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TWO GAY FRIENDS FROM DETRO: LILY TOML REMEMBERS THE MAGIC OF ALLEE WILLIS
Lily Toml never officially me out as gay. For much of her reer, Lily Toml's homosexualy was the worst-kept secret Hollywood, sce she and wife/creative partner Jane Wagner (they married on New Year's Eve of 2013) have visibly been a uple sce the early 1970s. As Wdy Cy Tim reported, Toml told a gay newspaper 1999 that "I never officially me out any kd of really public way...
Thirty-five years after workg together "9 to 5," Lily Toml rned wh Jane Fonda for the Netflix edy "Grace and Frankie," playg longtime enemi who bond when their secretly gay hbands (played by Mart Sheen and Sam Waterston) leave them for each other. The year was 1972 and Toml, about a year to her relatnship wh the great Jane Wagner but over two s away om g out publicly as gay, ma an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. ""Wh the ncept of marriage, I've been a ltle too flippant and I've said thgs like, 'I was hopg the gay muny would e up wh a better ia than imatg heterosexual marriage, '" she told Between the L last September.
Even though some fans wanted her to do at the time, she explaed to the Advote 2009 that she wasn't "terted beg typed as the gay celebry. Toml believ this was the begng of a wonrful, endurg iendship as the two artists, both gay and om Detro, bond stantaneoly.