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Richard Chamberlain: Gay! (Entertainment)

Out in the Open (People magazine).

Well you can hit me with a door frame. This just proves what I wrote before about the irresistible allure of the slightly gay heterosexual man: "The secret is that combination of masculine and feminine traits," says my colleague Russell Smith. "A touch of gay flair, or at least what an extremely conservative, repressed society perceives as effeminacy or gay flair, is a very effective technique. An interest in clothes, in how things look, in aesthetics and services, a certain narcissism and vanity and, oh, classical music -- it scores chicks."

"Dr. Kildare" Comes Out (E! Online):
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The actor, whose matinee idol looks set female hearts aflutter as the handsome nurse-magnet medic in the 1960s TV series Dr. Kildare and as the sexy priest in love with a woman in the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds, has finally revealed his sexual orientation.

No longer the sex symbol he used to be, Chamberlain says he was tired of nursing his secret, sick of the habit of pretending.

"I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore," Chamberlain reveals in an interview airing Sunday on Dateline NBC....

[H]is impact on the big screen never matched his small-screen appeal. His other TV successes included the role of the heroic English adventurer shipwrecked in feudal Japan in the historical drama Shogun and the heroic title role in Wallenberg: A Hero's Story.