Homosexuality on DH
A list of all the homosexuals and gay references on DH:
Certainly Gay
The Solis's cable guy
Andrew Van De Kamp
Alex, Andrew's husband
Justin, Andrew's friend
Bree's roofer
Lee
Bob
Bree's second AA sponsor (who said she wasn't a lesbian, which she had to say for legal purposes, even though she was)
Vern, Gaby's best friend and personal shopper
Umberto, Edie's former husband
Edie's realtor colleague (the one who caught Edie and Carlos in bed)
Jessie, Susan's lesbian teaching partner at the school
Glen, Lynette's stepfather
Nigel, Ian Hainsworth's brother
Gary, Susan's intended partner in a sham marriage to get medical insurance coverage
Steven, Gary's boyfriend
The server Gaby was fake-flirting with at Bree and Orson's wedding
The Scavo's beer delivery guy, whom Andrew was "doing"
The guy at Carlos's company who commented on Lynette's bosom
The woman in accounting at Carlos's company who wanted to go bowling with Lynette when she was dressed as a man
Robin
Tad, the employee Andrew had an affair with
Fernando, the guy in the car that Lee, Bob, and Gaby partied with.
Luke, Gaby's model agent friend. Gaby served as Luke's beard at family functions.
Felix Bergman, Andre's art dealer
The male nurse Gaby was fake-flirting with to get into the recovery center to see Carlos
Mistaken For Gay
Bree and Lee thought Chuck was gay
Felix Bergman thought Bree and Gaby were a lesbian couple
May Be Gay
Edie was showing the Young house to a couple of prospective buyers; they appeared to be a same-sex male couple (this was when Xiao-Mei was revealed to be hiding in the closet, forgive the pun).
Gaby called her former modeling agent a "career-obsessed lesbian"
Probably Bisexual
The black guy at Carlos's prison group who said "I bet he's hot" when Carlos and Gaby were arguing about the lawyer
Peter, Bree's AA sponsor
Howard Keck, a man Andrew had serviced when he was living on the streets (he's either a closet case or bisexual)
Katherine
Gay/Transgendered References
When Susan was trying to get the mailman out of her bedroom, she blurted out the random sentence, "On Tuesdays, I become a lesbian".
Ian Hainsworth's father enjoys cross-dressing
Susan and Gaby joking that they'd marry each other
Gaby kissed Susan in two different ways to ask her what type of kiss Jessie, Susan's lesbian teaching partner, gave her
Bree invited home two wheelchair-bound men to talk Orson out of his depression. When one of them says, "we play basketball, dance, we make love", Orson cuts in with the sarcastic remark "I hope you're very happy together".
About the Actors
Richard Chamberlain (Glen, Lynette's gay step-father) is actually gay
Alec Mapa (Vern, Gaby's gay friend) is actually gay
Lily Tomlin (Roberta Simmons) is in fact a lesbian
Tuc Watkins (Bob Hunter) is rumored to be gay
John Barrowman (Patrick Logan) is gay
Gale Harold, the actor who plays Jackson, is most famous for portraying the most well-known and awesome homosexual TV character, Brian Kinney from "Queer as Folk"
Doug Savant (Tom Scavo) played the groundbreaking character Matt Fielding on Melrose Place
Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) played a transsexual on "Transamerica"
Eva Longoria Parker played a lesbian in some movie before she was on DH
Marcia Cross (Bree) and Felicity Huffman (Lynette) kissed onstage at some Gay and Lesbian award event
Ricardo Antonio Chavira (Carlos) played a gay man, Ramon, in "Six Feet Under"
Roger Bart (George Williams) played gay characters twice: "The Stepford Wives" and "The Producers"
About the Staff
Marc Cherry (creator) is gay
John Pardee (executive producer) is gay