Actors you could have sworn were gay

Jason Bateman. When I found out he was married to a woman, I did swear. In fact, I cursed a blue streak.

I honestly thought Philip Seymoure Hoffmann was gay. Was downright confused hearing about his wife and kids.

Tony Randall.

All of the above, at least briefly. I'd add:

John Ritter (totally pinged for me as a kid on THREE'S COMPANY)

Ed Begley, Jr.

Jon Cryer

Josh Lucas (divorced, 1 child.... I'm still not convinced)

Josh Radnor, from HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.

Never married. Age 46. Any intel?

James Corden, but he is British, they can be tricky.

Definitely James Corden.

I still believe that Tony Randall was gay. My gaydar can't be THAT off. Even having children at 80 years of age. Actually, that made me believe he was gay even more than ever. I don't believe that many of the other actors mentioned above are strictly straight. John Ritter and PS Hoffman were probably bi, and Kevin Kline, Jason Bateman, Jon Cryer are probably bi as well. I'm convinced that James Corden and Josh Lucas are totally gay, though. Every time I hear those Home Depot ads, I think "What a big queen!" Josh Lucas has major gay voice.

I sat next to Josh Lucas on a flight from Atlanta to LA several years ago. I made myself out to be completely available but he didn't make a move. Nope straight as a arrow. lol

"I made myself out to be completely available but he didn't make a move. "

But how is that proof? Did you present hole?

He just wasn't that into you R9. Sheesh, just because he gay doesn't mean he'll settle for just any gay sycophant fan on an airplane!

Peter Sarsgaard

Stanley Tucci.

ROP I wish.

Justin Bartha

Yes, R1 Jason Bateman for sure. He’s bisexual at the VERY least. Still very hot, in fact I’m more attracted to him now.

paul rudd

Ron Livingston, especially after he married the dyke-ish wife and adopted a couple of babies... FISHY

Rock Hudson, but he was married.

Clint Eastwood.

Max Greenfield (“new girl”). There’s no way he’s straight.

Raymond Burr. Married twice.

Nothing and no one will ever convince me that John Malkovich is straight-straight. I thought that John Hurt was out, same with Taika Waititi, when he first entered the scene I could have sworn that he was gay and out. Was also super surprised when Alan Rickman died and some article mentioned him having a female partner for 20 years.

I bet there's some gay there but they still go with a woman because of social programming.

R11 Dumbass- I was being sarcastic. I did fly with him from Atlanta to LA but I didn't flirt with the fucker. We were on the first row of first class. Not animals in the back.

Josh Lucas sat near me at an off-Bway play a couple of years ago (I think he had a friend in the cast).

He seemed very friendly and pleasant. Very sexy in person. And gay, gay, gay.

Later on, a mutual acquaintance involved with the play said, "No, he's straight."

[quote]I sat next to Josh Lucas on a flight from Atlanta to LA several years ago. I made myself out to be completely available but he didn't make a move. Nope straight as a arrow. lol

Isn't it possible you're not his type?

Ryan Phillippe.

Mary Martin And Janet Gaynor

- Corden

- Stonestreet

- McCormack

Michael Sheen

John Lithgow

Hunter Parrish

I read in an interview of someone, somewhere, that Tony Randall was very active in the gay scene until the AIDS epidemic hit. Then he must have decided it was time to get out of the pool and he found a woman to marry.

Paul Bettany

Dan Stevens

James McAvoy

Tony Randall was married for fifty years. Three years after his first wife died he married Heather Harlan who was 50 years his junior.

I seriously can’t tell anymore, so I just believe what they say. 🙄 I still believe in the Kinsey Scale though.

Marsha Warfield

Another vote for Josh Lucas

LeVar Burton

Michael Ian Black

Matthew Broderick

Michael Ian Black is bisexual

Black is a good one. Many fans of THE STATE thought a lot of them seemed at least a little gay.

Tony Randall displays his giant schlong to a young male admirer.

Nothing gay here.

Michael Ian Black is what? Prove it bitch.

Benedict Cumberbatch

R43 I’ve swallowed his babies.

