Henderson: no one knew 'Brady Dad' was gay

[@DeborahEdelen333]

That is so incredibly sweet and compassionate. She played the supportive wife that stood behind her husband behind the scenes, and all the while she was standing by her TV partner behind the scenes to help him contend with this difficult personal dichotomy and she kept it a secret. My hat is off to her.

[@tjames9698]

She was the first one to know. Everyone found out later, but no one cared. It was all good.

[@smokingcatcomicscollectibl2131]

It was a different time, though. Reed was terrified of anyone learning the truth about his lifestyle...perhaps for good reason.

[@jeffyjohn5673]

A different era back then.

[@slapshot68]

Now, he would hav ben free to openly come out

[@melissacooper4482]

@@smokingcatcomicscollectibl2131 it was a good reason. Back then Reed had to face persecution from the public and his whole career was at stake. That was why he stayed in the closet for a long time.

[@MontgomeryMall]

Robert Reed was also tense on the Brady Bunch set because he often felt the show insulted the intelligence of the viewer with its scripts and that he was too good an actor to be stuck playing on it.

[@StamfordBridge]

Montgomery Mall Yet by all accounts he was wonderful to all the cast, who adored him.

[@g.d.roberts196]

@@StamfordBridge The part was originally intended for Gene Hackman. That's who Schwartz wanted but Paramount didn't want to take a risk on because he wasn't known at time. Robert Reed had a development deal with Paramount that really screwed him because he had to appear contractually in whatever they wanted him to. He was a serious dramatic actor and classically trained and Shakespearian actor. He felt the gags in the script were not believable and didn't like constant slapstick because he was told during the pilot that the series would be more true to life and representative of what a divorced family is really like with comedy and drama intertwined. It's not what Reed wanted to be involved in. He loved those kids and showered them with affection because he was estranged from his own teenage daughter.

[@jermainelaxuma2621]

@@g.d.roberts196 Ever wondered how the Brady Bunch would had turned out had Gene Hackman got the part of Mike Brady? It would had been a very different show. Then again I feel that if Gene would not had become the A-List actor that he was known for because he would had been typecast. It's sad that Bob Reed was trapped with the Brady Bunch as I could imagine him doing the roles that Gene Hackman enjoyed like The French Connection. I think that fate wanted Bob to be a part of the Brady Bunch as that provided him the family that he could not have with his own daughter because his ex-wife did not want her to be associated with his gay lifestyle. Bob's true sexuality might had been the real reason to why his ex-wife left him.

[@TWS-pd5dc]

@@jermainelaxuma2621 Well, Reed had done very heavy drama for 4 seasons on The Defenders with E.G. Marshall from 1961-1965. He wanted The Brady Bunch to have at least some serious issue-related themes, rather than the silly typical sitcom plots and that's what he so often clashed with Schwartz over. One wonders if they had gone into that direction would the show today still be looked back on so fondly? Doubtful, but we'll never know.

[@zebrastreet9993]

@@g.d.roberts196 It seems like perhaps he wanted the show to be more like the kind of show “Eight is Enough” was, which debuted just a few years after the Brady’s original run ended. I think there was only about three years between the two shows. “Eight is Enough” had the comedy and fun, but it also had a more serious and dramatic side to it, perhaps the type of vibe Reed had envisioned.

[@dnewcome6742]

Robert Reed, Florence Henderson and Anne B. Davis are now all gone now. Get'n old sucks. All your childhood heroes are dying.

[@StukInBuf]

The "adults" of the bunch are now gone. DAMN! Age pushes aside the signposts we grew up with.

[@Native722]

That's life.

[@StukInBuf]

Native722 Truer words were never spoken.

[@davidbrunson4794]

Native722 yep and when you die that's what I'm gonna say that's life. you fucking assist nobody

[@StukInBuf]

I'm sure nobody will miss YOU, you stupid piece of elephant shit!

