Is Ronald Reagan Jr. gay?

Well is he? The debate rages on as he turned 61 this year.

He was married for 34 years to a woman named Doria (she died in 2014) and they never had any children.

When asked this question he would sometimes bristle and say that it wasn't fair to his wife.

What's going on...……..?

I'd say no. I went to a private school for boys with him, until he was expelled. I also took ballet classes with him in LA. I think if he was gay, I would have seen something in the changing room or in the showers. He never gave me any indication that he was gay.

In Kitty Kelly's book about Nancy, she said that Ronnie and Nancy came home early from a vacation once and found Ron Jr. in bed... with a woman. Ron Sr. was so infuriated he called his other son Michael and was ranting about it, and Michael said to him, "Well, now at least now you know he's not gay."

What gay man would stay married to a woman for 34 years? If she hadn’t died, they’d probably still be married.

His wife gave off kind of a lesbian vibe in appearance. It makes one wonder if they were bearding for each other.

R4 Don't be naïve. It still happens - a marriage of convenience.

[QUOTE]His wife gave off kind of a lesbian vibe in appearance. It makes one wonder if they were bearding for each other.

Well why hasn’t he gotten a new beard? And what would he be bearding himself away from? What reason would he have to remain in the closet at 61 years old?

You do know most male ballet dancers are straight.

Nancy taught him how to give blowjobs without gagging. She used cucumbers the maid bought at Gelson's. Later, over the salad course, Nancy would wink at Ron Jr.

The Reagans were very worried when Ron became a ballet dance and refused to see any of his performances for a couple of years.

Then Ronald Reagan Sr. said that they gave him a test to see if he was all man - and he was. But he failed to say what the test was.

They probably paid some hot young prostitute to come after him like she was a student looking to hookup and he fucked her brains out in various tantric positions using his sinewy and flexible ballet body.

Ron Jr. is a fun commentator on MSNBC. I don't get a gay vibe from him. I'm just glad that he is someone who can talk about his father's legacy without sentimentality.

The wife has a very pleasant face. Ron Jr always came off as a really nasty piece of work, forever angry and sneering. If they made it last 34 years good for them both but the bearding theory seems plausible.

OP, I don't say this in a bitchy/snarky way but I am surprised anyone still cares about Ron Jr.

R15 I was about to say the same thing. I guess we officially have run the gamut!

Did he interview Ed Smart on MSNBC and give him a broad wink?

Gay or not, he hates Trump, and that's good enough for me.

He's also an atheist, which just gives him extra points in my book.

A thread from back in 2016 about this

When he appeared on Dame Edna's show, she said she couldn't decide whether he looked like his mother or like his father. Finally, she settled on father and said, "Yes, I think you're a Ronnie Boy. You certainly don't seem like a Nancy Boy."

He looked really embarrassed. But then, most of Dame Edna's guests do.

A quote from Governor Reagan.

R20 I love watching Dame Edna and I'm frequently embarrassed on behalf of her guests.

R21, "At least Roy Cohn and whatever paid escort he's trotting around this week!"

[quote]why hasn’t he gotten a new beard? And what would he be bearding himself away from?

But he didn’t get a new beard as you yourself said in the sentence just before, idiot. It's funny you got mad at other people for a hypothesis you yourself created.

He looked so gay. Very feminine face & mandible. Feminine dentition and smile. Ron Jr looks like your average GWM.

R4 Look at Elizabeth Smart’s dad who was married to her mom for 33 years and all the sudden decided to admit he’s gay. People from that era were brainwashed into thinking gay was absolutely terrible no matter how much more accepting society became over the years.

I was in NYC in 1980, taking ballet classes and going to auditions. Ronald Reagan was elected on November 4, 1980. Ron Jr. was dancing with Joffrey II at the time. There was a sudden buzz right after the election that Nancy Reagan had come to NYC. Quietly. Privately. Nothing in the papers.

And then she left.

On November 24, which was Monday of Thanksgiving week... Ron Jr. married. No known girl friend. No engagement. Nuthin'. Just married. LOTS of headlines that he now had a wife.

It doesn't really matter if he was gay or straight when he got married. It has always been painfully clear that he was ordered by Nancy to get married and to do it without any further delay. None of his faggy ballet dancing was going to detract from his father's big moment in the sun.

I don't know if he's gay. I just know that he pings to high heaven. It seems his parents thought so, too.

Some of you sound like the dumbest Frauen. Starting with r4, who talks as if she were some sad old woman who's trying to convince herself her husband can't be gay (despite all the evidence to the contrary) because it's going to be their anniversary soon.

