Cardinal spellman gay

Cardinal Francis Spellman Francis Spellman, Cardinal Archbishop of New York, was long rumored to have been gay, according to a book by John Cooney, who said that many whom he interviewed took his homosexuality for granted. The archdiocese exploded after it got wind of the information, and became determined to stop it from being published.

Spellman granted the. [57]. The Cardinal was known as "Telma" or "Franny" Spellman in some circles and was rumored to enjoy an active sexual and social life in New York City, with a particular fondness for Broadway musicals and their chorus boys.

In NovemberRees was named artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts, only the fourth person to hold the post in its half century. Better change the sheets. Lucian K. Truscott IV writes about the time he, as a West Point cadet, went to visit Cardinal Francis Spellman, the Archbishop of New York, for a cadet magazine interview.

It was widely rumoured, for instance, that he attended a party with that other well-known closet case, J Edgar Hoover - in drag. He did some television work in the s and began his film career in the s. Rees became an American citizen inand in the s, cardinal his work in the theatre, both as an actor spellman a director.

Tripp related that when the dancer once asked Spellman how he could get away with this, Spellman answered, "Who would believe that? The details of Spellman's personal life are elusive. Christian pulisic gay, the noted researcher affiliated with Dr.

Alfred C. Tripp, who died in May of gave a telephone interview to Michelangelo Signorile a year before his death. Shortly before he died, he established the Keith Haring Foundation to maintain and enhance his legacy of supporting children's and AIDS organizations.

Tripp told Signorile that his information about Spellman came from a Broadway dancer in the show One Touch of Venus who had a relationship with Spellman back in the s; the prelate would have his limousine pick up the dancer several nights a week and bring him back to his place.

A biography of Francis Cardinal Spellman, which in its early stages had asserted that the late Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York was a homosexual whose sex life ''was a source of profound. He was a tireless AIDS campaigner and, tragically, succumbed to the disease himself in at the age of thirty-one.

With his distinctive style, he quickly moved from the streets to international art galleries. After a diagnosis of brain cancer in OctoberRees focused his energy on his commitment to playing opposite Chita Rivera on Broadway in The Visitthe final musical written by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

While undergoing two brain surgeries, two courses of radiation and ongoing chemotherapy, Rees managed to rehearse, preview and open in The Visit in April By the middle of May, it had become too difficult for him to speak, and he left the show. His work is part of the iconography of the s.

After coming out, he moved to New York where he became influenced by graffiti art. In JulyBass revealed that he was gay in a cover story for People magazine. Bass later formed a second production company, Lance Bass Productions, as well as a now-defunct music management company, Free Lance Entertainment, a joint venture with Mercury Records.

The boy would become a servant and lover to then-Cardinal Giovanni Maria del Cicchio Monte, who would raise Innocenzo to the level of cardinal after his lover became the pope. Rees married his partner of thirty-three years, playwright Rick Elice, in Rees and Elice also gay professionally, including as co-playwrights of the comedic thriller Double Double.

He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy-band 'N Sync. Rees died of brain cancer at age 71 at his home in New York on July 10, On Wednesday, July 15,the marquee lights at all the theatres on Broadway were dimmed in his honor.