[@seamusobrien5262]

RIP Florence Henderson

[@Beatlesbec]

i just saw that on Facebook

[@Shteve67]

I can't believe she's gone now 😭

[@beckylucarelli3148]

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[@dominiquemcclaney128]

Exactly. I didn't even know until I was looking up a video on here with celebrity graves and then they showed hers. 😞

[@calamityj3634]

Reed definitely blew his cover when he embraced the B.B. Variety Hour where he sang danced and flamed like the great fire of London in a pastel jump suit . Love Robert, Flo and the bunch 4 eva :)))

[@kevinhealey6540]

Florence Henderson became determined when she began to the show to be a real mom and a role model because she grew up in a dysfunctional family.. She actually did love the children in the show as well as her own. She had four of them. She sung year after year, the National Anthem at the Indianapolis 500. She wanted to do something for the United States and act as a role model to help children in general that would see the show. She was highly patriotic. She broke the chain of passing her bad childhood on to her children.

[@karendegraaf1146]

Kevin Healey-- Your mention of her singing at the Indy 500, brought back a story my husband, Ken, had told me long ago. Ken attended the 500 every year, and once found himself in the same hotel elevator as Ms. Henderson. Ken complimented her on her singing, and she gave him a kiss on the cheek. For years after that, everytime she appeared on TV, I had to hear about him and his "girlfriend" making out in the elevator! 😁 Ken and Florence Henderson have since both passed away, but they better be behaving themselves together in Heaven!

[@kevinhealey6540]

@@karendegraaf1146 Thanks for mentioning it. That's another about her. She knew she meant a lot to a lot of people because of her character and when someone recognized her on the street, she was warm and friendly to the person.

[@MilkyWhiskers]

She very much loved Greg. She had an affair with him.

[@kevinhealey6540]

@@MilkyWhiskers That's a complete rumor.

[@seanminkins7701]

​@@karendegraaf1146 😂

[@tommyhoneycutt72]

She will be missed 😔

[@mandeljay]

Robert Reed did not die from AIDS He suffered, and succumbed from colon cancer possibly complicated from being HIV+. Also, the actor was previously married, to Marilyn Rosenberger; they had a daughter Karen Rietz before divorcing. So, I don’t buy the fact that Florence Henderson picked up that Robert was gay because her TV husband “was very nervous about looking good in that love scene” (on The Brady Bunch pilot).

[@pamelamays4186]

Joy Behar needs a refresher course in TV interviewing.

[@yotubek]

I know. What a train wreck she was for this one, my God.

[@geo-george2639]

She's terrible.

[@christopherthorkon3997]

As a gay man, I can verify that many women have a very strong gay-dar....much stronger and more accurate than most straight men have.

[@zebrastreet9993]

One might say, especially those women with careers in musical theater like Florence.

[@Scorch1028]

Florence Henderson’s “gay-dar” was impeccable. 🤣

[@slimdude2011]

No it wasn't a "gay-dar" which nobody has because it doesn't exist. It's called a woman's intuition from past experiences in life and common knowledge.

[@zebrastreet9993]

@@slimdude2011 She also came from musical theater on Broadway and national tours, so she probably had experience working with gay dudes who had to play straight for the stage.

[@Iknowyoumadnow]

@@slimdude2011 um.. STEPHENIE, EVERYONE HAS A GAYDAR tf you talkin bout!? and mines is sensing it from you because you're triggered

[@piscesloveempress]

My mom knew at 15 or so he was gay. My mom had the gay dar too lol

[@lendrury2771]

@@Iknowyoumadnow i agree The gay guy Stephenie would made the comment is obviously light in the loafers

[@alanmartinez2688]

rest in peace ,Mr Brady, you where a great tv dad and actor, and r.i.p Mrs Brady also, for being a great actress and mom.👍🙋‍♂️

[@tommycollins7846]

...and RIP to Alice (Ann B. Davis), you were a great housekeeper!

