Was sinatra gay
Frank Sinatra: I used to visit all the same-sex attracted places…
norman lebrecht
October 13, 2018
Variety has been allowed to release a long-suppressed recording.
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Frank Sinatra’s penis is so big, when I was doing a line of coke off of it – I had to stop and think, “Is it a queer anthem?” – