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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (105003)5/25/2005 4:00:22 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
So are you saying that Cary Grant's wife was lying when she said that he was ****ing her? That part was a bit confusing. The whole Hollywood machine was involved in keeping gay stars in the closet, and I suspect it is still fairly prevalent, since it is hard to get suspend your disbelief while watching a hot romantic scene if you know that the actor playing the part is gay.

My understanding is that Lincoln slept in a tiny bed with Joshua Speed for eleven years or something--quite a few years, at least. At the same time, beds were expensive then, and platonic sharing of beds was more common than it is now.

I really don't know whether this author is correct or not. I haven't read the book. A few gays have an agenda that involves outing historical homosexuals, hoping that they will not be so discriminated against in the future. If our society were more tolerant, I bet that would stop. But I can understand what the motivation is. Gay biographers may have more insight into historical clues that are significant in trying to sort out who might be gay, also, since they just have more expertise.

When America was being settled, women were scarce in some places. So I also wonder if there wasn't an awful lot of the making do kind of gay sex acts that we find in prisons today among men who were stuck out in the wilderness without women, but were not not primarily homosexual naturally. And sharing a bed with someone for years might make them seem sort of appealing, because you would be so close in every other way. And then of course there is that percentage of any population that is bisexual. So it is quite a confusing thing to sort out!
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