When Jude Law first started to get noticed I saw him in an interview and thought he was flaming. Totally whiffed on that one.

James Corden has got to be gay. I don't care if he's married to a woman and has children.

Tony Randall is gay as well. Watch the Odd Couple. He and Jack Klugman are so much like a bickering couple, it's ridiculous.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman: gay as well.

IMO.

Darren Criss

Not an actor per se but Dana Carvey is queeny. As is Martin Short, but to a lesser extent.

Martin Short is no fag! I'm good friends with his lovely wife Nancy!

Richard Gere but he's married. And you should have seen that gerbil in a wedding dress.

Speaking of Dana Carvey... I've never been convinced that Mike Myers is straight. Not really.

One of the SNL alums (wish I could remember who) made an offhand comment about "now that there are openly gay cast members" and implied that over the years there have been several cast members who were gay but closeted. Which makes a sad kind of sense to me. It was such a homophobic straight boys club for so long. Tina Fey doesn't always get enough credit for shaking things up in that writers' room.

Finn Wittrock

David Spade

Myers was glass closeted for a while--apparently he'd take his boyfriend to parties and such. No idea how his wife fit into that scenario.

Conflict about his sexuality could have helped explain Hoffman's drug problems.

Other than those already mentioned, the usual suspects - Scott Caan, Hugh Jackman, Tom Selleck.

Um, Hugh and Tom ARE gay

Andy Dick.

Jimmy Fallon. I still don't how he can be straight. The whole presentation even in a somber tone scream GAY GAY GAY

Are you blind R42 - that is not the Tony Randall we are talking about.

Guessing alot of these guys are bi but want children and a family so lean to that side.

Dan Byrd, the gay guy from Easy A. Also from Couger town.

Bob Saget. That guy has to shoot nothing but blanks when he jizzes.

Kevin Kline IS gay, OP.

Because the only person he's ever loved and been passionate about is himself - a man.

Bugs Bunny

Lassie

Robbie Rist as "Oliver" in The Brady Bunch

Kevin Kline is bi, and fucks anyone who flatters him

Yyyyyeah it is, R60.

Ryan O'Neal

Mark Harmon

R34, I can't believe Tony had kids in his 70s!!!

I'm freaking 58 and I would have loved to have had kids, but that ship sailed;

if I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd consider it but ultimately not fair to do to the kid.

I have an extended family back east, cousins, they all have little ones.

I got a career break about a decade ago, but it wasn't enough of a boost to where I felt I could really make a go of it.

I live in LA. Really hard to meet someone here.

Wow, I had no idea Tony Randall was so big! Who is the guy admiring him and where was that picture taken?? It's bizarre.

Suzanne Somers

[quote]R2 I honestly thought Philip Seymoure Hoffmann was gay. Was downright confused hearing about his wife and kids.

I believe he was bi. Or bi adjacent enough.

R66...I would compliment him anytime! Wish it were true...always found him sexy, especially in The Pirates of Penzance. Wonder if George Rose had him?

[quote] Was also super surprised when Alan Rickman died and some article mentioned him having a female partner for 20 years.

I know some people in the London media who claim that Rickman was at the very least bisexual. One of them told me she had even been introduced to his male partner and socialized with both of them.

What R70 said - wth

Evan Peters

Hayden Christensen

Kim Fields

Starr Jones

Scott Caan is gay. My partner's dad was close friends with James Caan. Caan told him his son was gay and asked my partner's dad for advice on how he dealt with his son's coming out. Besides this he (Scott) was arrested in a gay bar after a fight over a boyfriend.

JOHN RITTER--I never believed he was straight at all.

Jeremy Jordan

Jeremy Northam, who was in Gosford Park, Happy Texas and The Crown - is he gay?

At least one DLer (male) claimed to have been on a date with Jeremy before he was famous

Taron Egerton

James Corden was out and proud before The History Boys film became such a success. Ask anyone who was in the London theatre scene at the time.

Rami Malek.

Never heard that about Alan Rickman, but it makes perfect sense.

R42 Tony's admirer has a bit of stiff going on too.

