There Groucho and Cary both invited him home. Fangorn, aka Dennis, said that his first gay experience was a three way with Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky.ĭick Sargeant (1930-1994), Cary Grant (1904-1986), and Groucho Marx (1890-1988), all on the same night, in the same bed! In 1958, when he was a teenage navy recruit, Randall (the bear with the pierced penis) told us that he hooked up with Dick Sargent (future star of Bewitched), who took him to a gay party. Tony Curtis was married to women five times, but his androgynous prettyboy looks made him the subject of many gay rumors in the 1950s.Īllen Ginsberg (1926-1997), the gay Beat poet.
Drake, the leather teddy bear artist of South of Market, claimed to have tricked with him when he was starring in Trapeze (1956), about a circus love triangle.
Tony Curtis (1925-2010), the movie star who went in drag for Some Like It Hot (1959). Fox and Robin Williams, but there's no evidence that Tony Randall was gay. Marcus was in the industry, and introduced me to several celebrities, including Michael J. Marcus, the first person I met in West Hollywood, said that they met on the set of Hollywood Squares, and hooked up in a hotel in Beverly Hills. Cesar Romero claimed that they had a long-term "friend with benefits relationship. The biographical details check out.ĭesi Arnaz (1917-1986).Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy. President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) He was just a local radio announcer when Oscar, the retired set designer from Des Moines, claims that they dated. When he told the story, Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) were in the mix. My boyfriend Lane hooked up with him in the early 1990s.
Some are probably pure inventions.Ĭesar Romero (1907-1994) 1940s heartthrob and the Joker on the old Batman tv series. Some of the stories are probably exaggerations, a non-romantic lunch becoming a romantic date, a casual meeting becoming a vigorous all-night orgy. I'm making no claims about the sexual orientation of any of these celebrities except #1 and #10.
Here are the most famous or most believable I've heard. In the gay neighborhoods of West Hollywood and San Francisco, not so much in New York or Florida, everyone had a celebrity dating or hookup story.