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That's why many HIV-posive celebri, like Charlie Sheen and Greg Louganis, have e forward about their diagnosis hop raisg awarens and enuragg people to get tted. The good news is that the number of dividuals diagnosed wh HIV each year <a href="; target="_blank">is creasg</a> and new treatments are promisg thanks to major scientific advancements, acrdg to the Secretary’s Mory AIDS Iniative Fund (SMAIF). 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data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="human immunoficiency vis (HIV)" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">human immunoficiency vis (HIV)</a>, yet about <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="15 percent" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">15 percent</a> aren't aware that they have the ndn. That's why many HIV-posive celebri, like Charlie Sheen and Greg Louganis, have e forward about their diagnosis hop raisg awarens and enuragg people to get tted. The good news is that the number of dividuals diagnosed wh HIV each year <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="is creasg" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">is creasg</a> and new treatments are promisg thanks to major scientific advancements, acrdg to the Secretary’s Mory AIDS Iniative Fund (SMAIF). Still, HIV and AIDS rema two highly stigmatized illns, which is why the 10 celebri have been ccial breakg down barriers. <br /></p></div></div></div></sectn><sectn><style data-emotn="css 19zkmoh">@media(max-width: 73.75rem){{-webk-orr:-1;-ms-flex-orr:-1;orr:-1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{height:100%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:1rem;paddg:0 1rem 0 1.875rem;posn:absolute;right:0;top:0;width:20.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem) and (max-width: 100rem){{marg-right:lc(4 * 1rem);}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{marg-right:lc(3 * 1rem);paddg:0 1rem;}}</style><div class="css-19zkmoh erx0a9f14"><style data-emotn="css 1yzqnyj">@media(m-width: 64rem){{borr:none;m-height:m(250px, 100%);m-width:18.75rem;height:100%;}}</style><div class="css-1yzqnyj erx0a9f13"><style data-emotn="css 11yh1qg">@media(m-width: 64rem){{posn:-webk-sticky;posn:sticky;top:5rem;}}</style><style data-emotn="css 1t1x30q">{m-height:523px;top:5rem;}@media(max-width: 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64rem){{text-align:left;paddg-right:0rem;paddg-left:0rem;font-size:1.9375rem;le-height:1.1;}}</style><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Earv "Magic" Johnson</h2><style data-emotn="css 8t0ynx">{grid-area:media_wrapper;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.625rem;overflow:visible;width:100vw;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg:0 1rem;max-width:40.25rem;marg:0 to;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg:0rem;max-width:19.375rem;marg:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{max-width:21.875rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{max-width:22.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{max-width:30rem;}} img:not([data-dynamic-svg]){height:100%;max-width:none;width:100%;}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){ img:not([data-dynamic-svg]){object-f:ver;object-posn:center;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){ img:not([data-dynamic-svg]){object-f:nta;object-posn:bottom;}}</style><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><style data-emotn="css 5k9guf">{height:to;posn:relative;} figptn{background:rgb(255, 255, 255, 0.8);posn:absolute;bottom:0.3rem;left:0rem;paddg:0.3125rem 0.625rem;lor:#000000;}</style><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="2482" height="3600" alt=""To Kill A Mockgbird" Broadway Openg Night" tle=""To Kill A Mockgbird" Broadway Openg Night" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Walter McBri</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><style data-emotn="css 18oiw2p">{grid-area:meta;text-align:start;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:1rem;paddg-right:1rem;width:to;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{max-width:40.25rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;}}@media(m-width: 48rem) and (max-width: 73.75rem){{width:lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem);}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{-webk-orr:3;-ms-flex-orr:3;orr:3;paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;max-width:18.75rem;marg-left:1.25rem;marg-right:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{max-width:20.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100vw;max-width:21.25rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{max-width:28.75rem;}}</style><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><style data-emotn="css 7o74ds">{grid-area:k;paddg:0rem;} p, ul, ol{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} p em, ul em, ol em{font-fay:CharterItalic,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} a:hover{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-th-grey;} {lor:#ffffff;}</style><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="November 7, 1991" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">November 7, 1991</a>, basketball legend Magic Johnson dropped ma an earth-shatterg announcement: He was retirg om the Lakers bee he was HIV posive. It was a time when not many public figur me forward about havg HIV, pecially those not thought to e dgs or be openly gay relatnships. But on that day of his announcement, Johnson assured the world that he did not have AIDs—nor did his wife have HIV or AIDs. “I plan to go on livg for a long time,” Johnson <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="said" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">said</a>, and that he did. More than 20 years later, Johnson works as a succsful sports mentator and former Lakers executive.<br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">2 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Greg Louganis</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="2523" height="3000" alt="Pot Foundatn Honors Los Angel 2018 Gala" tle="Pot Foundatn Honors Los Angel 2018 Gala" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Jon Kopaloff</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When Olympic diver Greg Louganis was diagnosed wh HIV 1988, he thought was a ath sentence. "It was six months prr to the Olympic Gam, and I was like, 'Well, I'm gog to pack my bags and go home and lock myself my hoe and wa to die,'" he told After years of feelg isolated, Louganis me forward about his HIV stat and his sexualy, and hop to spire others a siar suatn. "HIV tght me that I'm a lot stronger than I ever believed I was," he told the outlet 2016. "Also, not to take anythg for granted. I didn't thk I would see 30, and here I am at 56."<br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">3 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Charlie Sheen</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="2180" height="3000" alt="Project Angel Food's 28th Annual Angel Awards" tle="Project Angel Food's 28th Annual Angel Awards" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">David Livgston</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Though actor Charlie Sheen learned he was HIV posive 2011, wasn't until 2015 that he publicly me forward about his ndn. Sheen admted to <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Today" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">Today</a></em> that he paid lns brib to keep the rmatn hidn, but wanted to end the "shakedowns" by gog public. He said he would not "be the poster man for this," but he would "not shun away om rponsibili and opportuni that drive me to help others. I have a rponsibily now to better myself and help a lot of other people." <br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn></sectn><div><style data-emotn="css eirk">{-webk-box-pack:jtify;-webk-jtify-ntent:space-between;jtify-ntent:space-between;grid-area:breaker_ad;} .e1v257yr0{text-align:center;} .e1v257yr0:after{marg-right:0rem;} .e1v257yr0:before{marg-left:0rem;}{ntent:"";display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;borr-bottom:0.0625rem solid greyLight;marg:0.8125rem 1 0;paddg-bottom:0rem;}</style><style data-emotn="css 1abb9yi">{clear:both;lor:#000000;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;-webk-box-pack:jtify;-webk-jtify-ntent:space-between;jtify-ntent:space-between;marg:1.25rem 0;marg-bottom:1.25rem;marg-top:1.25rem;m-height:523px;text-align:center;-webk-box-pack:jtify;-webk-jtify-ntent:space-between;jtify-ntent:space-between;grid-area:breaker_ad;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{m-height:138px;}}{borr-bottom:th solid #E8E8E8;ntent:"";display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg:0.9375rem 0.938rem 0;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:0.9375rem 2.5rem 0;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{marg:0.9375rem 0 0;}}{clear:both;} .e1v257yr0{text-align:center;} .e1v257yr0:after{marg-right:0rem;} .e1v257yr0:before{marg-left:0rem;}{ntent:"";display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;borr-bottom:0.0625rem solid greyLight;marg:0.8125rem 1 0;paddg-bottom:0rem;}</style><div class="gpt-breaker-ntaer breaker-ad breaker-ad listicle-sli-list-ad e1tmud0h2 css-1abb9yi e152u5os0"><style data-emotn="css maeii1">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;font-fay:Inter,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70284rem;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;le-height:2rem;marg:0 0.938rem;text-align:center;text-transform:none;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:0 2.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{marg:0rem;}}{marg:0 0 0 0.625rem;}{marg:0 0.625rem 0 0;},{background-lor:#E8E8E8;lor:her;ntent:"";-webk-box-flex:1;-webk-flex-grow:1;-ms-flex-posive:1;flex-grow:1;height:0.0625rem;posn:relative;top:1rem;} a{lor:her;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;} a:hover{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-maeii1 e1v257yr0">Advertisement - Contue Readg Below</div><div id="listicle-ad-breaker-0" class="ad-ntaer css-14b96eg e1hka4w80"></div></div></div><sectn class="css-t6ry6e erx0a9f20"><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">4 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Freddie Mercury</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="1024" height="692" alt="Freddie Mercury" tle="Freddie Mercury" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Michael Putland</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">First of all, if you haven't watched <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em>, drop everythg and watch immediately. The film picts the rise of Brish rock band Queen and provis a glimpse to the eccentric life of ontman Freddie Mercury, who tragilly passed away om HIV/AIDs related plitns 1991. Though he was diagnosed 1987, Mercury didn't announce his ndn to the world until the day before his ath.</p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">5 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Viktor Luna</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="3072" height="2048" alt="Viktor Luna - Prentatn - Fall 2012 Merces-Benz Fashn Week" tle="Viktor Luna - Prentatn - Fall 2012 Merces-Benz Fashn Week" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Skip Bolen</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If you happened to tch <em>Project Runway</em> season 9, you may rell falist Viktor Luna as the quiet one. “Many thought I was jt quiet, but tth, I was jt hidg om the world," Luna told <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="HIV Pl magaze" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0"><em>HIV</em> <em>Pl</em> magaze</a><em></em>. "I chose to reveal my HIV stat. In dog this, I have e to accept the vis si me, and I now know this ltle thg isn’t gog to stop me anymore.” Today, Luna openly speaks out about his ndn and advot for those livg wh HIV.<br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">6 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Holly Johnson</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="3000" height="4342" alt="David Beckham Interpretatns Art and Other Matters - Arrivals" tle="David Beckham Interpretatns Art and Other Matters - Arrivals" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">David Lodge</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Holly Johnson, former ontman of Frankie, was diagnosed wh HIV 1991. He began batn therapy 1996, even though he admted to <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="The Guardian" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">The Guardian</a></em> that he didn't believe was gog to work. Today, Johnson is 59, and stays on top of his health. "I don’t drk, I don’t smoke, I haven’t done for years," he told the outlet. "I do everythg possible to support my health." Though he ntu to experience si effects of HIV and his meditns, Johnson remas posive. "I’m not whg about , and I never will. Bee I’m so lucky many rpects," he said. "Many betiful iends who were my gay extend fay have gone. So I’m kd of livg for them also some ways.”</p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><style data-emotn="css 1y4quq0">{posn:absolute;right:0;top:0;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{height:100%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:1rem;paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{marg-right:lc(4 * 1rem);}}</style><div class="css-1y4quq0 e1tmud0h0"><style data-emotn="css yn5rez">{borr:none;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{m-height:m(250px, 100%);}}</style><div class="vertil-ad right-rail-ad listicle--ad-rail css-yn5rez erx0a9f5"><style data-emotn="css 15moo">{marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){{display:none;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{display:block;width:20.625rem;paddg-left:1rem;posn:-webk-sticky;posn:sticky;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:1.875rem;}}</style><style data-emotn="css jqp803">{m-height:523px;top:5rem;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 61.25rem){{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;-webk-box-pack:jtify;-webk-jtify-ntent:space-between;jtify-ntent:space-between;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{m-height:138px;}}@media(max-width: 61.25rem){{ntent:"";display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;borr-bottom:th solid #E8E8E8;}}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){{display:none;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{display:block;width:20.625rem;paddg-left:1rem;posn:-webk-sticky;posn:sticky;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:1.875rem;}}</style><div class="erx0a9f6 css-jqp803 e6yd7uy2"><div id="listicle-ad-rail-0" class="ad-ntaer css-14b96eg e1hka4w80"></div></div></div></div></sectn><div><div class="gpt-breaker-ntaer breaker-ad breaker-ad listicle-sli-list-ad e1tmud0h2 css-1abb9yi e152u5os0"><div class="css-maeii1 e1v257yr0">Advertisement - Contue Readg Below</div><div id="listicle-ad-breaker-1" class="ad-ntaer css-14b96eg e1hka4w80"></div></div></div><sectn class="css-t6ry6e erx0a9f20"><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">7 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Jerry Herman</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="2014" height="3000" alt="The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors" tle="The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Kris Connor</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When broadway poser Jerry Herman learned that he was HIV posive 1985, his health was clg and he wasn't sure how much time he had left. 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"I really don't md talkg about , bee I want other people my suatn to realize 's possible to live a normal life wh this disease," he told <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="The Chigo Tribune" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">The Chigo Tribune</a></em>.</p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">8 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Chuck Panozzo</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="2062" height="3000" alt="Celebri Vis SiriXM - May 15, 2017" tle="Celebri Vis SiriXM - May 15, 2017" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Slaven Vlasic</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Like many durg the highly stigmatized AIDS epimic of the '80s and '90s, Styx bassist Chuck Panozzo kept his stat hidn om the world. He was gay and havg "a lot of unprotected sex," he told <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="HIV Pl magaze" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0"><em>HIV Pl</em> magaze</a>. "No one knew that there was any downsi to . I'm jt part of that generatn—the first generatn of guys who were almost wiped out by AIDS." Panozzo was diagnosed wh HIV 1991 but went untreated until 1998, when his ndn had progrsed to AIDS. Still, he wants to teach others about the importance of takg actn agast HIV and AIDS and rais awarens about the ndn. "It's important to ntue to -stigmatize AIDS. And beg the posn that I am, I have an opportuny to help do ," he told the outlet.<br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">9 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Jim J. Bullock</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="2252" height="3000" alt=""Lgh Out Loud" Comedy Benef" tle=""Lgh Out Loud" Comedy Benef" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Brian To</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Actor Jim J. Bullock was jt 19 when he learned he got a scholarship to pursue actg at NYU, but jt before he packed his bags, he received a diagnosis of HIV and AIDS. "At the time, they told me I had six months to live," he told <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="POZ" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">POZ</a></em>. " I thought, I n’t be an actor now." Bullock spiraled to dg and alhol addictn, only to velop Kaposi’s sara. He told the outlet that he nearly ped ath, but then began takg a new anti-viral dg that improved his ndn. </p></div></div></div></div></div></sectn><div class="css-1y4quq0 e1tmud0h0"><div class="vertil-ad right-rail-ad listicle--ad-rail css-yn5rez erx0a9f5"><div class="erx0a9f6 css-jqp803 e6yd7uy2"><div id="listicle-ad-rail-1" class="ad-ntaer css-14b96eg e1hka4w80"></div></div></div></div></sectn><div><div class="gpt-breaker-ntaer breaker-ad breaker-ad listicle-sli-list-ad e1tmud0h2 css-1abb9yi e152u5os0"><div class="css-maeii1 e1v257yr0">Advertisement - Contue Readg Below</div><div id="listicle-ad-breaker-2" class="ad-ntaer css-14b96eg e1hka4w80"></div></div></div><sectn class="css-t6ry6e erx0a9f20"><sectn class="css-1igyocc e1tmud0h11"><div class="css-5htnuj e1tmud0h10"><div class="listicle-slis css-ducv57 eemzdg80"><div class="css-10fz3m9 e1tmud0h9"><span class="css-qzeily e1tmud0h5">10 </span><h2 class="css-oj2l e1tmud0h8">Danny Ptro</h2><div class="css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3"><div class="css-5k9guf ew0wum60"><img width="682" height="1024" alt="The Abbey Food And Bar's 6th Annual Tree Lightg" tle="The Abbey Food And Bar&apos;s 6th Annual Tree Lightg" fetchprry="to" dg="async" src="" size="to" srcSet=" 1280w, 960w" loadg="lazy" class="lqip lazyload css-0 e1lki9i00" /><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd2">Jennifer Lourie</span><span class="css-3pnwfu e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-jx86sf e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div><div class="css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6"><div class="css-7o74ds e1tmud0h7"><p class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2015, former <em>Who's the Boss </em>star Danny Ptro admted to Oprah Wey that he learned he was HIV posive 2003. "It's not somethg that people are talkg about right now really," he told Wey, <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Internatnal Bs Tim" class="body-lk css-7l5upj et3p2gv0">Internatnal Bs Tim</a></em> reported. "There's this awful feelg of: 'I'm never gog to be able to have a good relatnship. No one's ever gog to want me.'" But Ptro was wrong. He let his partner, Wil Tabar, know on their first date that he had HIV, and Tabar replied that he wasn't aaid of . Today, the two are happily married, and Ptro advot for others to be open about the medil ndn. "I didn't want to hi this illns. I didn't want to live a lie. 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Read an excerpt om latt edn of The Caftan Chronicl wh the gay-ish goofball om the '80s s Too Close For Comfort.