Patrick Stewart

Stanley Tucci

R80 Scott Caan has a female partner and they have a son. I know he still could be gay and if his father was ok with it, why would he go out of his way to be with a woman?

John Travolta

The picture at R42 is not Tony Randall. Why does anybody even want it to be? You've got a thing for Felix Unger?

R90 and i'm the dame to prove it.

Jeremy Renner. Turnered out he was just an alcoholic womaniser.

R92 the gossip I've heard is that Scott had always wanted children and the mother of his child is a long-tern female friend (as opposed to a girlfriend) and they are raising the daughter together

Jeremy Northam is as straight as any British male is.

So of course he's dated men.

Clark Gregg.

According to the book "You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again" John Ritter liked call girls, was well hung, and could fuck all night.

Eric Stonestreet is a swishy straight. we don't want to claim him.

I will never not believe that Kevin Kline is gay

Colin Farrell, but then he played that manly role in....oh wait he's never seemed anything but ambiguous

Rumour is that Jeremy Northam is homophobic.

R100 Can you really imagine that?

R82 Jeremy is just a standard-model actor pricktease to whoever gave him his last part. He knows he'd be waiting tables otherwise.

Not an actor but after seeing interviews with Danny Elfman I was more than surprised to see he is married to Bridgette Fonda.

Scott Speedman

Adam Brody.

R107 sure you don't mean Ben McKenzie??

R108 I thought the title implied "but actually aren't," so... do YOU think I meant Ben McKenzie?

[quote]Tony Randall is gay as well. Watch the Odd Couple. He and Jack Klugman are so much like a bickering couple, it's ridiculous.

It makes you wonder how they managed to mishandle [italic]Love Sidney[/italic] the way they did.

R2- That just means he was a CLOSET queen.

[quote]Yes, [R1] Jason Bateman for sure. He’s bisexual at the VERY least. Still very hot, in fact I’m more attracted to him now.

In the last scene of the last episode of [italic]Silver Spoons[/italic] he was in, he hugs Ricky goodbye and Act II ends with a freeze-frame on that moment. I never bought either of them as completely heterosexual and no amount of evidence will change my mind. I just wish they appeared in something together where they were both legal age.

Ok, not an actor but... Kenny Chesney??

Straight... right???

Brits don't count. They screw with all gaydars.

Shia LaBoef.

I saw John Ritter naked and he was not well hung in the least so that book is a lie.

I have had sex with one of the men listed.

How many married with kids men do you know who also hook up with guys?

Many of the men on this list could be among that group.

Kevin Kline was gay favorite Patti LuPone's FB for a while in the 70s, if her tales are to be believed. She claims he was her boyfriend but he cheated on her with other women a lot because he was quite attractive back then. Kevin doesn't ping to me at all. He just comes across as a somewhat swishy straight guy.

Simon Rex

Richard Thomas

Ryan Gosling

Tony Romo

R121 Tony is an actor???

Seann William Scott may have finally married a woman, but I have met him and PING PING PING.

Canadians set off false alarms. I decided Ryan Reynolds had beady ferret eyes at the same time I accepted he was straight.

Jeremy Northam is a strange case. Substantial chat he was gay in and around the London theatre scene back in the day where he worked a lot. Hollywood appeared to be beckoning and he married makeup artist Liz Moro quite suddenly. Hollywood career crashed and burned as did the marriage. Again in and around London he was thought to be extremely pleasant, possessing a very dry wit and good company. He is however notoriously private.

I think Ryan is bi. Leans towards women because he wants family and traditional life, A list leading man career. Teases kisses with other men. No one straight likes to play around with that unless it's somewhere in their mind.

Jon Stewart

Jerry Seinfeld

It's a timeworn cliche, but there's an element of truth: some straight Jewish guys read very "gay" to people. I've made that mistake any number of times. (It's part of their appeal to me, I think.)

Kin Shriner

R91 see R13, darlin.

Justin Kirk

I know he has like 6 kids and everything, but David Tennant.

Welsh actor Alex Vlahos who is engaged to a woman but pings in interviews.

