Was jim nabors gay
JIM NABORS (–), leading known for his TV role as Gomer Pyle, was one of my first heroes in life, even before I understood why. 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. James Conrad in The Wild, Wild, Savage West strutting through frontier towns shirtless, his chest gleaming in the Southern California sun. Whichever Brady Bunch was closest to our age. Will, the boy astronaut on Lost In Space. The late David Cassidy, Scott Baio, Leif Garrett, the dashing blond ethics Iliya Kuryakin (played by David McCallum) on The Man From Uncle.
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.S.M.C, which aired when I was a kid of ten or so.
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The world resounded with a predictable Gol-ol-olllll-leeeee! at yesterday's news that Jim Nabors had gay-married his long-term partner, Stan Cadwallader.
Nabors, who played Gomer Pyle in both s-era television series The Andy Griffith Exhibit and its spin-off, Gomer Pyle, USMC (pre-Don't Request Don't Tell, we guess), announced the two had been wed in Seattle last month, following Washington voters' approval of lgbtq+ marriage in
"I'm 82 and he's in his 60s and so we've been together for 38 years and I'm not ashamed of people knowing; it's just that it was such a personal thing, I didn't narrate anybody" Nabors eventually told AP. "I'm very cheerful that I've had a partner of 38 years and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I'm just very happy."
Yep, he's gay.
Nabors's sexual orientation was long an open private in the LGBT group and among his straight(ish) friends like Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews. And if he wasn't same-sex attracted, his character, surely Gomer Pyle was. After all, like that other irresistible Southern television icon, Honey Boo-Boo, says, "Everybody's got a little ga
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He never married Rock Hudson as a persistent urban legend alleged.
But Jim Nabors is finally a married man &#; and married to a man!
Television&#;s Gomer Pyle recently got married in the state of Washington to his longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader.
Nabors, 82, had never come out publicly as a gay man but confirmed the marriage to Hawaii News Now.
“I’m 82, and he’s in his 60s, and so we’ve been together for 38 years, and I’m not ashamed of people knowing, it’s just that it was such a personal thing, I didn’t reveal anybody,” Nabors told the station.
“I’m very happy that I’ve had a partner of 38 years and I feel very blessed. And, what can I reveal you, I’m just very happy.”
The wedding took place at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel on January
Nabors came to fame as gas station attendant Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffin Show in His character proved so popular that after two years, he was spun off into his own show titled Gomer Pyle USMC which ran for five seasons.
Tired of the role, Nabors quit th
OSKAR GARCIA,Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — Actor Jim Nabors says marrying his longtime male partner doesn't change anything about their relationship — he just wanted it to be formally acknowledged.
"I just wanted it legal," the year-old actor foremost known as Gomer Pyle in "The Andy Griffith Show" told The Related Press on Wednesday.
Nabors married year-old Stan Cadwallader in Seattle on Jan. Nabors says they have been partners for 38 years.
Nabors said they flew from Honolulu just for the short ceremony and were married in a hotel room by a assess friend who drove up from Olympia, Wash.
Nabors said he's not an activist but feels strongly that gay marriage should be a right for everyone.
"I think every person on this earth has a choice of who they want to spend their life with," he said.
News of Nabors' marriage was first reported by Hawaii News Now. Nabors told Hawaii News Now he's been open about organism gay with co-workers and friends but hadn't known it to the media before. He said he's not ashamed of people knowing, he just didn't tell people because it was "suc