What Celebrities Will Die In The Closet? They Will Never State They Are Gay.

Pat Sajak

Richard Simmons

Barack Obama

Dolly Parton

Aaron Schock

The two Mexican wrestlers that keep popping up in ads in this site.

Adam Schiff ... gay, gay, GAY

R6 nailed it!

John Travolta

Vin Diesel.

Patrick Swayze RIP

Jakey Boy?

LENA :(

Leo

Aaron Rodgers

Tom Selleck

Vin Diesel, Dolly, Ryan Reynolds, Matt Damon, Kanye

Damn you Dolly!

Troy Aikman

Kanye West

Wait, Ryan Reynolds? That's a bit far-fetched, isn't it?

Ryan Seacrest

David Lee Roth

Queen Latifah...she won't ever confirm anything. Taylor Swift, Katie McGrath, & Jeremy Renner.

Pat Sajak?! Are there really rumors about him? He's a rightwing asshat. Let the straights have him!

Kanye. Leo. Dolly.

The Fresh Prince

David Muir

Surprised no one mentioned the Senatrix Lindsey Graham

Kenny Chesney because he helps support his touring crew and they depend on him

AND country music!

oh plus you have to sign a NDA

*Allegedly*

Burt Reynolds

Hillary!

Kaye Ballard!

Henry Cavill

La Belle Pace (a.k.a. Lee Pace)

Mariska Hargitay

Shawn Mendes

Nancy McKeon

Rose "Thank God Mary's dead or she'd be suing me for sexual harassment by now," Marie

Olivia Newton-Lez

Helen Reddy, Stockyard Channing, Markie Post and let's not forget Carole King

Richard Cox (actor CRUISING, LOOKING FOR RICHARD....)

Ryan gosling. Ryan Reynolds. Chris pine. George Clooney. John cusack. Tom hiddleston. Richard dean Anderson. Michael keaton. Val Kilmer. Richard gere.

Who, R39?

And what is the story on Stockard Channing, R41? Never heard that before. Wikipedia says she's been married and divorced four times and in a longterm het relationship for the last 20 years.

Diane Keaton

Sandra Bullock

that singer

Dolly, Hugh Jackman

It's mind of surprising that his 'good friend's Bryan's dirt hasn't gotten on Hugh yet....

George Clooney, James Franco, Matt McConaughey, Jake G., Seacrest, Revolta, Jackman, .......and the list goes on and on.

Kevin Spacey - literally.

Oprah

taylor swift

Missy Elliott, Condoleeza Rice, Bradley Cooper, Donna Brazille, Oprah Winfrey, Steadman Graham, Donald Trump, Jr.

Tiny Tim

davey blackburn

tim tebow

Henry Cavill because he still has hope of making it big time.

Sam Heughan will now that he's gone back in.

Ezra Miller - only because he's hiding behind the queer tag and pretending to date and sleep with women.

Jared with a K!

Tyler Perry.

Wayne Gretzky

Dionne Warwick

Carson Daly

Tyne Daly

Tim Daley

R3, fuck your self with a rusty coat hanger.

And Magic Johnson for my pick for die in a closet. And Dr. Dre.

Keith Urban, Jake G, Kenny Chesney

Anne Murray? She was a gym teacher, she has legions of lesbian fans and was named the best female celebrity golfer in Golf for Women magazine. I read that she lives with a woman. She was married to a man, but divorced him in 1998. Any stories?

She works at Dykes Lumber now.

I heard Anne Murray works at Snap-on Tools.

Randy Travis

Keanu Reeves

Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johannson, Charlize Theron.

[quote]Tyne Daly

[quote]Tim Daley

Why would you spell their names differently?

Not sure how that happened, R71

Randy Travis suffered a debilitating stroke, so I don't think coming out is top on his list of things to do.

Isn't Ed O'Neill supposed to be secretly gay?

Oh, how I wish Ty Burrell was.

No jokes please - why does everyone think Hugh Jackman is gay?

I know he's from musical theater and I know his wife isn't a cover model but other than that I don't see why people persistently say hes in the closet. Because he seems nice..? I don't get it. Have there ever been any stories or reports about him being gay? Just just seems like wishful thinking.

Mr. Pence.

Mr. Kaine.

