Actor Jim Nabors, TV's Gomer Pyle, marries longtime male partner in Seattle

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14. It's awesome that older gays have lived to see this!

I was brought up in the 60s, and it was pretty well an open secret that Jim Nabors was gay. He even had a longstanding relationship with Rock Hudson.

But no way in hell could an actor ever go public with it. Poor Rock--he might not have had so many partners and contracted AIDS if he could've settled down with one and nested. But Richard Chamberlain, George Takei and now Gomer can finally be true to themselves.

I know there's still a long way to go. But I remember when my friend's father divorced his wife and left her for his "best friend" Mr Archibald. In 1974 it was a HUGE scandal. But then, last week, I had 3 of my gay friends calling me and crying that President Obama mentioned Stonewall in his inagural address. We're heading for the day when NOBODY feels they have to stay in the closet, and can live a full, open life before they're almost at the end of it!