Jim nabors gay

Jim Nabors, forever known as the star of ’s Gomer Pyle, USMC, married his male partner of nearly 40 years, Stan Cadwallader, on Jan. 15, the retired performer and Hawaii resident told. The pair were both gay but hid their sexualities throughout their lives until they were much older. According to rumors, Hudson and Nabors eventually had a secret marriage. Jim Nabors, the beloved TV actor who played Gomer Pyle on s shows The Andy Griffith Show and spinoff Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., has a big, happy announcement: Coming out to the media as gay, the.

One reason they protected their privacy: A TV star of the s and s, 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. He’s best known as Gomer, a Marine in the CBS comedy which ran for five seasons during the s. Nabors was gay and married his longtime partner Stan Cadwallader in Here’s what you need to know about the couple.

Gay men of my generation—most of us in our 50s—often talk about when it was we first knew about our sexual identity. For many of us, it was our response to actors we saw on TV. Whichever Brady Bunch was closest to our age. Will, the boy astronaut on Lost In Space. Nabors, who died last week, played the bumbling and ever-flummoxed—but disconcertingly handsome—filling station attendant on The Andy Griffith Show when I was a very young boy, and he became even better known in later years on Gomer Pyle, U.

C , which aired when I was a kid of ten or so. It was a joke with no plausible punchline.

And yet, the moment I heard the remark, I never forgot it. A man marrying another man meant that he was attracted to another man. So, whatever I was beginning to feel about such matters was not something as imponderable as being lost in space or playing catch after school with Peter Brady. I knew that this information about a TV star was vitally important to me.

I wanted to write Nabors a letter to find out if this was true and, if not, why someone would make up such a thing about him. My friend uttered this revelation with complete derision. And so. What had seemed impossible, unimaginable when the idea was first expressed, had occurred. Those seemingly mundane moments to which we keep returning are clearly keys to our identity and life story.

We may not always know why we can still see a configuration of elements in a room or recall snippets of a conversation, but there must be a reason why these moments endure in our memory. Gomer Pyle was a complex character. He was often bumbling and inept, failing miserably as a temporary deputy in the Mayberry police department, unable to carry a conversation on a blind date or falling asleep while on the hunt for robbers.

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But Jim Nabors the actor was tall and handsome, well built, had a beautiful singing voice, and was always a kind person in his TV roles. His characters may have exasperated people sometimes, but he was always well-liked. It took some fifty years for me to understand why that scenario in a backyard—a scene that I have happily rerun so many times—means something to me now.

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