His comments were more about tolerance and inclusion

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There has been a rash of magazine and news articles which are basically attempts by different communities to claim as one of their own this deceased beloved host and public figure who has been in the news lately.

The reason is some recently re-surfaced quotes by the beloved figure.

Are some reading too much into this?

His comments were more about tolerance and inclusion but it is also true he had a same sex sexual relationship as a young man when he was in college.

Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers celebrated as ‘bisexual icon’ after his comments on sexual attraction resurface

Was Fred Rogers secretly gay? Or bisexual?

The sexual orientation of the beloved children’s TV icon has long been a topic of curiosity, acknowledged Rogers’ biographer Michael Long who wrote in a 2016 essay that, yes, the soft-spoken creator of “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood” wasn’t known for his machismo.

“(Rogers) talked softly and carried no stick; his spirit was gentle and tender, patient and trustworthy, and receptive and loving,” Long wrote.

The acclaimed 2018 documentary on Rogers’ life and career, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” addressed the question of his sexuality head-on but came to no conclusions. The film played a clip of talk show host Tom Snyder asking Rogers if he was straight. The film doesn’t show Rogers’ answer, but it shares an interview with Francois Clemmons, the gay actor who played Officer Clemmons on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for 25 years.

“First of all, no, he’s not gay,” said Clemmons. “I tell everyone who asks me, ‘No, he’s not gay.’ But I spent enough time with him that if there was a gay vibe I would have picked it up. Nope, not as far as I know.”

This week, LGBTQ Twitter users believed they uncovered evidence that Rogers saw himself as bisexual, according to Pride.com. The evidence comes in the form of an excerpt from a 2015 biography of Rogers that began to make its way around the internet. – Source