LGBT celebrities
 

The "smart people you'd make out with" thread discussion about whether or not Anderson Cooper is gay got me wondering if there was a confirmed list of celebrities who have confirmed their homosexual or bisexual orientation:

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/en...al_people.html

I knew about Danny Pintauro and Chad Allen (such a waste :( ), but I didn't know about Casanova, the guy who played Brad on Young and the Restless, Cesar Romero, Jane Addams, and the guy who played Carl Winslow on Family Matters. Interesting list.

They also have a list of debated orientation, as well as a few names of those who are no longer LGB.

The guy who played Carl Winslow is gay???? Holy ISHT! I did not know that.

Others are Sir Ian McKellan from Lord of the Rings and Rupert Everett from My Best Friends Wedding.

Anderson Cooper! doh! he was supposed to be my next ex husband! ;)

Ok I've looked at this list and most of the people that I knew where gay ok but some of the names I just have my doubts:

1. Reginald Vel Johnson (yes, from Family Matters)
2. Poria De Rossi (Alley McBeal and that new show on Fox)
3. {edited out} because I just read to darn fast and focused on the famous name:rolleyes:
4. Paul Winfield (I have doubts, the man is no longer with us, and as I review some of his works in my mind....maybe, but still doubtbul)

I'm CTFU that Stephen Cojucaru is on their "debated" list.

LOL...I think they actually mean that they are debating as to whether he is gay or bisexual.

Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, introduced Martin Luther King Jr to the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and non-violence, fired for being gay

AH, my bad :rolleyes: see what I get for reading to fast, and I was thinking, HEY that wasn't in the "K"s, editing my post now

:takes foot out of mouth:

She has said she is. i forget where i read it, but i want to say it was in an article on her in Entertainment Weekly. it talked about her and her partner.

But he seems so stereotypically gay on TV......

My beloved Alan Cumming is on that list, which is no surprise to anyone.

However, I've never heard him refer to himself as "gay" but always as "non-straight" , so I'm holding out hope he's bisexual and as such, still my future husband.

edit: Just reading their bio of him, and they seem to think he's bisexual too. It's about the best news I've heard all week. *swoon*

LOL! You're good. It's ok!

What about Sean Hayes??? aka Jack MacFarland on "Will and Grace"...He has never said whether or not he is and I can't figure it out!!!

All I know is that he wants to keep his private life, private. Apparently the actress who plays Karen is bisexual.

I think that's true, however I seem to recall him talking about a wife and a couple of children on the old Rosie syndicated TV show.

Of course that doesn't necessarily mean he isn't gay or bi.

OK, I was REALLY REALLY freaking because I thought Chad Allen was the one who was married to Hilary Swank. Then I realized that's Chad Lowe.

I wonder whether the people they list as bi are actively bi or if they had one same-sex experience and that's being "counted", because I don't think that's the same thing.

I think you're taking about Eric McCormack who plays Will. He has a wife and child.

Perry Mason?

I think he doesn't want to admit his orientation because he fears he will be typecasted for future roles. I guess he doesn't want to play roles designed "just for gay guys".

appears that many of Canada's politicians are gay - so it's just a matter of time before gay marriage is fully legal in Canada... Ones that surprised me - Rick Mercer.

I read about Rick Mercer's orientation in the newspaper recently...I guess we Canucks are just very open and "liberal"...time for me to move?

There are quite a few a politicians that are gay in Canadda...Svend Robinson I think being the most well known. But I had no idea about Rick Mercer.

Okay, I'm going to go there. Really, what does what Rick Mercer does with his partner (or piece of the week) in the privacy of his own home have to do with you, personally? It just seems a really odd (and kind of bigoted) statement to make that you're considering leaving the country just because a celebrity is gay.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Way to be close-minded.

Seems a little close-minded to me to criticize someone for her own opinion. She would just take herself out of an area that made her uncomfortable. She didn't say to send homosexuals out. There's a bit of a difference.

little known fact: The governor of Arizona is a lesbian.

Everyone is entitled to her opinion. That I questioned it isn't evidence of a closed mind -- on the contrary, I really want to know the answer, because I just can't wrap my brain around the fact that she seems to be saying that she wants to leave an entire country ("I guess we Canucks are just more open and liberal...time for me to move?") because she knows something about a celebrity that she didn't know yesterday.

It seems a little closed-minded to me to want to leave a country because of a gay celebrity. But whatever.

Ummm, I found out about Rick Mercer several months ago. There was something in Toronto's Starweek about it when his new show debuted. I'm just sick and tired of the liberal politics in this country, that's all...and I don't just mean the government in Ottawa (and Queen's Park). We don't have any values here anymore.....I'm surprised that people from more conservative countries are moving in.

DITTO.

You're shitting me, right?

She said she'd voluntarily leave the country just because a CELEBRITY and apparently a lot of her countrymen/women are "liberal". It was obvious that to her, "liberal" = "homosexual". Do you know how fucking ridiculous that sounds? This isn't a personal attack to her, but add that to the list of close-minded things she's said so far. It's no secret that many of her views are old-fashioned, so if people choose to criticize them -- then they have a right to.

who is Rick Mercer? Was he in New Kids On The Block? or in Playgirl?

That's a fairly broad statement, to say that liberal = no values.

Fine, I should have said TRADITIONAL values. Happy now?

what she meant to say was "I wish I lived in a Theocracy where we locked up or exterminated those who do not hold a strict viewpoint of the dominant religion"

fixed it

Well damn, then, Cynthia. I guess you're the only one not going to Hell, since everybody else in your country is! :rolleyes:

He is a comedian.

Canada is the home of socialized medicine.

In Canada, property taxes aren't used to pay for education, so students who live in poorer districts (often) have the same amount of money allocated to their school budgets as students who live in richer districts.

Canada has opened her doors to many citizens from all nations and for the most part, the different people have come together harmoniously.

Canada values the good of the many over the individual.

Canada has a lower divorce rate than the United States.

Yep, it seems like Canadians are just headed to hell on a rollerskate.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/programGuide/p...day_report.jpg

I'll say this for Taualumna, she managed to get me to do something I thought I'd never do: defend Rick Mercer in a public forum. Personally, I think he's a little snot, but I'm not leaving Canada just cause I don't find him funny.

Yeah, but it's to the point that SOME PEOPLE aren't even valuing Anglo-Canadian (or Franco-Canadian) values/traditions. The whole "I'm not allowed to do this because I'm fill-in-the-blank culture and not 'Canadian'" is really, really silly IMHO. And there's this whole BS about not being allowed to say "Merry Christmas" (ok, so Americans have the same problem too) or sing religious Christmas songs at winter concerts, yet, other religions are allowed to present theirs. I'm really, really glad I went to private school where some traditional ideals are still valued. If you're Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Aethiest or from another Christian denomination, you still came to chapel every morning, whether you liked it or not. If you don't want to participate, then you do so silently. Stand when you're supposed to, sit when you're supposed to. There were non Christian girls who were in the chapel choir, non Christian girls who participated in the annual Nativity.....