Exclive: the timate relatnship between JFK and his gay iend - NZ Herald

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• MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
• INSI JFK’S INTIMATE RELATNSHIP WH GAY BT FRIEND WHO HAD HIS OWN ROOM IN THE WHE HOE
• JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
• EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND
• JFK GRANDSON JACK SCHLOSSBERG DID NOT COME OUT AS GAY
• GAYS
• JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY BT FRIEND, BOOK CLAIMS"JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM." {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY ADAM SALANDRAOCTOBER 14, 2015/7:44 PMBY ADAM SALANDRAOCTOBER 14, 2015 / 7:44 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY BT FRIEND, BOOK CLAIMS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-14T23:44:45.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-14T23:44:45.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A NEW BOOK IS CLAIMG THAT JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD MORE THAN JT A PLATONIC IENDSHIP WH HIS LIFE-LONG GAY BT IEND, KIRK LEMOYNE "LEM" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TWO HAD BEEN IENDS SCE MEETG AS TEENAGERS PREP SCHOOL, AND BILLGS EVEN HAD HIS OWN ROOM THE WHE HOE, BUT WERE THEY MERELY IENDS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS NEW BOOK, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: RFK JR. AND THE DARK SI OF THE DREAM, THOR JERRY OPPENHEIMER IS ALLEGG THAT THE PAIR ENGAGED ORAL SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THOR WR THAT LAWRENCE J. QUIRK, WHO WORKED WH BILLGS ON KENNEDY’S FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN 1946, NFID HIM THAT THE TWO MEN HAD "A IENDSHIP THAT CLUD ORAL SEX, WH JACK ALWAYS ON THE RECEIVG END."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUIRK ALSO SAID, "JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM AND NSIRED HIM THE IAL FOLLOWER-ADORER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BILLGS HAD NEVER ACTUALLY E OUT PUBLICLY, BUT ONCE SAID, "JACK MA A BIG DIFFERENCE MY LIFE. BEE OF HIM, I WAS NEVER LONELY. HE MAY HAVE BEEN THE REASON I NEVER GOT MARRIED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}H/T: GAY STAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY’S BFF FOR OVER 30 YEARS WAS A GAY MAN

MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND

Although there have been several mors throughout the s of JFK beg romantilly volved wh Marilyn Monroe, the former print has also faced mors of a relatnship wh his gay bt iend Lem Billgs.

Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billgs met 1933 as sophomor at Choate Rosemary Hall, a Connecticut prep school where they worked on their class yearbook together.

INSI JFK’S INTIMATE RELATNSHIP WH GAY BT FRIEND WHO HAD HIS OWN ROOM IN THE WHE HOE

Wrer Gore Vidal once lled Billgs the “chief f****t at Camelot” and said Kennedy “felt que fortable the pany of homosexuals as long as they were smart enough to hold his tert. ” RELATED: Details About Kristen Stewart’s Fiancée Dylan Meyers & Their Adorably Casual ProposalThen, when Robert Kennedy was assassated 1968, his wife Ethel Skakel had Billgs act as the surrogate father to her son Bobby, the Skakel’s had prevly been homophobic to Wikimedia CommonsDurg their weddg Greenwich, Connecticut, Ethel’s brother knocked Billgs down the aisle at the church.

David Pts, thor of 'Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship' said “Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there have been mors bee of that.

JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER

As his gay Svengali who guid and lerally tried to ntrol every aspect of Bobby Jr. Kennedy may have had an timate relatnship wh a gay iend om his prep school days, claims btsellg thor Jerry Oppenheimer, who has wrten two books about the Kennedys. Kennedy and Billgs met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclive Connecticut prep school.

David Pts, the thor of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, told him: “Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that.

EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND

Kennedy up close and personal wh a woman other than Jackie shows him and his attorney general brother, Robert, g on to curvaceo Marilyn Monroe at a party, reports Daily the photo of Kennedy zyg up to Monroe is the bt known of him wh one of his purported lovers, other far ls public snapshots show the flip si of Kennedy's timate the snapshots is one that shows a handsome pre-printial Kennedy sunng himself, sprawled on a chaise at Patriarch Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach seated close to Kennedy is his shirtls, tanned and oiled bt iend forever, his very gay chum, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" JFK is legendarily known as a master womanizer who equently cheated on his first lady, his cur three-s long timate iendship wh Billgs suggts more than a simple met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, the exclive Connecticut prep school, when both were teenagers, workg together on their class's yearbook, and Billgs stantly beme attracted sexually and otherwise to the handsome scn of Ameri's self-styled royal very timate relatnship would last om those school days to Billgs even havg a room the Kennedy Whe Hoe - distrsg for the first lady - to the day of Kennedy's of the most credible acunts of the Kennedy-Billgs relatnship was told by David Pts, who I terviewed extensively for my book, Robert F. "Billgs, who was a year olr than Jack Kennedy, ma his sire known while the two were still at Choate a bizarre love note, penned on a piece of toilet paper that uld be disposed of easily to avoid crimatn at a time when homosexualy was Billgs' missive is long gone, a startled Kennedy rpond, "Please don't wre to me on toilet paper anymore.

JFK GRANDSON JACK SCHLOSSBERG DID NOT COME OUT AS GAY

"But Kennedy's reactn to Billgs gay e-on soon changed and he beme more amenable to his iend's advanc, acrdg to the wrer Lawrence J.

Photo / Getty ImagQuirk immediately pegged Billgs as gay, notg his "high, screechy lgh, " and "high nasal whe of a voice.

