kissmeprobie | Tony's sexuality

Hi y'all,

Just wanted to start a little healthy discussion/debate about Tony's sexuality. Do you think he is Tim-sexual, bi-sexual, homosexual, pan-sexual etc? How do you factor his on-screen relations in regards to his sexuality, particularly Jeanne Benoit?

Personally, I see Tony as being very gay and all his talk of women is over-compensating. His infactuation with Tim has been there since the very beginning. I see him being mostly celibate and having slept with women in his past until he realised he was gay and sort of stopped the sex all together. Alas, the sexual frustration he gets from working round Tim day in and day out has driven him into the arms of a few men, but he tries to forget about that. For me, the forced relationship with Jeanne Benoit actually helped sell him as gay to me, he may have fallen in love with her eventually but I think a part of that was acting and sex, sex which he was reluctant about to begin with. It was supposed to be a fake relationship to begin with but I think that can be extended to include the fact it was fake because he is gay. Cole Porter married and loved his wife but that didn't make him any less gay.

What are your thoughts?

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My views on Tony are slightly different. I see him as bi but I'm not convinced he knows it himself. I can imagine that he's always had feelings for men but pushed them aside. We know how much he wants his fathers approval and being gay probably wouldn't have help with that plus he likes women too. A lot. So it's not so hard to ignore anyway. He's probably decided it was all an adolescent phase and he chooses to ignore the gay porn on his hard drive.

I think his excessive womanizing (that sounds harsh, I don't mean it badly) is probably due to his confusion but I do think he truly was attracted to Jeanne and did come to love her. He was hesitant because he was worried about hurting her feelings and that's exactly why I think Tim would always have to make the first move (even if Tony has engineered it accidentally on purpose) because Tony would be too scared to risk their relationship on what might be a one time thing for him.

Hmm, interesting. I know this sounds really cruel but I've never got the impression Tony is actually aware of other people's feelings. That he's a man of action rather than thoughts/feelings, but that could all be an act.

Tony scared is a new concept for me but I find it intriguing, especially the one time thing. Hmmm, curiouser and curiouser. Thanks for sharing your thoughts x

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