Tony's sexuality - Discussion

[beautybecks.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

[im-miss-barbara.livejournal.com]

I don't know about your last comment. Tony is all about how he comes over at other people, think about the suits, shiny car and everything. I think he is carefull with making a name for himselfm the gay scene probably isn't that big.

[singer-s-lament.livejournal.com]

Tony is the master of smoke and mirrors. As an excellent undercover operative (cannon), he would have no issues with presenting himself as a certain way. He only would have to keep up the 'show' upon meeting new people and then once and then throw something out a while to keep people on the right track.

For the most part, people make decisions based upon their first impression of you and keep you in the hole the peg you as. Coming off as a skirt-chasing manwhore just once seals their opinion and keeps them away from digging deeper unless something happens. It is easier for them to keep you that way because otherwise, they were wrong about you.

DNDT is not just for the military. We look at the things that we know as fact about him; military high school, high school jock, college jock, police officer, detective. As much as we tend to think differently, those professions or occupations are not something that people tend to think of for a gay man; they hold macho connotations and most people see a gay man as effeminate.

[burnphone.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure Tony would ever cover something up about himself intentionally if he had a choice, that's why, in my eyes anyway, he doesn't identify as gay till he meets Tim. The whole thing with Jeanne told us he 'couldn't live a lie', and I think that's true. Though that can be taken either way, maybe when he said that he was also thinking about the persona he always presents.