Was Mr. Rogers gay? Wh the 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' documentary g to HBO, Fred Rogers' life has been thst back to the spotlight. The film touch on all aspects of Rogers' life, cludg the mors that he was gay.
Contents:
- MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS
- WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?
- 'WASN'T HE GAY?': A REVEALG QUTN ABOUT MISTER ROGERS
- MISTER ROGERS ENURAGED GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO STAY THE CLOSET AND MARRY A WOMAN
MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS
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WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?
Rogers himself was often labeled “a sissy, ” or gay, a rogatory sense. So if they are sayg he’s gay bee... In nversatn wh one of his iends, the openly gay Dr.
Then the follow up: "People don't say to me, 'Was he gay, ' but 'Isn't he gay? In other words, 'Isn't he gay?
Rogers' sexualy was briefly discsed the 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, but the discsn centered on mors that he was gay.
'WASN'T HE GAY?': A REVEALG QUTN ABOUT MISTER ROGERS
Rogers' Neighborhood and was himself (at the time of the terview) openly gay. Rpondg to the scuttlebutt about Rogers' sexual orientatn, Clemmons said: "First of all, no, he’s not gay. I tell everyone who asks me, ‘No, he’s not gay.
I spent enough time wh him that if there was a gay vibe I would have picked up. If you are a long-term relatnship, do you stop beg bisexual+ and “bee” gay or straight pendg on the genr of your partner? Rogers's Gay, Black Friend François Clemmons Wears Tiaras Now.
MISTER ROGERS ENURAGED GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO STAY THE CLOSET AND MARRY A WOMAN
And the relatnship between the two men — one black, the other whe; one gay and sgle, one straight, married, and a father to two children; one trovert, one extrovert — would bee somewhat of “a marriage. Though evangelils would sometim wre to him askg him to nmn homosexualy, Rogers never would, stead sayg he — and God — loved everyone jt as they were.
But this wasn’t the extent of Mister Rogers’ gay activism. Rogers tentnally hired gay people to work on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Two members of the Neighborhood, John Reardon and Franis Clemmons, were both openly gay and among some of Rogers’ clost iends. Clemmons later pared the scene to the Bible passage which J wash Peter’s feet, sayg, “The signifince of Fred dog that for a black gay man is not lost. Someone, we’re not able to say who, has rmed that you were seen at the lol gay bar downtown wh a buddy om school.