Essence Magazine Asks What Some Folks Are Thinking!
Tyler Perry, riding the wave of his Madea films and successful -- yet uninspiring House Of Payne -- is still by his damn self.
Rumors, however, persist about his romantic life—everything from relationships with various African-American starlets, including Tyra Banks, Tracee Ellis Ross and Oprah's BFF, Gayle King, to the suggestion that he's gay.
Perry, who will neither confirm nor deny the Banks relationship, says that his "friend" King is a hang-out buddy, and that he did go out on a date with Ross, "but if you go on one date, it's not dating."
Beyond that, the notoriously private Perry refuses to say more. But he doesn't hesitate to address the gay rumors, acknowledging, first, that climbing into a dress and wig and packing his face full of Maybelline could very well lead people to question for which side he's hitting.
"It used to bother me a whole lot in the beginning, it really, really did," says Perry. "But what it's done is give me firm seating in my manhood. And if some people can't separate the character from the man that I am, then that's their issue, not mine."
Not that there's anything wrong with it, but this sounds like the brother is denying being gay, family. What say you?