Award-wng thor and gay-rights activist Larry Kramer’s new book aims to unter the excln of homosexualy om history
Contents:
- OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
- RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY
- WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI
- WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
Richard Nixon was many thgs — crafty, crimal, self-pyg, vengeful, paranoid. But gay?... * richard nixon gay *
But gay? Acrdg to a book to be released Tuday, "Nixon's Darkt Secrets, " the former print and his bt iend, Charl "Bebe" Rebozo, had a relatnship of a "possibly homosexual nature.
RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY
“Was Nixon’s tough-guy attu toward gays jt a ver for his own homosexualy, bisexualy or asexualy? ”The book attempts to buttrs the homosexual allegatn by repeatg mors that the twice-divorced Rebozo, known as a ladi’ man, was gay.
WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI
Others, evintly, are too good to, the flimsy report of Nixon's "gay affair".
WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
When I asked Fulsom about the media reactn, he said that acunts scribg his "explosive revelatns" that Nixon "rried on a sizzlg gay love affair" exaggerated his fdgs, and he admted that, whout any photos showg Nixon and Rebozo flagrante licto, there is "no evince actually happened.
(Summers, the thor who was Fulsom’s source that Nixon pal Rebozo was gay, also dug up this far-fetched tale. )Although the Hoover--drag mor has been wily discreded, has nohels entered popular folklore — poetic retributn agast the homophobic G-man whose sex-filled dossiers terrorized Washgton for half a century. It is no accint that the recent enzy of historil gay "outgs" — whether of Lln or Hoover or Nixon — is takg place when homosexualy has e out of the closet and same-sex marriage has bee a proment part of the legislative agenda many plac.
Now the gay mors are beg draped over Richard Nixon, the dark, homophobic two-term print doomed by the 1972 Watergate the upg b Nixon's Darkt Secrets, former UPI Whe Hoe reporter Don Fulsom, armed wh new eyewns terviews and documents, suggts a shockg "homosexual nature" the relatnship between Nixon and his bt iend Bebe Rebozo, the print's alleged mob bagman who was at Nixon's si when he there is no evince of any sexual enunters—as wh the Hoover mors played out the new Clt Eastwood movie J. For example, Fulsom reveals three stanc of the two men holdg hands, sometim public, one time unr a dner table, somethg Nixon did rarely, if ever, wh wife quot a former Time reporter who scribed a long hand-holdg terlu that led her to scribe the relatnship as "reprsed homosexualy.