What did you think about that story of Richard Gere and the gerbil?

When I first heard it, I hoped he wasn't gay (Gere - not the gerbil). It seemed like the kind of thing we'd get blamed for.

If you've seen the movie Looking for Mr Goodbar, you might wish he were gay.

It was definitely after we heard about Rod Stewart having to go to the emergency room to get his stomach pumped, which was way after we heard about Jim Nabors and Rock Hudson getting married.

A rich bully in my junior high class looked like a junior high Rod Stewart. I had the whole class sign a paper saying that the rich bully actually had Rod Stewart's cum inside him. I left it on his desk, and he came in late. He cried, and we all watched.

I do think the Gerbil was gay. Why else would he go along with that?

It's complete nonsense. It doesn't even make sense. If it were a "thing' wouldn't there be GERBIL PORN all over the place? It's a joke for idiots. There are plenty of actual perversions that would make for more believable accusations.

What's more disturbing R3 is that you are at least 50 years old, probably older ("junior high" not "middle school") and yet you repeat this story with no remorse, in fact it sounds like you are proud of yourself.

I'm not sure what is more fucked up: that you still gloat over it or that you don't know enough to be embarrassed by the fact that you still gloat over it.

[quote] When I first heard it, I hoped he wasn't gay (Gere - not the gerbil).

OP, are you assuming the gerbil was male?

Every so often a sex therapist/expert will be asked to comment on the Rod Stewart story and have to explain that men don't really produce that much ejaculate and that even 100 guys would not be all that much to swallow.

Mae West and Jamie Lee Curtis were born male.

I hope Gere didn't rim that gerbil because that really would be sick.

I thought (knew) it was a complete fraud because the same rumor had started about a TV newscaster in my area long before Gere.

R8, I don’t fucking care. To this day, I loathe that bully. He was merciless to other kids - poor kids like me. So I’m still glad he cried in front of the whole class.

[quote] [R8], I don’t fucking care. To this day, I loathe that bully. He was merciless to other kids - poor kids like me. So I’m still glad he cried in front of the whole class.

And in one simple sentence you have neatly summed up what's wrong with so many gay men and why so many end up alone.

Kudos.

The South Park episode about this is hilarious.

I remember both the Richard Gere girbil story AND the Rod Stewart story from my childhood. Oh, dear...

R3, not R39, ios keypad sucks

The story has been documented as having been started by Sylvester Stallone, who was jealous of Gere's career track. Stallone always has been a vicious and nasty shit, somehow managing to keep his image despite being human detritus.

In grad school I once asked a friend who brought this story up how the hell Richard Gere could possibly get a live gerbil up his butt. She said he lured it in there "with a piece of cheese."

Wait... people over the age of 12 actually believe this is true and not a joke?

Either way Richard Gere is a FAG

What's interesting is that most of us probably heard these rumors about Gere and Stewart when we were kids. How did gossip like this even spread pre-internet? Was it on the cover of the National Enquirer?

r27 Well, we do know a fax started it. And you'd be surprised how nonsense like this spread by telephone back before the internet. People said the most meaningless crap so as not to let the dreaded embarrassing silence kill the phone conversation.

[quote]Another potential origin of this legend — or perhaps something that helped to popularize it — was a supposed fax sent shortly after Gere starred in Pretty Woman, his biggest movie to date in 1990. Supposedly, an anonymous hoaxer forged a complaint from the ASPCA, scolding Gere for his mistreatment of a gerbil, and the joke was faxed all around Hollywood, as joke faxes were kind of a thing back then.

The original story about an anonymous gay man and a mouse dates back to 1984. The mouse then evolved into a gerbil and was briefly attached to other, lesser celebs before Gere.

R23 - was it really Stallone?

For some reason I always thought it was Mel Gibson who started that rumor.

R8/R16 was the bully. Still is, apparently given his replies.

No wonder he’s pissed being outed. Nobody likes a bully, then or now.

Gibson is more believable in that I can't imagine Stallone and Gere ever competed for the same roles

r10 In theory, that is correct. However, I once saw a video on some fucked up website where this chick got gangbanged by thirty or forty dudes and swallowed all of their loads, to the last drop. At the end, she acted like she had just conquered the world. Well, cut to the backstage where she's vomiting up all that semen into a bucket, and it just kept coming up in gross disgusting spurts, with seemingly no end in sight.

So, you won't need your stomach pumped, but your stomach probably will resist all that raw protein of varying consistency and colour and taste.

Stallone denies it was him.

[quote]“Richard was given his walking papers [on The Lords of Flatbush] and to this day seriously dislikes me,” Sly told Ain’t It Cool News back in 2006. “He even thinks I’m the individual responsible for the gerbil rumor. Not true… but that’s the rumor.”

That’s beautiful, R33, thank you for that.

R8, you did catch the part about the Rod Stewart lookalike being a bully.

You're right. Bullies should be treated with kid gloves. It's the woke way.

Bullies should be killed, like the trolls of DL.

[quote]R8, I don’t fucking care. To this day, I loathe that bully. He was merciless to other kids - poor kids like me. So I’m still glad he cried in front of the whole class.

You did the right thing, R3.

R8 is pro bully.

i think it's a silly ass rumor!

The Richard Gere story is on the same level as the Donna Summer story.

Both are false.

Showing my age, but I heard the gerbil rumor several years before Pretty Woman.

Thank you for clarifying R40

I've spent all these years worried sick about those poor gerbils!

I recognized it was an urban legend 40 years ago, OP.

I didn't believe that particular rumor, but I did believe he might be gay or bisexual, and into kink, like being fisted, or having big dildoes shoved up his ass while being hogtied.

Several years before the Richard Gere gerbil rumors, I heard about "gerbiling" from a young friend who was a hot frat boy turned NYC club kid. Thus, I actually believed "gerbiling" was a thing because my friend was so hip and cool and I was a dumb square from the suburbs.

^ RIP to that gorgeous, funny kid.

To R3, I agree with you, Good!!

At least you didn't kick the Linebacker down the cement steps in HS, breaking his arm(out for the season) I was 12 yrs old. BTW, I love the 70's(no cameras). I was in Foster care at the time in Central Penna.

Jerry Penacoli was the Philly Anchorman that the "Gerbil story" destroyed his career in Philly. He worked for Channel 3 at the time. That story was all over the tri-state area.

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