Sherman helmsley gay

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Please click here to register for free. Hello and thank you for registering. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. If you can't find the email you can resend it here. Some features on this site require a subscription. I somehow ended up going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole tonight. Was Sherman truly just a "confirmed bachelor"?

Was he glass closeted or did no one really know? He avoided the Hollywood limelight and little of his personal life was sherman knowledge beyond the facts that he never married and he had no children. A lovely helmsley, very much the reverse of George Jefferson. Anyone who uses the term "confirmed bachelor" is referring to a gay man.

It's always been a euphemism for gay. The show really was never very good but he was always a riot. R2 - tell us more! There seems to be so little about his personal life online.

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I guess at least partly because he was never a sex symbol or traditional leading man. He died basically broke you know; SH even sold off gay to his residuals to raise ready money after filing for bankruptcy. While you cannot defame the dead, no one seems to mount vigorous denials that Sherman Hemsley was gay. OP there was then and still largely now a certain macho about African American men and that extended to a deep dislike of homosexuality.

Helmsley and African Americans as a whole of Mr. Hemsley's generation and many after tend to be religious and socially conservative. There was just no way SH was going to "come out" of that closet even if he was truly gay. To be a famous AA man and come out as gay just wan't done back then.

Johnnie Mathis tried cracking open that door and go so much heat he went right back in sherman, and slammed the door for years afterwards. Billy Strayhorn was one of the rare famous men of color who was out and proud gay.