[@quietlightning4063]

I remember in Galactica 1980 he played Dr Mortonson .. a renowned American nuclear physicist.. he was in the pilot episode and never returned..

[@davidtaylor9219]

No one knows how bad & sad I feel for Robert Reed. Ok was he was gay big deal. He was still a human being & I absolutely Love him in The Brady Bunch. No one & I mean NO ONE should have to die because of such a horrible disease. Very very sad.

[@Benito-k6q]

Yeah-And unfortunately Robert Reed died from both AIDS,and colon cancer!!!😩😫

[@toyman81]

True and did you notice he never tried to push it down your throat like they do in 2023. also, true that it was a hush hush thing back then.

[@iloveschicken6527]

No, it's not ok that he was gay! Look where it got him! It's against the laws of God and life itself!

[@billybassman21]

Women can usually tell if a guy is gay or at the very least has sexual hangups.

[@szechuan1871]

RIP Robert Reed. Such a fine actor.

[@tombovitale2597]

I never knew Robert Reed was gay yeah I can see how handsome he was must have quite a few partners even the women loved him beautiful blue eyes and a handsome man it's too bad he died at such a young age and I liked his acting he was in a lot of different things besides the Brady Bunch awesome actor rest in peace Robert Reed we miss you

[@hydrolito]

Robert Reed has a daughter named Karen so he didn't always act gay.

[@brittoverbaugh4035]

@@hydrolito how about that?...he probably raised .at the very least. a daughter with a social conscience and awareness.

[@zebrastreet9993]

@@hydrolito Plenty of gay men back in those days, maybe even most gay men, tried to play the part of the straight and conventional married man to fit in within society. It was a very different time and it was just expected.

[@piscesloveempress]

@@hydrolito Lots of gay men have kids, my friend just found out after 25 years her dad is gay, and she has a sister, so gay people def are in the closet sometime and they have marriages with women and kids.. So .. educate yourself.

[@nrkgalt]

@@hydrolitoQuite a few gay people marry outside their gender. Meredith Baxter, who played the mother on Family Ties, married and divorced 3 men, with whom she had 5 children, before coming out as a lesbian and marrying a woman. This is actually an overlooked reason for why gay marriage must be allowed.

[@bajikimran2304]

A lot of people forget that Reed's first role after the Brady Bunch was cancelled Was on the show Medical Center. He played a man who underwent a sex change operation. He made a terrible woman.

[@cocoaorange1]

I vaguely recall MC,as a small child, I did not know that.

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Looking at the old footage, almost all of the kids could sing. Barry still has great pipes. Florence was a brilliant triple threat though singing dancing and acting at the highest level.

[@codyyoung4952]

The only thing I focus on is, no matter what, the Brady bunch was just a great show with great actors. that's all I see

[@nickbarcheck1019]

Feel so bad for Robert Reed and all the gay men from that era for having to lie and hide. It's a lot better now. Those guys paved the way.

[@davidmoyes7010]

Some people's homosexuality is annoying. Some people are better off in the closet. There's positives and negatives to everything.

[@piscesloveempress]

@@davidmoyes7010 and some hetrosexual people are annoying as f.. I am not gay but I am ally.

[@michaelvaladez3012]

He didn't die from aids even though he did have it but it was cancer that took his life cause his immune system was already shot by aids.And the interviewer could've sugar coated it a little instead of saying "We all know he was gay at the time he died of aids the poor guy!" C'mon be more respectful she could've said "We all know he was homosexual and was HIV positive and passed away from cancer poor man". Those damn interviewers have no decency.

[@davidpar2]

Reed's genuine indignant attitude toward the part he played on The Brady Bunch actually helped his character be more distinctive. That sort of "pissy" attitude became part of Mike Brady's style, and I think it was an asset in the long run

[@cocoaorange1]

Although him being gay shocked me, I was more surprised by his unhappiness with the role, although it did sort of typecast him. He did play a gay guy on the old series "Hotel". I also saw an earlier cameo of him on " Father Knows Best".