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THE 12 GAYT MEN SHOW BIZ HISTORY, FROM PL LYN TO BILLY PORTERALSO: EVERY SUNDAY, THE BOYS TAKE OFF THE EAST {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY MICHAEL MTOMAY 27, 2019/10:57 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2000PX;WIDTH:3000PX;}SANTIAGO FELIPE/FILMMAGICNEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: ACTOR BILLY PORTER ATTENDS THE BLONDS FALL / WTER 2019 NWAY SHOW AT SPRG STUDS ON FEBARY 12, 2019 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY SANTIAGO FELIPE/FILMMAGIC)BY MICHAEL MTOMAY 27, 2019 / 10:57 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE 12 GAYT MEN SHOW BIZ HISTORY, FROM PL LYN TO BILLY PORTER","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-05-27T14:57:51.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-05-27T14:57:51.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GLTERY, LET’S-PRETEND WORLD OF SHOW BIZ SEEMS TO ATTRACT A LOT OF GAY MEN, WHETHER THEY’RE , OUT, OR HALFWAY THERE. AND MANY OF THEM HAVE BROUGHT JOY THROUGH THE S WH THEIR TEMPTUO TALENT AND IRREPRSIBLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE ARE MY PICKS FOR THE DOZEN GAYT OF ALL, PLETE WH SOME WELL-ACCSORIZED NNER-UPS. I’M NOT CLUDG FASHN SIGNERS (TOO EASY) OR NEWSSTERS, JT ENTERTAMENT FIGUR—AND I AM CLUDG SOME MEN WHO WERE SO GAY THEY SCREAMED , EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T ALWAYS SAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PL LYN (1926-82)ABC PHOTO ARCHIV/ABC VIA GETTY IMAGUNITED STATES - AUGUST 14: THE DATING GAME - 8/14/72, PL LYN ON "THE DATG GAME"., (PHOTO BY ABC PHOTO ARCHIV/ABC VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH HIS BARBED LIVERY OF A LE FOLLOWED BY A WICKED LTLE CHUCKLE, PL LYN WAS THE EPOME OF GAY—AN UNSPOKEN SHRE TO HOMOSEXUALY BACK WHEN NO ONE WAS OUT. IT WAS ALL ABOUT HTS AND NUENDOS. LYN WAS A SCREAM AS THE ANGSTY FATHER BYE BYE BIRDIE (SGG THE BTER “KIDS,” THOUGH I NEVER UNRSTOOD HOW HE HAD ANY), THE MPY UNCLE ARTHUR ON THE GAY-IENDLY S BEWCHED, AND THE CIDLY OFF-CENTER CENTER SQUARE ON THE GAME SHOW HOLLYWOOD SQUAR (“WHY DO THE HELL’S ANGELS WEAR LEATHER?” LYN: “BEE CHIFFON WRKL EASILY.”) IN LI OF OUT GAY HERO, WE HAD PL LYN FLAPPG HIS WRISTS AND VIRTUALLY WELG SI HIS CLOSET WHILE SLAMMG THE DOOR OUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANOTHER FAB FLAMER WHO SPANNED BOTH THEATER, TV SERI, AND GAME SHOWS WAS THE EXTREMELY FUNNY CHARL NELSON REILLY (1931-2007), WHO SHOOK UP THE MATCH GAME WH HIS GTUR AND POLYTER PRTS. AND THE OTHER NNERS UP ARE JIM NABORS, JIM J. BULLOCK, JIM PARSONS, BCE VILANCH, TAYLOR NEGRON, AND QUEER EYE GUYS PAST AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RUPL (1960-)CHELSEA GUGLIELMO/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 30: RUPL SPEAKS ONSTAGE DURG 3RD ANNUAL RUPL'S DRAGCON DAY 2 AT LOS ANGEL CONVENTN CENTER ON APRIL 30, 2017 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY CHELSEA GUGLIELMO/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“YOU BETTER WORK!” “WE’RE ALL BORN NAKED. THE RT IS DRAG.” “IF YOU DON’T LOVE YOURSELF, HOW THE HELL YOU GONNA LOVE SOMEBODY ELSE?” “DON’T LET YOUR MOUTH WRE CHECKS THAT YOUR ASS N’T SH.” “SISSY THAT WALK!" ENOUGH SAID? GAY, GAY, GAY!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OTHER LEGENDARY DRAG SUPERSTARS CLU CHARL LUDLAM, CHARL PIERCE, JIM BAILEY, LORI SHANNON, CHARL BCH, LYPSKA, AND EVERY DRAG RACE NTTANT WHO EVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GEE TAKEI (1937-)FRERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGPASADENA, CA - JANUARY 21: ACTOR GEE TAKEI SPEAKS ONSTAGE DURG THE 'PNEERS OF TELEVISN, SEASON 4, "ACTG FUNNY", "BREAKG BARRIERS", "DOCTORS AND NURS", AND "STANDUP TO S" ' PANEL DISCSN AT THE PBS PORTN OF THE 2014 WTER TELEVISN CRICS ASSOCIATN TOUR AT LANGHAM HOTEL ON JANUARY 21, 2014 PASANA, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY FRERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HAVG SURVIVED EARLY YEARS SPENT A JAPANE-AMERIN TERNMENT MP, TAKEI MIRACULOLY EMERGED NOT ONLY AS A NOTED ACTOR (BT KNOWN AS SULU STAR TREK), BUT AS A VOL GAY WHO ME OUT 2005 AND HAS BEEN BLISSFULLY OUTSPOKEN FAVOR OF THE QUEER E EVER SCE. WH 2.87 LN TWTER FOLLOWERS (AS OF PUBLITN), TAKEI SENDS OUT STGGLY ON-TARGET MSAG, SATIRIL THOUGHTS (“TMP HAS OFFERED TO HAVE MEXI PAY FOR THE REBUILDG OF NOTRE DAME”) AND PICTUR OF HIMSELF AND HIS HBAND WH PETE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELTON JOHN (1947-)ANDREW H. WALKER/GETTY IMAG FOR DCPNEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 31: ELTON JOHN PERFORMS ON DICK CLARK'S NEW YEAR'S ROCK' EVE WH RYAN SEACRT 2015 ON DECEMBER 31, 2014 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY ANDREW H. WALKER/GETTY IMAG FOR DCP){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE’LL FIVE SIR ELTON’S MARRIAGE TO A WOMAN 1984. AFTER ALL, EVEN HE ADMS HE WAS NYG WHO HE REALLY WAS BY ENTERG TO . EXCEPT FOR OCSNAL TOURS LIKE THAT, THE BRISH SGER HAS ALWAYS BEEN FLASHY, TRASHY, AND TE, WH LARGE SUNGLASS AND BOAS TO MATCH THE GRANDSY OF HIS CREDIBLY TCHY H RERDS. WRG THE SRE FOR 1994’S THE LN KG (WHICH LATER BEME A SMASH BROADWAY SHOW AND NOW A CGI REMAKE) GAVE HIM A WHOLE NEW LEGIMACY, AND NOW, WH HIS BPIC ROCKETMAN ABOUT TO BE RELEASED, HE’S PRACTILLY AS REVERED AS THE QUEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HONORABLE MENTNS TO FREDDIE MERCURY, THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, BOY GEE, JIMMY SOMERVILLE, ANDY BELL, GEE MICHAEL, JOBRIATH, LANCE BASS, ADAM LAMBERT, SYLVTER, AND RUDOLF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DIVE (1945-88)MONDADORI PORTFOL VIA GETTY IMAGAMERIN ACTOR AND SGER HARRIS GLENN MILSTEAD AS CHARACTER DIVE SG SHOWG A LICE SHAMPOO ON THE SET OF THE FILM PK FLAMGOS. 1972. (PHOTO BY MONDADORI PORTFOL VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A SK-TIGHT RED DRS, WH IMPOSSIBLY RAISED EYEBROWS AND TORTURED YELLOW HAIR, DIVE WAS QUE A SIGHT AS THE PL-SIZED VILLAO VIXEN JOHN WATERS’ PK FLAMGOS (1972). SHE WENT ON TO OTHER BRAZEN HILARY WATERS FILMS LIKE FEMALE TROUBLE, RETURNG FOR A SYMPATHETIC TURN THE MUCH MORE SOCIALLY NSC CLASSIC HAIRSPRAY, WHILE ALSO VENTURG TO TRIBAL DANCE MIC AND OTHER UNEXPECTED TURNS. DIVVY (BORN HARRIS GLENN MILSTEAD BALTIMORE, OF URSE) WAS ABOUT TO PLAY A MALE ROLE ON MARRIED WH CHILDREN WHEN HE DIED, BARELY ABLE TO ABSORB THE NEW PRAISE OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TMAN CAPOTE (1924-84)KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGAMERIN WRER TMAN CAPOTE (1924 - 1984), THE THOR OF 'BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S' MILAN NEGOTIATG A NTRACT FOR HIS NEW NONFICTN NOVEL 'IN COLD BLOOD'. (PHOTO BY KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NEW ORLEANS-BORN THOR HAD RANGE, VEERG OM THE CLASSIC SOCIAL-CLIMBG NOVELLA BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S TO THE CHILLG NON-FICTN NOVEL IN COLD BLOOD. HE ALSO HAD AN IMABLE STYLE, THAT OF A PRISSY, ELF MAN WH A SQUEAKY VOICE THAT YOU ULDN’T MAKE UP IF YOU TRIED. UNSELFNSCLY APPEARG ON VAR TALK SHOWS, HE BEME A WILDLY POPULAR CULTURAL FIGURE AND AN SPIRATN TO GAYS HOPG TO MAKE WHOUT WATERG DOWN THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIARLY, REX REED IS A BREEZY WRER WHO MPED UP ON TV’S THE GONG SHOW AND AS MYRON THE 1970 MOVIE OF GORE VIDAL’S TRANS BOOK MYRA BRECKRIDGE. OH, AND VIDAL RANKS HIGH ON THIS LIST, TOO, ALONG WH OSR WIL, NOEL COWARD, AND TENNSEE WILLIAMS, THOUGH NONE OF THE WRERS IS AS GAY AS LTLE OLD ME!