Gay sports trailblazer Dave Kopay creds Alex Karras wh savg his life when he was stgglg wh his sexualy.
Contents:
- ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED
- PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME DUCTEE ALEX KARRAS WAS THE ORIGAL GAY SPORTS ALLY
- CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY
- IS ALEC BENJAM GAY? IS HE CURRENTLY DATG ANYONE?
- CAREER-ENDG JURY FORCED GAY SWIMMER TO BEG G OUT PROCS
- A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED
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Sir Alec Guns had a homosexual si which remaed publicly unknown his lifetime bee of the flair for evasn and secrecy which was also his tramark as an is to be disclosed three new theatril bgraphi. They will reveal that Guns, who died last Augt aged 86, was arrted, charged and fed urt Liverpool 1946 for a homosexual act a public the se went unreported bee - unlike the late Sir John Gielgud a siar episo seven years later - he had the quickns of w to give a false name which aroed no spicns.
He was quickly mbled and the se ma newspaper headl which shadowed him for their ceptns, both ement actors are thought to have been actg on private advice om sympathetic policemen who were impatient for homosexual law reform.
It is also to be disclosed by the novelist Piers Pl Read, Guns's thorised bgrapher, and another Guns bgraphy by Garry O' night Mr Morley - son of the actor Robert Morley, a Gielgud ntemporary - said Guns's gay si had "always been known" to his father and fay iends the theatre such as Dame Gladys Cooper. Lately, mors about the Amerin sger-songwrer Alec Benjam beg gay have been gog on around.
PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME DUCTEE ALEX KARRAS WAS THE ORIGAL GAY SPORTS ALLY
After years of hidg, CrossF athlete Alec Smh says he’s gay and has never been happier. * gay alec *
Dpe beg a very well-known face, Benjam has kept his personal life que private, which has led people to make assumptns about the about the sger beg gay have been circulatg for que a while now. Dave Kopay, who played wh Karras for the Detro Lns 1968, creds Karras wh savg his life by beg a close iend and nfidant at a time when Kopay was stgglg wh beg gay.
Though Kopay never told Karras directly he was gay, the star leman — elected to the Hall of Fame posthumoly — sensed somethg was different and took Kopay unr his wg. Karras went on to have a huge movie and TV reer after retirg, bt known for his role as “Mongo” “Blazg Saddl, ” for playg a closeted gay bodyguard “Victor Victoria” and for TV’s “Webster.
”Watchg Alex play a homosexual ‘Victor Victoria, ’ I uldn’t stop lghg. “He didn’t know a f------ thg about homosexualy, but he knew a lot about empathy. Alec Smh n squat 440 pounds and adlift 505, but no lift was as hard as rerdg the four-mute vio he released today where he me out as gay.
CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY
“Took a DNA tt, turns out I’m gay. “I’m gay and I’m at the pot my life now where I’m OK wh that. So, is Alec Benjam gay?
Even though the sger-songwrer never clarifi his sexual preference nor talks about his prev relatnships, if he had any, a huge part of his fanbase believ that he’s not gay. “You’re not gay, you n’t be. As the years went by beme more and more apparent to me that I was gay.
However, durg those same years me a wave of “beg gay is wrong” moments. ” Then there were the weekly remrs that I was eternally doomed to burn Hell if I “chose” to be gay, echoed by shouts of “Amen” every week church.
IS ALEC BENJAM GAY? IS HE CURRENTLY DATG ANYONE?
In my head I jt assumed I had “I’m Gay” tattooed on my forehead and only straight people uld see .
We had left the Baptist church I grew up , but our new church was not anymore open or acceptg, at least when me to homosexualy.
CAREER-ENDG JURY FORCED GAY SWIMMER TO BEG G OUT PROCS
While havg girliends obvly was not ial for a very nfed gay du, fely helped keep those who thought I was gay at bay. Fear of what was next now that swimmg was officially over, fear of what to do post-graduatn and of urse, fear of the one thg I knew for sure: that I was gay.
I always thought about what would be like to be gay. I was not sure how would be bee I was certa that I would be the only openly gay member of the faculty and staff. As the weeks and months went by, more and more people “found out” that I was gay.
Not jt as gay, but as yourself. But he had read a story onle about a brave young man, Alec Donovan — “Gay New Jersey high school wrtlg state champ out on llege recg trip” — who told the world that he knew how felt to suffote every day, every mute, and yearn to end that pa. He straddled for years, even after hearg the stori of athlet and many others who were celebrated for g out — those who sist that utterg “I’m gay” erased the pa rather than sharpeng .
A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
“That looks gay.