When someone yelled, "Hey nancy," it was Ron Jr not his mother that looked.

[quote]why hasn’t he gotten a new beard?

Why? Now he can play the grieving widower.

If he danced for the Joffrey Ballet, that’s pretty impressive. One of the best, if not the best, ballet companies.

Joffrey II. The junior company.

His ballet career was over before it began. It did not go on for long after his father was elected.

He's not a junior. He has a different middle name than his father.

O for fucks sake Patty! Ask him yourself. He's your brother!!

R27, the problem with you theory is that he was dating his wife while he was in LA, before he got into Joffery II.

OK, I will say than Ron does not seem to be exactly truthful about his life. This is from his Wiki page:

[quote]They [the school administration] thought I was a bad influence on the other kids. As I recall, the immediate reason was I went to a dance at a neighboring girl's school in a classmate's car. This was an infraction. They had been looking for an excuse. I didn't get caught at anything.[3]

This is not true. He was expelled for bringing alcohol on campus. Also, I don't think the administration gave him two seconds of thought. I don't recall a single incident where he would be considered a bad influence other than having beer on campus. He seems to be inflating his importance while minimizing his actions.

R3, In that book, his affair with Kris Nelson, Ricky's ex, is also recounted. It continued until Nancy confronted her publicly in a restaurant and ordered Kris to leave her son alone.

When Ron was dancing with the Joffrey one of my closest friends for my entire adult lifetime (Tom) was stage manager. He met the Reagans on a visit and of course I asked him if Ron was gay. He said no- my friend was very close (and still is) to surviving principle dancers (Gary Crist, Cryst? Christian Holder). I don’t get a gay vibe at all when I see Ron on TV in 2019. I admire his outspoken take on his father.

What saddens me most is what this thread proves. If we had effective gap gossips, somebody would know something (or more like, someone who'd slept with him.). Instead just speculation. SAD!

I am stunned, bowled over, by the number of people posting who claim they don't get a gay vibe from Ron. SAY WHAT?

I thought he was out until I read this thread.

He’s had a ton of cock up his ass.

R2, I really didn't post a theory other than Nancy demanded a marriage. Maybe it was to silence gay rumors. Maybe it was because the Reagon son was 'living in sin.' I don't know or care. The only thing interesting is how it all went down. Not why. No one will ever know that unless one of the principals speaks up. At this point, that might only be Ron.

But it's a fact that all during the campaign there was a steady stream of whispering that Ron Jr. was gay. It's a fact that there was no indication of a fiancee all through his father's presidential campaign. t's a fact that Ron Jr. got married very informally between the election and the inauguration. It's a fact that the media was greatly surprised by the marriage.

It was all very unusual for a family whose fortunes had always been directly tied to publicity. There was no effort to maximize good publicity about the wedding of the new Presiden't son. At a minimum, the way it was all handled created the appearance that the wedding was meant to silence publicity that was not perceived favorably by the family.

R27- Lordy some of you are nuts. See my post above. Ron married quietly and privately. It’s really much more simple than fertile minds think.

Years ago, Ron Reagan had a daytime talk show and Michelangelo Signorile was on a show about outing. At one point he confronted Ron and said that he had interviewed numerous men who claimed to have slept with Ron at Yale. Reagan was offended and used his "That's an insult to my wife" comeback, to audience applause.

He's as gay as my husband

Gay gay gay gay. Gayer than Gay Gayerson when he fell out of the gay tree and hit every branch on the way down. Gayer than a basket of parrots at Christmas.

Think about it- just how would someone know to interview the men at Yale who slept with Ron? How? Bogus.

When Larry Kramer was railing against President Reagan on Phil Donahue, he claimed that Ron Jr. was gay.

Larry thinks everyone is gay- even George Washington.

He's too cool to not come out plus it would have pissed his father off and that seemed to be he and his sister's life mission when they were young.

[QUOTE]”It’s not my job to defend my father — I don’t really get too upset with that,” Reagan says later. ”What really upset me with that guy was being called a liar. If there’s one thing I’m not, it’s a liar. And then he starts off with this ‘You never this, you never that, with your father’ — how the f— does he know?” On that show, Reagan also addressed the rumors that he is a homosexual by criticizing journalist Michelangelo Signorile and playwright Larry Kramer for ”outing,” or publicly alleging that well-known people are gay. ”If somebody isn’t gay,” Reagan says, ”they’re left in the scientifically untenable position of having to prove a negative. Larry Kramer actually said (about me), ‘He’ll have to prove to me that he’s not gay.’ Well, tell me how, Larry. How exactly would I do that? I can’t.”