Mr. Macron.

With adequate ventilation, there is no reason to die in the closet.

Jared Leto

Markie Post is a lez-lez???

Hi DL,

I've been lurking for a few weeks waiting to ask this.

So when I was five my mom wrote a lesbian pulp novel called Twilight Girl. She used the pen name Della Martin. It was autobiographical about herself and three friends.

One was a famous sixties radical who came out some time ago. She's pretty iconic.

Another was a prominent Beverly Hills socialite and activist who died closeted. She's not an icon but she created one. There's still a foundation associated with her name and it paints her as a semi-saint. Mom describes her as a violent junkie. She was always nice to me.

And the third was Mom's girlfriend who was a pretty major sixties TV star. A- if not A. Several shows and iconic roles. She died closeted half a century ago but she's still alive in reruns. I loved her very much. She used to bring me pastry from the BH Hotel in fancy little boxes and call me in character from her shows.

I know the whole real story and I really want to tell it, but I'm concerned about the ethics of outing even someone long dead. The family's of the latter two women would object mightily for personal and financial reasons. My family objects to my outing Mom, but she wrote a lot of lesbian novels and I know where she stood.

A lot of my childhood trauma is about my parents' closet. Do I have the right to tell it openly even if that means outing two important women of the sixties, or should I keep Mom's secrets?

PS: Dad dated John Garfield, among others.

To @81:

Most people who are in the closet are there because they fear consequences. The people you are talking about are gone so they're not going to lose their jobs or get shunned socially.

I don't know what your vision of the afterlife is (if any) but I don't think your mom and dad or the closeted friends of theirs that you're thinking about outing are going to be screaming "OMG OMG 81 let our secret out!!!" from the other side.

Also, it occurs to me that a some famous people leave instructions that their diaries and letters can be released X number of years after they are gone. If it's been 50 years, maybe these people would want this information to be publicly known now.

The question would be what effect this is going to have on living people. Would this ruin somebody's memory of their parent or make them extremely unhappy for some other reason? And conversely would telling anyone at this point improve anyone's life? Are these people iconic or role models that would inspire some gay kid someplace to not kill himself?

So my two cents is to weigh the harm it might do against the good it might do and make your decision that way.

.

R81 Yes, you should tell what you know. I’m sure no one will mind.

Emmanuel Macron

Thanks 82, 83

I've been weighing the ethics of this for years. It's a mixed bag.

The socialite is famous for peace and this would associate her with violence and radical politics. Her family wants to protect her legacy which I can kinda see.

But the TV star would be a WONDERFUL role model and LGBTQ icon. You guys already love her. (There's a thread here without a hint of her sexuality). And her best-known role would take on sweet irony if the truth was told.

My store is closing. I'll be back in the morning to read replies. Thanks for the help.

Why Ryan Reynolds? I’ve never heard a word about him being family and he seems pretty happily married.

I suddenly got excited for Donna Reed! I always loved her, especially in that telephone scene in "It's a Wonderful Life."

R85, How do "violence and radical politics" enter the picture, just by someone's being revealed as gay?

[quote]why does everyone think Hugh Jackman is gay?

L O L

Mark Hamill

R81, The one woman was a major 60's TV star but also died ca. 1967?

R87, Donna Reed died in 1986, hardly "half a century ago." But perhaps r81 isn't good with arithmetic, for your guess is great. It certainly would make Reed's "dance partner" (prostitute) scenes with Montgomery Clift in "From Here to Eternity" "sweet irony."

r81: spill the tea.

Out of writers and producers, Shonda Rhimes will probably die in the closet.

dubya; condi

R33 KAY BALLARD YOU TWIT!

R33 Hey Dick! Do you suppose your Cousin KAY ever hooked up with you wife Dagmar?

Well now I do.

If Helen Reddy ever comes out, [italic]Pete's Dragon[/italic] retroactively becomes the [italic]Sincerely Yours[/italic] of the 1970s.

R85 Elizabeth Montgomery ?? Wasn't Bewitched suppsed to be a metaphor for being "out?' Clearly math is not your strong suit though.

My guess as to the actress who died a half-century ago that r81/r85 alluded to is Bea Benaderet (Kate Bradley, Betty Rubble, Pearl Bodine)

Chris Evans and Liam Neeson

Dolly.

