Ronnie Kray, the vlent gangster who led London's East End durg the late Fifti and Sixti, shocked his olr brother Charlie by admtg his homosexualy and goad his tw brother Reg to experimentg wh gay sex, a new bgraphy reveals.
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GAY HISTORY: RONNIE KRAY – “THE QUEEN MOTHER”.
The brothers paid, rather than threatened, a psychiatrist to certify – vio review GuardianSexualyIn the film, Ron is openly gay while Reg falls love wh Franc Shea (Ey Browng). In real life, both brothers were bisexual; Ron predomantly homosexual.
SndalRon ro London’s gay unrworld, makg iends – and perhaps more – wh Conservative peer Lord Boothby. Ron was known on the gay scene as “the Queen Mother”. Hardy gave an terview to the Gay Tim about the rol, and when they asked him about how he approached the sexualy of the character, he said: “Do you know what?
Ronnie was gay, so if I thought too much about that, might give me a pse to thk I had to do somethg different. A lot of historians actually believe that both tws were gay, which Hardy acknowledged the terview and said actually ma much harr to play the allegedly straight Reggie: “I thk what was plited was actually Reggie. Reggie was potentially like Ronnie, we don’t know whether he was gay or not.