Sourc says that both of the real-life gangsters were gay and that one murred his beard/trophy wife.
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'THE KRAY TWS WERE BOTH GAY' CLAIMS FREDDIE FOREMAN, EX-ENFORCER FOR THE FIRM
There were the Tanics Hoxton, the Hoxton Mob, the Kgs Cross Gang, the Ossians, the Wt End Boys, and the Whechapel Mob: an endls array of gangland groups that emerged, some survivg longer than others, before beg amalgamated, sup- prsed by police, or broken up by workg-class London the terwar perd, there was also an pennt homosexual culture of sorts that was distct om that of the guardsmen and middle-class johns of Hy Park and St Jam’s Park, or the var more bourgeois gay scen of Picdilly, the Haymarket, and Soho. Pubs that were ngregated around the docks and dtrial areas often veloped a distct homosexual or queer clientele, cludg tablishments like the Prospect of Whby Wappg and Charlie Brown’s on Wt India Dock Road, both ltle more than half an hour’s walk om the Kray’s manor.
Acrdg to the noted historian of queer life terwar London Matt Houlbrook, ‘Dock laborers, sailors om across the world, and fai mgled eely wh flamboyant lol queans and slummg gentlemen a protean i where queer men and sual homosexual enunters were an accepted part of everyday life. He never nied his homosexualy, although sometim qualified himself as a bisexual.
For Ronnie, his homosexualy was a natural part of his personaly, somethg he was born wh, and as long as he retaed his mascule virtu, he was fe wh beg seen as a homosexual.