I don't think there's any reason to believe he's gay. When asked about it he said it's something a lot of celebrities have to put up with, but he gets it more than the others because he never challenged the rumors and just let them continue.
Ving Rhames - Ving Rhames portrayed a drag queen in the television movie Holiday Heart () and a gay man in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (). (Photo: Lee Celano/WireImage).
Throughout his career, Ving Rhames’ sexuality has been questioned as he is no stranger to playing gay roles. In the film Holiday Heart () Rhames played the role of a gay black man who acts as a drag queen.
Rhames played a gay – and possibly also homicidal – firefighter who comes out of the closet in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He narrates the BET television series American Gangster.