Today In But You Knew That Already: Merv Griff, Siegied & Roy Gay

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• GAY INTY ELIVE FOR LTLE RICHARD AND ROY OF SIEGIED & ROY
• TODAY IN BUT YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY: MERV GRIFF, SIEGIED & ROY GAY

GAY INTY ELIVE FOR LTLE RICHARD AND ROY OF SIEGIED & ROY

Many have put this down to their growg up a time ls tolerant of gay people.

"In a feature about the pair's reluctance to e out the Washgton Bla, gay Vegas historian Dennis McBri said of this: "They me of age and tablished their reers durg a time when they uld have been jailed for beg gay and lost those very lucrative reers.

Acrdg to SFGate, their film Siegied & Roy: The Magic Box was shown at the 2000 San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival. As an old Vany Fair article noted, "The uple flect the qutn of whether they are gay but do claim a iendship wh Michael Jackson" (via Slate). Meanwhile, another article om 2008 said Siegied and Roy never publicly intified themselv as gay - albe the public assumed they were a relatnship.

TODAY IN BUT YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY: MERV GRIFF, SIEGIED & ROY GAY

And as reported by SFGate, the duo's 1999 film, 'Siegied & Roy: The Magic Box', was played at the San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival 2000. A Vany Fair article om 1999 says that the "uple flect the qutn of whether they are gay but do claim a iendship wh Michael Jackson. Though they were om totally separate pop culture factns, seeg their obs si by si some outlets, such as the May 10 New York Tim, was a soberg remr of how an olr generatn of gay men — Horn, who died at 75 was on the outer cp of the Boomers; Richard was 12 years olr — alt wh (or didn’t al wh) their sexualy a pre-Stonewall era when practilly nobody was officially out but meanor, style, stage persona and more “read” gay to middle Ameri the same way sexual nuendo was implied early jazz and movi long before was discsed or picted openly.

The duo (both German immigrants) only officially me out 2007 a Natnal Enquirer article that announced “We’re gay” on the ver.