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIBERACE (1919-87)SONIA MOSKOWZ/IMAGES/GETTY IMAGNEW YORK, NY - CIRCA 1984: LIBERACE CIR 1984 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY SONIA MOSKOWZ/IMAGES/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIBERACE DIDN’T SAY HE WAS GAY—EVEN WHEN HIS EX-BOYIEND STT THORSON SUED HIM FOR PALIMONY—AND FACT, HE SUED A MAGAZE THAT DARED TO ASSERT THAT HE WAS ONE OF , AND HE WON! WHAT’S MORE, WHEN LIBERACE ME DOWN WH HIV, HE CLAIMED HE’D SIMPLY LOST WEIGHT AS THE RULT OF A WATERMELON DIET. BUT STILL, THIS WAS THE GAYT MAN EVER SHOW BIZ—MAYBE EVER ON EARTH—GLTERG OM HEAD TO TOE (CLUDG HIS MEGAWATT SE), AS HE TKLED CLASSIL DTI ON THE IVORI FOR AN ADORG DIENCE OF CLUELS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A MAMA’S BOY, WLADZIU VALENTO LIBERACE WAS ALSO A BIG QUEER WHO, WHEN I TERVIEWED HIM 1985, TOLD ME A RNCHY JOKE ABOUT A “TRANSVTE” WH A BIG DICK, A TIDB I FELT HE OFFERED AS A SUBTLE NOD TO OUR SHARED SEXUALY. EVEN WHEN HE WAS SICK, “LEE” KEPT PERFORMG AN ELABORATE FASHN, LUXURIATG JEWELS, SHOWMANSHIP, AND A SHEER LOVE OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALLAN CARR (1937-99)FRANK EDWARDS/FOTOS INTERNATNAL/GETTY IMAGAMERIN PRODUCER ALLAN CARR (1937 - 1999), ACTOR AND SGER OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, HER SISTER RONA, AND AMERIN ACTOR JEFF CONAWAY, ATTEND THE PREMIERE PARTY FOR 'AMERIN HOT WAX', DIRECTED BY FLOYD MUTX, MARCH 1978. (PHOTO BY FRANK EDWARDS/FOTOS INTERNATNAL/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SWANNG AROUND LORFUL FTANS, CARR (PICTURED ABOVE ON THE LEFT) BEME THE OSTENTAT PRODUCER OF HS LIKE GREASE, THOUGH HIS FLOPS (CAN’T STOP THE MIC, GREASE 2, WHERE THE BOYS ARE ’84) MAY HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE FASCATG. SURROUNDG HIMSELF WH HOT YOUNG GAY MEN AT HOLLYWOOD POOL PARTI, CARR WAS AS LARGER-THAN-LIFE AS HIS BRAND, THOUGH HIS JOB HELMG THE 1989 OSRS—THE ONE WH ROB LOWE AND SNOW WHE WOEFULLY DUETTG ON “PROUD MARY”—BEME LEGENDARY FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS. CARR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THAT PROUD A MARY HIMSELF, BUT THE FACT REMAS THAT HE WAS GAYER THAN ALL OF TSELTOWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BILLY PORTER (1969-)DAN MACMEDAN/GETTY IMAGHOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 24: BILLY PORTER ATTENDS THE 91ST ANNUAL AMY AWARDS AT HOLLYWOOD AND HIGHLAND ON FEBARY 24, 2019 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY DAN MACMEDAN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A FE SGER-ACTOR, BILLY HAS LONG BEEN OUT, PROUD, AND VOL. HE WON THE TONY FOR KKY BOOTS, AND WHEN I ASKED HIM AT THE TIME WHAT WAS GOG TO BE LIKE TO PLAY THE CHARACTER HARVEY FIERSTE TEND AS STRAIGHT, BILLY GAVE ME AN EARFUL; HE HAD NO TENTN OF PLAYG LOLA STRAIGHT, THANK YOU. ADD HIS WILD SUCCS ON POSE AND HIS GENR NONNFORMG OUTF THAT STOLE THE OSRS, AND BILLY IS THE MAN OF OUR GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO: NATHAN LANE AND CHRISTOPHER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALAN SU (1926-2011)KEV WTER/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 21: ACTOR ALAN SU PRENTS THE OUTSTANDG VARIETY, MIC OR COMEDY SERI AWARD ONSTAGE DURG THE 60TH PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS HELD AT NOKIA THEATRE ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY KEV WTER/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON THE TOPIL SKETCH EDY SHOW ROWAN AND MART’S LGH-IN, ALAN SU WAS A RT, PLAYG OUT-THERE CHARACTERS LIKE AN EFFEMATE SPORTSSTER NAMED BIG AL WHO OBSSIVELY RANG HIS LTLE BELL, AND ALSO A DU WHO SWAGGERS TO A WILD WT BAR, ALL BOWLEGGED AND MANLY, ONLY TO MPILY ORR A OZEN DAIQUIRI. SU WAS AS GAY AS IKEA ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, THOUGH HE HID AN OPPOSE-SEX MARRIAGE FOR A WHILE, AND NEVER ME OUT ON THE RERD. BUT BENEATH HIS WONRFUL MANNERISMS, SU WAS NOT ONLY GAY, HE HAD A GAY SOUL. IN FACT, HE REPORTEDLY STARTED FEELG THAT THE MATERIAL HE WAS GIVEN TO DO ON THE SHOW WAS HOMOPHOBIC. IF HE HAD BEEN BORN LATER, HE WOULD NO DOUBT HAVE BEEN WAY MORE OF AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO: MAR CANTONE, WAYLAND FLOWERS, AND EDWARD EVERETT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LLIE JORDAN (1955-)JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGICBEVERLY HILLS, CA - DECEMBER 04: ACTOR LLIE JORDAN ATTENDS THE TREVORLIVE LOS ANGEL 2016 FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL ON DECEMBER 4, 2016 BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE CHATTANOOGA-BORN IC PIXIE IS A LONGTIME SCENE-STEALER—OM WILL & GRACE TO AMERIN HORROR STORY: COVEN—AND HE’S ALWAYS BEEN MARVELOLY MOUTHY AS HIMSELF, AS WELL. WHENEVER I CHAT WH LLIE, I KNOW I’LL LGH MYSELF TO THE PROSTRATE POSN, THANKS TO HIS RACILY HILAR REVELATNS. 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NEED I REALLY EXPLA?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A THONG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOME FUTURE INS PARA THEIR BS AROUND THE BROLQUE REVUE ON SUNDAYS AT THE BEDLAM CLUB ON AVENUE C NEW YORK. I JT UGHT SOME OF THE SHOW, WHICH HAD STUDLY GUYS LIKE RICHARD, PUCK, AND BOBBY WORKG THE ROOM, OM THE TOP OF THE BAR TO THE MOOSE HEAD ON THE WALL AND THEN SOME. SOME OF THE SIGHT L WERE LS THAN IAL, BUT THE GUYS—WHO ALL STARTED OUT SAILOR’S HATS FOR FLEET WEEK—SAILED SMOOTHLY TO WRHG SEMI-NUDY, AS ALAN CUMMG, HIS HBAND GRANT SHAFFER, AND I GENTEELLY APPLD. THE DWORLD UNRWEAR PARTY THAT FOLLOWED WAS NO DOUBT UTTERLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPEAKG OF MALE DISROBERS, THE MAGIC MIKE MIL HAS NCELED S BOSTON PREMIERE N, BUT I HEAR THAT THE MICHAEL JACKSON JEBOX SHOW, DON’T STOP ’TIL YOU GET ENOUGH–WHICH SEEMED TO PSE S TRACKS WHILE THE HBO DOC SPUN S DRAMAS—IS G ANYWAY. SORT OF LIKE A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

