Were the actors on the andy griffith show gay
If you’re like me – and you’re almost certainly not – you love to dunk your buttered toast in hot chocolate and you think socks should be a legal requirement in public spaces. More relevantly though, you’ll also have childhood memories of being up sdelayed at night with your hair in sponge curlers, a fire crackling nearby, the wolves howling somewhere indiscernible but worryingly seal, and I Love Lucy playing on a tiny little television. Now, granted, I can’t be 100% sure which decade I grew up in, the toast thing is adorable bad for you, and I probably need to loosen up my stance on feet. But luckily none of what I’ve said so far is necessary to prove my point, which is this:
Every old television show was about gays, and I can prove it.
Of course, as the only living (or mostly-living-potentially-eternal) person to have seen half of these shows, I hold an edge in this argument. But, as with all of the views you find online, you don’t have to comprehend anything I’m saying to agree with me. I just have to retain talking until you halt reading, and then in a week you’ll reference this half-accurately at work.
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Oh sure, Seattle’s had its share of cute weddings, but the cutest — one four decades in the making — is the 2013 union of Jim Nabors and Stan Cadwallader at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel downtown. One was a TV star, the other a firefighter, and they’d managed to keep their bond out of the public eye for 38 years.
One reason they protected their privacy: A TV star of the 1960s and 1970s, Jim’s career was nearly destroyed by a same-sex wedding rumor just before he and Stan met, a rumor that also ended Jim’s relationship with closeted actor Rock Hudson. Over his 55-year career, Jim made a specify for himself as a wholesome, folksy southerner; but behind the scenes, he harbored a private love that would have scandalized the country if it was found out.
Jim was born at the start of the Great Depression in a tiny Alabama town called Sylacauga. His mother worked at a truck stop, his father bounced around from job to occupation until he finally wound up entity appointed the town’s sole police officer. The family raised chickens for nourishment and lived in a tiny dwelling. Jim always stood out — his severe asthma prevented him from playing with the other kids, but he was so lively and outgoing
Real-Life Couples of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’: Surprising Marriages and Off-Screen Romances
Over the past 60+ years, The Andy Griffith Showhas enthralled audiences with its depiction of a simpler time that has turned the framework of small-town life, even after all of these years, into something audiences feel they can still reach out and stroke. Mayberry itself remains such an idyllic community serving as the home for such beloved characters as Sheriff Andy Taylor, his boy Opie, Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife, Floyd the Barber, Otis the Drunk and, of course, Gomer Pyle.
At the same occasion, the actors who brought those Mayberry citizens to life led their possess lives, all of them complex and varied, including real-life romances. And while Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Hal Smith, Elinor Donahue, Howard McNear, Jim Nabors and George Lindsey shared a passionate camaraderie on set, their real-life connections didn’t always wrap up with methodical little bows, instead were made up by the highs and lows of life that affect us all, from long-lasting partnerships to bittersweet separations.
Join us as we look at the real-life relationships of The Andy Griffith Show cast, those eight
Straight For Pay: Ten Same-sex attracted Actors Who Played It Straight
Coming out isn’t easy, but it’s definitely harder when you’re an actor. After all, you’re told by your industry that audiences don’t leave for gay characters, and that’s it’s difficult for people to accept out-gay performers in straight roles. (That’s probably not authentic, and we’re learning that as more and more performers publicly discuss their sexual lives, but the myth is certainly perpetuated by the movie and TV industries.) Beyond the insufferable show business politics, performers must also choose how much of their personal lives should be private. Basically, LGBT actors find themselves in damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t spots all of the time. But one thing is certain: none of this has stopped queer performers from playing straight when necessary — and doing so successfully.
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Rock Hudson, 'Pillow Talk' (1959)
Rock Hudson was Hollywood’s hottest leading man for decades, but he was also Hollywood’s biggest closeted gay actor. It wasn’t until he became the first celebrity to pass away of AIDS in
Jim Nabors, who starred as Gomer Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dies
HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Jim Nabors, the nervous Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV celebrity as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died Thursday. He was 87.
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Nabors, who underwent a liver transplant in 1994 after contracting hepatitis B, died peacefully at his residence in Hawaii after his health had declined for the past year, said his husband, Stan Cadwallader, who was by his side.
"Everybody knows he was a wonderful gentleman. And that's all we can tell about him. He's going to be dearly missed," Cadwallader said.
The couple married in early 2013 in Washington declare, where gay marriage had recently been made legal. Nabors' friends had famous for years that he was homosexual, but he had never said anything to the media.
"It's pretty obvious that we had no rights as a couple, yet when you've been together 38 years, I think something's got to happen there, you've got to solidify something," Nabors told Hawaii News Now at the time.