Bob Kraft YOU ARE MISINFORMED or trying to start a Gay rumor that isnt true. Autry got married at 25, remarried 1 year after the death of his 1st wife and was married til death ,,, absolutely no indication of homosexuality. Clayton Moore was married 4 times and spent very little time single. Again no indication of homosexuality. Roy Rogers ... He and his wife were friends of some of my now deceased relatives ... Roy married the first time at 22, married 3 times with only a year of being single. Not even a speck of a rumor of being gay. Some people that were married in Hollywood were gay, including Rock Hudson, The Brady Bunch Dad, Bewitched's second Darren Stevens, Tab Hunter, Richard Chamberlin, Montgomery Clift, Jim Nabors etc. Until blabber mouth gossips like Barbara Walters in the 90's and the 24/7 GOSSIP on entertainers NO ONE CARED. The nice thing was that people in Hollywood before the 90's worked together and generally respected each other.
And for the Gay Activists YOU WERE MORE AND BETTER ACCEPTED BEFORE YOU STARTED OUTING PEOPLE AND GETTING IN PEOPLES PRIVATE SEX LIFE ... The sitcom/dramady SOAP was EXTREMELY POPULAR in the Seventies. Everyone accepted Elton John (admitted to being gay or bi in 70's) and Olivia Newton John (I think she did more of a short Anne Haiche (sp) experience which appears to have quicly ended. Old Perv (he was pretty vulgar in Interviews) Truman Copote was fully accepted, a best selling author and BLATENTLY gay at least by the early 60's which was BEFORE Officials declared that being homosexual was not a mental illness. Can I continue: Andy Warhol ... copies of his pictures were in millions of homes. Tahlula Bankhead (EVERYONE knew and she worked and worked and worked). People that werent gay had no problem attending events at Gay Bathhouses (The VERY STRAIGHTJohnny Carson and many others that listened to Bette Midler sing (With Barry Manilow on piano) in a balcony area overlooking gay men in towels at a GAY bath house in NYC) ... Carson said it and had no problem letting people know he heard her there because NO ONE CARED ... Talent was Talent. People that were not gay re rumoured to have played around (I account allot of drugs influenced some of it) including the very HETEROSEXUAL Mick Jagger but there is no confirmation nor is any necessary except to busy bodies that need to get a life.
If a MAJOR MOVIE STAR WITH TALENT and popularity said he was gay ... people would still see his/her movies (Rupert Everett) and people still re-watch A Place in teh Sun and everything Rock Hudson was in ... all would listen to their music (Elton John (most CD, albums SOLD of ANYONE), Melissa Ethridge, George Michael 9if he would go back and record another CD) Watch them on TV (Doogie Howser guy, Ellen, Rosie O'DOG ,,,ALL (Although Rosie adn Ellen are getting too LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY GAY LIFE ... we dont care about you we care about your guests do like Johnny Carson ... LET THEM SHINE and get out of the way) Absolutely NO ONE CARES if Anderson Cooper is /is not because we know and WE DO NOT CARE. TALENT IS TALENT.
So if people are gay SO WHAT. If people are Straight SO WHAT ... TALENT IS WHAT MATTERS ... BUT DO NOT CALL SOMEONE GAY UNLESS THEY SAID IT PUBLICALLY WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE. STOP THE GOSSIP. (And these 3 were not gay, no indication of bing gay and if they were they never said so while alive so let the dead be dead