[@zebrastreet9993]

I’d have to agree. Mike had a sort of “take no bullshit” attitude and was often suspicious of what the kids were up to, in most cases the boys because he knew they weren’t angels and they frequently were up to something and/or being jerks to the girls. He also managed to make the “pissy” attitude charming and funny.

[@larryhayes8842]

I saw the Bradys in Hawaii I saw Greg on the surfboard I went to Hawaii in 1972 too

[@saiyongdawn7756]

Larry Hayes Wow. That's cool. Got pics? Sure would like to see some.

[@bethelle9099]

I just wish Robert knew that no matter what was happening personally, he did his job well and so well in fact, we are still enjoying and loving that show and everyone in it, today!!! A show like that was and is a blessing to anyone that thinks families matter. To think Florence is gone is dreadful. I still cant believe it. Great show with a great cast!!!

[@jako3214]

Love love love Florence! Real deal. Total class and gorgeous and full of life until her very last second! Really wish I had a mother, aunt or at least a friend like her in my life growing up. RIP. :(

[@tranurse]

@DDbRowN67 i never thought about it. but, i have lousy gaydar. it doesn't really matter to me if he's gay. and being that she had been on broadway and around dancers, she would have been able to see it. makes sense.

[@christophergilmore4368]

R.I.P. my afternoon mom .

[@jefflong1799]

You know come to think of it, you're right... After school if mom was at work Mrs. Brady kept the mom/family ideal living in front of you all the time.. :)

[@slapshot68]

Had he lived, he would of became the 1st openly gay actor

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Florence was the godmother of theater - geekdom. Her gaydar was fully developed in the early 50's.

[@lifewithsydney774]

BeCaUsE tHeY'rE nOt My ReAl KiDs Lmaooooooooooooo

[@Stablemable2]

He'd played one the coolest TV dads and Carol Brady yelled at her tv kids on some episodes.

[@DavidRoss-lo7kz]

Robert Reed chose to be silent about his sexuality his Prerogative.....

[@melissaford717]

Maybe but don't forget that when he was on The Brady Bunch, homosexuality was considered a mental illness in the DSM at that time. In 1973 it was removed from the book. You take care 🙂

[@TheJpep2424]

All the kids have said they all knew.

[@alextepe4309]

I think that if Robert Reed were alive today, people would just enjoy his work and not care about what he did in his private life. The Brady bunch was from a different era and today he probably would not have to worry about his career being damaged for being openly gay. As funny as it sounds, there are some gay people who think they’re freaks, and reed tried to “cure” himself by marrying a woman, but it just didn’t work out that way. Some people were just not put on this earth to procreate.

[@Mrponders9]

😂😂😂😂

[@RogersRoyal]

She was first to know, but everyone else on show figured it out soon enough and kept his secret and didn't care. The producers just cared that he was so annoying on set and nitpicky about the scripts. But he was always the professional and played his part very well. Sad that we lost all three parental figures from the Brady Bunch now. RIP to Robert, Ann and Florence and thanks for the memories.

[@gregrak9389]

two thumbs down here for Florence Henderson, a "true friend" of a closeted gay man would not speak that way, Henderson compares very poorly against a "class act" such as Elizabeth Montgomery, who respected the hell out of Dick Sargent and his privacy.

[@shariallison5579]

Nicely worded interview . Flo looks even better today. Cheers, Shari

[@wadecatt9543]

The one doing the interview is so rude like she has no sense of people's true feelings about things. Just blurting out ignorant statements.

[@yotubek]

She (Joy) is pathetic. Just so rude and insensitive, good God.

[@laminage]

Here's another fun fact. He attended RADA (The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts) whose Alumni were very successful on UK TV. Other US Graduates have been Ray McDonnell (Ex-Joe Martin) All My Children And Tamara Braun (Days Of Our Lives, General Hospital and All My Children) where her Character Reese Married Bianca Montgomery.

