Gay: Johnnie Ray

Contents:

• DOROTHY KILGALLEN : IF JOHNNIE RAY WAS GAY…..
• IS JOHNNY RAY GAY?

DOROTHY KILGALLEN : IF JOHNNIE RAY WAS GAY…..

This man was gay and his name was Johnnie Ray. He probably did, as would probably many of the gay people of that age. micians and attractg gay people.

As a gay man he was subjected to many gradg expos, such as n be found early 50's issu of the vile and fascatg Confintial magaze which ran feature stori like "Is It Te What They Say About Johnnie Ray? << Hi, thank you for your statement but I would like to know the answer to my origal qutn-If Johnnie Ray was gay why/how would Dorothy Kilgallen have an affair wh him? You didn't ask someone, "Are you gay?

" The word "gay" was an sir word prr to 1969. Also, the word "groupie" was a lot like the word "gay" durg the 1950s.

IS JOHNNY RAY GAY?

There were very few gay bathho prr to 1969.

In 1954, Johnnie Ray -starred alongsi Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Dan Dailey, Mzi Gaynor and Ethel Merman the 20th Century Fox movie mil There's No Bs Like Show Bs. A bgrapher speculated s later that mic bs bigwigs, which clud Morrison's father, had arranged the marriage to divert the public's attentn om Ray's alleged homosexualy. Johnnie Ray's bsh wh the law durg two viss to Detro (1951 and 1959) rulted om a stg operatn that police officers throughout the Uned Stat routely did to apprehend promiscuo gay men.

As younger and younger artists me to domate the charts, the thirty-somethg Johnnie Ray was soon left by the Ray married Marilyn Morrison 1952, his wife was well aware of the sger's homosexualy. When he was arrted 1959, there was much gossip about his homosexual leangs. 20th Century Fox palized on his stardom by cludg him the ensemble st of the movie There’s No Bs Like Show Bs (1954) alongsi Ethel Merman as his mother, Dan Dailey as his father, Donald O’Connor as his brother, Mzi Gaynor as his sister, and Marilyn Monroe as his sister--law.