* jim j bullock gay *

The gay-ish goofball we all remember as Monroe om the silly ’80s s Too Close For Comfort was ed gay. )—but TCFC was always on the background and there was Monroe, sorta gay-seemg and -soundg but maybe jt a big doof, the ane way that ss of that perd really weren’t more sophistited than old-fashned, schticky vville rout. Well, turns out that Monroe fact was gay—that is, Jim J.

12 GAY TV CHARACTERS WHO NEVER SAID THEY WERE GAYAND MORE DRAG QUEENS ARE HTG TV! WHO WAS LEFT OUT?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY MICHAEL MTOSEPTEMBER 18, 2017/11:22 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1910PX;WIDTH:2610PX;}ABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY IMAGBY MICHAEL MTOSEPTEMBER 18, 2017 / 11:22 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"12 GAY TV CHARACTERS WHO NEVER SAID THEY WERE GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-09-18T15:22:38.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-09-18T15:22:38.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WAY BEFORE CHARACTERS—AND ACTORS—ULD BE OUT OF THE CLOSET, THERE WAS A SPATE OF THEM ON TV THAT GAVE EVERY DITN OF BEG GAY WHOUT ACTUALLY SAYG SO. FOR THE GENERATN THAT GREW UP WHOUT A LOT OF LGBT VISIBILY, THE D PERSONAS PROVID SOME REHG GAYNS AN OTHERWISE EXCLIVELY HETERO LANDSPE. THE DISHONTLY OPAQUE WAY THEY WERE PRENTED MA THEM A TILLATG TNT RATHER THAN A LIBERATG BREAKTHROUGH, BUT THEY STILL MA A DIFFERENCE. HERE’S A DOZEN OF THE MOST MEMORABLE ON (AND BY THE WAY, SOME OF THE CHARACTERS WERE GIVEN OPPOSE-SEX LOVE TERTS, BUT THAT DIDN’T FOOL ME A B):{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DR. ZACHARY SMH ON LOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A QUEENY, SCHEMG DOCTOR A SHY SILVER BODYSU, NNG BEHD A ROCK WH A BOY OUTER SPACE? “DANGER, WILL ROBSON” ED. EVEN STAR JUNE LOCKHART SAID SHE THOUGHT THE CHARACTER WAS GAY. AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS THE THE 1960S S, THE DOC HAD MAJOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MR. BELVEREABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLIFTON WEBB PLAYED THE STARCHY ENGLISH HOEKEEPER THE MOVI. ON THE S VERSN (1985-’90), WAS CHRISTOPHER HEWETT, WHO FLAMED UP A STORM THE ROLE. IN REAL LIFE A “NFIRMED BACHELOR,” HEWETT HAD PLAYED THE GAYER THAN GAY DIRECTOR ROGER DE BRIS THE ORIGAL MOVIE OF THE PRODUCERS, SO THIS WAS NOT EXACTLY A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL COOLEY ON THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOWCBS VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE 1960S, THE GAYT THG ON THE AIR WAS MEL (PICTURED: LEFT), THE EXTREMELY MANNERED AND IMPER TV PRODUCER ON VAN DYKE’S H S. BALD AND BPECTACLED RICHARD DEAN PLAYED THE PART WH A NOTICEABLY SWISHY MEANOR. HE WENT ON TO PLAY KAYE BALLARD’S HBAND, ROGER BUELL, THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW (1968-9), REPLACG THE EQUALLY MPY ROGER C. CARMEL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIG AL, THE SPORTSTER ON ROWAN AND MART'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS PLAYED BY FUNNY MAN ALAN SU ON THE H LATE ‘60S/EARLY ‘70S SHOW OF WACKY SKETCH AND SHTICKS, AL WAS AN EFFEMATE SPORTSSTER WHO ABSOLUTELY LOVED RGG THE BELL. ANOTHER OF SU’ CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW WAS A GUY WHO SWAGGERS TO A BAR THE OLD WT AND ORRS A OZEN DAIQUIRI. THE PEOPLE WERE CLEARLY GAY, AND SO WAS ALAN, WHO WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN FOR A TIME, BUT DATED MEN ON THE SI. SADLY, THE IC FELT THE NEED TO GIVE TERVIEWS BOASTG ABOUT WHAT A STRAIGHT STUD HE WAS. EVEN SADR, HE BEME OVERE WH WHAT HE FELT WAS THE HOMOPHOBIC SLANT OF THE MATERIAL HE WAS GIVEN TO DO. SU DIED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNCLE ARTHUR ON BEWCHEDABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM ’65 TO ’71, BEWCHED—WH ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY AS A WCH-SLASH-HOEWIFE—WAS GAY STATN TV, THANKS TO SUPPORTG PLAYERS LIKE AGN MOOREHEAD, ACTG ALL REGAL AND BCHY FABULO OUTFS. AND OF URSE THERE WAS PL LYN AS UNCLE ARTHUR, WHICH THE ACTOR BROUGHT ALL HIS GAY TICS TO, RULTG A TYPILLY DARG AND HILAR PERFORMANCE. MUCH LATER, LYN WENT EVEN FARTHER, WH GAYISH NUENDO ON THE HOLLYWOOD SQUAR. (“PL, WHY DO HELL’S ANGELS WEAR LEATHER?” “BEE CHIFFON WRKL TOO EASILY.”) HE DIED 1981, NEVER HAVG E OUT ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLAYMORE GREGG ON THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIRDISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE SAME VE AS LYN, CHARL NELSON REILLY WAS A ONE-MAN MPFT WHO WAS GAYER THAN LIBERACE’S TOOTHBSH. AS CLAYMORE, THE NUTTY GUY WHO RENTS THE HNTED TTAGE TO MRS. MUIR ON THE ENJOYABLE S (1968-’70), HE WAS FSY AND FUNNY AND VERY QUEENY. AND JT LIKE LYN WENT ON TO GAME SHOW PYROTECHNICS, REILLY STOLE THE MATCH GAME WH HIS FLAILG ARMS AND QUICK W. HE ALSO HAD IMPRSIVE THEATER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ON THE ADVENTUR OF ROCKY AND BULLWKLE AND FRIENDSUNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGUNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE GAY VOICE? ABSOLUTELY—LET ME EXPLA. FROM 1959 ON, ROCKY AND BULLWKLE WERE FUN AND BORIS AND NATASHA WERE MPY (PECIALLY NATASHA), BUT WHEN THE FRACTURED FAIRY TAL SEGMENT ME ON, I WAS TLY GAY HEAVEN. THE TAL—RETELLG CLASSIC YARNS WH QUIRKY TWISTS—VOLVED EDWARD EVERETT HORTON’S FT NARRATN, WH LOTS OF WORDPLAY AND DOUBLE ENTENDR. HE ME OFF SO UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY—AND WAS JT HIS VOICE! BUT THIS WAS NOTHG NEW; HORTON WAS PLAYG D GAY MEN BACK THE DAYS OF FRED AND GGER MILS AND SCREWBALL EDI. A FIZZY TOAST TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER? WELL, Y, THAT’S HOW THE PRISSY PK MOUNTA LN (VOICED BY DAWS BUTLER AND STARTED 1961) WAS PLAYED, AND I FOUND HIM EVEN MORE APPEALG THAN THE PK PANTHER. THE CHARACTER EXHIBED ALL THE NERVONS, NARCISSISM, AND LIMP WRISTEDNS OF YOUR EVERYDAY GAY STEREOTYPE PLUCKED OUT OF THE WILD. “HEAVENS TO MURGATROYD!” AS SNAGS WOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MILTON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIARLY, THE MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW—A RTOON SERI THE 1960S—TROTTED OUT A WHOLE ASSORTMENT OF GAY CREATUR, FOR ANYONE WHO WAS PAYG ATTENTN. THERE WAS MILTON HIMSELF, A FRANKENSTE TYPE BUT OVERLOAD WH TENRNS AND A GOMER PYLE-ISH VOICE, PL PROFSOR WEIRDO AND HIS PISSY ASSISTANT COUNT KOOK (“BETTER HOLD MY HAND, I’M FEELG SICK!”). WHAT’S MORE, THE WOMEN’S VOIC WERE DONE BY MEN. OH, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTHONY BOUVIER ON DIGNG WOMENFOTOS INTERNATNAL/COURTY GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MHACH TAYLOR PLAYED THE TERR SIGN ASSISTANT ON THE H SERI. (1986-93). IN ’87, HE PLAYED HOLLYWOOD MONTROSE, THE OVER-THE-TOP WDOW DRSER MANNEQU. IN REAL LIFE, HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD FOUR KIDS, SO I HAVE NO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MR. MOONEY ON THE LUCY SHOWCBS VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHARACTER ACTOR GALE GORDON HAMMED UP AS LUCILLE BALL’S FOIL, THE NSTANTLY FLTERED AND BARKG BANKER THEODORE J. MOONEY, ON THE LUCY SHOW (1963-8). HE JT ME OFF LIKE SUCH A GIRL! 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DAVIS) ON THE BRADY BUNCH. Y, I KNOW SHE WAS CRAZY FOR SAM THE BUTCHER. I’M SURE HE WAS A BEARD!CBS VIA GETTY IMAGFRED CLARK AS DR. RAY CLYBURN, NANCY KULP AS JANE HATHAWAY AND RAYMOND BAILEY AS MILBURN DRYSDALE THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES EPISO, "HAIR-RAISG HOLIDAY." ORIGAL AIRDATE, OCTOBER 2, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY, GAY PEOPLE ON TV ARE OUT AND DRS! FN TV JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S THROWG SHA: QUEENS OF NYC, A 12-PART DOCERI ABOUT THE NYC DRAG CULTURE, FEATURG LOL FAVOR LIKE MARTI GOULD CUMMGS, TA BURNER, PAIGE TURNER, HOLLY BOX SPRGS, JADA VALENCIAGA, JASME RICE LABEIJA, CHELSEA PIERS, AND BRA FILTER. GREAT CHOIC—I’VE ENJOYED THEM ALL. AS FOR HOW THEY ST THE SHOW—WHICH PREMIER OCTOBER 5—CUMMGS TOLD ME, "THIS GROUP OF QUEENS REPRENTS THE HEART OF NYC DRAG. 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The gay-ish goofball we all remember as Monroe om the silly '80s s was ed gay. And diagnosed wh HIV 1985. And eply closeted. And then thgs got even more plited... * jim j bullock gay *

