In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars
Contents:
- CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
- CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- WAS CARY GRANT GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY
CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
Cary Grant was long mored to be gay or bisexual. The possibily has been raised that gay stume signer Orry-Kelly and Grant were lovers, and the late Hollywood htler Stty Bowers claimed he had sex wh her memoir Good Stuff: A Remiscence of My Father, published 2011, Jennifer Grant said her father wasn’t gay but enjoyed the speculatn. ”After her memoir me out, she received hate mail accg her of beg homophobic, but she said that’s absolutely not the se.
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CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’
“The physil vlence between the men [was] not unmon between homosexual men of the perd, ’’ Kathere Thompson, the documentary’s wrer, told The Post. The bate over whether the former Archie Leach was gay, bi or straight has centered for s around his on-and-off habatn wh Stt a beach hoe Malibu, which was documented a famo seri of still photographs of them domtic pos.
’’ (And 1980, he actually brought a famatn su agast edian Chevy Chase, who was forced to issue a retractn of his jokg reference to Grant as a “homo. “That I’m a homosexual and that I’m a miserable tightwad.
After Royce unburned himself about his affairs wh both men and women, Grant rpond by implyg he had been basilly gay as a young man, later bisexual, still later straight. He didn’t thk homosexual acts were anythg to be ashamed of, or, for that matter, proud of. And there are men like that, but there are also men who are ocsnally gay and ocsnally straight.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
”My sense of was that he found homosexual life unrewardg. ”“My sense of was that he found homosexual life unrewardg.
He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals.
WAS CARY GRANT GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY
They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis. Jennifer Grant ni that the Old Hollywood screen star was homosexual. Now, Grant’s dghter, Jennifer, is shuttg down allegatns that her famo dad was really gay.
Jennifer shut down mors that her father was homosexual. While Grant — who died 1986 — fashned a persona for himself where he was a ladi’ man, njecture that he was a homosexual still spun throughout his life.
Jennifer also touched upon the age-old talk about her dad her 2011 memoir, “Good Stuff: A Remiscence of My Father, Cary Grant” — which ments that she ma rulted hate mail allegg that she was homophobic. “When the qutn aris, generally speaks more about the person askg … Dad somewhat enjoyed beg lled gay.