Jim nabors was gay

by marrying his firefighter partner of 38 years no less


is anyone shocked?




By Christie D'Zurilla
January 30, 2013, 10:21 a.m.



Jim Nabors, beloved to audiences as TV's Gomer Pyle, has married Stan Cadwallader, his significant other of 38 years.

The wedding took place Jan. 15 in front of a judge at a Seattle hotel, said Hawaii News Now, which first reported the news Tuesday. Washington mention legalized gay marriage in December

"I'm not ashamed of people knowing. It's just that it was such a personal thing, I didn't tell anybody," said Nabors, 82, a resident of Honolulu. "I'm very happy that I've had a spouse of 38 years, and I experience very blessed."


Nabors and 64-year-old Cadwallader, then a firefighter, met in 1975 in Honolulu.

"The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle, USMC" alum told Hawaii News Now that he hadn't acknowledged his sexuality before to the media, though he said he was open about it to friends and co-workers when he was working in Hollywood in the 1960s and '70s.

"I haven't ever made a general spectacle of it. Well, I've established since I was a child, so, come on. It'

 

 

JIM NABORS (1930–2017), top known for his TV role as Gomer Pyle, was one of my first heroes in life, even before I understood why. Gay men of my generation—most of us in our 50s—often talk about when it was we first knew about our sexual identity. For many of us, it was our response to actors we saw on TV. James Conrad in The Wild, Wild, Uncontrolled West strutting through frontier towns shirtless, his chest gleaming in the Southern California sun. Whichever Brady Bunch was closest to our age. Will, the boy astronaut on Lost In Space. The late David Cassidy, Scott Baio, Leif Garrett, the dashing blond ethics Iliya Kuryakin (played by David McCallum) on The Man From Uncle.

Nabors, who died last week, played the bumbling and ever-flummoxed—but disconcertingly handsome—filling station attendant on The Andy Griffith Show when I was a very young boy, and he became even better known in later years on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, which aired when I was a kid of ten or so.

It seems that every person remembers with eerie precision certain seemingly sundry moments in our life that don’t seem to warrant such long-lasting attention in our memories, yet they prevail. I can

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Posted: 01/30/13 11:25 am    :::	Reply
I mind he was dead? Even before Goober. Uh. Congrats on his marriage and also for not being dead. _________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should arrive forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The Novel York Times 10/10/17

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Posted: 01/30/13 2:12 pm    :::	Reply
"Sha-zam!" and "Golllyyy!", as Gomer Pyle would say. But congrats to Jim.

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This is fantastic! I love hearing about these long time couples -- 20 years, 30 years together -- who finally get to get married. And kudos to him for having himself a much yo Oh sure, Seattle’s had its share of cute weddings, but the cutest — one four decades in the making — is the 2013 union of Jim Nabors and Stan Cadwallader at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel downtown. One was a TV celebrity, the other a firefighter, and they’d managed to keep their relationship out of the public eye for 38 years. One reason they protected their privacy: A TV star of the 1960s and 1970s, Jim’s career was nearly destroyed by a homosexual wedding rumor just before he and Stan met, a rumor that also ended Jim’s relationship with closeted actor Rock Hudson. Over his 55-year career, Jim made a identify for himself as a wholesome, folksy southerner; but behind the scenes, he harbored a secret admire that would have scandalized the country if it was found out. Jim was born at the initiate of the Great Depression in a tiny Alabama town called Sylacauga. His mother worked at a truck stop, his father bounced around from occupation to job until he finally wound up entity appointed the town’s sole police officer. The family raised chickens for diet and lived in a tiny house. Jim always stood out — his severe asthma prevented him from playing with the other kids, but he was so energetic and outgoin