I wanted to know how Mister Rogers felt about gay people. Here's what I found. - Upworthy

Contents:

• MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS
• WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?
• MISTER ROGERS ENURAGED GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO STAY THE CLOSET AND MARRY A WOMAN
• MISTER ROGERS TOLD CO-STAR DON'T COME OUT AS GAY, AND MARRY A WOMAN
• 'WASN'T HE GAY?': A REVEALG QUTN ABOUT MISTER ROGERS
• MR. ROGERS’ LONGTIME GAY -STAR LLS HIM “THE LOVE OF MY SPIRUAL LIFE”

MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS

Rogers ran the gamut, om claims that he had an earlier reer as a Mare sniper or Navy SEAL (he did not serve the ary any pacy), to the accatn that he was a nvicted child molter (no crimal rerd of any kd has e to light), to mblgs that spe a half-century-long marriage to the same woman, he was actually gay (ntrary to all available evince). ” and my gay ass, gay of the fay, Miss Fay Homosexual had to be like “he was WHAT?

Rogers himself was often labeled “a sissy, ” or gay, a rogatory sense.

WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?

So if they are sayg he’s gay bee... In nversatn wh one of his iends, the openly gay Dr.

MISTER ROGERS ENURAGED GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO STAY THE CLOSET AND MARRY A WOMAN

Then the follow up: "People don't say to me, 'Was he gay, ' but 'Isn't he gay? In other words, 'Isn't he gay? Rogers' sexualy was briefly discsed the 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, but the discsn centered on mors that he was gay.

Rogers' Neighborhood and was himself (at the time of the terview) openly gay. Rpondg to the scuttlebutt about Rogers' sexual orientatn, Clemmons said: "First of all, no, he’s not gay. I tell everyone who asks me, ‘No, he’s not gay.

MISTER ROGERS TOLD CO-STAR DON'T COME OUT AS GAY, AND MARRY A WOMAN

I spent enough time wh him that if there was a gay vibe I would have picked up. If you are a long-term relatnship, do you stop beg bisexual+ and “bee” gay or straight pendg on the genr of your partner?

Rogers's Gay, Black Friend François Clemmons Wears Tiaras Now.

And the relatnship between the two men — one black, the other whe; one gay and sgle, one straight, married, and a father to two children; one trovert, one extrovert — would bee somewhat of “a marriage.

'WASN'T HE GAY?': A REVEALG QUTN ABOUT MISTER ROGERS

Though evangelils would sometim wre to him askg him to nmn homosexualy, Rogers never would, stead sayg he — and God — loved everyone jt as they were. But this wasn’t the extent of Mister Rogers’ gay activism. Rogers tentnally hired gay people to work on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Two members of the Neighborhood, John Reardon and Franis Clemmons, were both openly gay and among some of Rogers’ clost iends.

Clemmons later pared the scene to the Bible passage which J wash Peter’s feet, sayg, “The signifince of Fred dog that for a black gay man is not lost. Someone, we’re not able to say who, has rmed that you were seen at the lol gay bar downtown wh a buddy om school.

MR. ROGERS’ LONGTIME GAY -STAR LLS HIM “THE LOVE OF MY SPIRUAL LIFE”

Now I want you to know, Franc, that if you’re gay, don’t matter to me at all.

Whatever you say and do is fe wh me, but if you’re gog to be on the show, as an important member of the Neighborhood, you n’t be ‘out’ as gay.