“I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood. I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out,”

At least somebody from [italic]9 to 5[/italic] came out.

Jensen Ackles

Some rumored sporty types:

Jeff Gordon The Rock JJ Watt (this last one is wishful thinking).

Lauren Graham

r107 no, Dwayne Johnson has, too. Here and elsewhere.

And speaking of smoke, DL fave Tony Stewart is another candidate.

NHL: Crosby, Toews, Seguin (latter two bi)

yes, there are definitely nhl players who like trans. she-males or whatever you call them. i know someone who makes money whenever nhl teams visits his/her town (in canada)

R110 demonstrates how the closet enables male genital mutilation.

r111 hush, I want to hear NHL gossip. There's been a sad dearth lately. Names, or initials and team city?

[quote]Why Ryan Reynolds?

The man walks with a lisp. He has gay face and asking "why," is like asking "why Richard Simmons" or "why JM J Bullock"

Damon

Jimmy Fallon

Bette Midler and Rose Marie for sure.

R81, anyone who is afraid of their long-gone relatives being known as a lesbian or gay is homophobic on some level. If these relatives are happy for them to be remembered in other ways then it's pretty glaring that they wouldn't want them to be remembered as lesbians.

My attitude is that once someone dies the truth about them becomes public domain, especially when it's something completely benevolent like this. Trying to keep it hidden suggests homosexuality is still a dirty secret.

It's a generational thing, at least for some people.

R113 still no reason. Since when did we accept the homophobic “because he looks gay”? He has never had any rumors, nobody crawling out the woodwork, no bitter exes telling tales. He’s a bit camp, that means nothing. My very straight married brother is more camp, he bounces around the kitchen singing Gloria Gaynor songs with his children.

Hi. R81 again,

So I guess I just wanted some confirmation of where I was already going.

R88 - the violence and radical politics are only tangentially related to the outing. They're just part of the family story. Violence because my Mom was violent and she describes a lot of it in her books. I can add names. The radical politics because that's what my family was about. I was a "red-diaper baby". My grandparents were founders of the Socialist Workers Party. We were the people Joe McCarthy warned you about. ;)

I was working on a book about all this when the Weinstein story exploded and made my little scandal seem pretty minor, but it's still a good story and I am going to tell it. My mildly-homophobic elderly brothers never concerned me, but the other families involved did.

So, in case I get hit by a bus before I finish here's a DL scoop:

In the 1960 novel Twilight Girl, the character Lon is based on the author, Adela Kalousek Maritano, who wrote more than 80 novels under the names Della Martin, Kay Martin, Jane Converse, Adela Gale, Leslie Seabrook, Terry Singleton and probably several others.

The character Mavis is based on a then-teenage Angela Davis. She came out some time ago.

The socialite Sassy is based on Lorraine Schneider, founder of Another Mother for Peace and designer of the iconic "War is not Healthy for Children and other Living Things" poster. She died closeted.

And finally the character Violet with the dyed purple hair was indeed based on Bea Benaderet. Bea was the delight of my childhood and my Mom's girlfriend for many years. She was the funniest person I've ever met. It doesn't seem fair that America can't watch Petticoat Junction and see her as one happy lesbian. Congratulations [R101], you called it. Bea died on my Mom's birthday in 1968.

Thanks for the support all.

PS: Never heard a whisper about Donna Reed, but Kay Ballard was at Mom's parties sometimes.

[quote]Do you suppose your Cousin KAY ever hooked up with you wife Dagmar?

I'm not Kay, I'm Alice.

Thanks R81/R120. It's always nice when a poster who says he knows something doesn't drag it out forever. Good luck with your book. The double-bearding that seems to have gone on is really interesting. How did your brothers end up mildly homophobic if both your parents were gay?

[R122] My three older siblings were raised by our grandparents. My parents were closeted from them too. Brothers still won't talk about it. I was the unexpected bastard child who showed up late in their lives. They were less concerned about the closet by the time I showed up, although neither of my parents ever officially came out to me, they just knew I knew. Mom brought a girlfriend to my wedding, (along with the touring company of some ice show).

[quote]Bea was the delight of my childhood and my Mom's girlfriend for many years. She was the funniest person I've ever met. It doesn't seem fair that America can't watch Petticoat Junction and see her as one happy lesbian.