I had a lot of inty wh his disvery, early on, that humor go a long way toward beg accepted—and also that, as gay boys growg up a certa era, we sperately wanted to be accepted—by our fathers, by society—more than anythg else.

I wanted an Allen Carr [the gay producer of the movie Grease] ftan but uldn’t fd one like that, and the women’s on are ma out of plastic. ” I loved Lost Space and totally nnected to [the seemgly gay character] Dr. ” Tim: Hm, that’s so tertg, as of urse I want to talk to you a lot about old TV characters who read as gay, like Monroe on Too Close for Comfort [hereafter referred to as TCFC].

Smh was gay? As a young boy, I didn’t even know what “gay” was, but there was that thg, a nnectn you ma wh certa characters that I, turn, had people tell me they had that nnectn wh Monroe before they even knew their own sexualy. Tim: Well, you are really gettg to the nut of what I want to talk about, bee TCFC was one of those early-80s ss, like Diff’rent Strok or The Facts of Life or Silver Spoons that was always on the background when I was junr high school, and I always sensed that Monroe was, if not gay, then, like a clown or a nerd or the butt of the joke, and that fely stck a nerve wh me, bee I was all of those thgs.

THE CAFTAN CHRONICL SUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"JIM J. BULLOCK'S SHAME GOT TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. THEN THGS GOT BETTER","SCRIPTN":"THE GAY-ISH GOOFBALL WE ALL REMEMBER AS MONROE OM THE SILLY '80S S WAS ED GAY. AND DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1985. AND EPLY CLOSETED. AND THEN THGS GOT EVEN MORE PLITED...","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2022-08-12T21:42:56+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2022-08-12T21:42:56+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":FALSE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"TIM MURPHY","URL":","SCRIPTN":"AUTHOR OF THE NOVELS CHRISTODORA AND CORRPONNTS (MAY 2019). LGBT, HIV/AIDS, CULTURE AND POLICS NTRIBUTOR FOR NYTIM, NYMAG, THE NATN, POZ, ETC.","INTIFIER":"ER:5275890","SAMEAS":["],"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"THE CAFTAN CHRONICL ","URL":","SCRIPTN":"DEEP TALKS WH NOTABLE GAY MEN \"OF A CERTA AGE\" ABOUT WHERE WE'VE BEEN, WHO WE ARE TODAY AND WHERE WE'RE GOG...","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":100},"INTIFIER":"PUB:429772","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTJIM J. BULLOCK'S SHAME GOT TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. THEN THGS GOT COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERJIM J. BULLOCK'S SHAME GOT TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. THEN THGS GOT BETTER

Is Jim J. Bullock Gay? Come and unver what has been said lately about this and what's Jim J. Bullock sayg about this. * jim j bullock gay *

Was he gay to you? And I lost 30 pounds om when they had first seen me and said, “He’s too fat and he’s gay. The Caftan Chronicl by Tim Murphy are “ep talks wh notable gay men ‘of a certa age’ about where we’ve been, who we are today and where we’re gog.

The gltery, let’s-pretend world of show biz seems to attract a lot of gay men, whether they’re , out, or halfway there.

IS JIM J. BULLOCK GAY?

And many of them have brought joy through the s wh their temptuo talent and irreprsible are my picks for the dozen gayt of all, plete wh some well-accsorized nner-ups. I’m not cludg fashn signers (too easy) or newssters, jt entertament figur—and I am cludg some men who were so gay they screamed , even if they didn’t always say Lyn (1926-82)Wh his barbed livery of a le followed by a wicked ltle chuckle, Pl Lyn was the epome of gay—an unspoken shre to homosexualy back when no one was out. Lyn was a scream as the angsty father Bye Bye Birdie (sgg the bter “Kids, ” though I never unrstood how he had any), the mpy Uncle Arthur on the gay-iendly s Bewched, and the cidly off-center Center Square on the game show Hollywood Squar (“Why do the Hell’s Angels wear leather?

”) In li of out gay hero, we had Pl Lyn flappg his wrists and virtually welg si his closet while slammg the door our fac. Gay, gay, gay! Other legendary drag superstars clu Charl Ludlam, Charl Pierce, Jim Bailey, Lori Shannon, Charl Bch, Lypska, and every Drag Race nttant who ever Takei (1937-)Havg survived early years spent a Japane-Amerin ternment mp, Takei miraculoly emerged not only as a noted actor (bt known as Sulu Star Trek), but as a vol gay who me out 2005 and has been blissfully outspoken favor of the queer e ever sce.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Unselfnscly appearg on var talk shows, he beme a wildly popular cultural figure and an spiratn to gays hopg to make whout waterg down their inti. Oh, and Vidal ranks high on this list, too, along wh Osr Wil, Noel Coward, and Tennsee Williams, though none of the wrers is as gay as ltle old me! Liberace (1919-87)Liberace didn’t say he was gay—even when his ex-boyiend Stt Thorson sued him for palimony—and fact, he sued a magaze that dared to assert that he was one of , and he won!

