Marilyn monroe gay

Monroe is believed to have admitted to sexual encounters with Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich, as well as acting coach Paula Strasberg. Take a look at other public figures in history who faced rumors about their sexuality: Was Marilyn A Lesbian? New Book Says Yes. “Another of Marilyn Monroe’s tragedies is that if she were bisexually inclined and in love with a woman, she’d have had at all costs to hide it.

There was no ‘lesbian chic’ then [during the McCarthy witch-hunt era], just bigotry and reprisal. We dissect the story behind Marilyn Monroe becoming the trailblazing gay icon during the s which continues even today at the beginning of Pride Month. Marilyn Monroe’s love life is a thing of Hollywood legend. From Arthur Miller to Natasha Lytess, we uncover the true (and false) accounts of the sex symbol’s most famous romances.

In her book, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, author Lois Banner claims Marilyn Monroe "desired women, had affairs with them, and worried that she might be lesbian by nature" (via. Lytess was a lesbian, or at least a bisexual, with whom Monroe may or may not have had a dalliance in the early s. And not to be overlooked is the close friendship that developed between veteran actress Barbara Stanwyck and her lovely young costar in Clash by Night Marilyn herself questioned her sexuality as I discuss in my new book, Marilyn Forever , but her status as a heterosexual sex symbol made it impossible for her to reveal this side of herself to her public.

Meanwhile, her panting fans included not just straight men but many lesbians, as other of these quotations reveal. According to Anna [daughter of Sigmund Freud], Marilyn was bisexual. Lois Banner, Ph. What a revealing and candid admission.

Talk about courageous, even if she guessed her comment would scarcely be reproduced anywhere. Then or now. Check out the quote yourself. That woman is my hero! What a delight she was. I realize she was being pitched to the gentlemen, but…ladies of a certain persuasion loved Marilyn—in both senses of the word. That was Marilyn Monroe. She was the top, like in the Cole Porter song.

How can anyone possibly criticize that? Some go for a non-threatening sex symbol…like Marilyn Monroe. Women were more programmed to dislike each other. There was minimal solidarity then.

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The true frisson for a lezzie and for some straight guys was the inside scoop on Marilyn Monroe and that Russian [female]acting coach she lived with and brought onto the soundstages of all her movies. Probably assumed she got to sleep with Marilyn. A man director wants total control of his cast, especially his leading lady. With no competition. Almost inseparable one day, then…phfft! During those years Natasha helped Marilyn to gain confidence and gave her the tools to act….

Betty Berzon, lesbian psychologist and author. The repertoire afforded her was already pretty limited. So instead of possibly being happy with a woman, she had to go through grief with a series of men—husbands and lovers—who done her wrong. But superstardom means mass stardom, and you have to not only appeal to the masses but conform to their standards. Yet Hollywood, which exploits sex for profit, is an institution that backs the socioreligious norm.

She was truly a sensuous woman. Your Name required. Your Email required.