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- VCENT PRICE'S DGHTER CONFIRMS HE WAS BISEXUAL—AND A PRETTY AWOME DAD"AS I'VE LEARNED MORE ABOUT MY DAD'S SEXUALY... I'VE HAD THE CHOICE OF WHAT TO REVEAL AND WHAT NOT TO REVEAL," SAYS VICTORIA {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 DAN AVERYOCTOBER 22, 2015/8:55 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3148PX;WIDTH:3852PX;}JOHN SPRGER COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 22, 2015 / 8:55 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"VCENT PRICE'S DGHTER CONFIRMS HE WAS BISEXUAL—AND A PRETTY AWOME DAD","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-23T00:55:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-23T00:55:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","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":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"BISEXUAL","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;}FOR MANY, VCENT PRICE IS HOLLYWOOD'S FIVE MASTER OF THE MABRE—STAR OF THE ORIGAL FLY, HOE OF WAX, LRA, THE HOE ON HNTED HILL, AND THE P AND THE PENDULUM. (YOU YOUNGS MIGHT RELL HIM AS THE SISTER NARRATOR MICHAEL JACKSON'S "THRILLER" OR THE OLD VENTOR EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.){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;}PRICE WAS MARRIED THREE TIM, BUT MORS CIRCULATED THAT HE WAS SECRETLY GAY OR BISEXUAL. HIS OVER-THE-TOP VOICE AND MANNERISMS, HIS LOVE OF ART AND OKG— THOSE DAYS ADD UP TO "NOT STRAIGHT" MANY PEOPLE'S {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;}NOW HIS DGHTER, VICTORIA PRICE, IS NFIRMG THE MORS—AND CLUG THAT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE WAS A GREAT {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 AN TERVIEW WH #BOOM MAGAZE CELEBRATG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE OF HER PARENTS' OKBOOK, A TREASURY OF GREAT RECIP, PRICE RELLS HER ACTOR FATHER G OUT TO HER WHEN SHE ME OUT TO HIM AS A {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;}"HE SAID TO ME, 'YOU KNOW, I KNOW JT HOW YOU FEEL, BEE I HAVE HAD THE EP, LOVG RELATNSHIPS WH MEN MY LIFE—AND ALL MY WIV WERE JEALO,'" SHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{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;}VICTORIA ADMS SHE'S BEEN PTERED ABOUT HER FATHER'S SEXUALY HER WHOLE LIFE. ONE TIME, AT A WT HOLLYWOOD NIGHTCLUB THE LATE 80S, CEMENTED HOW DISQUIETG SHE FOUND THE {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 BLOND WOMAN WH A WRY EXPRSN ME OVER TO ME AND SAID, "YOU'RE VCENT PRICE'S DGHTER. YOUR FATHER'S GAY, ISN'T HE?"{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;}I DON'T REMEMBER MY MUMBLED REPLY—EXCEPT THAT, SADLY, WASN'T VERY WTY—"I DON'T KNOW" OR "HE WAS MARRIED THREE TIM."{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;}BUT I DO REMEMBER THAT I WAS SHOCKED. NOT BEE WAS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAD SUGGTED THAT HE MIGHT BE GAY OR AT THE VERY LEAST {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;}BUT BEE, UNTIL THAT MOMENT, I HADN'T REALLY UNRSTOOD THE GREE TO WHICH MY 78-YEAR-OLD FATHER'S SEXUALY, WHATEVER MIGHT BE, HAD BEE PUBLIC PROPERTY TO BE DISCSED, ANALYZED, BANDIED ABOUT, AS ONE MIGHT SHARE A RECIPE OR CHAT ABOUT THE {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;}VCENT PRCE MARRIED EDH BARRETT 1938. THEY DIVORCED A LATER AND HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY PRICE, VICTORIA'S MOTHER, OM 1949 TO {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;}HIS LAST MARRIAGE WAS TO ACTRS CORAL BROWNE. THEY REMAED TOGETHER UNTIL HER ATH 1991, TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS OWN AT AGE {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;}"AS I'VE LEARNED MORE ABOUT MY DAD'S SEXUALY... I'VE HAD THE CHOICE OF WHAT TO REVEAL AND WHAT NOT TO REVEAL," VICTORIA {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;}"SCE I DIDN'T HEAR OM HIS MOUTH, I THK THAT EVERYTHG I HEAR WH A MEASURE OF HEARSAY. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY... I AM AS CLOSE TO CERTA AS I N BE THAT MY DAD HAD PHYSILLY TIMATE RELATNSHIPS WH MEN."{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;}ONE THG THAT VICTORIA'S 100% CERTA ABOUT, THOUGH, IS THAT VCENT LOVED AND SUPPORTED THE LGBT MUNY.DONALDSON COLLECTN/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG VCENT PRICE, WIFE CORAL BROWNE POSE FOR A PORTRA CIR 1985 LOS ANGEL, {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;}GAY IENDS WERE REGULAR GUTS AT THE PRICE HOME THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS, WHERE VICTORIA GREW UP. "'UNCLE RUPERT' AND 'UNCLE FRANK' ME TO EVERY DNER PARTY AND WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THEY WERE TOGETHER," SHE {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;}"AND WHILE THE WORD [GAY] WAS NEVER MENTNED, WAS VERY MUCH THE NORM."{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;}IRONILLY, CLOSETED MATEE IDOL ROCK HUDSON WAS THEIR ACROSS-THE-STREET {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;}"I REMEMBER AT 9 YEARS OLD GOG TO DROP SOMETHG OFF AT ROCK HUDSON'S HOE," SAYS VICTORIA. "THIS ABSOLUTELY BETIFUL MAN ME TO THE DOOR AND, MY 9-YEAR-OLD MD, I THOUGHT, OH... THAT'S HIS 'UNCLE FRANK' OR 'UNCLE RUPERT,' RIGHT?"{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;}HE DIDN'T BROADST HIS SEXUALY, BUT VCENT PRICE STOOD UP AND WAS UNTED WHEN MATTERED—ATTACKG ANA BRYANT'S ANTI-GAY CSA THE 1970S, JOG PFLAG AS AN HONORARY BOARD MEMBER, AND SHOOTG ONE OF THE FIRST CELEBRY PSAS TO ALLAY PUBLIC FEARS ABOUT {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;}"HE MARRIED A BISEXUAL WOMAN [CORAL BROWNE] AND EVERYBODY ASSUMED THEIR MARRIAGE WAS A D," SAYS {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;}"IT WASN'T A D. IT WAS A TOTALLY SEXUAL RELATNSHIP BUT THEY WERE TWO PEOPLE WH VERY OPEN-MD APPROACH AS TO WHAT LIFE SHOULD LOOK LIKE. AND FOR THAT—PEOPLE WHO LIVED THIS TTH ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR LIV—THEY SHOULD BE HERO TO EVERY MUNY."{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;}PRICE WAS ALREADY MIDDLE-AGED WHEN HE HAD VICTORIA—AND 73 WHEN SHE ME OUT—BUT SHE SAYS "HE UNRSTOOD ME AT 22 BETTER THAN I UNRSTOOD MYSELF THEN."{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 HORROR LEGEND JT GOT {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;}"HE UNRSTOOD THAT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, 'S ABOUT WHO AND WHAT AND HOW WE LOVE."{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
- WAS VCENT PRICE GAY? WHY WAS HIS SEXUALY BEG QUTNED?
