Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood' Star François Clemmons Came out as Gay after Show End

Contents:

• MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS
• MISTER ROGERS TOLD CO-STAR DON'T COME OUT AS GAY, AND MARRY A WOMAN
• MISTER ROGERS ENURAGED GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO STAY THE CLOSET AND MARRY A WOMAN
• THE GAY ‘GHETTO BOY’ WHO BOND WH MISTER ROGERS AND CHANGED THE NEIGHBORHOOD
• MISTER ROGERS TOLD -STAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO NOT E OUT AS GAY AND TO MARRY A WOMAN
• MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD' STAR FRANçOIS CLEMMONS CAME OUT AS GAY AFTER SHOW END
• FRED ROGERS URGED GAY COSTAR FRANIS CLEMMONS TO HI HIS SEXUALY AND MARRY A WOMAN
• MISTER ROGERS’S GAY, BLACK FRIEND FRANçOIS CLEMMONS WEARS TIARAS NOW

MISTER ROGERS' SURPRISG RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY COSTAR OFFICER CLEMMONS

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

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

But Not if You're Gay.

"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was no place for gay people...

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

Franis Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons om 1968 - 1995, says his new memoir, Fred Rogers got wd of the fact Clemmons was gay, pulled him asi and said, "Franc, you have talents and gifts that set you apart and above the crowd.

Someone has rmed that you were seen at the lol gay bar downtown.

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

THE GAY ‘GHETTO BOY’ WHO BOND WH MISTER ROGERS AND CHANGED THE NEIGHBORHOOD

"Whatever you say and do is fe wh me, but if you're gog to be on the show as an important member of the 'Neighborhood, ' you n't be out as gay. “Someone has rmed that you were seen at the lol gay bar downtown.

MISTER ROGERS TOLD -STAR OFFICER CLEMMONS TO NOT E OUT AS GAY AND TO MARRY A WOMAN

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

MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD' STAR FRANçOIS CLEMMONS CAME OUT AS GAY AFTER SHOW END

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

FRED ROGERS URGED GAY COSTAR FRANIS CLEMMONS TO HI HIS SEXUALY AND MARRY A WOMAN

He and Sheridan would amibly divorce 1974 and he would beg livg life as an openly gay man.

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

Throughout our nversatn, Clemmons, 73, reunted his 25 years on the PBS program, his experience as the first Ain-Amerin actor wh a recurrg role on a children’s TV seri, the credible bond he formed wh the late Rogers and his stggle to e out as a gay black actor the a soon-to-be mom, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” ma me feel all kds of thgs. ” As we talked and as I shared wh him that I felt I had to be some personal areas a gay man, but there were other thgs about my life that I was gog to get on wh, he said, “Fe.