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Contents:

• 'DID I EVER REALLY KNOW HIM?': THE WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN
• 13 FAMO WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN WHOUT KNOWG
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• FAMO WOMEN WHO UNKNOWGLY DATED GAY MEN
• FAMO WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN
• GAY CELEBS WHO ARE MARRIED OR ENGAGED
• FAMO GAY PEOPLE

'DID I EVER REALLY KNOW HIM?': THE WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN

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13 FAMO WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN WHOUT KNOWG

As her dad pulled up she opened her purse, fat wh not, and phed them all to the bewilred man’s hands before beg whisked is one of a potentially dyg breed of women: those who married closeted gay men. “Some women ntact the service before their hband is even aware they know he’s gay, ” she says. Never once did she spect he was gay.

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“When you love someone and you know you’re gay, you don’t marry them. And many of the men, embolned by the sense of eedom and h excement afford them by disverg the gay scene, pletely scrib the impact had on her children.

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

“My sons’ iends would e over and ask, is your dad gay? ”Siarly, Patricia took issue wh the blok who took her hband out for a beer so they didn’t look homophobic. ”Jt like many gay men do, their wiv n go through nial perds, Roxanne says, believg they n work thgs out.

FAMO WOMEN WHO UNKNOWGLY DATED GAY MEN

“I know my hband is gay, he n’t stop himself om beg wh men, ’s impossible.

Her anger wasn’t at him, but at his fay and culture for not lettg him be who he should have been the first place: “It was like he didn’t know how to be gay. “People still go to beats [public plac where gay men meet discretely for sex].

FAMO WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN

He probably didn’t know he was gay at the time, ” she wr. But all have somethg most unual all married gay men whout knowg about their sexualy beforehand. He later me out as gay and had a long-term relatnship wh Gregory Connell.

Amazgly, or perhaps not cintally, Liza Mnelli’s mother, Judy Garland, was also married to a gay man …. 2Judy GarlandAmy Award wner Judy Garland was one of several women director Vcente Mnelli married … while he allegedly rried himself like an openly gay man New York Cy but remaed the closet Los Angel. 4Carrie FisherCarrie Fisher married Bryan Lourd 1991; they divorced when he me out as gay three years later.

GAY CELEBS WHO ARE MARRIED OR ENGAGED

It is now wily believed that the in was actually gay, as he lived wh another man, Randolph Stt, for 10 years later life. 7Angela LansburyAngela Lansbury’s first hband, actor Richard Cromwell, was gay. 8Carolyn MoosFormer llege and women’s profsnal basketball player Carolyn Moos almost married her fiance, Jason Colls, until he me out as gay 2012 while they were still engaged; Moos says she was cshed by the revelatn.

Colls later beme the first openly gay player the NBA. 9Jackee HarryJackee Harry of Sister, Sister fame and her hband om 1996-2003, Elg Charl, who later me out as gay, had a short-lived realy show Beverly Hills Fabulo, about his hair salon; they stayed close and she even appeared on the program10Charlotte RaeDiff’rent Strok st member Charlotte Rae divorced her hband, John Strss, after he me out as gay 1976. After he died, Gat wrote that she had no ia that he was gay, but his iends have claimed she knew all along.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE

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 .

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