- HE SLEPT WH CARY GRANT AND SPENCER TRACY—AND CHANGED HOLLYWOOD HISTORY‘PIMP TO THE STARS’STTY BOWERS RAN A BROTHEL OUT OF A GAS STATN AND SLEPT WH DOZENS OF HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT STARS. INSI HIS ‘SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD’ AND WHY WE SHOULD BELIEVE HIS STORI.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED OCT. 28, 2018 8:13AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 25, 2018 5:10AM EDT ABOUT 45 MUT TO THE NEW DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE MONOLOGUE YOU’LL EVER HEAR IS LIVERED. AND ’S ALL TE. ALLEGEDLY.“I FUCKED BETTE DAVIS WORLD WAR II WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED TO A GUY. I ED TO FIX HER UP WH TRICKS, AND WE ED TO HAVE THREE-WAY ALS. I WENT TO BED WH J. EDGAR HOOVER. HE WAS DRAG. HE WAS NOT A GREAT BETY EHER, YOU KNOW, BUT I WAS TREATG HIM JT LIKE HE WAS A GIRL.” STTY BOWERS, NOW 95 AND MORE THAN 60 YEARS PAST HIS PRIME AS THE SO-LLED “PIMP TO THE STARS,” GRS MISCHIEVOLY AS HE LOOSENS THE TAP, NTUG HIS LUGE OF SECRETS.“ONE DAY CARY GRANT WAS THE GAS STATN AND ROCK HUDSON JT HAPPENED TO BE THERE, SO CARY GRANT PICKED HIM UP. I FIXED HIM UP WH ROCK FOR 20 BUCKS, AND ROCK SAW HIM SEVERAL TIM. THIS IS BEFORE ROCK HAD ANY MOVIE. LRENCE OLIVIER AND VIVIEN LEIGH, I NEVER TRICKED THEM TOGETHER. I WOULD FIX THEM UP WH GUYS, AND THEN I WOULD SEE HER AT GARY COOPER’S HOE. SHE WOULD E AND QUIETLY OPEN THE GATE AND BE LIKE, ‘SHH.’ TEN MUT LATER I’M FUCKG HER AND SHE’S SCREAMG.” AFTER SPENDG TWO YEARS FOLLOWG BOWERS FOR THE CEMA VERé-STYLE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE GREGAR FORMER SEX WORKER, FILMMAKER MATT TYRNER LGHS, SUMMARIZG THE UNIQUE AND ACTUALLY PROFOUND APPEAL OF THE SUBJECT OF HIS MOVIE. “THIS IS SOMEONE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE JT NOT BEEN H WH THE SHAME STICK AND NOT BURNED WH FEELGS OF GUILT,” TYRNER SAYS, SPEAKG OVER FFEE AT MANHATTAN’S NOMAD HOTEL THE WEEK BEFORE THE FILM’S RELEASE. “HE DIDN’T HAVE THAT STILLED. HE SEEMED TO LIVE AN EXEMPLARY LIFE TERMS OF BEG EE OF SHAME AND GUILT. THAT ULD BE A LSON FOR ALL OF .”PERHAPS UNEXPECTEDLY, LSONS ABOUND STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. TYRNER BEGAN FILMG BOWERS FOLLOWG THE RELEASE OF HIS MEMOIR, FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTUR HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS, A JUICY TELL-ALL REUNTG HIS TIME OPERATG A BROTHEL, OF SORTS, OUT OF A GAS STATN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD STARTG THE LATE 1940S AND FALLY RETIRG S LATER, DURG THE AIDS CRISIS. AS BOWERS TELLS , HE SLEPT WH SPENCER TRACY, VIVIEN LEIGH, CARY GRANT, AND THE DE OF WDSOR—THE ABDITED KG EDWARD VIII. 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 MORE.WHEN 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. THAT WAS OUT OF RPECT, BOWERS CLAIMS. THEY WEREN’T HIS SECRETS TO TELL WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE, BUT NOW THAT THEY’RE GONE, HE THKS THEY N’T HURT THEM. BUT NOW THAT TYRNER IS GIVG BOWERS ANOTHER PLATFORM, SIAR CRICISMS ARE BEG AIRED AGA. IN A NEW YORK TIM PIECE ABOUT TYRNER AND THE FILM, NOTED FILM SCHOLAR JEANE BASGER—WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE CHAIR OF TYRNER’S FILM SCHOOL AND CLASHED WH HIM THERE—VERBALLY SFFS ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY’S PURSU. “THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE EXPRSN, ‘PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE,’” SHE SAYS. “PERSONALLY, I’M MORE TERTED THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE THAN THEIR POSSIBLE OFF-SCREEN SHENANIGANS.” AS SEVERAL ENTERTAMENT JOURNALISTS, CLUDG BUZZFEED’S KATE AURTHUR AND VANY FAIR’S REBEC KEEGAN, WERE QUICK TO POT OUT ON TWTER, THAT OPN IS HORSH. TYRNER SPECTS BASGER DIDN’T SEE THE FILM, PECIALLY SCE SHE SEEMS TO IGNORE S ENTIRE POT. THE REASON BOWERS HAS STORI TO TELL IS BEE THE ACTORS WERE PTIV OF A HOLLYWOOD STUD SYSTEM THAT WEAPONIZED MORAL CLS, NTRACTUALLY PREVENTG THEM OM LIVG THEIR THENTIC LIV. “THEY WERE VICTIMS OF A CERTA KD OF PERSECUTN,” TYRNER SAYS. THEY WENT TO STTY BEE PAYG SEX WORKERS WAS THEIR ONLY OPTN, PECIALLY FOR PEOPLE LIKE CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN, WHOSE SAME-SEX PAS WERE AT ODDS WH THE HETERONORMATIVE IMAG OF THEM MANUFACTURED BY STUDS. TO CLAIM TO BE TERTED THAT ERA OF HOLLYWOOD BUT NOT THE WAYS THAT THE ACTORS NAVIGATED THEIR SEXUALY IS SANE. IT’S NOT GOSSIP. IT’S