I love this. Thanks, R81/R120

r119 [quote] never had any rumors

Not true

R119

[quote] never had any rumors

Not true

Keep dreaming R106

This is the only place I have seen anyone claiming that r126. There is literally nothing to support your claim. It’s kind of sad when you’re so desperate to believe any halfway decent looking guy is gay. The fact that heterosexuals outnumber us by at least 10-1 would seem to have escaped you.

[quote] It’s kind of sad when you’re so desperate to believe any halfway decent looking guy is gay.

Don't blame me. Blame the 1980s. My gaydar's achilles heel is good-looking white guys named Rick.

Ryan and Simon.

Here's Twilight Girl, y'all.

Why are you even here, r128? You seem pathetic yourself. Someone who trolls gay website insisting on a stranger's heterosexuality is bizarre.

Frances Bavier never came out.

Marcia Cross

R70 CT said that she slept with women, how is that closeted?

The one who bought a zoo!

Very interesting comments, Bryce. Thank you! I’d love to read more. If/when your book comes out, please let us know.

Because I don’t believe you I must be trolling r132? I have no insider knowledge here, I just stated the facts as I know them - he has never talked about being gay. He has been married twice - that’s not necessarily a pointer of being straight but he seems genuinely married. The only place I’ve ever witnessed any rumors is here and that was only wishful thinking. Being a bit camp means nothing and it is deeply homophobic to insist someone is gay because “he looks a bit gay”. You truly are a sad little man to be so desperate for a complete stranger to be gay. He may be but it seems highly unlikely.

Bump

Vin Diesel

Taylor Swift

Tyra Banks, her ex-lover Gillian Anderson, Susan Anton, Celine Dion.

R142, Gillian Anderson has opened up about her Lesbian affairs.

r76 =fish

[Quote] Anderson says she has had relationships with other women, but they have been the exception, not the rule.

Lucky Tyra.

This thread title needs to be changed to:

List and then relist the same celebs who are rumored to be gay (regardless of their current relationship status).

or

Post Vin Diesel's name 20 times

r87 That would be amazing but is Donna Reed an icon that people today remember?

I've worked with Shelley Fabares and I asked her about Donna. She said that Donna was as wonderful a lady as you'd imagine her to be. Absolute sweetheart. I can say the same about Shelley, really sweet down to earth generous lady.

r147

They were both bitches that ruined countless lives of child actors

Ryan Seacrust, (sorry if he's already been mentioned). Magic Johnson

Obama. Denny Quaid, , Harrison Ford, etc

Henry Cavill. Dylan Sprayberry. The ugly Jonas Brother.

All the Jonas Brothers.

Kristin Davis

Hermey the Perfect Fit (not misfit) Elf

Kate Walsh

Beard couple Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel will both die in the closet.

Piper Perabo

I thought Ashton Kutcher swang like JT & Biel, but I hear tell Kunis is a big ol' homophobe who was "very uncomfortable" kissing Nat Portman in Black Swan. Yet, she's comfortable whoring herself out for Jack Daniels. Go figure.

Mila seems cool with gays

Jon hamm

Pat Boone

Some women seem like they're more comfortable with gay men than lesbians.

Matt Dilon and Keanu Reeves

Dillon

How strong are the rumours Matt Dillon is gay [R164]?

Russell Crowe

[quote]oh plus you have to sign a NDA

r30, sad because...believable

Troy Aikman, Troy Aikman, troy Aikman, et cetera ad infinitum

Pretty much most of them.

[quote]Pat Sajak?! Are there really rumors about him? He's a rightwing asshat. Let the straights have him!

Fine, they can have him as long as we can have Rick Schroder.

Ricky is a repub and member of the NRA R170.

Every pro athlete who wants to keep their career

What could be more phallic than a gun?

george cloonie wins this thread

Senatrice Lindsey Graham...

Those DAMN Russians and their blackmail, I'll shoot them with a gun I hide in the folds of my dress the way Scarlett O'Hara shot that theiving Yankee!

I've heard Troy Aikmans name mentioned for years. What's the scoop? My family is Texan and we've never heard or seen a peep.

