Gay Rumors That Actually Surprised You

Cesar Romero.

He played such a ladies' man for all those years. Who knew he secretly loved to have rent boys throw orange wedges at his bare ass?

He also fucked Sam Kinison. Seems Richard Pryor was full of surprises.

A Streetcar Named Desire Brando or The Island of Dr. Moreau Brando?

What's wrong with more to love, R3?

R2 Thank God it was Richard Pryor. At first I thought you meant Caesar Romero fucked Sam Kinison.

You may find this now-closed thread of interest.

Hasn't this exact same topic been a thread before?

Never mind--R6 beat me to it.

At the time, Aaron Hernandez.

[quote] Aaron Hernandez.

What a disappointment he turned out to be. So fucking hot and I didn't even know about the gay until he was charged with murder. And I was a DLer at the time. Were his "gaylavanting" escapades known to DL before we found out he was a murderer?

Any drug addicted straight guy will take it up the ass for a hit.

All you need is determination to take it up the ass. You don't need an erection.

R11 Why would you?

I was told that Bill Maher has a fetish for black dick.

R9, circa 2011, while watching a Patriots' game in mixed company, a random straight male acquaintance remarked: "that fool be gay as hell" in disparaging terms regarding Hernandez. Naturally, I was curious and pressed him as to why he thought that. All he said is that he 'everyone knows he likes dick.' Mmmmm, okay. I figured it was just a straight guy being jealous.

Little did I know, I guess.

R13, he does love Condi Rice, after all.

Reginald Veljohnson. I never once in a million years suspected that Carl Winslow wanted to top Urkel.

Definitely Aaron Hernandez. Here was a football player with a gang-related background with a girlfriend and kid who murdered her brother based on gang related activity.

It was definitely a shock. It was such a shock, it wasn’t even acknowledged for a long time after everyone found out.

R17, and there are many gay men who exist just like him.

How many is enough for you to proclaim there are many?

R19, can't we just go by social media? Look at that Houston DL list post went viral, those Aaron Hernandez situations are all over TikTok.

Mike Nichols. Outed in the biography on Avedon. They had a relationship and were in the closet their entire lives. Avedon did not want to be known as a gay photographer like Cecil Beaton. The author of the recent Nichols biography denies it. Well he has to.

R19, my whole entire life of knowing men like him.

Avedon and Nichols would have been fantastic as an out couple.

Jonathan Bailey for me. For some reason, he did not strike me as gay. I put it down to his incredible skill as an actor.

NPH. I had absolutely no idea he was gay until I first read about it here on DL. I guess because I never watched either of his TV series (Doogie and Mother) that I just never picked up on anything.

Thank you, R5 -

I thought the same thing when I read R2's post, and the mental picture was not pretty.

R5 R26 Haha, sorry to do that to you guys. There was no R1 when I posted.

[quote]he was supposedly bottoming for Marlon Brando

"Supposedly" being the operative word here. Repeat a few times and it becomes fact.

R25 is this a satire post? You could see the gay from two galaxies away at whatever age you were introduced to him.

[quote]Any drug addicted straight guy will take it up the ass for a hit.

#truth! I worked with this hot "straight" guy. We invited him to go on a camping trip and he asked if it was going to be all gay dudes and I said "mostly, yeah," and he smiled and turned me down. After he got hooked on crack but before he looked like a junkie, he told me at lunch one day that he and his (gorgeous) girlfriend did a three-way with his coke dealer. I asked him how that went, position-wise, and he told me "I went down on her and he fucked me up the ass."

Sherman Hemsley was a big surprise to me.

R30 Wow, my lunch conversation is more like, "You gonna eat that cookie?" "Nah, go ahead."

R31 Sherman was never a "big" anything.

R28, You doubt Quincy Jones?

Will Geer kind of surprised me.

Sammy Davis, Jr.; Earl Holliman; Raymond Burr; Daniel J. Travanti; Sherman Hemsley

R17 Aaron was so hot. And he had a huge dick, as you can see in many photos when he was in football tights. I would have loved to be his prison whore.