BGRAPHY. IT’S ANTHROPOLOGY. IT’S OUR HISTORY. “FOR SOME REASON OUR CULTURE IS WILLG TO DISMISS THE FULL BGRAPHI OF ALL OF THE CHARACTERS AS BEG SHENANIGANS,” TYRNER SAYS. “TAKE CARAVAGG, FOR STANCE. IF YOU’RE AN ART SCHOLAR, DO YOU JT WANT TO KNOW WHAT CARAVAGG WAS UP TO THE PATG STUD? DON’T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CARAVAGG WAS UP TO WHEN HE WASN’T HOLDG A PATBSH? IS THAT NOT RELEVANT TO WHO CARAVAGG WAS? SO WHY DO WE DISMISS TAILS ABOUT WHAT KATHARE HEPBURN AND SPENCER TRACY WERE UP TO OFF-SCREEN?”STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD ISN’T A TELL-ALL. TYRNER LLS AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIM OUR UNTRY’S HISTORY, THE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE IMAGE MACHE, WHICH CHANGED THE WAY WE ALL PERCEIVE OURSELV AND THE WORLD. LOOKG AT THE HOLLYWOOD SYSTEM AND THE IMAGE FACTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF A SEX WORKER TO THE STARS ULDN’T BE MORE RELEVANT. “IF STTY HAD BEEN OPERATG A BROTHEL OUT OF A GAS STATN D MO, IOWA, WOULD BE A FUN, TERTG, MAYBE RELEVANT STORY, BUT WOULDN’T HAVE THE OPERATIC LOTN AND NARRATIVE THAT THIS MOVIE HAS,” TYRNER SAYS.CRICIZG BOWERS’ STORI AS TRIVIAL PARED TO THE ACTORS’ ON-SCREEN WORK IGNOR THE FACT THAT THEIR PRIVATE LIV WERE OFTEN SCRIPTED BY STUDS AND THEY WERE FORCED TO PERFORM THOSE NARRATIV ORR TO NTUE THAT ON-SCREEN WORK. 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 REERS.THE 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. IT ILLTRAT THE RELUCTANCE TO ADM HOW EPLY AND SERLY WE ARE ALL AFFECTED AND FLUENCED BY HOLLYWOOD AND S PLAYERS. “THE BOOK WAS DISMISSED AS A TELL-ALL, HOWEVER WAS A BT-SELLER,” TYRNER SAYS. “SO THERE’S THE NTRADICTN.” NOW TO BRIEFLY DISMOUNT OM OUR HIGH HORSE, HERE’S ANOTHER REASON THE BOOK WAS A BT-SELLER. THE STORI ARE WILD. AND SO IS THIS MOVIE. BOWERS WAS JT OUT OF THE MAR WHEN HE MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD AND GOT A JOB WORKG AT THE RICHFIELD GAS STATN AT 5777 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD. ONE AFTERNOON, THE OSR-NOMATED ACTOR WALTER PIDGEON DROVE UP. “WHAT’S A NICE GUY LIKE YOU DOG WORKG AT A GAS STATN?” HE ASKED BOWERS, VG HIM TO E HOME WH HIM TO SWIM HIS POOL. THEY DID MUCH MORE THAN THAT, AND, SEEG AN OPPORTUNY, HE BEGAN “TRICKG,” AS HE LLS , EVENTUALLY HIRG OTHER FORMER MAR AS SEX WORKERS. “EVERYTHG WAS 20 BUCKS,” BOWERS SAYS. “I WOULD SAY TO MY IENDS, ‘I’M GONNA FIX YOU UP WH A TRICK AND ALL THE GUY’S GONNA DO IS TAKE AND SUCK YOUR CK. IT’S THE SAME AS IF YOUR GIRL WAS SUCKG YOUR CK. IF YOU WANT TO CLOSE YOUR EY AND THK ’S HER SUCKG YOUR CK, DO.’ ‘OK, I’LL DO ONCE. WELL, ONCE, TWICE…’”HE TRICKED WH CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT, WHO WERE LOVERS, BOWERS SAYS, BUT TOLD PEOPLE THEY WERE JT LIVG AS ROOMMAT. BOWERS SAYS HE’S BEEN WH THEM BOTH DIVIDUALLY, TOGETHER AS A THREOME, AND WH A FOURTH FOR PAIRED GROUP SEX. HE SAYS HE HAD A THREE-WAY AT FRANK SATRA’S HOE WH AVA GARDNER AND LANA TURNER. HE WOULD ARRANGE MEN FOR THE FORMER KG EDWARD VIII TO SLEEP WH—“HE SUCKED ME OFF LIKE A PRO”—AND WOMEN FOR THE MISTRS HE ABDITED THE THRONE FOR, WALLIS SIMPSON, TO SLEEP WH. HE TIMAT THAT HE FIXED KATHARE HEPBURN UP WH MORE THAN 150 WOMEN OVER THE URSE OF 39 YEARS. COLE PORTER ONCE REQUTED THAT BOWERS SET HIM UP WH 15 MEN AT ONCE. “I WANT TO SUCK 15 GUYS OFF, ONE AFTER ANOTHER,” HE SAID.“WHY SHOULDN’T COLE PORTER HAVE A VORAC SEXUAL APPETE?” TYRNER SAYS, WHEN I ASK IF HE THKS PEOPLE WOULD HAVE AN EASIER TIME BELIEVG BOWERS’ STORI IF THEY WEREN’T SO OUTRAGEO. “I DON’T KNOW IF HE DID OR NOT, BUT WHY WOULD I FD THAT UNBELIEVABLE?” HE LGHS. “THERE’S A WONRFUL COLE PORTER SONG, ‘TOO DARN HOT’ WHERE ONE OF THE LYRICS IS ‘A MARE FOR HIS QUEEN’ AND ‘A G.I. FOR HIS CUTIE PIE.’ I’M THKG MAYBE STTY IS HIS MARE.”THROUGH ALL OF THIS, BOWERS WAS NEVER TREATED LIKE A MADAME. TO PEOPLE LIKE GEE COR, THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF THE PHILALPHIA STORY AND MY FAIR LADY, HE WAS NSIRED A IEND. THAT END UP BEG HIS KEY TO EARNG THE TST OF THE BIGGT NAM SHOW BS, WH THE MOST TO LOSE IF THE SECRETS WERE EVER OUTED.