Photo / Getty ImagWhen their brother Bobby married Ethel Skakel a royal-like weddg Greenwich, Connecticut, the stnchly nservative republin and seemgly homophobic Skakels let their feelgs about Billgs' gayns be 's alholic, philanrg brother, Gee Skakel Jr., actually booted Billgs the a** at the church, knockg him to the Gee Terrian, the alholic hband of Ethel Kennedy's alholic, pill-poppg sister, Geeann, told me terviews for my book "The Other Mrs. Knowg the kd of timate relatnship that he had wh the print, advisers were ncerned about polil repercsns, and even Cold War was still ragg, and there was fear Rsian agents might e the iendship agast Vidal, the wrer who claimed he viewed homosexualy as normal as heterosexualy, disparaged the JFK-Billgs relatnship durg the Kennedy once lled Billgs the "chief f****t at Camelot. " As for Kennedy himself, Vidal asserted that the print "felt que fortable the pany of homosexuals as long as they were smart enough to hold his tert.

GAYS

"After the assassatn of RFK 1968, the flamboyant Billgs transferred his obssive affectn for Jack, to handsome teenager Bobby Pts, the thor of "Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, " told me, "Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that.

And seated close to Kennedy is his shirtls, tanned and oiled bt iend forever, his very gay chum, Kirk LeMoyne 'Lem' JFK is legendarily known as a master womanizer who equently cheated on his first lady, his cur three-s long timate iendship wh Billgs suggts more than a simple met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, the exclive Connecticut prep school, when both were teenagers, workg together on their class's yearbook, and Billgs stantly beme attracted sexually and otherwise to the handsome scn of Ameri's self-styled royal very timate relatnship would last om those school days to Billgs even havg a room the Kennedy Whe Hoe – distrsg for the first lady – to the day of Kennedy's assassatn. 'Billgs, who was a year olr than Jack Kennedy, ma his sire known while the two were still at Choate a bizarre love note, penned on a piece of toilet paper that uld be disposed of easily to avoid crimatn at a time when homosexualy was illic. 'But Kennedy's reactn to Billgs gay e-on soon changed and he beme more amenable to his iend's advanc, acrdg to the wrer Lawrence J.

The Kennedys tolerated his homosexualy, which was nsired taboo at the time Lawrence J. Kennedy was allegedly on the receivg end of oral sexQuirk immediately pegged Billgs as gay, notg his 'high, screechy lgh, ' and 'high nasal whe of a voice.

JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY BT FRIEND, BOOK CLAIMS"JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM." {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY ADAM SALANDRAOCTOBER 14, 2015/7:44 PMBY ADAM SALANDRAOCTOBER 14, 2015 / 7:44 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH HIS GAY BT FRIEND, BOOK CLAIMS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-14T23:44:45.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-14T23:44:45.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A NEW BOOK IS CLAIMG THAT JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD MORE THAN JT A PLATONIC IENDSHIP WH HIS LIFE-LONG GAY BT IEND, KIRK LEMOYNE "LEM" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TWO HAD BEEN IENDS SCE MEETG AS TEENAGERS PREP SCHOOL, AND BILLGS EVEN HAD HIS OWN ROOM THE WHE HOE, BUT WERE THEY MERELY IENDS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS NEW BOOK, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: RFK JR. AND THE DARK SI OF THE DREAM, THOR JERRY OPPENHEIMER IS ALLEGG THAT THE PAIR ENGAGED ORAL SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THOR WR THAT LAWRENCE J. QUIRK, WHO WORKED WH BILLGS ON KENNEDY’S FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN 1946, NFID HIM THAT THE TWO MEN HAD "A IENDSHIP THAT CLUD ORAL SEX, WH JACK ALWAYS ON THE RECEIVG END."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUIRK ALSO SAID, "JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM AND NSIRED HIM THE IAL FOLLOWER-ADORER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BILLGS HAD NEVER ACTUALLY E OUT PUBLICLY, BUT ONCE SAID, "JACK MA A BIG DIFFERENCE MY LIFE. BEE OF HIM, I WAS NEVER LONELY. HE MAY HAVE BEEN THE REASON I NEVER GOT MARRIED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}H/T: GAY STAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

The print was famoly believed to have affairs durg their marriageWhen their brother Bobby married Ethel Skakel a royal-like weddg Greenwich, Connecticut, the stnchly nservative republin and seemgly homophobic Skakels let their feelgs about Billgs' gayns be known. The Cold War was still ragg, and there was fear Rsian agents might e the iendship agast Vidal, the wrer who claimed he viewed homosexualy as normal as heterosexualy, disparaged the JFK-Billgs relatnship durg the Kennedy admistratn.

PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY’S BFF FOR OVER 30 YEARS WAS A GAY MAN

' As for Kennedy himself, Vidal asserted that the print 'felt que fortable the pany of homosexuals as long as they were smart enough to hold his tert. 'After the assassatn of RFK 1968, the flamboyant Billgs transferred his obssive affectn for Jack, to handsome teenager Bobby Pts, the thor of 'Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, ' told me, 'Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that.

That he is believed to have been gay at a time when homosexualy was still illegal — even beg somewhat open about his sexualy, cludg wh the powerful Kennedy clan — sheds light on the strength of his ti to the fay. When Jack disvered that Billgs was gay — once clg an amoro overture om Billgs — the iendship is thought to have gone on unharmed. "I jt beme fascated wh Lem bee he was a closeted but as they ed to say 'practicg homosexual, ' and he was very much part of the ner Kennedy circle om very early his life, " Bayard said.