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M*A*S*H Star Stiers Comes Out (and is looking for love.)

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oilgun:
From: http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid82693.asp

Television and voice actor David Ogden Stiers has come out of the closet at age 66.

According to PopEater, when recently asked by the Gossip Boy blog if he is gay, Stiers succinctly said, "Yes, I am. Very proud to be so."

Stiers starred as the stuffy Major Winchester on the last five seasons of the popular '70s and early '80s sitcom M*A*S*H, and lent his voice to numerous animated films like Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons," Stiers said. "Now is the time I wish to find someone and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion for me."

The actor explained why it was difficult for him to come out earlier in his career. "From the late 1980s until about seven or eight years ago, you would find certain individuals coming up to you, me, and advocating the position that since we were doing family fare that it would be best were the actors to maintain a certain palatability to parents. These parties likely had heard rumors or harbored suspicions about me and wanted to make sure no embarrassing incidents were forthcoming," he says.

louisev:
Interesting reason to come out - looking for love!

Jeff Wrangler:
Heavens, I took him for gay when he was on M*A*S*H.  :-\

louisev:
so did I!

But then again I always assumed Kelsey Grammer was gay too.  He had the same vibe about him.

oilgun:

--- Quote from: louisev on May 06, 2009, 03:41:01 pm ---so did I!

But then again I always assumed Kelsey Grammer was gay too.  He had the same vibe about him.

--- End quote ---

He sure does.  He was even on FRASIER where their similarities were played to great effect:

From IMDb:
Fathers & Sons:  Leland Barton[Stiers], Hester Crane's old research assistant, visits Seattle. He is so alike in personality to Frasier and Niles that Martin starts to wonder who is the boys' real father.  ?

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