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. What he hated was beg regard as weak; ‘I’m a not a poof, I’m homosexual, ’ he would claim, and loved to intify wh ins of Brish imperialism, such as Lawrence of Arabia, whom he saw a mol of masculy that acmodated vlence and bravado as well as sire.
Referrg to the imperialist hero Gordon of Khartoum, he said, ‘Gordon was like me, homosexual, and he met his ath like a man. 'The Kray tws were BOTH gay and Reggie never nsummated his marriage': Ex-enforcer for The Firm mak sensatnal claims about private liv of crimal duoFreddie Foreman, 83, claimed Reggie Kray's marriage was a shamAlso said The Firm had plans to execute the pair before their arrts Published: 17:30 BST, 26 July 2014 | Updated: 15:53 BST, 27 July 2014. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were both gay and Ronnie never nsummated his marriage, acrdg to new claims ma by an ex-enforcer for the villa Freddie ‘Brown Bread’ Foreman, 83, has been sharg tal of the east London vlent gangsters wh A-Lister Tom Hardy – who is set to star as both tws a new claims that although Ronnie admted his homosexualy his mid-teens, his brother Reggie was also gay and his marriage to Franc Shea was a down for vioReggie Kray married Franc Shea 1965, but jt two years later she mted suici.