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"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was no place for gay people ... so says one of the stars.

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MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS

Was Mr. Rogers gay? Wh the 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' documentary g to HBO, Fred Rogers' life has been thst back to the spotlight. The film touch on all aspects of Rogers' life, cludg the mors that he was gay. * mr rogers was gay *

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?

WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?

Rogers himself was often labeled “a sissy, ” or gay, a rogatory sense. So if they are sayg he’s gay bee... In nversatn wh one of his iends, the openly gay Dr.

Then the follow up: "People don't say to me, 'Was he gay, ' but 'Isn't he gay?

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

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. I spent enough time wh him that if there was a gay vibe I would have picked up.

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

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.

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

While those clost to him sisted both durg his life and after his ath that he was ed straight, many people still believed the soft-spoken host whose missn life was to teach people to be kr to one another, was homosexual. Rogers gay?

"It was somethg people asked me a lot when they found out I was workg on the film: [whisperg] 'Was he gay? He wasn't as welg of gay rights as he was of racial tolerance.

However, he did not get the same sense of welg when Rogers found out that Clemmons had been to a gay bar. "And for the rerd, Clemmons did not believe that Rogers was gay.

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

He was asked once durg an terview if he was gay.

Tom Synr, famo for hostg a late night show back the 1970s and 1980s asked Rogers pot-blank durg an on-mera terview if he was gay. Of that moment, Clemmons said why he believed so many people thought Rogers was gay.

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MISTER ROGERS’S GAY, BLACK FRIEND FRANçOIS CLEMMONS WEARS TIARAS NOW

He had many gay iends. Both Joanne Rogers and Clemmons say that Rogers had many gay iends. New Rumors She's Gay — And Datg Her Bt Friend Lra DeMasie Ey Blackwood is a wrer and edor livg California.

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.

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