Gay or Not Gay? Sherman Hemsley
It's weird how dying makes people gay.
Just as with Sally Ride, the public response to the death of Sherman Hemsley has been accompanied by a discussion of his sexuality. The Advocate and Queerty both mention the longstanding gay rumors (the first I'm hearing of them, by the way) in posts about his death. Some random in the Talk section of his Wikipedia entry says, "It was an open secret that Hemsley was gay, but that can't be added to the article without a reliable reference." Some obits have opted to reporting that he leaves behind no wife or children, wink wink, nudge nudge.
http://gawker.com/5929102/gay-or-not-gay-sherman-hemsley