David Ogden Stiers comes out!

[rpmdfw]

David Ogden Stiers, the Emmy-nominated actor who first found widespread fame playing Major Charles Winchester on the TV series M*A*S*H and who later voiced many characters in animated Disney musicals, has come out in an interview with the gay Oklahoma City blog gossip-boy.com. http://www.gossip-boy.com/DOS.html

Good for him!

 

[mikelan6]

That's great news. Maybe we'll see him as the parade Grand Marshall at Gay Day at WDW one of these years.

 

[MemoToMe]

For those who don't know, Rob and I have a very spooky psychic connection between us. The minute he called me with the news about DOS, I was on After Elton.com reading the an article about his coming out.

BTW-I'm very glad that he did come out, it puts Cogsworth in a whole new light.

"Well there's the usual things--flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep..."

 

[rpmdfw]

BTW-I'm very glad that he did come out, it puts Cogsworth in a whole new light.

Really? I don't see that at all. This won't change the way I view his performances at all. He's playing a character. This doesn't alter is ability to do so in any way, so why let it change the perception I've had of that character for years?

 

[pixierella]

Wow, I would have never guessed. But I think it's awesome that he's finally come out.

 

[npmommie]

Major Winchester another of the Boston Brahmins

 

[MonorailMan]

Anyone who did not know this was apparently both blind and def.

 

[rpmdfw]

Anyone who did not know this was apparently both blind and def.

Regardless, he's to be applauded for finally being true to himself.

 

[ConcKahuna]

Regardless, he's to be applauded for finally being true to himself.

I agree (although I do also agree with MM LOL)

 

[MonorailMan]

I think DOS was true to himself in that he has always known he was gay. Gay people who wind up getting married to the opposite sex should be the ones considered who are untrue to themselves. DOS might've been untrue to the public if he had said he was straight in an interview or something, but I'm not sure if he's done that or not. He probably made a wise choice by keeping his private life private because his career may have very well suffered in the 70's and 80's. Either that or he may have been type-cast like a lot of gay actors are. Either way, that's not exactly a scenario actors want to go through.

To paraphrase what DOS said, "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE G's!!!"

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

You know? I never thought much about this guy. I am familiar with his MASH character to some extent, but not much of his work overall.

Allowing the world to know you are gay is an incredibly private decision. We all tend to jump up and down and shout HURRAHH! when someone announces they are gay to the public at large, but until we all stop doing that, it's not going to be viewed as a normal "thing."

Do not misunderstand. I know all the complexities of what it means to the person and the gay community, and the heterosexual community to learn that someone is gay. Got all that. Been there. Done that.

However, that dismisses what may have been years of someone's moving through life, being themselves TO themselves and dealing with the realities of everyday (being gay in a straight world). That is not an insignificant contribution to make to society. Until we honor that, instead of vilifying that, we are contributing to the complications of having the "state of being gay" viewed as normal in the eye of society as a whole.

 

[wallyb]

Anyone who did not know this was apparently both blind and def.

I'm with you.
It's like well durrrrrr.

...And why now.

I'm glad he did come out.
Good for him.