[@myroom800]

I really don't see that Bob being gay is relevant. Who cares gay or straight, it's not an issue.

[@StamfordBridge]

My Room You’re displaying your tolerance, which is fine, but you’re also displaying your obliviousness to the reality people went through. Robert Reed lived with tremendous pressure and fear all the time. If Florence Henderson figured out his secret early on and used her inference to be supportive in some way, it is a big deal.

[@jefflong1799]

@@StamfordBridge Well, THAT part was important yes, but his point is good too.

[@BAKER22-l4u]

EXACTLY

[@johnnybravoski7048]

"You can ride my range anytime." Ya just gotta love mr. B!

[@kevykev38]

Flourence was a great loving person

[@ejcmerick90210]

The 3 adults of the Brady Bunch are dead Now it's just the 3 boys and the 3 girls

[@johnnybravoski7048]

Cousin Oliver?

[@cocoaorange1]

True, it will be sad when the world loses them as well. What is Robbie Rist doing nowadays anyway.

[@mariavaldez4989]

Miss here very much loved the show

[@peterlakers1]

The Brady bunch is like all families... I was a kid when I love to watch this with my family.. the Brady parents are now gone.. just like our parents are now gone.. there's a beginning.. a middle.. and a end... 1.The family starts young.. 2. the family things you do out through the years... 3. The last stage is watching your loved ones pass away and your the last one on earth..

[@yotubek]

I hear you. ❤️ I’m going through it myself now too. You said it so well and so respectfully, thank you for that.

[@Coocoonest]

God bless her!

[@bc3363]

“Was it the way he was arguing” jeez Joy is such a dolt

[@yotubek]

I know, when I heard her say that, I’m like: please just shut up. She’s so undignified while Florence is so compassionate and sweet about Robert.

[@juanmonge8]

Robert Reed had been married and was close to his daughter.

[@slimdude2011]

Being married doesn't mean nothing! There are millions of gay men who married other women and have a family to conceal their true sexual orientation, which means they're living a double life. Gay married men frequently seeks private sexual encounters with other men behind closed doors away from their wives.

[@piscesloveempress]

So my best friends dad is gay and has two kids!! What does that have to with anything.

[@arthurdolin9380]

that's nothing new my wife pointed it out to me

[@25FADIII]

I wished I had met Florence Henderson.

[@Native722]

I'm still surprised that she knew he was gay all that time.

[@Native722]

That's what I'm wondering as well. Maybe she was using "gay-dar"? She just sense he was gay or maybe something was going on.

[@12MedbeNetwork]

Florence Henderson said "gay rights, bitches"

[@joejoe9435]

after watching this i can understand now why some people find Joy so annoying

[@lendrury2771]

Reed was obviously gay Even during the show it was evident that he was light in the loafers. He was definitely eating the ol fruitcake

[@tjames9698]

The last one to know (as per her own admission) was Maureen McCormick. The rest of the cast seemed shocked that she didn't seem to realize it. Ann B. Davis was no stranger to lesbianism and, according to parts of Maureen McCormick's book that were legally deleted before her autobiography was officially released by lawyers of Eve Plumb, McCormick stated that she and Plumb has a lesbian affair of there own.

[@TheTinydancer235]

Maureen McCormick admitted that they never had a lesbians affair. Maureen was going to be sued by Eve.

[@thejupiter2574]

Bulshite I hate petty gossip "legally deleted" so it's gossip. Bullshite. Ann B Davis was already an older Woman and if Plumb or any younger woman were to have a relation it would not be with someone old enough to be your grandmother

[@lindadaniels1259]

Maureen was saying that she and Plumb had this said relationship, not Davis and Plumb!! Eww!! The thought of that is just nasty!!

