Inic TV producer and host Merv Griff has been exposed for reportedly livg a secret gay life while he was alive. Over the urse of his reer, the TV mogul was sued twice on separate ocsns by two men - one claimg neglect of their relatnship and the other allegg sexual asslt.
Contents:
- PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
- VILLAGE VOICE: ‘SHERMAN HEMSLEY WAS A GAY! DEAL WH IT!’
- 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
- MERV GRIFF WAS GAY AND EVERYONE IS FREAKG OUT
- GAY HISTORY: MERV GRIFF’S BODYGUARD OF LI
- MERV GRIFF REPORTEDLY LED SECRET GAY LIFE SPE A WIFE & SON - MAN CLAIMED ENTERTAER FELL LOVE WH HIM
- WHERE IS MERV GRIFF TODAY? NET WORTH, WIFE, GAY. STILL ALIVE?
- WHO WAS MERV GRIFF, WAS HE GAY, WHAT WAS HIS NET WORTH, HOW DID HE DIE?
PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Merv Griff was gay. * merv griffin is gay *
”But how tremendoly sad is that a man of Merv’s renown, of his gregar nature and social xtery, would feel pelled to endure such a stealthy double life even as the gay muny’s clout, and s levels of acceptance and equaly, rose steadily om the ash of a powerful msage Griff might have sent had he squired his male panns around town rather than Eva Gabor, his longtime good iend and platonic public pal.
VILLAGE VOICE: ‘SHERMAN HEMSLEY WAS A GAY! DEAL WH IT!’
Christian fundamentalists ntue to ntend that homosexualy don't exist, and that gay people choose their liftyle whout any blogil predisposn. They further argue that homosexualy * merv griffin is gay *
Image the amount of good Merv uld have done as a well-rpected, hugely succsful, beloved and uncloseted gay man embodyg a posive image. Around the office, Merv’s beg gay was unrstood but rarely discsed (and certaly never wh him).
We knew nothg of his relatnships bee he guard his privacy fiercely, and we didn’t ’s secret gay life was wily known throughout showbiz culture, if not the wir Ameri. Then aga, Merv rved his niche the entertament world at a time when beg gay wasn’t OK, when disclosure was unthkable and the allegatn alone uld ep-six one’s you’re Griff, why would you thk a judgmental culture would be any more tolerant as you grew to middle and old age?
Even the pal of entertament -- a bs where homosexualy isn’t exactly a rare phenomenon -- ’s still spoken of hhed ton or, more often, not at all.
11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
" | Photo: Getty ImagGRIFFIN'S SEXUALITY AND DEATHMerv Griff was reportedly gay, and his sexualy was a well-known secret Hollywood. His fear of g out was ascribed to the possible effect on his reer when people did not accept homosexualy Hollywood.
MERV GRIFF WAS GAY AND EVERYONE IS FREAKG OUT
I'm not gog to say they weren't extremely wild but was like most gay parti at the time jt wh... A iend sang on his show a few tim when she was a kid (tho she never pursued show biz) and said even then she knew he was gay but he treated her like a dghter; very affectnate, lled to check on her, Christmas and birthday Anonymoreply 2June 18, 2015 8:23 PM. My elr gay uncle says the mors were started by those who hated Merv for beg a huge donatg Anonymoreply 21June 19, 2015 3:43 AM.
I read that nnectn that closeted men wh power are much more likely to sexually molt than openly gays; I thk the closeted wh power are generally at a high risk to sexually molt, is an outlet for Anonymoreply 22June 19, 2015 3:43 AM. Ter had had plenty of gay male sex (that I know for sure) and that the harassment was more extortn.
Ryan Gaycrt probably was kept by Anonymoreply 26June 19, 2015 4:24 AM. Tony is married, still hot, has several kids (that Merv adored) and his (gay) mom attend his dad's funeral wh he and his Anonymoreply 31June 19, 2015 4:40 AM.
GAY HISTORY: MERV GRIFF’S BODYGUARD OF LI
One of the most tratg thgs about Merv Griff is that some of the biggt idts the gay media like Darw Porter seized upon his closeted life and have produced such unbelievable "facts" about him that 's very hard to tell now what actually happened and what was vented. Well, not sure about Gee but do believe he's gay as for Merv a iend told me that he was known as the Kg of ep throatg cks and drag them was obssed wh suckg ck dry to the bone!
One such tidb was that Gee is gay, and somethg to the effect of, he wants to live a life of luxury and if he has to play the Hollywood game and stay closeted, ’s worth to him. Annoyg homosexual Gee Clooney was born (to a powerful showbiz fay) wh a silver spoon her mouth, she has never had a need to open her large bunghole to anyone but the hottt and largt sizemeats! Wh this year’s Gay Pri Month markg the fiftieth anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, the acplishments of LGBT hero of the past fifty years have been wily celebrated.
But along wh polil activists and social revolutnari, there were a number of entertaers who, the s surroundg the rebelln, brought a clear, if often exaggerated, gay prence to Amerin hom. He was a gay man.
MERV GRIFF REPORTEDLY LED SECRET GAY LIFE SPE A WIFE & SON - MAN CLAIMED ENTERTAER FELL LOVE WH HIM
In Hollywood the 1960s, life was played out the shadows for Dean and other gay actors who often played heterosexual hbands and fathers on televisn and movi. “I’m nearly the oppose of Pl Lyn, ” Dean told Boze Hadleigh that terview the late 1970s for the book, Hollywood Gays. When Hadleigh asked if he thought any of the public assumed he was gay, Dean shook his head.
“Not even gays.
Only bee what you see on TV — a ser guy a su, unsg– isn’t how anyone thks of gay mal. “Have you ever been st as gay?
WHERE IS MERV GRIFF TODAY? NET WORTH, WIFE, GAY. STILL ALIVE?
“Do you thk wh the dtry ’s known you’re gay? Carmel also was gay. “Dickie Dean” uld be seen at gay bars Wt Hollywood wh iends like Pl Lyn and Nancy Walker, and at parti at ho like Rock Hudson’s.
Dean had perhaps first seen Feste perform at Stud One’s Backlot, a gay nightclub Wt Hollywood, when Feste was acpanyg the female impersonator Charl Pierce. In the Pierce bgraphy, From Drags to Rich, John Wallraff wr that Dean was among the celebri who me out to watch Pierce perform at the Gild Cage gay nightclub on Ellis Street San Francis.
Flynn, a Hollywood actor, was beg very open about his ‘gayns.
WHO WAS MERV GRIFF, WAS HE GAY, WHAT WAS HIS NET WORTH, HOW DID HE DIE?
He was 76, openly gay and had earned a reputatn as an acclaimed stage director. Um, he was gay. I get iffy on people outg those who are typilly harmls (as not beg a closeted gay who works to vilify or make life difficult for other gay).
Christian fundamentalists ntue to ntend that homosexualy don't exist, and that gay people choose their liftyle whout any blogil predisposn. They further argue that homosexualy. They further argue that homosexualy didn't exist before the 20th century when rearcher Aled Ksey began studyg sexual behavrs of adults.
That, of urse, ignor all evince to the ntrary, cludg the existence of gay people as documented throughout human history. As far back time as human rerds do chronicle, gay people have existed and lived happy, sexually fulfilled liv, as the historil figur attt. While the sexualy of some remas hotly disputed--even the face of documented sexual enunters--some people still refe to believe any of the ins on this list uld ever have tried the big gay way.