Was 'Monroe Ficus' ever confirmed to be gay?
I was recently having a discussion about the 1981-83 sitcom _Love, Sidney_ -- in which Tony Randall's character (the Sidney of the title) is definitely gay, although his sexual orientation is very seldom discussed or used as a plot point in episodes. However, the series didn't play "is he or isn't he?" guessing games with the TV audience about Sidney's homosexuality, and it is clearly mentioned that he had once been in a long-term relationship with another man.
So since _TCfC_ came from the same era, I started wondering whether any of the characters ever made a direct statement about Monroe Ficus being gay, or if viewers just had to make this inference based on the fact that the character was a super-swishy young man from San Francisco!
(My family lived overseas in the first half of the '80s, so I never saw more than a few episodes of each show on VHS tapes that people would send us from the States. Nonetheless, I distinctly remember seeing an episode of _Love, Sidney_ in which Sidney and his straight female roommate are trying to figure out how to tactfully break the news to a clueless third character that Sidney is "you know, THAT way" -- I was maybe 10 at the time, but it was still perfectly clear to me what "you know, THAT way" meant! But I can't remember ever seeing an episode of _Too Close for Comfort_ in which the other characters in the cast actually took notice of Monroe's flamingly stereotypical gayosity.)