The Jesus one was a little surprising until I thought about it, sorta make sense.

Never underestimate the power of the DL…DownLow that is.

Yes it seems like some posters on here want everyone to be gay, and are constantly declaring “so and so” is secretly gay! And always followed by the “give it a rest” brigade, who seem offended by the very idea.. “Why he was married with 4 kids! How dare you!”

All I know is, in my own life, I’m often surprised by ostensibly “straight” guys who come out late in life, or secret drunken confessions whispered to me in confidence, or families that find out years after a loved one has passed about a secret gay life. Or the casual anecdote about youthful experimentation. My brother-in-law came out a year after my sister passed away(after 35 years of marriage and 2 kids)-much to my families shock.

I live as far away from hyper-sexualized Hollywood as it gets. And we all know that the arts attracts more than its share of the gays.

My real point is that you never really know. Anyone can be gay. Most people aren’t. Human sexuality is a complicated beast. Why are we still so hung up on this in 2025?

I've read on gossip sites some rumours about Aarron Eckhart.

What's the tea on him?

I've always thought he was a married man with tons of kids.

Earl Holliman

Never would have guessed

Frankie Grande for me. Was shocked when he ended up hooking up with his Big Brother co-star.

Edmund Gwenn

[quote]You doubt Quincy Jones?

Pryor's widow confirmed it, too. And Pryor also documented it in his diaries.

[quote]Jones first made the allegation in a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine while talking about Brando’s sexual habits. “He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye,” the producer said.

[quote]Pryor’s widow Jennifer Lee Pryor later corroborated Jones’s comments, telling TMZ that the comedian, who was openly bisexual, would be “cracking up” about his relationship with Brando being made public. “It was the 70s! Drugs were still good, especially Quaaludes. If you did enough cocaine, you’d fuck a radiator and send it flowers in the morning,” she said.

Charlie Sheen

R20 Houston DL? Link? Why Houston?

R46, Houston is challenging Atlanta for the most downlow men.

R45 Was it ever confirmed that there’s a video of good ‘ol Charlie sucking some drug dealer’s cock?

Any good celebrity gay4pay rumours that surprised you?

R21, Nichols’s biographer was Mark Harris, a militant homosexualist, whose husband is the similarly militant Tony Kushner. He wouldn’t have covered up for a closeted gay man.

James Cagney and Audie Murphy.

R2 Say what? GTFOH

R2 It was Richard Pryor JR. Allegedly.

sorry, meant to post this

DAMN and this...

RICHARD PRYOR JR.SAYS HE WAS MOLESTED ...Mooney Again Denies, Points Out Holes

Caryl Simon, who was good friends with Mike Nichols, strongly suggested he was gay/bi in her memoir about Jackie Kennedy.

In his Nichols biography, R56, Mark Harris addressed the gay rumors & found no credible evidence.

I was sorta surprised that Mary Martin was gay or bi. Just never really considered it. And Janet Gaynor, for that matter.

[quote]In his Nichols biography, [R56], Mark Harris addressed the gay rumors & found no credible evidence

I think there was evidence. Strong evidence that Mike Nichols and Richard Avedon carried on a decades-long affair and thought about running away together.

[quote]I've read on gossip sites some rumours about Aarron Eckhart.

LOVE Aaron. He's Mormon so chances are good.

Aaron is a raging alcoholic, that I've heard, not the gay stuff.

Dan Ackroyd - spelled his name wrong

Aaron seems…asexual. Did he ever get married?

Judy Garland (not gay, but bi). That surprised me, for some reason.

Jean Arthur--didn't Patsy Kelly out her?

There were rumors about James Dean being Bi and occasionally having male companions. Not sure it is true, but it might be. He had a slight ping.

nah-uhhh!