“ARE THE STORI SUBSTANTIABLE? MY ANSWER IS Y, VERY MUCH SO,” TYRNER SAYS. SHOULD NOW TAKE AS FACT THAT THE LIK OF CARY GRANT, SPENCER TRACY, AND KATHARE HEPBURN HAD SAME-SEX SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS? HE DON’T FLCH: “Y.”CONSIRG THAT TYRNER PURPORTS TO BE RRECTG HISTORY WH THIS FILM AND THE FACTS OF THAT RRECTN ARE LARGELY OM THE MOUTH OF ONE PERSON, BOWERS’ RELIABILY AS A NARRATOR WAS OBVLY IMPORTANT TO HIM. GORE VIDAL END UP BEG AN IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR TYRNER, WHO UNTS THE FAMED WRER AS A PERSONAL IEND. VIDAL WAS A CLIENT AND THEN IEND OF BOWERS, BUT HIS “VERY ACTIVE RNAL LIFE,” AS TYRNER LLS , WASN’T CLUD BOWERS’S BOOK. THE REASON: VIDAL WAS STILL ALIVE. (ONE OF VIDAL’S LAST PUBLIC OUTGS WAS TO THE BOOK’S RELEASE PARTY.) INPENNTLY, VIDAL AND BOWERS NFID TYRNER STORI ABOUT EACH OTHER AND ABOUT THAT TIME AT THE GAS STATN, AND THE STORI ALL CHECKED OUT. SEVERAL OF THE SEX WORKERS BOWERS EMPLOYED ARE ALSO STILL ALIVE, AND TYRNER TERVIEWED THEM FOR THE DOCUMENTARY. THEY ALL VERIFIED BOWERS’S ACUNTS, SOME ON MERA. ONE EVEN STILL HAD AN X RD BOWERS HAD MA WH THE NTACT RMATN OF A DOZEN MEN WHO WERE TERTED SEXUAL SERVIC. “A SMOKG GUN,” TYRNER LLS . ONE OF THE MEN ON THE RD WAS STILL ALIVE, AND NFIRMED BOWERS’ STORI TO TYRNER, TOO. ALL OF THIS WAS ADDN TO THE WORK A TEAM OF REARCHERS DID TO FACT-CHECK MANY OF BOWERS’ ANECDOT.STTY BOWERS DIDN’T KISS AND TELL WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE ALIVE. BUT HE KISSED, SUCKED, FUCKED, AND IS TELLG NOW THAT THE PEOPLE ARE AD. THE STCT TO DISBELIEVE HIM IS UNFORTUNATE, GIVEN HOW THE SEX LIV GIVE A MUCH GREATER SIGHT TO THE REALY OF AN DTRY THAT SHAPED OUR CULTURE. 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. IT’S PNT TO SEE STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD TO REGNIZE THAT. THE FACT THAT ’S SO DISHY AND SEX-FILLED—TYRNER CLUS VTAGE NU PHOTOS AND SEX FILMS THAT BOWERS STARS —IS ICG ON THE KE.“FOR STTY BOWERS, SEX IS A FACT OF LIFE. IT’S NOT AVOID. SO TO MAKE A MOVIE THAT AVOID SEX AND EXPLIC NUDY JT WOULDN’T HAVE MA SENSE,” HE SAYS. “PL, WHO DON’T WANT SEX ON SCREEN? WE ALL WANT A LTLE SEX. IT KEEPS YOU TERTED. STTY WAS REALLY HOT AS A YOUNG MAN. HE WAS JT UNNIABLY HOT. WHY NOT SHOW SOME SK?” KEV FALLON
VCENT PRICE'S DGHTER CONFIRMS HE WAS BISEXUAL—AND A PRETTY AWOME DAD"AS I'VE LEARNED MORE ABOUT MY DAD'S SEXUALY... I'VE HAD THE CHOICE OF WHAT TO REVEAL AND WHAT NOT TO REVEAL," SAYS VICTORIA {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 DAN AVERYOCTOBER 22, 2015/8:55 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3148PX;WIDTH:3852PX;}JOHN SPRGER COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 22, 2015 / 8:55 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"VCENT PRICE'S DGHTER CONFIRMS HE WAS BISEXUAL—AND A PRETTY AWOME DAD","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-23T00:55:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-23T00:55:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","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":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"BISEXUAL","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;}FOR MANY, VCENT PRICE IS HOLLYWOOD'S FIVE MASTER OF THE MABRE—STAR OF THE ORIGAL FLY, HOE OF WAX, LRA, THE HOE ON HNTED HILL, AND THE P AND THE PENDULUM. (YOU YOUNGS MIGHT RELL HIM AS THE SISTER NARRATOR MICHAEL JACKSON'S "THRILLER" OR THE OLD VENTOR EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.){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;}PRICE WAS MARRIED THREE TIM, BUT MORS CIRCULATED THAT HE WAS SECRETLY GAY OR BISEXUAL. HIS OVER-THE-TOP VOICE AND MANNERISMS, HIS LOVE OF ART AND OKG— THOSE DAYS ADD UP TO "NOT STRAIGHT" MANY PEOPLE'S {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;}NOW HIS DGHTER, VICTORIA PRICE, IS NFIRMG THE MORS—AND CLUG THAT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE WAS A GREAT {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 AN TERVIEW WH #BOOM MAGAZE CELEBRATG THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE OF HER PARENTS' OKBOOK, A TREASURY OF GREAT RECIP, PRICE RELLS HER ACTOR FATHER G OUT TO HER WHEN SHE ME OUT TO HIM AS A {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;}"HE SAID TO ME, 'YOU KNOW, I KNOW JT HOW YOU FEEL, BEE I HAVE HAD THE EP, LOVG RELATNSHIPS WH MEN MY LIFE—AND ALL MY WIV WERE JEALO,'" SHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{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;}VICTORIA ADMS SHE'S BEEN PTERED ABOUT HER FATHER'S SEXUALY HER WHOLE LIFE. ONE TIME, AT A WT HOLLYWOOD NIGHTCLUB THE LATE 80S, CEMENTED HOW DISQUIETG SHE FOUND THE {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 BLOND WOMAN WH A WRY EXPRSN ME OVER TO ME AND SAID, "YOU'RE VCENT PRICE'S DGHTER. YOUR FATHER'S GAY, ISN'T HE?"