HOSTG A TALK SHOW WH TAMMY FAYE BAKKER WAS THE BT KD OF CHAOSJIM J. BULLOCK ON WORKG WH THE FAMO EVANGELIL, AND HIS FIRST RPONSE WHEN THE IA WAS FLOATED TO HIM: “MY HONT-TO-J REACTN WAS ‘SHE’S FUCKG CRAZY.’ AND HE SAID, ‘WELL, WOULD YOU MEET WH HER?’ I SAID, ‘OH, MY GOD, Y, OF URSE.’”BY MATTHEW JABSSEPTEMBER 17, 2021BY JOHN STOREY/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETAMMY FAYE BAKKER’S GILD WORLD ME CRASHG DOWN 1987. THE PERKY HOST OF THE PTL CLUB, A LONG-NNG CHRISTIAN PROGRAM THAT MA BAKKER ONE OF AMERI’S MOST FAMO EVANGELILS, WAS TOO CLOSELY AFFILIATED WH HER HBAND—ASSEMBLI OF GOD TELEVANGELIST JIM BAKKER—TO EVA THE D SNDAL THAT LAND HIM FERAL PRISON. BUT TAMMY FAYE, WH HER RTOONISH MAKP AND MIDWTERN MAGISM, WAS ALWAYS THE MORE CHARISMATIC BAKKER. IN THE ’90S, AFTER REMARRYG AND CHANGG HER LAST NAME TO MSNER, SHE MA A SOFT EBACK THE FORM OF THE JIM J. & TAMMY FAYE SHOW, A DAYTIME TALK SHOW FULL OF WACKY SEGMENTS LIKE GOAT-KG NTTS.THE JIM OF THE TLE WAS NOT MSNER’S RCERATED EX, BUT JIM J. BULLOCK—A EDIC ACTOR BT KNOWN FOR THE ABC S TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, A RECURRG ROLE ON ALF, AND THE LATE-’80S ERATN OF HOLLYWOOD SQUAR. AS HER HOST, BULLOCK SAW MSNER’S POST-SNDAL LIFE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL A WAY THAT FEW OTHERS DID. IN ADDN TO JIM J. & TAMMY FAYE, HE APPEARED THE 2000 DOCUMENTARY THE EY OF TAMMY FAYE, A GOOD PRIMER FOR THE NEW MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME STARRG JSI CHASTA AS MSNER AND ANDREW GARFIELD AS BAKKER.“TAMMY WAS ALWAYS A REAL PERSON; WHAT YOU SAW IS WHAT YOU GOT,” BULLOCK TELLS VANY FAIR. “HER FAH WAS EVERYTHG TO HER. SHE WAS AN CREDIBLY PASSNATE WOMAN AND VERY CHRISTLIKE, LOVG EVERYONE. IT’S HARD WHEN YOU GET TO A SUATN LIKE THAT THAT SPS OUT OF NTROL SO QUICKLY. IT’S HARD TO KNOW WHICH WAY IS UP AND WHICH WAY IS DOWN, AND SHE NEVER SAID ANYTHG BAD ABOUT JIM.”THE IA FOR A MSNER-LED SERI AROSE WHEN SHE APPEARED ON LEEZA, THE NBC TALK SHOW HOSTED BY FORMER ENTERTAMENT TONIGHT RRPONNT LEEZA GIBBONS. LEEZA PRODUCER JOHN REDMANN HAD PUT TOGETHER A 1994 EPISO THAT UNED THREE SNDAL-PLAGUED WOMEN OF THE LATE-20TH CENTURY: MSNER, GENNIFER FLOWERS, AND ROXANNE PULZER. GIBBONS SAYS SHE IALLY WORRIED THE NCEPT WAS EXPLOATIVE, BUT ONCE REDMANN NVCED MSNER TO PARTICIPATE, THE OTHERS AGREED TOO. AT THE END OF THE EPISO, THE TR PERFORMED “I WILL SURVIVE” TOGETHER.“SEEG HER PERSON WAS LIKE WHEN YOU’RE A KID AND YOU SEE A CHARACTER AT DISNEYLAND,” REDMANN SAYS. “YOU N’T BELIEVE THAT SHE’S A REAL PERSON AND SHE REALLY EXISTS. SHE WAS TY BUT WH A HUGE PRENCE. SHE KNEW HOW TO TURN ON, WHETHER ON MERA OR OFF MERA. SHE WAS SRED PEOPLE WOULDN’T LIKE HER. EVERY TIME I SAW HER AND HUGGED HER, MY SHIRTS WOULD HAVE HALF HER FACE IMPRTED ON THEM BEE SHE WORE SO MUCH MAKP. I’D HAVE ORANGE BRONZER AND RED LIPSTICK MARKS ALL OVER.”GIBBONS SCRIB MSNER AS “THE QUTSENTIAL TALK SHOW GUT” BEE SHE WAS “UNHIBED, VULNERABLE, AND A VISUAL BONANZA WH HER EYELASH.” AFTER THE TAPG, GIBBONS TOLD MSNER SHE SHOULD HAVE HER OWN SHOW. REDMANN SUGGTED THE IA TO PRODUCER DAN WEAVER, WHO HAD ALSO WORKED ON DONAHUE AND THE GERALDO RIVERA SHOW. SO WEAVER STARTED TO VELOP THE PROJECT, TERMG THAT MSNER WOULD BE A GREAT TALKER BUT NOT SUCH A RELIABLE EMCEE. SHE’D NEED A HOST TO HELP KEEP THE BROADST ON TRACK. WEAVER, WHO DIED 2018, ALSO CID THAT HOST SHOULD BE AN OPENLY GAY MAN—A RARE REQUT CIR 1994. SOMEHOW, THOUGH, MA SENSE. MSNER’S PRIMARY DIENCE SEEMED TO HAVE TWO HALV: NSERVATIV WHO LOVED HER PARABL, AND GAYS WHO LOVED HER PAGEANTRY.BULLOCK WAS WORKG ON A LTLE-SEEN S CANADA WHEN HE GOT THE LL OM WEAVER. “MY HONT-TO-J REACTN WAS ‘SHE’S FUCKG CRAZY,’” BULLOCK SAYS. “THAT’S LERALLY WHAT I SAID TO HIM, AND HE SAID, ‘WELL, WOULD YOU MEET WH HER?’ I SAID, ‘OH, MY GOD, Y, OF URSE.’ I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT TAMMY, BUT I ED TO TUNE , LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, TO PTL [THE BAKKER-N WORK THAT AIRED THE PTL CLUB] AND LGH AT HER.”MSNER AND BULLOCK CLICKED RIGHT AWAY, AND THEY SOON FILMED TRIAL NS—NO FANCY LIGHTG, NO WARDROBE, JT A MERA ON A TRIPOD AND A SET THAT MSNER LIKENED TO THE JUNKYARD OM SANFORD AND SON. “WE WERE JT TRYG TO BE WHO WE WERE, BUT REGIS AND KATHIE LEE WAS SORT OF THE TEMPLATE, AND THIS LTLE SHOW LLED MIKE & MATY,” BULLOCK SAYS. EVENTUALLY, THEY SHOT AND SOLD A PILOT TO FOX, RERDG A PEPPY THEME SONG POSED BY “THE NANNY NAMED FRAN” WRER ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY.BY RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG.“EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THAT SHOW, CLUDG TAMMY AND MYSELF, WORKED FOR PENNI ON THE DOLLAR BEE NO ONE WAS GOG, ‘THIS IS MAGIC, THIS IS GOLD,’” BULLOCK SAYS. PEOPLE WERE GOG, ‘WE'RE TAKG A REAL CHANCE HERE.’ THE WARM-UP GUY [EDIAN STEVE MOORE] WAS MAKG MORE THAN TAMMY AND ME.”THE JIM J. & TAMMY FAYE SHOW PREMIERED AT THE TAIL END OF 1995. ACRDG TO BULLOCK, HAD A PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOE RA. “TAMMY FAYE CHANNELED LUCILLE BALL WHENEVER SHE WAS SEEKG ‘THE FUNNY,’” PRODUCER JAN LANDIS SAYS; ED, AN EARLY EPISO FOUND MSNER SHOVG CHOLATE HER BRA DURG A FONDUE SEGMENT. (LANDIS ALSO SAYS BAKKER WAS “AN EMOTNAL CHILD BOTH ON AND OFF MERA AND MATAED A SENSE OF ENTLEMENT THAT SHE ENJOYED DURG HER PTL DAYS.”) THE SERI STGGLED TO BOOK A-LIST CELEBRI. WHEN ASKED TO NAME AN PECIALLY FAMO GUT, BULLOCK C A POST–GOLN GIRLS ESTELLE GETTY. BUT THERE WAS ONE EXCEPTN: ROSIE O’DONNELL, WHO ADORED MSNER. O’DONNELL, AS BULLOCK RELLS , ENURAGED THE SHOW’S MICROMANAGG HIGHER-UPS TO LET MSNER AND BULLOCK BE AS SILLY AS THEY WANTED. THOSE HIGHER-UPS, BULLOCK SAYS, WERE TOO BY DOG THE OPPOSE, ATTEMPTG TO REIGN THE HOSTS’ WHIMSY.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDTHROUGHOUT THEIR TIME TOGETHER, BULLOCK NEVER SAW MSNER WHOUT HER SIGNATURE SMETICS—HEAVY MASRA, LORFUL EYHADOW, LIP LER, THE WORKS. “WE WANTED TO DO A MAKEOVER SHOW,” HE SAYS. “WE SAID, ‘TAMMY, WE’RE JT GOG TO TAKE OFF FOR A MUTE. AND WE WANT TO DO YOUR HAIR.’ SHE’D SAY, ‘A CLOWN NEVER TAK OFF HIS MAKP.’” BULLOCK SAYS HE DID SEE THE STAFF FEED HER LI TURKEY DURG MERCIAL BREAKS AN EFFORT TO BALANCE OUT MSNER’S DIET COKE AND POWRED-SUGAR-DONUT NSUMPTN.BULLOCK ALSO SAYS HE NEVER SAW AN OUNCE OF JUDGMENT HER. MSNER HAD EMBRACED GAY PEOPLE ON THE PTL SHOW, PASSNATELY TERVIEWG AN AIDS PATIENT AT A TIME WHEN THE VIS WAS THE SOURCE OF NATNWI DISCRIMATN. BULLOCK HIMSELF HAD NTRACTED HIV 1985, AND HIS PARTNER, JOHN, WOULD DIE OM AIDS PLITNS 1996. “I WOULD BE AT THE STUD ALL DAY SHOOTG, AND THEN I’D E HOME AND JOHN WAS SO SICK,” BULLOCK RELLS. “SO MANY GOOD THGS AND SO MANY BAD THGS WERE HAPPENG AT THE SAME TIME. I N REMEMBER MANY TIM TAMMY KNOCKG ON MY DRSG-ROOM DOOR, G , AND JT HOLDG ME. SHE KNEW WHAT I WAS GOG THROUGH. SHE LOVED JOHN, AND SO SHE WAS RIGHT THERE WH ME AS MUCH AS SHE ULD BE.”THE JIM J. & TAMMY FAYE SHOW DIDN’T LAST LONG. MSNER WAS DIAGNOSED WH LON NCER 1996 AND LEFT TO SEEK TREATMENT. BULLOCK AND THE PRODUCERS ATTEMPTED TO MOVE FORWARD WHOUT HER, DNG A HANDFUL OF FEMALE REPLACEMENTS, CLUDG KTLA MORNG NEWS REPORTER GAYLE ANRSON AND A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN KRIS JENNER. BUT THE PRODUCERS SETTLED ON ANN ABERNATHY, WHO HAD HOSTED ALONGSI REGIS PHILB BEFORE KATHIE LEE GIFFORD ENTERED THE PICTURE. THE JIM J. & ANN SHOW DIDN’T SURVIVE THE YEAR. “ANN WAS A LOVELY WOMAN AND A TOTAL PRO,” BULLOCK SAYS. “BUT THEY CHANGED THE THEME SONG, AND EVERYTHG JT BEME DILUTED.”ONCE THE SHOW DISBAND, BULLOCK AND MSNER DIDN’T SEE MUCH OF EACH OTHER, AS THEY DIDN’T N THE SAME SOCIAL CIRCL. MSNER LATER EQUENTED GAY-PRI PARAS, DID A SEASON OF THE REALY SERI THE SURREAL LIFE, AND PUBLISHED A MEMOIR LLED I WILL SURVIVE…AND YOU WILL, TOO. BULLOCK SAYS THEY HAD FFEE TOGETHER BEFORE MSNER DIED 2007, WHEN BULLOCK WAS APPEARG HAIRSPRAY ON BROADWAY.“THERE WAS A REAL SWEETNS TO TAMMY FAYE,” REDMANN, THE LEEZA PRODUCER, SAYS. “SHE WAS CREDIBLY KD AND FUNNY. SHE LOVED TO JOKE AND MAKE PEOPLE LGH, EVEN AT HER OWN EXPENSE. BUT THERE WAS A SADNS UNR THE SURFACE. I REMEMBER GOG TO VIS HER RANCHO MIRAGE, JT LGHG AND HAVG A GOOD TIME. SHE WOULD LL ME AND CHECK ON HOW I WAS DOG. I KNOW SHE WAS HAPPY TO BE BACK ON TELEVISN.”THE FACT THAT BOTH HOSTS HAD EXPERIENCED THE RISE AND FALL OF FAME NTRIBUTED TO THEIR LOOSE, LAWLS APPROACH ON THE JIM J. & TAMMY FAYE SHOW. THEY WERE THRILLED JT TO SHOW UP AND HAVE FUN. IN THE MIDST OF A OVERFLOWG WH TALK SHOWS HOPG TO BE THE NEXT OPRAH OR JERRY SPRGER, BULLOCK AND MSNER OFFERED AN UNPOLISHED MP THAT SET THEM APART OM THEIR DAYTIME PETORS, EVEN IF THEY NEVER BEME A SENSATN.“​​THAT’S WHY TAMMY AND I WERE SO GOOD TOGETHER, I THK,” BULLOCK SAYS. “WE BOTH HAD JOYO SPIRS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— UNHAPPY LTLE TRE: THE DARK LEGACY OF BOB ROSS— THE TE STORY OF A HOLLYWOOD PARTNERSHIP BUILT AND DTROYED BY MONEY, SEX, AND CELEBRY— TED LASSO’S ROY KENT ON WHY THE SHOW ISN’T “WARM AND FUZZY”— CAFTANS, GOYARD, AND ELVIS: INSI THE WHE LOT’S COSTUM— THE CHAIR IS LIKE AN AMIC GAME OF THRON— THE BT MOVI AND SHOWS STREAMG ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— RACHAEL LEIGH COOK ON RECLAIMG SHE’S ALL THAT— WATCH KRISTEN STEWART CHANNEL PRCS DI SPENCER’S OFFICIAL TRAILER— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JEFEY EPSTE AND HOLLYWOOD’S OMNIPRENT PUBLICIST— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MATTHEW JABS

