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ROCK HUDSON’S WIFE SECRETLY RERD HIS GAY CONFSN
But straight men n have a gay si, and JFK’s life was filled wh proment gay men, iendships which open the door to other histori. Vidal, the thor of a bt-sellg gay World War II novel, published 1947 at a time when most queer books were led obscene and evince of homosexual acts uld brg a prison term, was unabashedly public about his affairs wh should a historian re about Kennedy’s sex life at all? Johnson lls “the lavenr sre” and the unbuttoned, experimental 1960s that lnched the gay rights movement.
By the time he beme print, however, that revolutn had been lnched: the birth ntrol pill, veloped the 1950s, beme wily available the 1960s and, more importantly, 1964, Life magaze would publish a major photo say about gay men’s bars San Francis. JFK’s numero affairs (before, durg and after his marriage to Jackie) and his iendships wh gay men sudnly had a social and cultural ntext that was neher gay or straight, but a harbger of the sexual eedom and experimentatn that would soon be champned the unterculture and the all the while, Lem Billgs was there: wag, servg, fortg and helpg the Kennedy fay adjt to the public glare.
The affair was socially isolatg for a very young and sexually un-liberated woman, g her to ceive iends, boyiends and ultimately her hband and children for most of her adult many ways, Kennedy was also enjoyg the kd of sex life that would later characterize the gay men’s “party” of the 1970s. In 2009, Robert Dallek published part of an terview wh Barbara Gamerekian, a former Whe Hoe ai, who named three proment women, two secretari nicknamed “Fiddle and Faddle” and a llege sophomore who “uldn’t type” (Alford) as a few of the sexual partners who helped the Print release his “daily tensns, ” often the Whe Hoe swimmg pool or on official trips around the natn, where women were sometim flown on separate plan so that they uld be, although said by Arthur Schlger to have been “jealo” of others who drew Jack’s attentn, was undoubtedly one of the personal assistants and iends who facilated the Print’s daily need for sex by makg sure that women were available when need. In the fictnal Amerin Adulterer (2009), novelist Jed Mercur ‘s imag a “Kennedy” who believ that ejaculatg several tim a day was ccial to matag good health and mental alertns, a form of self-re and that ntrolled his attacks of Addison’s Disease by preventg semal fluid om backg up to his also shared women wh male iends and relativ, a homoerotic impulse often seen aterni or other male anizatns where men rerce timacy by havg sex wh the same woman.