WATCH: Meet Joe, The Gayt Conttant Ever On "Wheel Of Fortune" - Queerty

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• PAT SAJAK MAK UNFORTUNATE COMMENT TO GAY WHEEL OF FORTUNE CONTTANT
• WATCH: MEET JOE, THE GAYT CONTTANT EVER ON “WHEEL OF FORTUNE”
• NOT OM HELL: GAY WHEEL OF FORTUNE, DISNEY MONORAIL DISEASE, AND LUMN-SEEKG PARROTS
• IS WHEEL OF FORTUNE HOST PAT SAJAK GAY?
• PAT SAJAK B: AGE, WIFE, WORTH, SALARY, IS HE GAY?
• WATCH: PAT SAJAK ASKS GAY CONTTANT ABOUT HIS FEMALE FIANCé
• PAT SAJAK FUMBL WH GAY "WHEEL OF FORTUNE" CONTTANT: {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;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYJUNE 27, 2014/2:48 PMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 27, 2014 / 2:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PAT SAJAK FUMBL WH GAY \"WHEEL OF FORTUNE\" CONTTANT: WATCH","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-06-27T18:48:24.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-06-27T18:48:24.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","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":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{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;}PAT SAJAK HAS BEEN HOSTG WHEEL OF FORTUNE FOR THE PAST 500 YEARS, SO 'S NOT TOO SURPRISG HE'S KD OF ON TOPILOT AT THIS POT. BUT ON YTERDAY'S EPISO, HE RRECTLY SUGGTED A GAY NTTANT WAS MARRYG 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;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_156853" ALIGN="ALIGNRIGHT" WIDTH="200"] T.K. KLOTZ[/PTN]{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;}WHILE TRODUCG T.K. KLOTZ OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, SAJAK MENTED THAT KLOTZ WAS ENGAGED. "SOME WOMAN HAS AGREED TO MARRY YOU," HE TEASED. "SOME GENTLEMAN," KLOTZ RRECTED {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;}SAJAK FUMBLED BRIEFLY BEFORE REPLYG HE HAD "A 50-50 CHANCE" OF GETTG {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;}"PAT ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED TO ME DURG MERCIAL BREAK," KLOTZ SAID ON THE MENT THREAD FOR A DEADSP ARTICLE ON THE STORY. "HE MAY BE OUTSPOKEN ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY BUT WHEN NONTED WH HEAD ON HE WAS VERY NICE."{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;}WHILE HIS ON-SCREEN PERSONA IS PURE QUETOAST, SAJAK HAS LONG BEEN A SUPPORTER OF RIGHT-WG AND REPUBLIN NDIDAT. IN APRIL, SAJAK WENT TO TWTER TO JOKE ABOUT "G OUT" AS 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;}H/T: {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

PAT SAJAK MAK UNFORTUNATE COMMENT TO GAY WHEEL OF FORTUNE CONTTANT

Some fans even noted the irony of Charlie Brown beg the name of one of the men, as the first gay rtoon uple was Peppermt Patty and monumental move on the heels of mors about Sajak and -host Vanna Whe’s imment retirement, particularly after a recent ntroversial polil photo wh Marjorie Taylor Green. He may be outspoken about homosexualy but…”. The whole thg would e off as more of an hont mistake if Sajak didn’t have a history of makg liberately ntroversial ments about homosexualy and other issu.

That msage do nothg if not beltle the actual reer nsequenc some people face for g out as gay. "There’s a gay uple on #WheelOfFortune tonight!

A fourth observed: "It’s ftg that Charlie Brown would be the name of one of the men the first gay uple on Wheel of Fortune sce the first rtoon gay uple was Peppermt Patty and Marcie.

WATCH: MEET JOE, THE GAYT CONTTANT EVER ON “WHEEL OF FORTUNE”

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. — Robert GodownDear Robert: Are we playg that gay show, Wheel of Fortune? ***You should do a lumn on how Disney is liberately makg their programmg to gay characters and misreprentatns of who their nsumer base is — unls you thk there are enough LGBTQ folks and their supporters to fill up those monorails …My platonic fay wh two children will never have to worry about the safety of , bee we're never gog to give them a dime of my money.

