Cary Grant's Dghter: Dad Wasn't Gay or Bi, But If He Had Been, OK

Contents:

• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• CARY GRANT’S HIDN GAY RELATNSHIP WH RANDOLPH STT
•  A HOLLYWOOD GAY LOVE AFFAIR
• CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
• 'LEAKED' PICTUR OF CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT HT AT A GAY RELATNSHIP THAT NEVER WAS
• HE CLAIMS TO HAVE PROCURED GAY LOVERS FOR CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN. NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A SURPRISGLY TOUCHG DOCUMENTARY.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

But one of the most persistent mors about Grant was that he was secretly gay, or at least bisexual.

Zerbe himself was gay, and his work had a homoerotic tge even when created for a female, heterosexual dience. Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public.

They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a .

CARY GRANT’S HIDN GAY RELATNSHIP WH RANDOLPH STT

They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up.

 A HOLLYWOOD GAY LOVE AFFAIR

Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk. He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars. Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.

CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK

Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. Today, the imag look like portras of a very happy gay marriage, and many ntemporary mentators assume that they really are ndid snapshots of the stars’ private liv. Others wrers, mentg more wily on Hollywood’s opprsively closeted tradns, prent the photographs as evince of a hidn gay history.

While there is no doubt that Hollywood has a hidn gay history, is very unlikely that the photographs figure the way that ntemporary mentators suppose. If there is a gay perspective the photos, is likely due to the photographer, Jerome Zerbe, who was young, gay, and tent on takg a different approach to photographg stars.

'LEAKED' PICTUR OF CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT HT AT A GAY RELATNSHIP THAT NEVER WAS

The list of stars he allegedly set up wh prostut reads like a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Tennsee Williams, Charl Lghton, Vcent Price, Kathare Hepburn, Gloria Swanson, Noël Coward, Rock Hudson, Cole Porter, and Bowers released his book, sentially outg Grant, Tracy, and Hepburn, among others, as gay or bisexual, crics rangg om sual rears to Barbara Walters blasted him for spreadg salac stori about long-ad subjects who uldn’t fend themselv or qutn their veracy. More, fosters a ln that moral cls don’t still exist, if not lerally ntracts, then herently an dtry that forc known gay actors to perform heterosexualy orr to further their same people who dismiss stori about Hollywood and sex as irrelevant are the on who ept outrage at the suatn that the actors had same-sex sexual relatnships and that the stori are beg told when they’re not alive to speak to them. At a time when there still is not an out gay or lbian movie star starrg as the lead blockbters, and people still bate whether an out gay or lbian actor uld be believable as a romantic lead, the fact that Spencer Tracy and Kathare Hepburn, two inic romantic leads, had same-sex relatnships is illumatg.

HE CLAIMS TO HAVE PROCURED GAY LOVERS FOR CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN. NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A SURPRISGLY TOUCHG DOCUMENTARY.

In this vio, we’ll explore Cary Grant’s origs and the tails of his secret gay relatnships. Movg eely as a uple wh the gay social circl of Old Hollywood, they formed a domtic partnership and found happs for a time. In 1933, a closeted gay journalist named Ben Maddox wrote a feature about the two men and their life together.