intertwined in stratified America. He was more than just some queeny entertainer for everyone's amusement.

Take Weir off this list. It's "Greatest" sissies, not "most famewhorish".

Billy Crystal.

r60 - Why can't James Baldwin accomplish all that AND be a sissy?

How exactly are we defining sissiness anyway?

R63, bad example.

This is a sissy.

Bobby Conrad is not a sissy. He's all man and muscle!

Joe Besser, "Not so Hard!" "I'll harm you!"

RIP Joe. You were no Curly or Shemp, but you gave it your best shot.

After reading this thread, I keep imagining what a film starring Franklin Pangborn, Edward Everett Horton, Clifton Webb AND Grady Sutton would be like. Perhaps a DL "Let's Pretend..." thread is in order?

"The Misses of Sissy Fuss."

Robert Conrad talked and threw shad like a sissy.

The pope and his inner circle...pick any of them.

[quote]Bobby Conrad is not a sissy. He's all man and muscle!

Actually, he's an excellent actor. That's why some people think he's "all man" and don't realize that he's a total ka-ween.

[quote]How exactly are we defining sissiness anyway?

Isn't it another way of saying "wimp"? I don't think Quentin Crisp was a wimp, from what I've gathered he had massive balls to be the way he was in pre-war/wartime/postwar England.

R72. In OP's link, I don't feel the author was saying that sissies are wimps. Actually, everyone on the original list is quite accomplished.

I think sissy is referred to as somewhat of an outward persona but not as the person's actual fortitude, which as you say in the case of Quentin Crisp was quite ballsy and courageous. But for example, in an interview, his outward persona, voice and mannerisms were stereotypically sissy.

Any role ever played by James Milhollin.

Years ago, Quenton Crisp was scheduled to appear at an event in Orlando, Florida. He was staying with a columnist for a central Florida gay newspaper. He headlined his column with: "Quenton Crisp Stayed Over My House."

Thus his words provided a vision of Crisp staying in a hot air balloon tethered to the guy's roof.

Beverley Leslie from "Will & Grace"

Brother Boy from "Sordid Lives" the movie and the series

Gomer Pyle always seemed like a big girl.

Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds.

After all the sequin tanktops I've saturated with fairy sweat! I'm forlorn and forgotten. Bitches!

The Scarlet Pimpernel

My (male) friend had a year-long affair with Bob Conrad. Said he was the ultimate girl once in the bedroom. Bobby was the classic DLer: Nelly Queen. Insatiable bottom. Big Bush supporter.

Can I be in it too, r67?

"Anthony from Designing Women"

Did you ever see the 1980s movie "Mannequin"? He played a big old queen in that movie. In fact, the role came a bit too easy for him.

Horatio Alger

Dom DeLuise

Richard Halliday, Mary Martin's husband.

The first time Yul Brynner met Halliday, he said to a friend, "Is that really her husband? Amazing."

I nominate Russell Brand as an honorary sissy.

Martin Prince is the archetypal sissy.

Cannot abide Dick Cavett's voice....But is he more prissy than sissy?

Billy De Wolfe.

Another vote for Stinky Davis

Milo Yiannopoulos!

No Elton John or Freddie Fucking Mercury? Yet Boy George is on the list? What the hell