NOT OM HELL: GAY WHEEL OF FORTUNE, DISNEY MONORAIL DISEASE, AND LUMN-SEEKG PARROTS

Not om Stt Reidy but perhaps om watchg Wheel of Fortune — if you n handle all the gay huggg. As the show’s theme song swelled and their bodi llid, I did what I always do whenever a gay nttant ws and their partner ambl onstage to celebrate: I yelled “Kiss! I was ’s fely not the first time I’ve been let down by the absence of a gay kiss a spot where a straight kiss almost certaly would have unceremonly and nonchalantly happened.

IS WHEEL OF FORTUNE HOST PAT SAJAK GAY?

An unniably gay kid om birth (our neighborhood garbage man lled me “queer” after I did a dance for him our ont yard my Unroos when I was 5), I always knew that I wasn’t like the rt of the boys and, worse, I didn’t know if there was anyone else the world who felt like I was the ’80s — years before queer adoptn was legal or marriage equaly was realized or we h the “transgenr tippg pot” — and mastream LGBTQ+ reprentatn wasn’t what was today.

I got a job at Out, a gay magaze, and then joed HuffPost 2011 to lnch Queer Voic (origally Gay Voic), the first LGBTQ+ sectn at a mastream news se.

PAT SAJAK B: AGE, WIFE, WORTH, SALARY, IS HE GAY?

The Boy Suts allowed openly gay troop lears. Bee although we had seen so much progrs such a short amount of time — the gay rights movement has been referred to as “the most succsful social csa recent Amerin history” and s strategi have even been -opted by other social movements — an elemental and much too prevalent fear and loathg of queer people remaed, pecially middle Ameri. Hours after the attack, the shooter’s father claimed his son might have been set off by seeg two gay men kiss ont of his fay.

Which is why I so sperately want to see gay kiss on “Wheel of Fortune.

WATCH: PAT SAJAK ASKS GAY CONTTANT ABOUT HIS FEMALE FIANCé

Perhaps gay kiss have happened on “Wheel of Fortune” the past and I’ve jt never seen them, but if so, they haven’t happened much. In 2019, Harry Friedman, the show’s then-executive producer, claimed that havg a gay uple on is “somethg that’s been discsed and like everythg else that we do, we take very measured steps. And a kiss shouldn’t have to be polil, but bee gay kiss are still too srce, they’re herently dangero, and darg, and filled wh the kd of explosive radil potential that n make thgs happen.

PAT SAJAK FUMBL WH GAY "WHEEL OF FORTUNE" CONTTANT: {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;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYJUNE 27, 2014/2:48 PMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 27, 2014 / 2:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PAT SAJAK FUMBL WH GAY \"WHEEL OF FORTUNE\" CONTTANT: WATCH","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-06-27T18:48:24.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-06-27T18:48:24.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","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":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{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;}PAT SAJAK HAS BEEN HOSTG WHEEL OF FORTUNE FOR THE PAST 500 YEARS, SO 'S NOT TOO SURPRISG HE'S KD OF ON TOPILOT AT THIS POT. BUT ON YTERDAY'S EPISO, HE RRECTLY SUGGTED A GAY NTTANT WAS MARRYG 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;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_156853" ALIGN="ALIGNRIGHT" WIDTH="200"] T.K. KLOTZ[/PTN]{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;}WHILE TRODUCG T.K. KLOTZ OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, SAJAK MENTED THAT KLOTZ WAS ENGAGED. "SOME WOMAN HAS AGREED TO MARRY YOU," HE TEASED. "SOME GENTLEMAN," KLOTZ RRECTED {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;}SAJAK FUMBLED BRIEFLY BEFORE REPLYG HE HAD "A 50-50 CHANCE" OF GETTG {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;}"PAT ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED TO ME DURG MERCIAL BREAK," KLOTZ SAID ON THE MENT THREAD FOR A DEADSP ARTICLE ON THE STORY. "HE MAY BE OUTSPOKEN ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY BUT WHEN NONTED WH HEAD ON HE WAS VERY NICE."{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;}WHILE HIS ON-SCREEN PERSONA IS PURE QUETOAST, SAJAK HAS LONG BEEN A SUPPORTER OF RIGHT-WG AND REPUBLIN NDIDAT. IN APRIL, SAJAK WENT TO TWTER TO JOKE ABOUT "G OUT" AS 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;}H/T: {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

People are still qutng if Pat Sajak is gay even though ’s been five years sce he ‘me out’ on Twter. But when we say Sajak me out, he didn’t actually e out as gay.

One er wrote: “serly, mockg gay people?

Another reacted wh: “Bee I have a lot of gay iends that got dumped by their fai and lost jobs when they me out.