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Sexuality

According to biographer Michael Long in a 2016 HuffPost essay, Rogers' sexuality had long been a topic of curiosity due to his lack of traditional machismo. The 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? briefly addresses the subject, including an interview with François Clemmons, the gay actor who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, who denied that Rogers was gay, saying that if he had a "gay vibe" he would have noticed it.

In 2019, social media users shared an excerpt from the 2018 biography The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, which recounts Rogers telling openly gay friend Dr. William Hirsch that he "must be right smack in the middle" of a one-to-ten sexuality scale, because "I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive." This led some social media users to suggest that Rogers may have been bisexual, although Long noted in his essay that there is no evidence that Rogers ever had sexual relations with men.