R124 - I did think Ryan Reynolds pinged, also but he's just Canadian.

Mena Massoud.

I see Ryan's PR people have arrived @ r124.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

R116 spill who it was. This is DL after all. Or put the number of the reply to confirm

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jason Bateman

Ryan Phillippe

Hugh Jackman

Andrew Garfield

Darren Criss

Taron Egerton

Zac Efron

Shawn Mendes

Seth Meyers

R137 = Andrew Garfield?..Here is a video of Andrew (in a WIG) and lip synching to WHITNEY.....(6:40) mark. ....No girl. She all gay....

Welsh actors Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys. Married to women. Bi?

R140 oh, the tales I could tell you, my love.

Matthew in particular is a lovely shag.

Love Sidney could have been great but the network panicked and his sexuality was mentioned maybe once. Shame but it did pave the way for Will and Grace. Baby steps.

Robert Sean Leonard

Anthony Heald

Justin Kirk

Bob Balaban

R131/R143 yes, I too thought Kirk was gay, but perhaps that’s just the ANGELS IN AMERICA effect.

Tom Holland

Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys lived together in the same flat and shared a bed, probably because of poverty. Maybe they had no heat.

[quoteJeremy Renner. Turnered out he was just an alcoholic womaniser.

I'll never understand this one R96. What kind of grown, rich, man lives with a roommate (while married)? There is something going on there.

I agree about Renner....

Kelsey Grammer

Tom Hiddleston

Harry Stiles

Quite a few names on here have bi rumours about them, so I don't think our gaydars were completely wrong here.

I will never believe that James Corden isnt gay. He can marry 10 times and have 30 children or even release a sex tape, and I wont believe. it.

Cam Gigandet

He has bottom face.

Well, actors, you know. Sleep with everyone. Because they can. I don't think it instantly makes anyone gay or straight.

An interesting case. Anthony Perkins.

Right on Wikipedia, it says he was completely homosexual until his first sex with a woman, when he was 39.

Later, married, and had 2 kids.

Died of AIDS at age 60.

Gay? Straight? Bi? Or perhaps, just, doing his own thing.

r157, it's called being gay and in the closet. You think he was straight? LOL. He didn't get AIDS from his wife.

Paul W. Downs who played Trey on Broad City pings to high heaven. He's been in a long term relationship with Lucia Aniello who also wrote and produced on Broad City with him. They also wrote that awful Scarlett Johansson movie Rough Night in which Paul played ScarJo's fiance. He wasn't believable as a straight guy in that movie.

I chatted with a Hollywood insider, not in front of the camera. He told me that gay-bi-straight has little meaning for actors. Most actors will do anything they need to do to get ahead including various kinds of same sex activity. many times it is the power the executives have over actors.

Philip Seymour Hoffman? Never got any such vibe from him.

PSH played gay really well in Boogie Nights. I think that's why some people assumed he was gay in real life.

I know he's been married a couple of times, but Harrison Ford has always pinged for me, especially in his younger days

[quote]I know he's been married a couple of times, but Harrison Ford has always pinged for me, especially in his younger days

Same.

The rumor repeated on DL and elsewhere is that Harrison Ford was no stranger to receiving an appreciative blowjob from a male admirer, back when he was just a quasi-hippie "freelance carpenter"/struggling actor.

Even after appearing in AMERICAN GRAFFITI and THE CONVERSATION, his acting work was hit and miss until STAR WARS broke in 1977. He was also a young, sexy guy with a wife and small children to support, like so many others.

His "carpentry" clients included young mogul David Geffen. The truth was that Ford was a popular marijuana dealer among Geffen and that crowd, who may have sampled his other wares.

What a pleasant thought, R165. That conjures up a very pleasant image that will stay with me throughout the day. Thank you.

Zac Efron, Bradley Cooper, Hugh (I)Jack(off to)Man , Leo DiCaprio, Kanye, Shawn Mendes, oh wait you said ‘thought was but WASNT’ ? Oh no they’re just not opening the closet door...yet.

any others?

Don't know if he counts as an "actor", but Tommy Wiseau.

Rob Lowe