He lived and worked as an openly gay man before the time of gay liberation in the United States. In fact, some of his earliest works were homoerotic photographs and drawings of other naked gay men, which were rejected by fine art galleries for being – you guessed it – too gay.
He told Judas ''What you are about to do, do it quickly'', since he knew from the very beginning that Judas was going to betray him. Judas kissed him on the cheek, simply because Jesus was able to change his appearance (Being the son of God, this makes sense as to why he has such power).
Both references in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament have been interpreted as referring primarily to male homosexual individuals and sexual practices, [1] though the term homosexual was never used as it was not coined until the 19th century.
Bob's boyhood crush, Sal Mineo from Rebel Without a Cause was gay but closeted in real life. Sal Mineo was one of the few actors in the Fifties and Sixties who never attempted to hide his homosexuality. Not only was he gay, he was talented, tough and incredibly hand- some. His unabashed love for James.