# Who are some famous gays/bisexuals who have married members of the opposite sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 12, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513 "2005-05-12T04:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/1 "2005-05-12T04:46:32Z")
I’m compiling a list for something I’m writing. I’m not interested in the ones about whom there were gay rumors but no proof (Cary Grant, Tom Cruise, etc.) but the ones who either discussed/admitted their homosexuality, were involved in same sex scandals, left letters that are pretty good indicators, etc., or otherwise were pretty surely at very least actively bisexual. A few that I can think of offhand: Cole “De Lovely” Porter Elton John Will Geer Alec Guinness (whether he was regularly gay or not, he was definitely arrested at least once for soliciting a male prostitute) Tony Perkins Rock Hudson Alexander Hamilton Alexander the Great Eleanor Roosevelt Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (mother of the designer- famous in her own time as a socialite) Thomas Mann (indisputably bisexual but disowned one of his sons for being openly [and exclusively] gay) Oscar Wilde John Cheever Any others you can think of? ---
**Author:** ![freakstasy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@freakstasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freakstasy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/2 "2005-05-12T05:00:10Z")
Virginia Woolf? Or try [this list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_gay%2C_lesbian_or_bisexual_people#A). Anyone not single probably qualifies. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/3 "2005-05-12T05:31:51Z")
I’m pretty sure artist Frida Kahlo was bisexual, and she was married to Diego Rivera. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/4 "2005-05-12T05:50:10Z")
King James (VI of Scotland and I of England), the son of Mary Queen of Scots, married Princess Anne of Denmark but was rumoured to be far more enamoured of his best friend George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/5 "2005-05-12T05:55:45Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Alexander the Great > Eleanor Roosevelt I thought you weren’t interested in rumors. The first one we’ll never know about, and the second… you have proof? ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/6 "2005-05-12T06:02:45Z")
Angelina Jolie talks about her bisexuality quite often, and she was married to Billy Bob. Anne Heche was involved with Ellen DeGeneres before marrying a guy. I think that counts as bisexual. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/7 "2005-05-12T06:06:25Z")
William S Burroughs is a prime example. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/8 "2005-05-12T06:15:15Z")
Yukio Mishima was bisexual. He had a wife and two (?) children, but had a steady male lover–who ended up being the one to help him invade and commit seppuku in the military headquarters of Japan’s Self Defense Force. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/9 "2005-05-12T06:22:41Z")
Freddie Mercury of Queen wasn’t officially married to Mary Astor but: > [@Freddie Mercury](#): > > “To me we are married. She (Mary) is my common law wife,” he has been quoted as saying. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/10 "2005-05-12T07:04:37Z")
Peter Allen was married to Liza Minnelli. ---
**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/11 "2005-05-12T08:19:37Z")
Is Leonardo DeCaprio married? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/12 "2005-05-12T08:26:13Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > I thought you weren’t interested in rumors. The first one we’ll never know about, and the second… you have proof? There has been some credible evidence that Eleanor had a relationship with noted lesbian journalist Lorena Hickok, but I don’t know if it’s ever been substantially proven. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/13 "2005-05-12T08:27:04Z")
It’s been repeatedly alleged and widely insinuated that Prince Edward (of the UK Royal family) is gay. He married Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999. ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/14 "2005-05-12T09:49:18Z")
Michael Barrymore (A T.V. presenter here in the U.K.) was married for nearly 20 years before he finally came out as being gay. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/15 "2005-05-12T11:41:42Z")
It is fairly widely accepted that economist [John Maynard Keynes](http://bloomsbury.denise-randle.co.uk/keynes.htm) is an exceedingly rare example of a man who was almost exclusively homosexual (including a seven-year relationship with painter Grant Duncan) in his younger years, and yet went on to a happy marriage to a woman. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/16 "2005-05-12T12:13:41Z")
The recently-retired governor of New Jersey, Jim McGreevey. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/17 "2005-05-12T12:19:52Z")
Billlie-Jean King. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/18 "2005-05-12T12:29:37Z")
[Edward II](http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/edward_ii/) Charles Laughton (his wife, Elsa Lanchester, outed him after his death) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/19 "2005-05-12T13:12:13Z")
Vincent Minelli Peter Allen David Guest ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-some-famous-gays-bisexuals-who-have-married-members-of-the-opposite-sex/303513/20 "2005-05-12T13:22:54Z")
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