Here's a good link:
Partners Task Force - Famous Same-Sex Couples
We want our movie stars to be gorgeous, glamorous, entertaining, larger than life, exciting--but normal! No gayness or other eccentricities.
Agree with the latter. Coupled with humanity's natural inclination to put people on pedestals and then rip them down, we see why star's "eccentricities" become such "news" - whether it's Charlie Sheen being crazy, or Winona Ryder being a kelpto, or Rosie O'Donnell being gay. At the end of the day, Hollywood stars are people with issues, just like everyone else, and they go through good periods and bad periods, just like everyone else.
As a homo I have to disagree about the "buddybuddy" list. The list includes people who we all know are gay, those who are suspected based on some reasonable evidence, those who are suspected based on crap for evidence, and those that are just speculation. A list like this is the kind of list that makes people think gays are over-reaching as part of the "gay agenda" (what a funny phrase), trying to claim all sorts of historical figures as "ours" when they may or may not have been. Abraham Lincoln's letters are interesting, for example, but it should also be noted that both Lincoln and Speed both later married and had kids. I know, Rock Hudson and Elton John have been married too, so being married doesn't prove anything...
I just dislike lists which say: "here's a list of all the famous homos!" when some without question were, and some there is a lot of debate about.
It's nice to note that we've evolved to a time where some, like Neil Patrick Harris or George Takei, can come out and live life fully as a gay man which was not possible in the past. But just because people "can" do that shouldn't mean they "have to" - people may choose to be intensely private like Raymond Burr, who we found out after he died was certainly gay but chose not to make a big deal of it.
And at the end of the day, it *doesn't* make any difference. Is Perry Mason a different character, or are the historical actions of Abraham Lincoln any different, or does my experience listening to Aaron Copland's music change, because I know the people behind these things may have at one time had sex with a dude?
No.