But still, this was the gayt man ever show biz—maybe ever on earth—glterg om head to toe (cludg his megawatt se), as he tkled classil dti on the ivori for an adorg dience of cluels women.

LYDIA CORNELL SHOW #5 JIM J. BULLOCK | GROWG UP GAY AMERI | HIV - AIDS | TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

Surroundg himself wh hot young gay men at Hollywood pool parti, Carr was as larger-than-life as his brand, though his job helmg the 1989 Osrs—the one wh Rob Lowe and Snow Whe woefully duettg on “Proud Mary”—beme legendary for all the wrong reasons.

Carr may not have been that proud a Mary himself, but the fact remas that he was gayer than all of Tseltown Porter (1969-)A fe sger-actor, Billy has long been out, proud, and vol. Add his wild succs on Pose and his genr nonnformg outf that stole the Osrs, and Billy is the man of our gay Nathan Lane and Christopher Su (1926-2011)On the topil sketch edy show Rowan and Mart’s Lgh-In, Alan Su was a rt, playg out-there characters like an effemate sportsster named Big Al who obssively rang his ltle bell, and also a du who swaggers to a Wild Wt bar, all bowlegged and manly, only to mpily orr a ozen daiquiri.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* JIM J BULLOCK GAY

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Bullock's Shame Got Too Close For Comfort. Then Thgs Got Better</h1><h3 class="subtle">The gay-ish goofball we all remember as Monroe om the silly '80s s was ed gay. And diagnosed wh HIV 1985. And eply closeted. 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class="label">Share</div></a></div></div></div></div><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class class><div class="available-ntent"><div dir="to" class="body markup"><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="669" height="481" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" fetchprry="high" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Happy Augt, Caftan 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I hope you’re all havg a good summer, or as good a summer as possible. I was so (I hate this cliché, but…) #blsed to spend three weeks Greece, both Athens (a tly ol, vibrant and laid-back cy that I will not lger aga summer—’s so hot!) and on some credibly betiful islands. And through all, I was lighted to see Caftan rearship skyrocket as my last terview wh porn legend Tom Chase garnered more than 12,000 reads. That felt amazg!</p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">Me (right) wh one of my bti, Fab, on Santori July.</figptn></figure></div><p></p><p><span>But I have to adm that by Week Three of the Greek sojourn, beg the wre-aholic that I am, I was anx to get back to NYC—partly to do the Augt terview. Let me troduce by sayg that, if there were a Gen X game show lled “Name That S Voice,” where you had to intify a voice om the silly shows we watched as kids and teens—wa, is that Tootie om </span><em>The Facts of Life?</em><span> Boss Hogg om </span><em>The D of Hazzard</em><span>?—wouldn’t we all immediately know the voice of Monroe Fic om </span><em>Too Close for Comfort? </em><span>I mean, </span><em>TCFC </em><span>wasn’t even a favore show of me when I was middle school—I was fely team </span><em>Facts of Life</em><span> (pecially when they went to Paris!)—but </span><em>TCFC </em><span>was always on the background and there was Monroe, sorta gay-seemg and -soundg but maybe jt a big doof, the ane way that ss of that perd really weren’t more sophistited than old-fashned, schticky vville rout.</span></p><div id="youtube2-m-BVv5qKA7g" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"vioId":"m-BVv5qKA7g","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" data-ponent-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-ner"><iame src=" ameborr="0" loadg="lazy" gture="media" allow="toplay; fullscreen" allowtoplay="te" allowfullscreen="te" width="728" height="409"></iame></div></div><p></p><p><span>And of urse there was also the nerd/hunk tensn, bee as much of a goofy, fumblg geek that Monroe was supposed to be, he was also, well, </span><em>hunky</em><span>, pecially those form-ftg gby shirts. </span></p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="397" height="309" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><span>Well, turns out that Monroe fact </span><em>was</em><span> gay—that is, Jim J. Bullock, the Texas-bred actor who played him, was. But not only was he eply closeted the dtry, he was also secretly livg wh HIV, nvced that if eher or pecially both secrets got out, his reer would be ed. (In fact, he was nvced that </span><em>TCFC </em><span>leadg man and grand poobah Ted Knight would end for him personally. And boy, do he have a heartbreakg anecdote to share about a smackdown wh Ted he once had.)</span></p><p><span>It didn’t turn out que like that. When </span><em>TCFC </em><span>end 1986 wh Knight’s abpt ath om ncer, Jim’s reer ntued on </span><em>The New Hollywood Squar</em><span> (watch him at the 3:46 mark)…</span></p><div id="youtube2-HqNS6kbWTbI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"vioId":"HqNS6kbWTbI","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" data-ponent-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-ner"><iame src=" ameborr="0" loadg="lazy" gture="media" allow="toplay; fullscreen" allowtoplay="te" allowfullscreen="te" width="728" height="409"></iame></div></div><p></p><p><span>…and </span><em>Alf</em><span>. He kicked off the neti wh a betiful six-year relatnship wh another HIV-posive man, John Casey. But when John died of AIDS 1996, that’s when Jim’s life really went haywire, wh an arrt 1999 for posssn of crystal meth beg only one of the bottoms he h. It was good old-fashned eight-shows-a-week stage work, startg wh the role of Wilbur Turnblad Broadway’s </span><em>Hairspray</em><span>, that saved Jim’s reer—and maybe even his life. (He then went on to play </span><em>Edna</em><span> Turnblad, the role Harvey Fierste created, several succeedg productns; the clip below is of Jim as Edna a 2011 regnal stagg of the mil.)</span></p><div id="youtube2-JxPT9gznMkA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"vioId":"JxPT9gznMkA","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" data-ponent-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-ner"><iame src=" ameborr="0" loadg="lazy" gture="media" allow="toplay; fullscreen" allowtoplay="te" allowfullscreen="te" width="728" height="409"></iame></div></div><p>All of which brgs up to today, wh Jim livg relatively quietly Palm Sprgs. </p><p>On Augt 8, Jim and I talked for four straight hours—okay, there were a few bathroom breaks—and I loved every mute of . Even at 67 and after all his ups and downs, Jim to me still has the sence of a very sweet and earnt boy raised the Baptist church who wants to make people happy and make them lgh. I had a lot of inty wh his disvery, early on, that humor go a long way toward beg accepted—and also that, as gay boys growg up a certa era, we sperately wanted to be accepted—by our fathers, by society—more than anythg else. Jim’s story is studd wh the mpy celebri of yteryear, om Pl Lyn to Joan Rivers to Tammy Faye Baker. It’s a wild ri, and I loved that as effortlsly funny as he was, Jim was ad-hont wh me about what was really gog on his head and heart through all of . He shied away om (almost) nothg.</p><p>Enjoy the chat! I want to exprs a boatload of gratu to all the subscribers, paid and otherwise, as this marks the first anniversary of The Caftan Chronicl. I have to pch myself that exactly what I envisned for this project—ep talks wh gay men “of a certa age” about our undocumented llective history the past 50 years—seems to be g te, and that people seem to be rpondg. Please nsir subscribg at $5/month or $50 outright for the year if you haven’t. If you have—thank you! And do please ntue to tell folks about Caftan! </p><p>See all you ftan queens September! xo Tim</p><div data-ponent-name="SubscribeWidget" class="subscribe-widget"><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-jtify-center--SQPji"><div class="ontend-ponents-ee_email_form-module__ntaer--OfBh4"><form actn="/api/v1/ee?nojs=te" method="post" noValidate class="form ontend-ponents-ee_email_form-module__form--LDIzl"><put type="hidn" name="first_url" /><put type="hidn" name="first_referrer" /><put type="hidn" name="current_url" /><put type="hidn" name="current_referrer" /><put type="hidn" name="referral_" /><put type="hidn" name="source" value="subscribe-widget" /><put type="hidn" name="referrg_pub_id" /><put type="hidn" name="addnal_referrg_pub_ids" /><div class="ontend-ponents-ee_email_form-module__siBySiWrap--yhsgv"><put type="email" name="email" placeholr="Type your email..." class="pencraft ontend-ponents-ee_email_form-module__emailInput--BLQGf" /><button tabInx="0" type="subm" class="button rightButton primary subscribe-btn ontend-ponents-ee_email_form-module__button--WcLG9"><span class="button-text ">Subscribe</span></button></div><div id="error-ntaer"></div><div class="subtle-help-text below-put ontend-ponents-ee_email_form-module__lks--G_QlQ"></div></form><div class="ontend-log-typo_handler-EmailTypoHandler-module__animatnWrapper--UT0du"></div></div></div></div><p></p><p>Tim: Jim! I'm so exced to talk to you. </p><p>Jim: I am too. And I love the name of your project. I go to the Methodist church here Palm Sprgs and we have a very open and wonrful pastor named Jane who wears ftans every Sunday. I have a ftan my closet too, but I've never worn bee 's om some part of the world where the men mt be very small. I orred an XXL, but 's still very tapered around the cht, and a ftan should be all about flows and hidg.</p><p>Tim: Y—ftans should not be tapered.