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JIM NABORS (–), finest known for his TV role as Gomer Pyle, was one of my first heroes in life, even before I understood why. Gay men of my generation—most of us in our 50s—often talk about when it was we first knew about our sexual identity. For many of us, it was our response to actors we saw on TV. James Conrad in The Wild, Wild, Untamed West strutting through frontier towns shirtless, his chest gleaming in the Southern California sun. Whichever Brady Bunch was closest to our age. Will, the boy astronaut on Lost In Space. The late David Cassidy, Scott Baio, Leif Garrett, the dashing blond nature Iliya Kuryakin (played by David McCallum) on The Man From Uncle.
Nabors, who died last week, played the bumbling and ever-flummoxed—but disconcertingly handsome—filling station attendant on The Andy Griffith Show when I was a very young boy, and he became even better known in later years on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, which aired when I was a kid of ten or so.
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The world resounded with a predictable Gol-ol-olllll-leeeee! at yesterday's news that Jim Nabors had gay-married his long-term partner, Stan Cadwallader.
Nabors, who played Gomer Pyle in both s-era television series The Andy Griffith Exhibit and its spin-off, Gomer Pyle, USMC (pre-Don't Request Don't Tell, we guess), announced the two had been wed in Seattle last month, following Washington voters' approval of queer marriage in
"I'm 82 and he's in his 60s and so we've been together for 38 years and I'm not ashamed of people knowing; it's just that it was such a personal thing, I didn't announce anybody" Nabors eventually told AP. "I'm very glad that I've had a partner of 38 years and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I'm just very happy."
Yep, he's gay.
Nabors's sexual orientation was long an open covert in the LGBT group and among his straight(ish) friends like Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews. And if he wasn't queer , his character, surely Gomer Pyle was. After all, like that other irresistible Southern television icon, Honey Boo-Boo, says, "Everybody's got a little ga
Jim Nabors Husband, cause of death, net worth, gay or straight
Born in Sylacauga, Alabama on June 12, , JimNabors was raised in a typical Alabama religious home. He had two sisters. Her father, Fred Nabors, was a policeman, while her mother, Mavis Pearl, was a housewife.
Already in steep school, young Jim had already made a name for himself as a decent singer, he also sang in the local church choir. After graduating from the University of Alabama (where he had already started acting), he moved to New York, where he worked as a typist for the United Nations.
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Jim soon moved to LA because of his asthma and was involved in outlying television as a film cutter. He also performed in nightclubs on the sides, it was during one of these performances that he caught the attention of comedian Bill Dana who invited him to appear on the Steve Allen Show.
Jim&#;s breakthrough, however, came when TV star Andy Griffith offered him the role of gas station attendant &#;Gomer Pyle&#; in his popular 60s sitcom
Thread: at age 82 Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) finally comes out of the closet
by marrying his firefighter spouse of 38 years no less
is anyone shocked?
By Christie D'Zurilla
January 30, , a.m.
Jim Nabors, beloved to audiences as TV's Gomer Pyle, has married Stan Cadwallader, his partner of 38 years.
The wedding took place Jan. 15 in front of a evaluate at a Seattle hotel, said Hawaii News Now, which first reported the news Tuesday. Washington mention legalized gay marriage in December
"I'm not ashamed of people knowing. It's just that it was such a personal thing, I didn't tell anybody," said Nabors, 82, a resident of Honolulu. "I'm very happy that I've had a partner of 38 years, and I feel very blessed."
Nabors and year-old Cadwallader, then a firefighter, met in in Honolulu.
"The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle, USMC" alum told Hawaii News Now that he hadn't acknowledged his sexuality before to the media, though he said he was open about it to friends and co-workers when he was working in Hollywood in the s and '70s.
"I haven't ever made a