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Ag has taken a seat back from the gay chat lounge because that's not what his brand is about. We don't like that.
I don't know about the gay chat lounge, but he was very involved with the Pussycat Lounge, which was a private area for male strippers. The Pussycat Lounge was right next to him, because he wanted to control the area. That area should have been kept separate, not mixed up with strippers and gay.
As for the "gay agenda" comments, I think that's probably a bit of an extreme and broad way to think of his political views. He obviously holds certain political opinions, but you don't have to make them a cornerstone of your gay rights platform to be a gay rights activist.
I think, in a weird way, he might have been a pioneer of gay rights. When he was outed for the first time, he was the first famous gay person in the U.S. to come out of the closet. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on being the first. If anything, I'd imagine he thinks it was a mistake.
I think he came out when he was out of touch with the gay community. He was very open about wanting to marry a man, but when he actually got a male companion, he decided he wanted to remain closeted. If I remember correctly, his last public statement was that he wanted to remain "partially in the closet" in the interest of his career. It was very awkward. He had already been married to a woman for a long time, so the idea of him entering into another relationship with another man was very strange and weird.
He later admitted that he actually did consider himself a straight man and a gay man, and that he would have been happy to have had a male companion. As far as I know, he had a long relationship with a woman before he decided to marry a man in the end, but that's not necessarily the same thing as being a gay man. He's now gone through the other side of it, where he's out and so forth. And he's made it work well, which is interesting. I wish he would have done more with it, especially in the beginning.
I think his attitude to being out is much more in line with the attitude of being out now. He went back into the closet in 1985 and then did the press conference where he came out again and said he'd been in a long-term relationship. And I don't think he thought there was much more to it. I think he understood the gay community better than a lot of out gay people did at that point. I think he's more of a straight guy than a gay guy. But I think for a lot of gay people, he was a gay icon.
I don't know about the gay chat lounge, but he was very involved with the Pussycat Lounge, which was a private area for male strippers. The Pussycat Lounge was right next to him, because he wanted to control the area. That area should have been kept separate, not mixed up with strippers and gay.
As for the "gay agenda" comments, I think that's probably a bit of an extreme and broad way to think of his political views. He obviously holds certain political opinions, but you don't have to make them a cornerstone of your gay rights platform to be a gay rights activist.
I think, in a weird way, he might have been a pioneer of gay rights. When he was outed for the first time, he was the first famous gay person in the U.S. to come out of the closet. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on being the first. If anything, I'd imagine he thinks it was a mistake.
I think he came out when he was out of touch with the gay community. He was very open about wanting to marry a man, but when he actually got a male companion, he decided he wanted to remain closeted. If I remember correctly, his last public statement was that he wanted to remain "partially in the closet" in the interest of his career. It was very awkward. He had already been married to a woman for a long time, so the idea of him entering into another relationship with another man was very strange and weird.
He later admitted that he actually did consider himself a straight man and a gay man, and that he would have been happy to have had a male companion. As far as I know, he had a long relationship with a woman before he decided to marry a man in the end, but that's not necessarily the same thing as being a gay man. He's now gone through the other side of it, where he's out and so forth. And he's made it work well, which is interesting. I wish he would have done more with it, especially in the beginning.
I think his attitude to being out is much more in line with the attitude of being out now. He went back into the closet in 1985 and then did the press conference where he came out again and said he'd been in a long-term relationship. And I don't think he thought there was much more to it. I think he understood the gay community better than a lot of out gay people did at that point. I think he's more of a straight guy than a gay guy. But I think for a lot of gay people, he was a gay icon.