</p><p><span>Jim: I know! I wanted an </span><a href=" rel>Allen Carr</a><span> [the gay producer of the movie </span><em>Grease</em><span>] ftan…</span></p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="429" height="506" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>…but uldn't fd one like that, and the women's on are ma out of plastic. Or nylon. And I'm not wearg my nylon 115-gree heat. Maybe January I'll wear .</p><p>Tim: Y. So Jim, scribe your day so far, or a typil day for you Palm Sprgs.</p><p>Jim: I'm an early riser. I normally get up at five, and if I don't, my t, Lloyd, gets me up. He's 21—a miracle that he is still alive. </p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="579" height="445" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">Jim wh Lloyd as a kten, 2001</figptn></figure></div><p></p><p><span>I had a t for 18 years named Ethel who I had to put down. Then a year went by and I kept gog by this t shelter and they showed me Lloyd when he was a ltle baby kten. They named him after [the 1920s film actor] Harold Lloyd. He lik to walk around outsi, so I get my ffee and we do that until I'm like, "Bch, hurry up, I'm </span><em>hot.</em><span>" Then I jt s my livg room and tell Alexa to play nature nois and I s here and have my ffee and maybe look at my phone. </span></p><p>Then, twice a week, I volunteer at Ktyland, a no-kill adult-t rcue place. Adult ts don't get adopted a lot. I clean their box and scb the floor and love on the ts. I love animals. I thk we have a rponsibily to take re of them. </p><p>Then I go to the gym, do the elliptil, then e home and have a big bowl of watermelon wh salt, and also scrambled eggs and ttage chee. My weight blew up durg COVID but I've managed to take off 30 pounds. Then, if I weren't dog this terview, I'd go volunteer at a homels feedg program or Habat for Humany, or I'd probably be thrift shoppg. I love tchotchk—but I'm not a hoarr! </p><p>Tim: Are you retired at this pot?</p><p>Jim: No, but I'm not really actively pursug work anymore. I do have an agent and manager, but tthfully, I've been away on tours over half of Lloyd's life and I'm not leavg him aga until he go, then I'll be able to work a ltle more.</p><p><span>Then every day at five p.m., I have two very large vodka martis, lightly dirty, and poprn, and watch the lol news, then make my dner and watch somethg like </span><em>Better Call Sl</em><span> or </span><em>Downton Abbey</em><span>, then I'm bed by eight. I love the whole procs of gog to bed. I have a sleepg disorr, so I start wh my edible gummy, then take a trazodone. </span></p><p>Then I'm on TikTok, that's my guilty pleasure. All the guys on there are so fuckg betiful wh their shirts off, and they know . Otherwise, I'm not on any social media. I was on Facebook for a while, but I got all the requts om people I didn't even know, so I jt qu. Anyway, then I take half an Ambien, which knocks me out.</p><p>Tim: Have you had any recent gigs?</p><p><span>Jim: I did </span><em>Kky Boots</em><span> at the Hollywood Bowl early July, which was ol. I also closed out the natnal tour, the role of Wilbur, which I did on Broadway. I did Wilbur Turnblad </span><em>Hairspray</em><span> on Broadway the 2000s, which was thrillg and opened up a whole new chapter my life, and I did the show 2011 Denver and L.A. and on two gigs wh Royal Caribbean. In the neti, as my TV work petered out, theater beme my avenue to make money.</span></p><p>Tim: This is a b of a stock qutn for an actor, but what's the biggt difference between TV and theater?</p><p>Jim: Money. You jt don't make TV money theater unls you're a huge draw like Hugh Jackman. And eight shows a week is such a grd, the same thg over and over. Repetn bor me.</p><p>Tim: Okay, so let's go all the way back now. So you were born 1955 Casper, Wyomg, and then moved to the small town of Denver Cy, Texas, as a baby.</p><p>Jim: My dad worked oilfields and so you went where the oil was, and we moved que a b. My elst siblg is my sister, who is 18, then my brother Bob, who passed, then there's an 11-year break and then my brother Dan, who's two years olr than me, and I'm the baby.</p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="442" height="429" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">Jim (right) and Dan as kids, early 60s.</figptn></figure></div><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="474" height="320" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">“Left to right my brother Dan, my Dad, me and my olst brother Bob at home the day of Dan’s weddg.  I ma my tie.”</figptn></figure></div><p></p><p>Tim: What were you like as a kid?</p><p>Jim: I was a sissy—a mamma's boy. Danny was the all-Amerin boy who loved to hunt, fish and kill thgs, and I loved pretty thgs. I loved to go shoppg and wear my mother's lorful blo. I played wh dolls and, remarkably, my parents allowed me to and even bought me a Chatty Cathy doll for Christmas. I got picked on a lot and lled a faggot and queer.</p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="736" height="556" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">Jim wh his mom and what he lls “my Peggy Lipton hair,” 1970</figptn></figure></div><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="237" height="291" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">High school senr photo, 1974</figptn></figure></div><p></p><p>Tim: Well, me too. How badly were you picked on?</p><p><span>Jim: It was mostly verbal. I was never beat up. I didn't even know why I was different! I loved the Monke. My first 45 rerd was "Daydream Believer." I loved </span><em>Lost Space</em><span> and totally nnected to [the seemgly gay character] Dr. Zachary Smh…</span></p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="396" height="392" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>…but as I got olr, I thought, "I don't want to be him."</p><p><span>Tim: Hm, that's so tertg, as of urse I want to talk to you a lot about old TV characters who read as gay, like Monroe on </span><em>Too Close for Comfort </em><span>[hereafter referred to as </span><em>TCFC]. </em><span>Did you thk as a kid that Dr. Smh was gay?</span></p><p><span>Jim: No. But he was fely a big ole grown up sissy man, and I didn't want to be that. But then cut to Pl Lyn as Uncle Arthur on </span><em>Bewched</em><span>…</span></p><p></p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="639" height="426" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>…whom I idolized. I got a lot of my humor om Pl Lyn.</p><p>Tim: Why did Dr. Smh repel you but you loved Pl Lyn?</p><p><span>Jim: I thk Pl was really brilliantly funny. Dr. Smh wasn't funny or clever or wty, jt an obnox queen. As a young boy, I didn't even know what "gay" was, but there was </span><em>that thg</em><span>, a nnectn you ma wh certa characters that I, turn, had people tell me they had that nnectn wh Monroe before they even knew their own sexualy.</span></p><p><span>Tim: Well, you are really gettg to the nut of what I want to talk about, bee </span><em>TCFC</em><span> was one of those early-80s ss, like </span><em>Diff'rent Strok</em><span> or </span><em>The Facts of Life</em><span> or </span><em>Silver Spoons</em><span> that was always on the background when I was junr high school, and I always sensed that Monroe was, if not gay, then, like a clown or a nerd or the butt of the joke, and that fely stck a nerve wh me, bee I was all of those thgs. How did </span><em>you</em><span> unrstand Monroe? Was he gay to you?</span></p><p><span>Jim: Not at all. It wasn't like I created him or thought, "Oh, this'll be a good mannerism for him." How I played him is jt what I went wh when I dned. Back the late seventi when I'd first e to L.A. and was dog </span><em>Godspell</em><span> on stage, this crazy agent woman named JoAnn Kane asked me, "What do you want?", and I said, "I want to be on a s." It jt seemed tangible to me. She said, "If you want a s, stand-up is the way ." So I did stand-up at the Comedy Store, which got me on ntract wh ABC, $20,000 for a one-year ntract, and then they try to fd a slot for you on a show. </span></p><p><span>So I went and dned for </span><em>TCFC</em><span> and fot about . Cut to many months later, the agent says to me, "They're still lookg for this Monroe guy." And I had lost weight! I was workg as a livery boy and I'd go to 7-11 the morng and get a huge ffee and a kg-size Snickers and then I'd take Dexatrim and tweak all day long and then e home and maybe eat a ltle chicken. And I lost 30 pounds om when they had first seen me and said, "He's too fat and he's gay." They didn't even read me the first time. </span></p><p>But when I fally read for him, they didn't tell me how to play him—they jt let me go, and that's how I played him the early episos. As the years went on, my voice got lower, and they'd say to me, "Get your voice back up!"</p></div></div><div class="visibily-check"></div><div data-ttid="paywall" data-ponent-name="Paywall" class="paywall"><h2 class="paywall-tle">This post is for paid subscribers</h2><div class="paywall-cta"><a href=" native><button tabInx="0" type="button" class="button subscribe-btn">Subscribe</button></a></div><div class="paywall-log"><a href=" native>Already a paid subscriber? <b>Sign </b></a></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div><div class="footer-wrap publitn-footer"><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class="footer themed-background"><div class="ntaer"><div class="footer-blurbs"><div class="footer-pyright-blurb">© 2023 Tim Murphy</div><div class="footer-terms-blurb"><a href=" target="__blank">Privacy</a><span> ∙ </span><a href=" target="__blank">Terms</a><span> ∙ </span><a href=" target="__blank">Collectn notice</a></div></div><div class="footer-buttons"><a native href=" class="footer-substack-cta start-publishg"><svg role="img" width="1000" height="1000" viewBox="0 0 1000 1000" fill="#FF6719" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="none" xmlns="><g><tle> .

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