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Was Robin Williams gay?
The tenth anniversary of the passing of beloved American actor and comedian Robin Williams is this year, on August 11.
Williams was best known for comedic roles be situated the Genie in the Disney movie Aladdin, the titular role in Mrs. Doubtfire, and Professor Phillip Brainard in Flubber. However, his more serious parts in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society proved his abilities as a multi-faceted performer and earned him several Oscar nominations and eventually an Oscar win for Good Will Hunting.
He began his career performing stand-up comedy and eventually rose to fame through his role as Mork on Mork and Mindy. He even appeared on Broadway, in his own one-man exhibit, and in the war drama Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.
Williams was married three times in his animation, first to Valerie Veldari from 1978 to 1988, then to Marsha Garces Williams from 1989 to 2010, and finally to Susan Schneider from 2011 until he died in 2014. He and Garces Williams shared two children; Zelda and Cody, and he and Schneider has one son named Zachary.
Robin Williams never came out publicly as being interested in dating men, and his dating history suggest
Rest in Peace, Robin Williams, You Were Truly a Lgbtq+ Icon
By Dennis McMillan
Everyone on the planet is mourning the tragic demise of comic extraordinaire Robin Williams, but none more than the LGBTQ community. Williams was definitely a queer icon.
In the movie The Birdcage, Williams portrayed the gay dad dealing with a hetero son, as adv as the owner of a drag cabaret and same-sex companion of its star drag queen performer.
He was the gay daddy in drag in Mrs. Doubtfire—as the kind, elderly Scottish nanny, calling himself Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire after seeing a newspaper headline with the words “doubt” and “fire.” In the hilarious clip, straight Daniel Hillard enlists his gay brother Frank (played by openly gay Harvey Fierstein), a makeup artist, and Frank’s loved one Jack to transform him into Mrs. Doubtfire.
My favorite personal moment with Williams was when I was dressed as Sister Dana Van Iquity in full-on nun drag and bumped into him walking down Castro Street. I joked to him, “Well, there goes the neighborhood,” and he laughed uproariously! At the second, I had no idea the effect that incident would include in the future.
Then, months later on a talk show,
Nathan Lane Recalls Robin Williams’ Advice About Coming Out After ‘The Birdcage’: “He Would Protect Me Whenever He Could”
Although it took Nathan Lane nearly a decade to publicly embrace his truth, he had some great allies behind the scenes.
As the actor was honored with the Career Achievement Award at the Critics Choice Association’s inaugural Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television this month, he recalled how his behind friend and The Birdcage co-star Robin Williams would “protect me whenever he could” at a moment when Lane wasn’t ready to come out as gay publicly.
“I had marched in Pride Parades in the late seventies, but nobody had ever expressed interest in my sexuality,” said Lane in his speech, according to People.
He explained that he came out to his family at age 21 and was even out to his “friends and colleagues in the business” before he was first asked about his sexuality by a theater journalist “way support in 1989.”
Noting that when he “began playing gay roles, it started to come up more and more,” Lane recounted the topic coming up again durin
Nathan Lane: Robin Williams ‘Protected Me’ From Coming Out as Queer on ‘Oprah’ in 1996 Because ‘He Was a Saint’
Nathan Road revealed on “Sunday Today” that Robin Williams once protected him from coming out as same-sex attracted against his will on national television. The year was 1996 and Road and Williams were on their pressurize tour for Mike Nichols’ “The Birdcage,” in which they play a same-sex attracted couple trying to marry off their son to a conservative couple’s daughter. Lane was nervous about doing an interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as “The Birdcage” was one of his first major film roles, and he did not want to show up out publicly as gay at the time.
“I was not prepared at all for that,” Lane said about openly discussing his sexuality at the time. “And I certainly wasn’t ready to depart from table-to-table and tell them all I was lgbtq+. I just wanted to talk about finally [getting] a big part in a movie, and I didn’t wish for to make it about my sexuality.”
Of course, Lane knew that playing a homosexual character in the film would construct discussing his sexuality in