A biography of Minnelli that appeared on Turner Classic Movies. I can’t recall the who actually wrote the script, but Minnelli’s sexual preference has been pretty much common knowledge for a long time.
Well, what was his sexual preference? How is this knowable?
Never mind Streisand; whatintheheck is with Dinah Shore and the Dinah Shore Women’s Weekend in Palm Springs? I mean hordes of lesbian women cutting loose is the ultimate Girls Gone Wild video, but how in the heck did that get started? As far as I know she wasn’t a dyke.
As for celebrities that should have been but weren’t gay icons, I’m surprise Katherine Hepburn doesn’t rank up there Not that she was gay, but she did pretty much pioneer the whole brash, outspoken, anti-marriage and children, pants-wearing, minimum makeup persona long before Ellen DeGeneres was even a wiggling zygote; she was sort of the anti-Donna Reed.
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Oh, she does. Name a diva from the Golden Age of Hollywood and she has or had her devotees among the homorati.
For God’s sake, don’t tell them The Agenda!
Generally speaking, when straight guys fool around on their wives, it’s with women. Or to paraphrase a quote from the play/movie Torch Song Trilogy, “I suppose bisexual men are possible, but it’s very rare that you hear of a man sneaking out while his boyfriend is sleeping to go have sex with his girlfriend.”
Let them know. Once we get Anne Heche mated by George Michael, there will be no stopping us, and we shall create a FOAM PARTY THAT WILL LAST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS! MUWAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ick.
I’d prefer either a wine and cheese party with Chopin playing or a mosh pit with Front 242 headlining with Ministry.
Foam party. Blech.
I don’t need to go for a pretense to feel people up. I just get their permission.
Can we make that a Balloon Party instead? It’s just that bubble foam gives me a really nasty rash…
whispers Folks, this is why we haven’t taken over the world yet…like herding cats, honestly… whisper
Of all the gay icons, Judy was the only one who didn’t have a reputation (deserved or otherwise) for being a bitch. Not that she couldn’t cut someone down to size, but it never overshadowed her vulnerability.
Okay, that image, that right there? That just rendered me asexual. I hope you’re happy.
That usually doesn’t happen to a woman until I date her.
sheepishly raises his hand Well… not exactly, but something like that 
Maybe not actually calling her a bitch, but check out Mel Tormé’s book The Other Side of the Rainbow, about working on her CBS show, or Dirk Bogarde’s account, in his autobiography, about what she was like when he made a movie with her.
No, that was husband number four.
Really? It got me kinda hot.
Oops, I forgot about Marilyn. Most people who knew her describe her as “sweet.”
Haven’t read Bogarde’s book but what I’ve read of Torme’s reeks of bitterness. According to a number of sources quoted in Rainbow’s End: The Judy Garland Show and other Garland books (and as a side note, should there be any more Garland books may we have a moratorium on the use of the word “rainbow” in the title?), Torme was fired for cause from her CBS show.
I may be totally wrong, but I heard that she slept with at least one woman. I don’t really remember where I heard it, but I seem to recall reading it somewhere.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with the OP, just thought i’d mention it.
Does anyone know if this is true?