.......Tyler......Perry

r21 from the second I heard Ryan Reynolds speak his first line on Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place I said "that man is a homosexual rose," I mean Purses fall out of his mouth.

RDJ.

Tim McGraw Pings big time!!!!!

David Muir!

Chicken hawk Giorgio Clowney.

Thom Sell ick

Mark Hamill

I was not gay.

John Goodman

J. Corden

A. Shiff

R101 , Nancy Kulp from BH , always said that Bea was the only person in the Cast of BH , that was rude to her and called her Bull Dyke behind her back . Not even future nemesis Buddy Ebsen did that .

Chase Crawford...looks like a handbag.

Sean William Scott...you never hear about him dating a woman

Taylor Lautner....where there's smoke, there's gay

Zac "I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid" Efron

R58 Hugh Jackman is one of Hollywood's great Teflon Dons. Yeah never questioned about what he knew about Bryan Singer.

R86 I think Blake Lively would know if Ryan Reynolds was gay.

Seann William Scott, the alleged henchman for Singer & company, just married an actual woman.

Please keep up with the group.

David Carradine literally died in the closet.

Bless his soul.

[quote]Grainy images printed in the tabloid Thai Rath reportedly show the "Kung Fu" actor suspended from a clothing bar in a closet. Red women's lingerie appears to be on the bed adjacent to his body, according to ABCNews.com.

David “haven’t met the right girl” Muir

R81, When Garfield died in the New York apartment of a woman he wasn't married to, she said he was visiting and fell asleep on the sofa. Maybe he was gay and they were just friends, but the papers made it seem he was there for fun.

R151 I don't think Dylan has any gay rumours.

R158 Black Swan wasn't the first time Mila played gay. And i don't get the Jack Daniels comparison??

Luke Bryan

David Muir.

Projects himself as straight.

Another vote for Hillary. She had dyke written all over her (Wellesley was then and remains now Dyke Central) and that's why she was more upset by the political ramifications of the Lewinsky scandal than the sexual humiliation most wives would have felt - ditto enabling his decades of philandering throughout their marriage. It's probably also why they only had one child.

Clooney will die in the closet with his beard and her mother on the other side of the door haranguing him about how they saved him and his career.

I think I am going to start using fag.

I do not think Clooney is a fag.

Don Jr.

T0ny D anza

Symon C0well

Marishka H.

DJT Jr.

The...H0ugh...Siblings

Senatrice

Scott Baio

r41 correctly predicted Helen Reddy.

Agree about David Muir

R212

Ditto about David Muir.

Especially since he is terrified to admit he is gay.

Brock O'Hurn

Upen Patel

david muir

bc if you act straight, pass as straight, why not?

[Quote] The...H0ugh...Siblings

Half wrong.

R197 nailed it. Luke Bryan.

Who could ever believe that Luke Bryan was straight? He is the gayest gay boy to hit country music since Randy Travis.

Another vote for Hillary Clinton. She pings to high Heaven. The question is, why did Bill marry a woman in whom he could have had so little sexual interest? Is it really feasible that amongst all the women who would have shared his ambitions and plans, including ambitions and plans of her own that would have been furthered by furthering his, not one hetero female could be found?

Or perhaps that's why she was so useful: the usual conflicts of sexual loyalty would be erased from the equation, leaving the path less cluttered as long as he was discreet?

Hillary and that other close friend-dyke, Susan Thomases (whatever happened to her?) always seemed like more of a couple than Bill and Hillary.

Oh, quit with the "Tammy" shit. Whatever his sexual orientation he's still male.

It's shit like this that make guys insist on "masc".

Morrissey, not even now that his mother has died.

David Tyler Muir!

Shemar Moore.

david & axel muir!

Henry. Henry Cavill.

Paolo Montalban.

R225 yeah...he is in a straight closet and he will never come out))) because you sad queens will go mad

Hue Jackman

Barak Obama

R219 It worked for the Clintons. Both could eat all the pussy they wanted and remain a couple in the public's eye. Hilary's lifelong plan to be President couldn't happen for a woman who was unmarried or Lez.

Ivanka "Black Leather Dyke" Trump, with some phony merkin/beard combo name with a K.

david muir!

A. Rodgers

David Muir.

Twitter is getting restless with his undeclared homosexuality.