It's crazy but one day, years ago (probably sometime in the nineties), I saw a rerun of The Love Boat in which James Mitchell was a guest star. I can't remember who his character was or what he did, but I just remember thinking "OMG, Palmer Cortlandt is gay!". I never though anything else about it until it was revealed after James Mitchell's passing. It is my understanding that he was openly gay the whole time, but it just was never a topic up for discussion, at least in the media.
