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Sexuality

The Personal Life section states nothing but the fact Rip Taylor is a homosexual. I don't see how this is particularly relevant, especially since there is no other information about said personal life.

Should we state on heterosexual celebrity articles that they are heterosexual? - Let's begin bringing Wikipedia into the modern-day and age. - Jesse96 (11 September 2015, 15:58)

Taylor's response: [1] Maineartists (talk) 23:45, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

People do not have to come out as heterosexual. Heterosexuality is the default setting that will be automatically assumed in the absence of any statement to the contrary, not a thing that actually has to be spelled out as "so-and-so is heterosexual" — but at any rate, heterosexual celebrities' articles do make note of their sexuality anyway, by including information about their wives and girlfriends and kids. I have no personal knowledge about whether Taylor is "openly" gay or not, so I can't speak to that — but if a person is openly gay, there's nothing "modern" about pushing him back into the closet by not acknowledging the fact. The idea that a person's outness about his sexuality is not a thing to mention or acknowledge at all is depressingly throwback, not "modern" in any way. Bearcat (talk) 14:44, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Spouse

Rip Taylor was married to a showgirl named Rusty Rowe. The exact dates are unknown, but Taylor throughout his career has been very open about this marriage. See here: [2], [3] and [4]. Maineartists (talk) 23:45, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And who's 'Catherine McKellar'? Doesn't seem to fit with him being gay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.123.16 (talk) 00:22, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Variety states that he was survived by longtime partner Robert Fortney. Why isn't this in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.8.157.176 (talk) 02:13, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Filmography

Does anyone think we should add the films and television shows he was on? Matt Campbell (talk) 00:49, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This section pretty much covers it. Adding a complete list makes WP seem like IMDb. A better task would be finding sources supporting those already mentioned. — Wylie pedia @ 06:51, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Taylor was also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson SCain614 (talk) 03:21, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not done, unsourced. As with most of the page, an exhaustive list of his appearances on television is unsourced. The Ed Sullivan appearances are. — Wylie pedia @ 06:46, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Age

The New York Times has his age at the time of his death as 88. PamDenise (talk) 21:35, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The info box listing the dates of the relationship with his partner as (????–2019) is sloppy. We don't list the end date if the relationship was still existing when the subject died and we shouldn't list the start date S ????. Can someone just remove the dates please? 208.98.222.37 (talk) 11:19, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Year of Birthday

Rip Taylor was born on January 13, 1934.