{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;}I DON'T REMEMBER MY MUMBLED REPLY—EXCEPT THAT, SADLY, WASN'T VERY WTY—"I DON'T KNOW" OR "HE WAS MARRIED THREE TIM."{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;}BUT I DO REMEMBER THAT I WAS SHOCKED. NOT BEE WAS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAD SUGGTED THAT HE MIGHT BE GAY OR AT THE VERY LEAST {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;}BUT BEE, UNTIL THAT MOMENT, I HADN'T REALLY UNRSTOOD THE GREE TO WHICH MY 78-YEAR-OLD FATHER'S SEXUALY, WHATEVER MIGHT BE, HAD BEE PUBLIC PROPERTY TO BE DISCSED, ANALYZED, BANDIED ABOUT, AS ONE MIGHT SHARE A RECIPE OR CHAT ABOUT THE {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;}VCENT PRCE MARRIED EDH BARRETT 1938. THEY DIVORCED A LATER AND HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY PRICE, VICTORIA'S MOTHER, OM 1949 TO {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;}HIS LAST MARRIAGE WAS TO ACTRS CORAL BROWNE. THEY REMAED TOGETHER UNTIL HER ATH 1991, TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS OWN AT AGE {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;}"AS I'VE LEARNED MORE ABOUT MY DAD'S SEXUALY... I'VE HAD THE CHOICE OF WHAT TO REVEAL AND WHAT NOT TO REVEAL," VICTORIA {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;}"SCE I DIDN'T HEAR OM HIS MOUTH, I THK THAT EVERYTHG I HEAR WH A MEASURE OF HEARSAY. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY... I AM AS CLOSE TO CERTA AS I N BE THAT MY DAD HAD PHYSILLY TIMATE RELATNSHIPS WH MEN."{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;}ONE THG THAT VICTORIA'S 100% CERTA ABOUT, THOUGH, IS THAT VCENT LOVED AND SUPPORTED THE LGBT MUNY.DONALDSON COLLECTN/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG VCENT PRICE, WIFE CORAL BROWNE POSE FOR A PORTRA CIR 1985 LOS ANGEL, {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;}GAY IENDS WERE REGULAR GUTS AT THE PRICE HOME THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS, WHERE VICTORIA GREW UP. "'UNCLE RUPERT' AND 'UNCLE FRANK' ME TO EVERY DNER PARTY AND WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THEY WERE TOGETHER," SHE {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;}"AND WHILE THE WORD [GAY] WAS NEVER MENTNED, WAS VERY MUCH THE NORM."{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;}IRONILLY, CLOSETED MATEE IDOL ROCK HUDSON WAS THEIR ACROSS-THE-STREET {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;}"I REMEMBER AT 9 YEARS OLD GOG TO DROP SOMETHG OFF AT ROCK HUDSON'S HOE," SAYS VICTORIA. "THIS ABSOLUTELY BETIFUL MAN ME TO THE DOOR AND, MY 9-YEAR-OLD MD, I THOUGHT, OH... THAT'S HIS 'UNCLE FRANK' OR 'UNCLE RUPERT,' RIGHT?"{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;}HE DIDN'T BROADST HIS SEXUALY, BUT VCENT PRICE STOOD UP AND WAS UNTED WHEN MATTERED—ATTACKG ANA BRYANT'S ANTI-GAY CSA THE 1970S, JOG PFLAG AS AN HONORARY BOARD MEMBER, AND SHOOTG ONE OF THE FIRST CELEBRY PSAS TO ALLAY PUBLIC FEARS ABOUT {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;}"HE MARRIED A BISEXUAL WOMAN [CORAL BROWNE] AND EVERYBODY ASSUMED THEIR MARRIAGE WAS A D," SAYS {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;}"IT WASN'T A D. IT WAS A TOTALLY SEXUAL RELATNSHIP BUT THEY WERE TWO PEOPLE WH VERY OPEN-MD APPROACH AS TO WHAT LIFE SHOULD LOOK LIKE. AND FOR THAT—PEOPLE WHO LIVED THIS TTH ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR LIV—THEY SHOULD BE HERO TO EVERY MUNY."{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;}PRICE WAS ALREADY MIDDLE-AGED WHEN HE HAD VICTORIA—AND 73 WHEN SHE ME OUT—BUT SHE SAYS "HE UNRSTOOD ME AT 22 BETTER THAN I UNRSTOOD MYSELF THEN."{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 HORROR LEGEND JT GOT {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;}"HE UNRSTOOD THAT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, 'S ABOUT WHO AND WHAT AND HOW WE LOVE."{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
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 * vincent price gay *
)Price was married three tim, but mors circulated that he was secretly gay or bisexual. Your father's gay, isn't he? Not bee was the first time someone had suggted that he might be gay or at the very least bee, until that moment, I hadn't really unrstood the gree to which my 78-year-old father's sexualy, whatever might be, had bee public property to be discsed, analyzed, bandied about, as one might share a recipe or chat about the weather.
