Mikhail Baryshnikov

ballet is not "masculine" is it? it's like women playing basketball ... they don't seem "feminine" ... not the same as being lesbian though, I think.

I've seen his movies but, strangely, not his dancing. He doesn't seem queer at all.

A goodly number of famous male dancers are/have been straight: Roland Petit, Edward Villella, Peter Martins, as well as Mischa. Yes, most male dancers are gay or bi, but not all. Hmmm, I think Aleksandr Godunov was straight, too, the poor, dead darling.

There are a sufficient number of straight dancers for us straight women to lech over.

Mikhail is not gay. He has had relationships with several women. He has children.

Not all male ballet dancers are gay. Some started dancing to meet girls, or to please their mothers.



"I could have been killed, and you're drinkin'!"

"All"? That's a pretty broad brush you've pulled out of your bag. I see that someone has pointed out the fact that many athletes take ballet as a conditioning and reflex training tool. As for Barishnekov, he's never come across as" feminine" to me, and I was in my teens when pretty much all of his films were made. Considering that in the late 80s, homophobia was the 'in' thing, it would have been the thing people brought up without even realizing that they were focused on it. I don't think I know a single person who thought Barishnikov was gay.