R51, Larry Kramer wrote a play about Ron Reagan, Jr.

What's the name of that play. (Too lazy to Google and R55 supplying the title would be a blessing to us all.,)

Interesting post R54. Ron is one smart fellow. Larry Kramer is a great activist but he is also An asshole. Such people make effective activist often. But Larry also says things that are patently inaccurate- lots!

Just Say No, A Play about a Farce Main article: Just Say No (play)

Continuing his commentary on government indifference toward AIDS, Kramer wrote Just Say No, A Play about a Farce in 1988. He highlights the sexual hypocrisy in the Reagan and Koch administrations that allowed AIDS to become an epidemic; it concerns a First Lady, her gay son, and the closeted gay mayor of America's "largest northeastern city". Its New York production, starring Kathleen Chalfant, Tonya Pinkens, and David Margulies, was prized by the few who came to see it after its negative review by The New York Times. Social critic and writer Susan Sontag wrote of the piece, "Larry Kramer is one of America's most valuable troublemakers. I hope he never lowers his voice."[citation needed]

Gayface with his wife. He does have a lovely smile.

Considering that they were married for over 30 years it's very unusual - odd - that they never had any children.

I can see him in drag SO CLEARLY. With his dance background, just think of the show he could put on!!!!

[quote]Larry Kramer wrote a play about Ron Reagan, Jr.

He also wrote the screenplay for the musical "Lost Horizon".

Sonny Boy, you're all man!!

[QUOTE]Considering that they were married for over 30 years it's very unusual - odd - that they never had any children.

Maybe one of them was incapable of reproducing.

Considering some of the postings on here it would seem that it was a (rushed) marriage of convenience - and stayed that way.

R63 There is always adoption or other options.

So not adopting children helps prove that he’s gay?

Didn't Ron pull a sneaky trick regarding a sub-let apartment in NYC? Somehow he took the place as his own?

"[R3], In that book, his affair with Kris Nelson, Ricky's ex, is also recounted. It continued until Nancy confronted her publicly in a restaurant and ordered Kris to leave her son alone."

Oh, man, I forgot about that, R37. Kris sure got around.

R45: "It's a fact that Ron Jr. got married very informally between the election and the inauguration. It's a fact that the media was greatly surprised by the marriage."

Hunter Biden just married a woman on the balcony of some trashy L.A. apartment after knowing her for TEN DAYS. Can't get any more "informal" and "surprising" than that, and we all know that good-for-nothing is FAR from gay.

I've posted this before but.... I had lunch with Ron a few times back in the 1980s. There was no question he was gay then -- he just knew that coming out of the closet simply wasn't an option for him. Complicated.

He was, and I hope still is, a really nice, sensitive guy. Lord knows how he came out of that thoroughly reprehensible man.

He's as gay as my white husband only cuter

Isn't it possible that he's bisexual, really did get caught in bed with a woman, really did have an affair with Kris Nelson, really did have some encounters with men before his marriage, and really did stay married and faithful to his wife for decades because he loved her?

R45 Thanks for the link! That article was shady and hilarious.

No, r71. He can only be one or the other.

Ronald’s and Nancy Reagan’s children had a defiant streak. Patti was outspoken and frequently clashed with her mother. They were both strong willed women. She did what she wanted, which drove Nancy crazy.

Ron Jr., was subtle, however, but less public. He, too, lived as he pleased, but Nancy adored him. He was her favorite child. If he was gay, I’m sure he would’ve came out, at least after Ronald Sr,. left the White House. He lived his life on his own terms.

As for Ronald Reagan’s first two children, Nancy tolerated just them. They both sought their father’s love and attention, but he was remote. Nancy, of course, was a formidable presence, and that didn’t help matters.

Why stay closeted? He's an atheist left-wing ballet dancer. Even if he didn't want to upset his parents (which it seems like he didn't care much about anyway), they're dead now, so it can't hurt them. He's definitely effeminate, but I've met guys like that who I am pretty sure are really straight.

Does it much matter now for someone now in his 60s? People obsess about others such as Tim Tebow.

If Ron doesn't want to talk about it, there's little to discuss. He has no obligation to do so. Keeping them guessing has a measure of satisfaction.

Some unmarried men just haven't found the right woman, though are straight as an unhammered nail. That, coupled with a busy career serving the country, there's no time for dating.

[quote][R45] Thanks for the link! That article was shady and hilarious.