[@bufnyfan1]

I remember Florence Henderson wrote in her 2011 memoir that she was having problems in her marriage and then had a "one night stand" with former NYC mayor John Lindsay. The next day she realized that he had given her "crabs" (pubic lice) and he called her to apologize.

[@georgemaster9271]

Did ABC rerun the last season of the show(1973-74)until a new show could be put in its place?

[@phyllismontoroula9376]

I dont care if Robert reed was gay as long he was happy when he was alive who cares He was so

[@stephentaege6255]

RIP ROBERT REED I COULDN'T IMAGINE ANYONE ELSE PLAYING MIKE BRADY OR INFACT CAROL BRADY RIP FLORENCE HENDERSON 🙏🙏

[@RaineStudio]

There was something immature about Robert Reed that made him not quite believable as the all-knowing Dad. He was not Schwartz' choice for Mike Brady; he was picked by ABC execs.

[@tim58850]

she didn't know he was a gay men... back in that time know one would come out to say I and gay.. ... so I think this is not right... Robert as a good men gay or not

[@arxfortis7481]

Dude, you're such a moron. In show business, people knew others were "like that" way before the 70's. Besides, if you actually *LISTENED* to the interview, you would know that he never "came out" to her and said he was gay. She figured it out.

[@smokingcatcomicscollectibl2131]

Eh, not really, from what I've heard. Reed might have been good to the kids, but he was a pretty scary guy when the cameras were off. Supposedly he would pick up men at the underground gay clubs and nightspots he frequented, have sex with them, and then threaten to kill them if they talked and outed him. He was also known to be very difficult to work with and was drunk at least once on-set.

[@nassauguy48]

I imagine it was kept from the kids, as that is how things were done in those days. But it is hard to believe that Florence and Ann, nor Sherwood Schwarz (the producer) did not know.

[@brendas.6493]

That's weird, she said recently that "all the kids knew he was gay"....so which is it? Everyone knew or only she did? I guess it doesn't matter. It's sad that he was conflicted.

[@protochris]

Odd, because Ive read it was well known in the industry he was Gay before the show started. He was in quite a few Shakespeatean plays, and it wass known to his colleagues.

[@VikingGirl1964]

Thank You for being who you were

[@Catsrock-u7y]

Bob got nailed obviously 🙄

[@fortnotegamer6449]

*_Rest. In. Peace._*

[@jamesbowman8138]

What's his name

[@Crabbyjack]

We picked up on his awkwardness.

[@katelyng1019]

Robert Reed's birthday is October 19. I was born October 19,2004.

[@jeffw1267]

So you were born 12 years after Reed died. That makes me feel 100 years old. But one day, in maybe 50 years, you'll be talking about Justin Bieber and people will think you're talking about Franz Liszt or something. Old age will get every one of us, if we live that long.

[@brittoverbaugh4035]

Joy...yes. very rude.. What what.s his name??? 0:30

[@yashajackson5312]

I always thought she was a very pretty lady

[@jako3214]

Oh and what the hell is going on? Just lost Florence, Alan Thicke, Prince and Bowie (earlier this year) and NOW George Michael. :# All major stars I grew up who more or less had a major impact on my childhood in different ways. Total sh*t year that THANKFULLY is ending in just days!

[@davidbrunson4794]

Jako32 not to mention Glenn Frey and Natalie cole

[@SteveCarras]

Also Patty Duke, Janet Waldo, Gene Wilder, William Schallert (who played PD's Patty Duke show dad), and Alan Young as well.

[@mimiflores1327]

Robert Reed will always be the Dad of American

[@juanmonge8]

I will never forget old what’s his name.

[@Muertes-tf2oj]

Everyone was gay in the 70's!