"And while the word [gay] was never mentned, was very much the norm.
WAS VCENT PRICE GAY? WHY WAS HIS SEXUALY BEG QUTNED?
* vincent price gay *
"He didn't broadst his sexualy, but Vcent Price stood up and was unted when mattered—attackg Ana Bryant's anti-gay csa the 1970s, jog PFLAG as an honorary board member, and shootg one of the first celebry PSAs to allay public fears about AIDS.
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. 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.
HE SLEPT WH CARY GRANT AND SPENCER TRACY—AND CHANGED HOLLYWOOD HISTORY‘PIMP TO THE STARS’STTY BOWERS RAN A BROTHEL OUT OF A GAS STATN AND SLEPT WH DOZENS OF HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT STARS. INSI HIS ‘SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD’ AND WHY WE SHOULD BELIEVE HIS STORI.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED OCT. 28, 2018 8:13AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 25, 2018 5:10AM EDT ABOUT 45 MUT TO THE NEW DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE MONOLOGUE YOU’LL EVER HEAR IS LIVERED. AND ’S ALL TE. ALLEGEDLY.“I FUCKED BETTE DAVIS WORLD WAR II WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED TO A GUY. I ED TO FIX HER UP WH TRICKS, AND WE ED TO HAVE THREE-WAY ALS. I WENT TO BED WH J. EDGAR HOOVER. HE WAS DRAG. HE WAS NOT A GREAT BETY EHER, YOU KNOW, BUT I WAS TREATG HIM JT LIKE HE WAS A GIRL.” STTY BOWERS, NOW 95 AND MORE THAN 60 YEARS PAST HIS PRIME AS THE SO-LLED “PIMP TO THE STARS,” GRS MISCHIEVOLY AS HE LOOSENS THE TAP, NTUG HIS LUGE OF SECRETS.“ONE DAY CARY GRANT WAS THE GAS STATN AND ROCK HUDSON JT HAPPENED TO BE THERE, SO CARY GRANT PICKED HIM UP. I FIXED HIM UP WH ROCK FOR 20 BUCKS, AND ROCK SAW HIM SEVERAL TIM. THIS IS BEFORE ROCK HAD ANY MOVIE. LRENCE OLIVIER AND VIVIEN LEIGH, I NEVER TRICKED THEM TOGETHER. I WOULD FIX THEM UP WH GUYS, AND THEN I WOULD SEE HER AT GARY COOPER’S HOE. SHE WOULD E AND QUIETLY OPEN THE GATE AND BE LIKE, ‘SHH.’ TEN MUT LATER I’M FUCKG HER AND SHE’S SCREAMG.” AFTER SPENDG TWO YEARS FOLLOWG BOWERS FOR THE CEMA VERé-STYLE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE GREGAR FORMER SEX WORKER, FILMMAKER MATT TYRNER LGHS, SUMMARIZG THE UNIQUE AND ACTUALLY PROFOUND APPEAL OF THE SUBJECT OF HIS MOVIE. “THIS IS SOMEONE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE JT NOT BEEN H WH THE SHAME STICK AND NOT BURNED WH FEELGS OF GUILT,” TYRNER SAYS, SPEAKG OVER FFEE AT MANHATTAN’S NOMAD HOTEL THE WEEK BEFORE THE FILM’S RELEASE. “HE DIDN’T HAVE THAT STILLED. HE SEEMED TO LIVE AN EXEMPLARY LIFE TERMS OF BEG EE OF SHAME AND GUILT. THAT ULD BE A LSON FOR ALL OF .”PERHAPS UNEXPECTEDLY, LSONS ABOUND STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. TYRNER BEGAN FILMG BOWERS FOLLOWG THE RELEASE OF HIS MEMOIR, FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTUR HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS, A JUICY TELL-ALL REUNTG HIS TIME OPERATG A BROTHEL, OF SORTS, OUT OF A GAS STATN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD STARTG THE LATE 1940S AND FALLY RETIRG S LATER, DURG THE AIDS CRISIS. AS BOWERS TELLS , HE SLEPT WH SPENCER TRACY, VIVIEN LEIGH, CARY GRANT, AND THE DE OF WDSOR—THE ABDITED KG EDWARD VIII. 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 MORE.WHEN 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. THAT WAS OUT OF RPECT, BOWERS CLAIMS. THEY WEREN’T HIS SECRETS TO TELL WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE, BUT NOW THAT THEY’RE GONE, HE THKS THEY N’T HURT THEM. BUT NOW THAT TYRNER IS GIVG BOWERS ANOTHER PLATFORM, SIAR CRICISMS ARE BEG AIRED AGA. IN A NEW YORK TIM PIECE ABOUT TYRNER AND THE FILM, NOTED FILM SCHOLAR JEANE BASGER—WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE CHAIR OF TYRNER’S FILM SCHOOL AND CLASHED WH HIM THERE—VERBALLY SFFS ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY’S PURSU. “THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE EXPRSN, ‘PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE,’” SHE SAYS. “PERSONALLY, I’M MORE TERTED THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE THAN THEIR POSSIBLE OFF-SCREEN SHENANIGANS.” AS SEVERAL