Which Gay Actor(s) Do You Think Comes Across as Straight?

None.

Matt Bomer

Paul Lynde

I was shocked to learn Matthew Getz is gay! (hahahahaha)

Rock Hudson -- though seeing "Pillow Talk" now with him pretending to be gay has added layers.

I noticed gays tend to be the ones who most overthink about it. There still are people who have no idea Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon are gay, for God's sake.

Raymond Burr & Spencer Tracy (but in hindsight, I see it now).

Luke MacFarlane

Richard Madden

Greg Rikaart

Wentworth Miller.

Chris Pine and Chris Evans.

Paul Iacono, Mark Indelicato, Chris Colfer.

Jacob Tremblay

Brian J Smith

Lea DeLaria

Nearly all gay (closeted or not) actors are obvious to me, which make the few convincing ones the best actors…

Daniel Day Lewis comes across as gay to me every time I see him off screen, which is why he’s probably the greatest living actor today (ex: There Will Be Blood). I think Tom Hardy can sometimes be convincing (ex: The Revenant). Also, I’ve never seen Twilight, but Robert Pattinson has been in some great films lately and he’s definitely gay (ex: The Lighthouse).

David Muir

Evan Todd, although he’s not well known.

Yes, definitely Evan Todd. I love him.

Is this about general appearance and mannerisms or the moment they open their mouths and speak?

Connor Jessup. His bf on the other hand.....

James Scully (sometimes)

Leslie Jordan

Truman Capote

Lindsey Graham

I’ll mention two. The first is the late Terry Lester, best known as Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless.

The second is the late David Oliver. He did a number of roles, but has been dead 29 years so I doubt many of you know him.

I had no idea about Kevin Spacey, though his sexual appetites had apparently been common gossip here for a while. This place clocked his creepiness from like decades ago.

That's cuz Spacey's a predator before just plain gay. The power-hungry part of him supersedes sexual orientation.

Richard Chamberlain

George Clooney

Robert Reed

Earl Holliman. I had NO idea he was gay, until that movie "Alexander: The Other Side Of Dawn".

Also, the guy who played Corporal Boyle on "Gomer Pyle" and the guy who played Bulldog on "Frasier".

Alec Baldwin

I'm sitting here debating with a friend about Chad Everett (Henry Wilson protege) and Lee Majors (Rock Hudson protege).

What say you DL?

Robert Preston

[quote] Connor Jessup. His bf on the other hand.....

Miles was completely unconvincing playing straight on 13 Reasons Why, but Brandon Flynn was fine.

[quote]Miles was completely unconvincing playing straight on 13 Reasons Why

And on Parenthood. Why didn't they make Drew gay?

I should add … Miles didn’t *end up* playing straight, but that’s because he came across so gay that they had to change the character.

Frankie grande

So pretty much you're asking if Tonka trucks fall out of their mouth when they speak?

Peter Sarsgaard is a straight actor that comes across as gay.

Dependssss on how they sssspeak

Robert Preston was gay?

Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce, Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Connor Jessup and Brandon Flynn

Bomer *used* to seem straight back in the 2000s [R2], but after coming out he's stopped butching it up and presents as a genteel Southern lady.

Dan Butler is someone no one would have guessed if he hadn't told us. Guillermo Diaz probably surprises people these days, though he was more obvious back around the turn of the millennium. Jeremy Sheffield just comes off as generic British.

I assumed Victor Garber was straight when I first saw him in Light Sleeper and Sleepless in Seattle. In fact I was pleasantly surprised by his versatility in the two very different roles (and 3 if you count Godspell, which I didn’t see until even later, before knowing he was gay).

[quote] "...which is why he’s probably the greatest living actor today (ex: There Will Be Blood)."

R17 I agree with you regarding Daniel Day Lewis seemingly very gay, but he so overracted that part, they might as well have cast Kevin Kline. He was AWFUL. I almost turned it off twice. I guess I truly am a masochist.

In historical accounts, the kinds of men DDL plays in movies like There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York were over the top, brash, boisterous, impossible to be around. His performances are probably very historically accurate, they just don't play well to modern audiences sometimes.

Calling breeders "straight" implies there's something wrong with being gay.

Connor plays straight very convincingly. His IG comment section is always full of angry and confused fans whenever he mentions being gay.

Connor’s voice is different than before more like Miles.

John Mahoney (dad on Frasier)

I thought I was the only one who thought that, R17 (re DDL). He is completely different from any of his characters.

Re the topic: Lee Pace, Luke Evans...