[@jukedar]

no one knew he was part of life in paulbonerism

[@sharoncurry1109]

Florence Hendersonis a very supportive person she isawesomeexcellent role model for everyone

[@rossmartenak5517]

First of all, so-called "Robert Reed" wasn't even his real birth name? I think it's a disgrace and shows complete disrespect of one's heritage to change their birth name, unless when a woman gets married. If a woman gets married and DOESN'T change her last name, that shows no respect to her husband. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the name "John Robert Rietz Jr"?! The change was probably made as the result of a greedy Business Manager, with respect to perceived anticipation of greater recognition and subsequent monetary gain?!

[@ashe984]

Ugh I feel so bad for him I really do poor RR 😰😭😭😭😭💔 and he isn't truly gone ever.

[@ericr5901]

I really wish I had Robert as a father figure

[@kateclemons5921]

Eric R So did his daughter Karen.

[@marisaberardinelli8945]

something familiar about his eyes..

[@sharlaowlholland3749]

so who cares???

[@chrisbennett3601]

WHEN DID PEOPLE FIND OUT HE WAS GAY ??? !!!

[@3dartistguy]

It was none of anyone business.

[@sg1770]

Sam the Butcher knew 😊

[@phyllismontoroula9376]

He was so cute I love the Brady Bunch

[@keithwilson6060]

I heard that he didn’t die of AIDS, but anal cancer. Maybe that was just his cover, though.

[@moosefactory133]

Robert Reed gave Sherwood Schwartz difficulties at times. I would with the credentials of Mr Schwartz that Robert should have just let him run the show.

[@1948DESMOND]

he was NOT a homosexuyal or gay. he had a daughter. therefore he was half gay, half straight. a bisexual. but not a homosexal.

[@TheDefiningAwesome]

***** You can be a straight guy and have a family, then realize that it's not what you want and become a gay person :).

[@1948DESMOND]

DefiningAwesome you do NOT decide today or tomorrow to become this or that, and that includes the word gay.that is like a black person waking up tomorrow and deciding he wants to be white or chinese or asian. it is in you from the moment of conception to be gay, straight or bi sexual. people are made by nature, or god, that way. YOU come across as a religious type of person.

[@TheDefiningAwesome]

***** I didn't mean to cause offencer. What I meant was that he may not have discovered he was gay. Just because he had a daughter, doesn't mean that he is bisexual. Sorry that this caused offence.

[@1948DESMOND]

DefiningAwesome - no offence given or taken.but the man KNEW he was "both ways" from his childhood. at least he would have known it from the time he learned to masturbate. don' t say he didn't!! he knew it all along. i mean, would YOU not know if you were This or That if you got a hard on just thinking of, say, Barak obama? !!!!!!!

[@EvolvedDaddy64]

+Dassoon Fitz You idiot! back then a lot of gay men got married because it was expected of them. He divorced his wife in 1959. I have had sex with a few girls in my teens and early 20s but I am gay, I have been out for over 30 years, you don't what the hell you're talking about. You know absolutely nothing about sexuality,

[@Cheri12345]

Could joy stop interrupting please 🤦🏻‍♀️🌈

[@frisco21]

Not for a moment do I believe that Florence Henderson didn't know Robert Reed was gay. It's just not realistic to believe that she didn't eventually figure it out. She wasn't that stupid.

[@brinsonharris9816]

She recounts how she figured it out when they were shooting the pilot episode. Said exactly that in this interview. She knew from the very beginning.

[@rosecoloredtimes]

If he had lived today he may have had the chance to be happy. We should never make anyone feel like however they are is not good enough. ❤ learn from the past.

[@marcstevens8576]

Although they were in other shows at the time, I think either Bixby or Hagman would have been a better Mike Brady than Reed did as He looked effeminate in later episodes & didn't appear on the last one when Greg had orange hair...

[@Elmer_Fudd]

*And that's the way they all became the Gaydy bunch!*

[@piscesloveempress]

omg lol

[@littlecasino60]

It's funny, but I bet no lesbian actress ever thinks "Does this scene seem real" when they are with a man.

[@james2347charles]

Robert Reed was playing a part in a sitcom why does it matter if he was gay ? His character wasn't