What is Mr. Humphries sexuality?
It shouldn’t really matter, but for us completists, he is technically bi. He allows men to grab his bottom (1983, “The Sweet Smell of Success”), he lets policeMEN show him how their handcuffs work (1975, “Wedding Bells”), and he definitely seems to gravitate more toward men, but he also grapples with Miss Brahms in “The Erotic Dreams of Mrs. Slocombe” (1981) and he warns Miss Belfridge that she may make him swing the other way for a while (1983, “Conduct Unbecoming”). Plus, in “Shedding the Load” (1978), when Mr. Lucas dryly comments that Mr. Humphries is still sitting on the fence, Mr. Humphries says (in agreement) that “that way you can see what’s growing in both gardens.” However, I would like to point out that at the time Mr. Humphries’ character was created, most gay men WERE stereotyped as “sitting on the fence” or being unsure of their sexuality. The stereotype that many people once had (and some still have it today) was that gay men can be cured with the right woman, and they’r
