How many times has Al Pacino played gay?

Rumors were that he was gay for pay back in the old country.

And he was raw male sex back in the day.

^^^Sure, Mary.

Cruisin', OP?

Sonny Corleone was an insatiable bottom.

Pacino played Michael Corleone.

He has admitted he worked as a male prostitute in the 60s in Italy. He has SAID he only prostituted himself to women, but no one puts much stock in that since women so rarely hire male prostitutes.

Sonny Corleone in the book was most definitely a top. cf: the infamous page 27, the "fucked by a horse cock" scene.

I buy that he's dabbled in the past. He has a certain sense about him... a comfort with men... I don't know. There's so much homoeroticism in The Irishman as well. It's part of the man's career!

Yes r2 is clueless, Al Pacino has admitted he was a prostitute. Like r5 said, the only point of contention is him trying to claim his clients were women. No one who wasn't born yesterday is going to believe that.

There are gigolos that are women only....

Didn't he hustle in his first lead role in "Panic In Needle Park"? Or am I not remembering right?

R8, I'm clueless? You can't prove a damn thing. And r10, that was a role.

Remember when "Hung" came out? And HBO tried to persuade America there was a market of horny, well-off middle-aged women in DETROIT eager to pay for sex? And all the gay boys just LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED?

Interestingly, OP, Pacino has never played an openly gay character. In each of the movies you mentioned, his character is in denial of some sort. In DDA, (based on a true story), his character is married with children, but he's robbing the bank to get money to pay for his male lover's sex-change operation, so that his male lover can become female.... in Cruising, he's a straight cop who goes undercover as gay to try and nab a serial killer And in Angels, he plays scumbag, closeted homophobe Roy Cohn, in which he's in constant denial despite all the evidence otherwise.

There are many older, single or unhappily married women out there willing to pay for amazing sex. There is a market for it but it is a lot more hush hush.

He had to be bi in "Scent of a Woman."

The way his Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade took to twinky Charlie Simms was a pure daddy/son scenario if I've ever seen one.

(The attached photo is from an outtake of the movie. In the scene, Frank points at Charlie's cock and declares to the boys and the board of Baird School, an exclusive New England prep school that "CHARLIE'S GOT A GREAT COCK! And Harry, Jimmy, Trent -- wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU TOO!")

R13, that's not an accurate description of his character in Dog Day Afternoon. He's never closeted. Sonny has a wife he supports and a man he's robbing a bank for. The character never denies his lover Leon.