Was pee wee gay

This article originally appeared on HuffPost. I was secretive about my sexuality even to my friends [out of] self-hatred or self-preservation. I was conflicted about sexuality. Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images. Pee-wee as Himself , a two-part documentary, will be released on HBO sometime later this year.

I was a huge weed head. Pee-wee Herman was like Liberace, a flamboyant character so toothlessly gay — that is, so deeply queer-coded but "harmless" — that he passed as family entertainment. Pee-wee's Big Adventure Paul Reubens opened up about his sexuality in his new posthumous documentary.

Paul Reubens posthumously comes out as gay in a new documentary. While sitting down with director Matt Wolf for the film, Reubens discussed why he decided to hide his sexuality after becoming famous with his whimsically childlike character, Pee-wee Herman. The star, who was also fighting two forms of cancer and kept his diagnosis private during the last years of his life, told Wolf how working on Pee-wee as Himself gave him a chance to shape his own legacy after years of scandal, speculation, and gossip.

The new documentary, Pee-wee as Himself, sees the comic open up about being in a romantic relationship with a man named Guy, according to the New York Post. In a new documentary about his life, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Reubens has opened up for the first time about being gay.

With over 40 hours of interviews, Pee-wee as Himself. The beloved actor came out as a gay man in the posthumous documentary , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. Reuben's Pee-wee persona first took off after debuting the character with the Groundlings comedy troupe in After being unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight, the star chose to put his professional ambitions ahead of his personal life.

But fame was way more complicated. "Pee-wee Herman" star Paul Reubens, who died in , has posthumously revealed he was gay in a new documentary unveiled at Sundance Film Festival. To be able to get your message in at the last minute, at some point, is incredible.

The late Paul Reubens made sure he got the final word when it came to his much-debated but never openly acknowledged sexuality. Does that change how we look at his iconic character, Pee-wee Herman?. Though Reubens passed in after a private, years-long battle with cancer, the revelations within the new documentaries seemed to confirm what we’ve long wondered: Is Pee-wee Herman a queer.

Despite refusing to come out as gay during his lifetime, Reubens decided to make his sexuality public in the posthumous documentary, which is crafted from 40 hours of interviews done prior to his death at the age of 70 in due to acute hypoxic respiratory failure.