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Rogers himself was often labeled "a sissy," or gay, in a derogatory sense. But as his longtime associate Eliot Daley put it: "Fred is one of the strongest people I have ever met in my life. So if they are saying he's gay because...that's a surrogate for saying he's weak, that's not right, because he's incredibly strong." He adds: "He wasn't a very masculine person, he wasn't a very feminine person; he was androgynous."

In a 1975 interview for The New York Times, Rogers noted drolly: "I'm not John Wayne, so consequently, for some people I'm not the model for the man in the house.

In conversation with one of his friends, the openly gay Dr William Hirsch, Fred Rogers himself concluded that if sexuality was measured on a scale of one to ten: "Well, you know, I must be right smack in the middle. Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive.

Michael Horton, the voice of Neighborhood puppets and a close Rogers-family friend for decades, notes that he is always asked first about Fred Rogers: "Was he really like that?" End first image description.]

[Second image description: Fred Rogers in a red cardigan and patterned tie, smiling, with the bisexual pride flag photoshopped in behind him as backdrop. End second image description.]

ya’ll were really gonna let me live my life in ignorance thinking mr. rogers was straight???

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