ENTERTAMENT JOURNALISTS, CLUDG BUZZFEED’S KATE AURTHUR AND VANY FAIR’S REBEC KEEGAN, WERE QUICK TO POT OUT ON TWTER, THAT OPN IS HORSH. TYRNER SPECTS BASGER DIDN’T SEE THE FILM, PECIALLY SCE SHE SEEMS TO IGNORE S ENTIRE POT. THE REASON BOWERS HAS STORI TO TELL IS BEE THE ACTORS WERE PTIV OF A HOLLYWOOD STUD SYSTEM THAT WEAPONIZED MORAL CLS, NTRACTUALLY PREVENTG THEM OM LIVG THEIR THENTIC LIV. “THEY WERE VICTIMS OF A CERTA KD OF PERSECUTN,” TYRNER SAYS. THEY WENT TO STTY BEE PAYG SEX WORKERS WAS THEIR ONLY OPTN, PECIALLY FOR PEOPLE LIKE CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN, WHOSE SAME-SEX PAS WERE AT ODDS WH THE HETERONORMATIVE IMAG OF THEM MANUFACTURED BY STUDS. TO CLAIM TO BE TERTED THAT ERA OF HOLLYWOOD BUT NOT THE WAYS THAT THE ACTORS NAVIGATED THEIR SEXUALY IS SANE. IT’S NOT GOSSIP. IT’S BGRAPHY. IT’S ANTHROPOLOGY. IT’S OUR HISTORY. “FOR SOME REASON OUR CULTURE IS WILLG TO DISMISS THE FULL BGRAPHI OF ALL OF THE CHARACTERS AS BEG SHENANIGANS,” TYRNER SAYS. “TAKE CARAVAGG, FOR STANCE. IF YOU’RE AN ART SCHOLAR, DO YOU JT WANT TO KNOW WHAT CARAVAGG WAS UP TO THE PATG STUD? DON’T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CARAVAGG WAS UP TO WHEN HE WASN’T HOLDG A PATBSH? IS THAT NOT RELEVANT TO WHO CARAVAGG WAS? SO WHY DO WE DISMISS TAILS ABOUT WHAT KATHARE HEPBURN AND SPENCER TRACY WERE UP TO OFF-SCREEN?”STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD ISN’T A TELL-ALL. TYRNER LLS AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIM OUR UNTRY’S HISTORY, THE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE IMAGE MACHE, WHICH CHANGED THE WAY WE ALL PERCEIVE OURSELV AND THE WORLD. LOOKG AT THE HOLLYWOOD SYSTEM AND THE IMAGE FACTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF A SEX WORKER TO THE STARS ULDN’T BE MORE RELEVANT. “IF STTY HAD BEEN OPERATG A BROTHEL OUT OF A GAS STATN D MO, IOWA, WOULD BE A FUN, TERTG, MAYBE RELEVANT STORY, BUT WOULDN’T HAVE THE OPERATIC LOTN AND NARRATIVE THAT THIS MOVIE HAS,” TYRNER SAYS.CRICIZG BOWERS’ STORI AS TRIVIAL PARED TO THE ACTORS’ ON-SCREEN WORK IGNOR THE FACT THAT THEIR PRIVATE LIV WERE OFTEN SCRIPTED BY STUDS AND THEY WERE FORCED TO PERFORM THOSE NARRATIV ORR TO NTUE THAT ON-SCREEN WORK. 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 REERS.THE 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. IT ILLTRAT THE RELUCTANCE TO ADM HOW EPLY AND SERLY WE ARE ALL AFFECTED AND FLUENCED BY HOLLYWOOD AND S PLAYERS. “THE BOOK WAS DISMISSED AS A TELL-ALL, HOWEVER WAS A BT-SELLER,” TYRNER SAYS. “SO THERE’S THE NTRADICTN.” NOW TO BRIEFLY DISMOUNT OM OUR HIGH HORSE, HERE’S ANOTHER REASON THE BOOK WAS A BT-SELLER. THE STORI ARE WILD. AND SO IS THIS MOVIE. BOWERS WAS JT OUT OF THE MAR WHEN HE MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD AND GOT A JOB WORKG AT THE RICHFIELD GAS STATN AT 5777 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD. ONE AFTERNOON, THE OSR-NOMATED ACTOR WALTER PIDGEON DROVE UP. “WHAT’S A NICE GUY LIKE YOU DOG WORKG AT A GAS STATN?” HE ASKED BOWERS, VG HIM TO E HOME WH HIM TO SWIM HIS POOL. THEY DID MUCH MORE THAN THAT, AND, SEEG AN OPPORTUNY, HE BEGAN “TRICKG,” AS HE LLS , EVENTUALLY HIRG OTHER FORMER MAR AS SEX WORKERS. “EVERYTHG WAS 20 BUCKS,” BOWERS SAYS. “I WOULD SAY TO MY IENDS, ‘I’M GONNA FIX YOU UP WH A TRICK AND ALL THE GUY’S GONNA DO IS TAKE AND SUCK YOUR CK. IT’S THE SAME AS IF YOUR GIRL WAS SUCKG YOUR CK. IF YOU WANT TO CLOSE YOUR EY AND THK ’S HER SUCKG YOUR CK, DO.’ ‘OK, I’LL DO ONCE. WELL, ONCE, TWICE…’”HE TRICKED WH CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT, WHO WERE LOVERS, BOWERS SAYS, BUT TOLD PEOPLE THEY WERE JT LIVG AS ROOMMAT. BOWERS SAYS HE’S BEEN WH THEM BOTH DIVIDUALLY, TOGETHER AS A THREOME, AND WH A FOURTH FOR PAIRED GROUP SEX. HE SAYS HE HAD A THREE-WAY AT FRANK SATRA’S HOE WH AVA GARDNER AND LANA TURNER. HE WOULD ARRANGE MEN FOR THE FORMER KG EDWARD VIII TO SLEEP WH—“HE SUCKED ME OFF LIKE A PRO”—AND WOMEN FOR THE MISTRS HE ABDITED THE THRONE FOR, WALLIS SIMPSON, TO SLEEP WH. HE TIMAT THAT HE FIXED KATHARE HEPBURN UP WH MORE THAN 150 WOMEN OVER THE URSE OF 39 YEARS. COLE PORTER ONCE REQUTED THAT BOWERS SET HIM UP WH 15 MEN AT ONCE. “I WANT TO SUCK 15 GUYS OFF, ONE AFTER ANOTHER,” HE SAID.