R44 we’ve heard the Pryor gossip before, but never the positioning. Brando seemed like such a fan of black cock, I would picture him bottoming. But who knows.

[quote]There were rumors about James Dean being Bi and occasionally having male companions. Not sure it is true, but it might be. He had a slight ping

I think Dean was more gay than straight. In his book "Laid Bare" (and in another one specifically about Dean), John Gilmore wrote about his relationship with Dean which was sexual. His longest straight relationship was with Dizzy Sheridan. She turned down a marriage proposal from him probably after he told her of the man who was keeping him on the side. In 'Laid Bare" Gilmore goes into specific detail of what they did in bed together. It was hot. I've read it a couple of times.

Robert Drivas who had a good start on a career - that eventually went nowhere.

I did not know that he was Terrence McNally's boyfriend for a time.

[quote] His longest straight relationship was with Dizzy Sheridan.

R68 For those who don’t know, that was actress Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry Seinfeld’s mother on Seinfeld.

John Goodman freaked me out.

Goodman freaked me out too.

Kevin Sorbo surprised me. I wanted him to be gay or bi or whatever he is but in my mind I was convinced he was only straight.

Rock Hudson surprised the hell out of my mother, There were rumors going around even back then that. He was her dream man. She confided this "rumor" to me, her 6-year-old (and already showing signs) son. I had no idea what she was talking about.

John Goodman?

Richard Pryor publicly talked about his experience dating a transgender back in the day. It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.

Nell Carter was a shock.

Robert Conrad being gay (or at last bi) was a surprise. But then again, he played up his body in every show he was ever in. He knew not only his fan base, but how to attract the kind of guys he liked.

Nick Adams was supposedly one of his many boyfriends.

Mayors Ed Koch and Harold Washington.

When I told straight women that some actor was gay, They'd always say, "Him?? You're kidding! He can't be!"

And my reply was always, "Do you remember the guys in the Drama Club in [italic]your[/italic] high school?" Usually I'd see the light bulb go on. "So now you know."

I've had similar conversations, senior lesbian.

Sorry, but I don't get it. How are the guys in drama club everyone knew were gay in high school similar to professional actors who were so straight-acting they fooled everyone?

Isn’t high school drama club kinda the farm system for up & coming professional actors, R79?

R80 I think you missed my point.

R77, I've said the same for years. I especially love how they all got injured playing football and turned to drama

I think everyone did, R81. Your drama club story makes absolutely no sense.

R81, I was in high school in the ‘70s. There was no talk then about the drama club members being gay. Yet, looking at my senior yearbook, every boy in the club turned out to be gay, including a friend who was married to a woman for over 25 years, & had two children with her.

R83 It wasn't my drama club story. My post was R79.

[quote] Cesar Romero. He played such a ladies' man for all those years. Who knew he secretly loved to have rent boys throw orange wedges at his bare ass?

Nah, not gay, he just clearly had a Vitamin C deficiency.

So the author of the Avedon biography was out and out lying about Nichols? Was the individual also lying about Avedon's homosexuality? It seems a very stupid thing to do.

Dead men cannot sue.

And they wear plaid.

I had a relative surprised about Freddie Mercury. “But he was so macho!” 🙄

My ophthalmologist.

Mike Nichols married Diane Sawyer.

Of course he was gay!

[quote] Diane Sawyer.

Legend.

R25 He definitely pinged to me as Doogie.

I wasn't really shocked when he came out.

Robert Reed. I always thought he was the quintessential masculine family man as Mike Brady.

Reed was both a good actor and one of the many gay men of his generation who did first marry a woman and have a kid.

Will Smith and Duane Martin

Raymond Burr.

[quote] Aaron seems…asexual. Did he ever get married?

According to Wikipedia: "Eckhart met actress Emily Cline during the filming of In the Company of Men and they became engaged, but they separated in 1998. He has always been reluctant to speak about his relationships in interviews. Eckhart dated songwriter and member of SHeDAISY Kristyn Osborn from 2006 to 2007."