'Cabaret' actor Joel Grey, 82, out as gay man: 'It took time to embrace that other part of who I always was'

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• JENNIFER GREY ON THE MOMENT HER FATHER JOEL GREY WAS OUTED AS GAY TO HER: 'IT WAS A SNIPER ATTACK'
• JENNIFER GREY REVEALS THE HORRIFIC WAY SHE FIRST LEARNED HER DAD WAS GAY
• JO WILR WAS JOEL GREY'S ONLY WIFE BEFORE HE CONFSED TO BEG GAY
• BROADWAY LEGEND JOEL GREY MEMOIR REVEALS SECRET GAY AFFAIR WH HIS TEMPLE'S NTOR, SEX PLAY AS A CHILD WH
• THEATER LEGEND JOEL GREY REVEALS HE IS GAY
• JOEL GREY COM OUT: 'CABARET' STAR SAYS 'I'M A GAY MAN' AT AGE 82
• AT 82, BROADWAY STAR JOEL GREY OUT AS GAY
• 'CABARET' ACTOR JOEL GREY, 82, OUT AS GAY MAN: 'IT TOOK TIME TO EMBRACE THAT OTHER PART OF WHO I ALWAYS WAS'
• BROADWAY STAR JOEL GREY COM OUT: “IF YOU HAVE TO PUT A LABEL ON IT, I’M A GAY MAN”
• OPN AN ACTOR’S LONG, TROUBLED JOURNEY TO E OUT AS GAY
• BROADWAY STAR JOEL GREY OUT AS GAY AT 82
• JOEL GREY IS NOW THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNG ACTOR
• ‘CABARET’ LEGEND JOEL GREY COM OUT AS GAY

JENNIFER GREY ON THE MOMENT HER FATHER JOEL GREY WAS OUTED AS GAY TO HER: 'IT WAS A SNIPER ATTACK'

“I don’t like labels, ” says Grey, “but if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man. “I feel very happy for my dad that he has e to a pot his life where he feels safe and fortable enough to clare himself a public way as a gay man, ” Jennifer tells PEOPLE.

JENNIFER GREY REVEALS THE HORRIFIC WAY SHE FIRST LEARNED HER DAD WAS GAY

(Joel me out as gay to PEOPLE 2015, at the age of 82. And, bis, I thk that sexualy is so much more tertg than gay or straight, bi. " In 2014, at the age of 82, Joel revealed that he was, ed, a gay origated the role of Master of Ceremoni on "Cabaret, " the h Broadway show that starred Lotte Lenya and bagged multiple Tony Awards.

JO WILR WAS JOEL GREY'S ONLY WIFE BEFORE HE CONFSED TO BEG GAY

After twenty years of marriage, a perd he later told PEOPLE was "the happit of his life, " he me out to Wilr as homosexual and was cheatg on long after the revelatn, Wilr filed for divorce which was falized 1982. Playbill asked the actor if his wife had spected he was gay, to which he replied:"None.

BROADWAY LEGEND JOEL GREY MEMOIR REVEALS SECRET GAY AFFAIR WH HIS TEMPLE'S NTOR, SEX PLAY AS A CHILD WH

| Source: Getty ImagJo Wilr's Hband Only Came out as Gay 2014Although his ex-wife and his clost iends knew he was homosexual, would take Joel another three s to e out to the world. The play "The Normal Heart" allowed Joel to speak "I'm gay" for the first time, and he found the experience liberatg. In 2014, at the age of 82, the actor revealed that he was, ed, a gay man.

16 — the 83-year-old actor chronicl what was like to hi his homosexualy durg the '40s, '50s and '60s when beg gay uld get you one of many revealg anecdot, Grey scrib how at the tenr age of jt 10 years old he had his first sexual enunter wh his siarly aged Burton and soon after enjoyed a relatnship wh Jerry, the 16-year-old elevator operator who worked his apartment, as teen Los Angel, Grey had sex wh his girliend's mother and embarked on an affair wh a ntor named Pl at his parent's temple.

THEATER LEGEND JOEL GREY REVEALS HE IS GAY

'CABARET' ACTOR JOEL GREY, 82, COMES OUT AS GAY MANJoel Grey attends the New York Stage and Film 2014 Wter Gala at The Plaza Hotel New York Cy.

In 2015, Grey discsed his sexualy an exclive terview wh PEOPLE, sayg at the time that if he had to put a label on , he intifi as "a gay man.

