Significant others of the wrong gender

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was reading this in an old thread on this site:

(Original thread is here: Predict the next celebrity who'll come out of the closet (and when) - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board)

This made me curious whether there are many other examples of homosexual people having long-term relationships with people of the opposite sex, or, alternately, of heterosexual people having relationships with people of the same sex.

I remember watching a documentary about Queen once where someone described Freddie Mercury’s girlfriend from the '70s as his “soul mate”. On the same-sex side, my poet friends tell me that Allen Ginsberg had a boyfriend (Neal Cassady) who was (otherwise) straight.

(I suppose you could argue that all of these people were really bisexual though.)

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Here we go again.

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Yes, many. Many, many, many. Virtually every famous person in history who was homosexual had a public relationship with someone of the opposite sex. There were as many variations on this as there were people, from two gays living in a total marriage of convenience to true love.

Many, many, many.

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Allegedly Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy had a mostly platonic long-term relationship as a matter of convenience. It’s said that Katharine was a lesbian but it’s more likely she was bi-sexual.

Old Hollywood is full of stories of “marriages of convenience”. I’m not sure why it’s such a curiosity, though. It seems very natural to me.