I agree—I noticed how they called Doria his "longtime roommate," which you just know was code for "fag hag."

And then there was this:

[quote]“This is the first marriage in Joffrey II,” says troupe director Sally Bliss. “I’m sure we’ll do something once we all get over the shock.”

There is the rumor that Ron was one of the founding members of the E.M.A.

R69, in what context did having lunch with him cover his sexuality? You must be a good friend. Casual acquaintances don’t talk about this kind of thing- perhaps a date or hookup? Curious.

My friend Tom, stage manager for the Joffrey when Ron was in the company said Ron was not gay and Tom roomed with two of the male principles He knew Ron pretty well. I never met him.

Not only was that not even mildly amusing, r81, but the acting was horrible.

Eek ..... Is he wearing a caftan and lipstick in that pic @ R5 ?

[quote] He's definitely effeminate,

Maybe he's British.

Honestly, I think if he were he'd come out at this point. He's a marginal former republican, current progressive. It wouldn't cost him a thing. I think if he were gay or bi, he'd just say it.

[quote] Considering that they were married for over 30 years it's very unusual - odd - that they never had any children.

Some people simply do not want children. What is so odd about that? Some people cannot have children and do not want to adopt. What is so odd about that?

I think he has a very independent streak. Becoming a ballet dancer with those two as his parents. Marrying an older woman suddenly. Now a vocal anti-GOP spokesman. So if he has a sexuality that's a bit non-standard he would just be himself and not talk about it because he thought it was no one's damn business.

Why do Americans think male dancers, specifically ballet dancers, are gay?

[QUOTE]Why stay closeted?

Coming out as gay would derail his career.

Just because he likes ballet doesn't make him gay. Or me Queen.

I'm the only straight ballet dancer

For his sake, I hope his dick size is proportionate to that honker of a nose.

And, of course, DL has the answers.

DL always knows best.

He has probably dipped his toes into the man pond, but prefers a woman for companionship and doesn't feel connected enough to men to seek out an emotional relationship

Eau de Anal is Erna's favorite scent.

I wish I could remember what he said about Jimmy Carter in 1980. It was so vile that it forever turned me off to him.

[QUOTE]He has probably dipped his toes into the man pond, but prefers a woman for companionship and doesn't feel connected enough to men to seek out an emotional relationship

In other words: straight.

R99, Might it have been this?

Ronald Reagan's son says he won't shake President Carter's hand at his father's inauguration because the outgoing president 'has the morals of a snake.'

Whatever he is, he's got the right idea.

Patti Davis and Ron Reagan Jr. were both born into the wrong family. They were rebels, liberals, and outspoken, the complete opposite of their conservative parents, especially image conscious Mama Nancy. She and Patti feuded off and on for years while Ron was more of a Mama's Boy - but his declaration of being an atheist, critical of the Republican Party, and becoming a ballet performer must have tormented her in private. With both of her kids her attitude must have been - WTF happened here?!

[quote]WTF happened here?!

The 60s happened. A lot of young people rode that wave, which distanced them from their conservative, image-conscious parents, whose values in life, as Woody Allen once said, were "God and carpeting".

The title of this thread (in true Datalounge fashion) should have been : Is Ron Reagan Jr a gay?

I am of Ron’s generation. My parents were Republicans although Rockefeller Republicans. They voted for Obama and my Dad was a big supporter of Humphrey. He’s still alive at 99 and thought Trump was a crook 39 years ago. My Dad was the CEO of a large NYC bank and prior the head of a large Wall Street firm. My parents knew much of the Reagan “kitchen cabinet”, Annenbergs,, Wrathers, etc. Dad thought Reagan was dumb although he voted for him probably because of the very high top tax rates (they were close to 90%). He thought McCain was dumb too. All of my sibs (4) and myself have been liberal Dems all our lives.

R101, I remember it being much worse than that.

Mama Nancy made sure Ron Jr. was circumcised even though Ron Sr. was intact. She must have encountered some nasty cheese during her cocksucking days.

Ron Reagan is not a fag!

And I'm just the dame to prove it!

Younger Ron is not Junior. His dad's middle name was Wilson, while his is Prescott.

I always thought he had BDF.

Now get outta my way cos I gotta man waitin' for me.

Neely - Another one of those fluttery ballet boys?!

r110, see r33. Apparently no one cares.

[quote] Younger Ron is not Junior. His dad's middle name was Wilson, while his is Prescott.

Okay. Let's call them "Dead Ron" and "Living Ron".

Ron Jr has the AIDS you know

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