Mike Doyle can play straight though because he is an out gay man he often gets gay parts. Had he not come out at such an early age he would have had a bigger career. Didn't he get a Newsweek cover as a straight guy when he was a young adult?

Robert Gant

A young John Davidson was cute.

Jonathan Groff

John Davidson is not gay. He’s an avowed atheist, but he’s not gay.

Neicy Nash

Pedro Pascal from Narcos and the Mandolarian.

Jim J Bullock

[quote]Pedro Pascal

how do you know he's gay?

[quote]Jim J Bullock

This is a joke, right?

Guillermo Diaz

Clemens Schick

Russell Tovey

Vincent Gardenia

Randolph Mantooth

Russell Tovey and Jonathan Groff clip:

Alan Bates

Jonathan Groff has always come across as GAY to me.

R17 None of the people you mentioned are gay.

Openly gay Danish actor Thure Lindhardt:

[quote]Openly gay Danish actor Thure Lindhardt:

We're really scraping the barrel now.

R73 Not everyone posting on DL is American. Thure Lindhardt has done a bunch of international work, not near Mads Mikkelsen-level of recognition but he's very talented. He's been in The Borgias, The Last Kingdom, Angels & Demons, The Bridge, and Ira Sachs' fantastic film Keep the Lights On:

R74 he also starred in Brotherhood (2009) where he played a gay neo-Nazi, it's a very compelling film and he's fantastic in it.

[quote]Jonathan Groff has always come across as GAY to me.

I love him to pieces, but he ain't going to have a career in macho action hero roles. However, he sings "Burning Up" as well as Madge herself.

Zachary Quinto

John Benjamin Hickey

Harry Andrews.

Chris Grace from Superstore comes across as straight to me. He plays Jerry, Sandra's guy.

"Straight" is a lie and a slur against gay people.

[quote]I had no idea about Kevin Spacey

Spacey pinged for years. That's why DL knew he was gay years before he came out.

Taye Diggs and Blair Underwood both pass as straight. They my boys.

Ben Whishaw

Victor Garber

I had no idea. I just thought he was eccentric.

Big Bird

Rock Hudson was manly.

Luke Evans.

Todd Glass.

Tab Hunter

Michael B. Jordan

Tom Cruise

Ian McKellan

Graham Chapman

Henry Cavill

Doug Savant

Steven Antin. (back in the day)

Kal Penn

R88 Half of those are not gay.

Brandon Flynn

Brian J Smith

Robert Reed…except for that time Alice clocked him on her gaydar when he was eating a banana. ‘Yep, family’.

Thirding Luke Evans. I was surprised to find out he’s gay—his vibe is very ‘down-to-Earth, stoical and pensive middleclass hetero’ man. He doesn’t stand out in any way like many gay men do. Almost too boring and nondescript? Idk maybe that’s too harsh and stereotypical.

R17 yes, I too go back and forth on Tom Hardy. Sometimes he seems butch-camper than camp, other times if you squint or look sideways he could pass as a straight.

Daniel J Travanti, hot and manly on Hill St Blues. John Mahoney was a surprise. In moonstruck with the younger women...believeable to me.

Oh, and Jeremy Renner and Tom Hardy, although have not an them in much.

^^seen them in much.

R96 what? Jeremy Renner pings to Alpha Centauri.

The way he hangs all over fit younger men tells the tale.

Raymond Burr

Will Geer

I second Daniel J. Travanti. Didn't they try to push a story that he and Veronica Hamel were a couple offscreen? I guess I believed it because I didn't pick up on anything with him at the time.

Guillermo Diaz could pass pretty easily these days if he weren't open about being gay.

Meredith Baxter reads as completely straight to me. Her coming out was the one that really dropped my jaw.

80%of the actors named on here pass as straight BECAUSE THEY FUCKING ARE.

R101, I agree about Baxter. I was equally shocked when Niecy Nash married another woman. Did not see that one coming at all.

There are no gay actors, don’t you listen to the local frauen? Only he-men in the movies, doncha know.

Tuc Watkins

Andrew Scott, at least in "Fleabag"

Actor/comedian Nik Dodani

Actor/comedian Tim Dillon

Its funny, Tuc Watkins is a guy I wouldn't have (and didn't) know he was gay at all, yet when I found out, I was all "Yep, I see it now".

R98, true, but I had never seen jeremy Renner offscreen. The movie, some wilderness outdoorsy role, sorry I don’t remember The name ,he seemed very straight to me. He was kind of sexy in it too.