JOEL GREY COM OUT: 'CABARET' STAR SAYS 'I'M A GAY MAN' AT AGE 82

“I don’t like labels, ” he told his terviewer, “but if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man. When he tells his wife, Jo Wilr, about his past gay experienc epens a void between them that ends their 24-year marriage the early 80s. Grey scrib how important was for them both to see him play a gay man on stage, Larry Kramer’s landmark Aids drama The Normal Heart, to better unrstand their of a flower, shot by Joel Grey.

AT 82, BROADWAY STAR JOEL GREY OUT AS GAY

Photograph: Joel GreyOne of Grey’s first film rol (as a smirkg law stunt Come September 1961) was oppose Rock Hudson, who was leadg his own double life as a gay man Hollywood. Broadway legend Joel Grey has publicly announced at age 82 that he is gay. "I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on , I'm a gay man, " the Osr- and Tony-wng actor told People was married to actrs Jo Wilr for 24 years and they have two children together: actrs Jennifer Grey and son Jam, a chef.

" His dghter also opened up to People, sayg, "I feel very happy for my dad that he has e to a pot his life where he feels safe and fortable enough to clare himself a public way as a gay man. Broadway legend and Osr-wng "Cabaret" star Joel Grey opens up about his sexualy a new terview wh People magaze, tellg the publitn: "I'm a gay man.

'CABARET' ACTOR JOEL GREY, 82, OUT AS GAY MAN: 'IT TOOK TIME TO EMBRACE THAT OTHER PART OF WHO I ALWAYS WAS'

Jennifer Grey tells People that she is "very happy" that her father "has e to a pot his life where he feels safe and fortable enough to clare himself a public way as a gay man. “I don’t like labels, ” Grey is quoted as sayg the issue of the magaze to be published on Friday “but if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man.

”Grey discsed his childhood Cleveland, Oh, and hearg grownups speak about gay men beg jailed for their sexualy. Jennifer Grey, bt known for her role 1987’s “Dirty Dancg” wh Patrick Swayze, told People magaze that she was pleased her father felt fortable and secure enough to publicly clare himself a gay man.

BROADWAY STAR JOEL GREY COM OUT: “IF YOU HAVE TO PUT A LABEL ON IT, I’M A GAY MAN”

Broadway legend Joel Grey no longer has to act a part he's played off-stage all this 82-year-old Tony- and Osr-wner me out as gay an terview wh People magaze.

"I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on , I'm a gay man, " Grey told the gossip Penn, of "Harold & Kumar" and "Hoe" fame, publilly me out as gay while announcg his engagement to partner Josh after 11 years together. Set Berl 1931, Cabaret was based on gay scribe Christopher Isherwood’s The Berl Stori, chroniclg the hedonism amidst the cle of the Weimar Republic and rise of the Nazi Party, published 1945.

“Of urse we got to the whole thg about the homosexualy, ” York said. “And they sent so many of those homosexuals to the mps. “Y, the pk triangl, ” York said, referrg to the marker by which the Nazis intified homosexuals.

OPN AN ACTOR’S LONG, TROUBLED JOURNEY TO E OUT AS GAY

Four years after Cabaret, Isherwood me out, as were, wh the memoir, Christopher and His Kd, which filled the gay gaps of his life Berl.

“I don’t like labels, but if you have to put a label on , I’m a gay man, ” the actor, 82, tells People magaze.

BROADWAY STAR JOEL GREY OUT AS GAY AT 82

“I feel very happy for my dad that he has e to a pot his life where he feels safe and fortable enough to clare himself a public way as a gay man, ” says Jennifer Grey. Charl Kaiser is the thor of “1968 In Ameri, ” “The Gay Metropolis, ” and most recently, “The Cost of Courage.

JOEL GREY IS NOW THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNG ACTOR

”Practilly no one realiz what was like to be gay Ameri the 1950s and 1960s — no one except those old enough to have had the experience themselv. In that era of fierce prejudice, beg openly gay barely stck anyone as a practil choice, except for an ocsnal urageo inoclast like Jam Baldw, Allen Gsberg or Christopher latt wdow on the closeted world that nearly all gay men habed is Joel Grey’s newly published tobgraphy, “Master of Ceremoni.

‘CABARET’ LEGEND JOEL GREY COM OUT AS GAY

” This lovely memoir by the actor bt known for his role as the emcee the film “Cabaret” is a remr that jt a few s ago, people every profsn believed that beg perceived as straight was an sential prerequise for succs — even actors the ’s secret gay life began 1942 at the age of 10, wh the 16-year-old elevator operator his fancy Cleveland apartment buildg. He saw his first potential role mols a gay uple who acted one of the first theater pani he belonged to.