“WHY SHOULDN’T COLE PORTER HAVE A VORAC SEXUAL APPETE?” TYRNER SAYS, WHEN I ASK IF HE THKS PEOPLE WOULD HAVE AN EASIER TIME BELIEVG BOWERS’ STORI IF THEY WEREN’T SO OUTRAGEO. “I DON’T KNOW IF HE DID OR NOT, BUT WHY WOULD I FD THAT UNBELIEVABLE?” HE LGHS. “THERE’S A WONRFUL COLE PORTER SONG, ‘TOO DARN HOT’ WHERE ONE OF THE LYRICS IS ‘A MARE FOR HIS QUEEN’ AND ‘A G.I. FOR HIS CUTIE PIE.’ I’M THKG MAYBE STTY IS HIS MARE.”THROUGH ALL OF THIS, BOWERS WAS NEVER TREATED LIKE A MADAME. TO PEOPLE LIKE GEE COR, THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF THE PHILALPHIA STORY AND MY FAIR LADY, HE WAS NSIRED A IEND. THAT END UP BEG HIS KEY TO EARNG THE TST OF THE BIGGT NAM SHOW BS, WH THE MOST TO LOSE IF THE SECRETS WERE EVER OUTED.“ARE THE STORI SUBSTANTIABLE? MY ANSWER IS Y, VERY MUCH SO,” TYRNER SAYS. SHOULD NOW TAKE AS FACT THAT THE LIK OF CARY GRANT, SPENCER TRACY, AND KATHARE HEPBURN HAD SAME-SEX SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS? HE DON’T FLCH: “Y.”CONSIRG THAT TYRNER PURPORTS TO BE RRECTG HISTORY WH THIS FILM AND THE FACTS OF THAT RRECTN ARE LARGELY OM THE MOUTH OF ONE PERSON, BOWERS’ RELIABILY AS A NARRATOR WAS OBVLY IMPORTANT TO HIM. GORE VIDAL END UP BEG AN IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR TYRNER, WHO UNTS THE FAMED WRER AS A PERSONAL IEND. VIDAL WAS A CLIENT AND THEN IEND OF BOWERS, BUT HIS “VERY ACTIVE RNAL LIFE,” AS TYRNER LLS , WASN’T CLUD BOWERS’S BOOK. THE REASON: VIDAL WAS STILL ALIVE. (ONE OF VIDAL’S LAST PUBLIC OUTGS WAS TO THE BOOK’S RELEASE PARTY.) INPENNTLY, VIDAL AND BOWERS NFID TYRNER STORI ABOUT EACH OTHER AND ABOUT THAT TIME AT THE GAS STATN, AND THE STORI ALL CHECKED OUT. SEVERAL OF THE SEX WORKERS BOWERS EMPLOYED ARE ALSO STILL ALIVE, AND TYRNER TERVIEWED THEM FOR THE DOCUMENTARY. THEY ALL VERIFIED BOWERS’S ACUNTS, SOME ON MERA. ONE EVEN STILL HAD AN X RD BOWERS HAD MA WH THE NTACT RMATN OF A DOZEN MEN WHO WERE TERTED SEXUAL SERVIC. “A SMOKG GUN,” TYRNER LLS . ONE OF THE MEN ON THE RD WAS STILL ALIVE, AND NFIRMED BOWERS’ STORI TO TYRNER, TOO. ALL OF THIS WAS ADDN TO THE WORK A TEAM OF REARCHERS DID TO FACT-CHECK MANY OF BOWERS’ ANECDOT.STTY BOWERS DIDN’T KISS AND TELL WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE ALIVE. BUT HE KISSED, SUCKED, FUCKED, AND IS TELLG NOW THAT THE PEOPLE ARE AD. THE STCT TO DISBELIEVE HIM IS UNFORTUNATE, GIVEN HOW THE SEX LIV GIVE A MUCH GREATER SIGHT TO THE REALY OF AN DTRY THAT SHAPED OUR CULTURE. 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. IT’S PNT TO SEE STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD TO REGNIZE THAT. THE FACT THAT ’S SO DISHY AND SEX-FILLED—TYRNER CLUS VTAGE NU PHOTOS AND SEX FILMS THAT BOWERS STARS —IS ICG ON THE KE.“FOR STTY BOWERS, SEX IS A FACT OF LIFE. IT’S NOT AVOID. SO TO MAKE A MOVIE THAT AVOID SEX AND EXPLIC NUDY JT WOULDN’T HAVE MA SENSE,” HE SAYS. “PL, WHO DON’T WANT SEX ON SCREEN? WE ALL WANT A LTLE SEX. IT KEEPS YOU TERTED. STTY WAS REALLY HOT AS A YOUNG MAN. HE WAS JT UNNIABLY HOT. WHY NOT SHOW SOME SK?” KEV FALLON
From a gas statn, he arranged liaisons and worked as a prostute for gay and straight stars. * vincent price gay *
Your father’s gay, isn’t he? Not bee was the first time someone had suggted that he might be gay or at the very least bisexual, but bee, until that moment, I hadn’t really unrstood the gree to which my 78-year-old father’s sexualy, whatever might be, had bee public property to be discsed, analyzed, bandied about, as one might share a recipe or chat about the weather. But she also realiz as a member of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny that there remas a eply rooted yearng for history and hero and a personal nnectn to the past.
“Now, we lived across the street om Rock Hudson and we had a lot of gay iends growg up, ” she relled. And while the word [gay] was never mentned, was very much the norm.
Of urse, the cls forba any acts of homosexualy. For inic stars like Montgomery Clift, Spencer Tracy and Kathare Hepburn, this meant fake marriag and relatnships, and secretive measur to disguise any homosexual activi they engaged .