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?

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[dgcatanisiri.livejournal.com]

My analysis of Tim actually is due to self-projection on my part, since McGee started out as someone very much like who I am right now and... Yeah, let's just say Tony'd be my type as well.

And you can really see all that in their relationship, in their back and forth. The teasing nicknames that even now Tony keeps adding to the list of is one of the big things, I think. Tony not being able to pick and stick to just one nickname for him is Tony expressing his inability to openly express his feeling for Tim, while McGee basks in the fact that this guy so like the people who tormented him is clearly crushing on him, but not saying anything because of that big pounding 'what if'.

At least that's this amateur psychologist's appraisal.