Was jonathan harris gay

Jonathan Harris. What? The actor who played the astoundingly queeny Dr. Smith on TV's Lost in Space was heterosexual? It's hard to believe, especially when you learn that Harris also enjoyed needlepoint, gourmet cooking, and opera. But he married his high school sweetheart in and stayed with her until his death in They had one son. The Associated Press reports that Jonathan Harris, the "flamboyantly fussy" actor who portrayed the dastardly antagonist Dr.

Zachary Smith on the s sci-fi show Lost in Space, has died. He. If you ever saw 5 minutes of Lost In Space, you would think Jonathan Harris, who played Dr. Zachary Smith on the 60s TV show was gay too. The Robinson’s Mom on the show, June Lockhart recalls that Jonathan did not try to tone it down and "would be the first to tell you".

Harris was married to his high school sweetheart, Gertrude Bregman, from until his death. [6]. They had one child, Richard, born [6] Acting was Harris's first love. Before the Netflix reboot, Lost in Space's Jonathan Harris ("Dr. Zachary Smith") screamed, fainted, danced, painted, sang and was America's first intergalactic queen.

Dr. Smith is humorously. Of course there's a gay subtext there. In fact it's so obvious that everyone from Family Guy to The Simpsons have been joking about it for years. June Lockhart herself confirmed a few years ago that yes, Dr Smith was gay and yes, they wouldn't be able to get away with it nowadays. And it turns out she was probably right about that, because in last year's crappy Netflix reboot Dr Smith was abolished altogether and recast as woman.

Broads are more woke than gays, apparently! Maybe he was gay, but no gay subtext relationship with Will, defined by passion, intensity, domesticity, and permanence. Yeah you say that, but I suspect the reason they couldn't get away with it nowadays is that now it's just not done to suggest that gays can like underage boys. Smith was a big, ol' queen!

Smith --OK, also to ogle dreamy Mr. Robinson and Don. And one of them was gay, you say? I was lucky to meet Dr Smith as sci-fi convention. I have not seen the show recently and Dr Smith really falls in the old funny pansy Hollywood tradition- he might have been gay but there was any suggestion that he was sexually attracted to Will- they are both kids- now let's talk about Major West instead I think now it's just, my generation doesn't see pedophiles who go after boys as gay.

One of the stereotypes associated with gay men is pedophilia, going after boys because they are too immature for a "real" relationship with a woman, or in order to produce more gay men. The assumpion was that you "turn" gay after being seduced by an older man. Well, be glad they're exiled, then. It makes a lot of gay icons from this era less gay, though. Keep in mind, they might still be gay or bi icons for other reasons.

I don't necessarily disagree that it was a stereotype, but it's clearly an idea that was being played around with and played around with for laughs in this show by having the gay character constantly hang around with the little boy. And I vaguely wonder why. Did someone who was aware of these things already realise the kid was gay and so match him up with the old queen just for fun?

This is the first I've heard that Bill Mumy is gay. He's got a wife and two kids, but of course he could be bisexual. In the only hookup story I have about him, he doesn't do anything except accidentally get naked. I suspect every now and then they played Smith as a dirty old would-be letch to defuse the suggestion the character was "fruity.

who played dr smith in lost in space

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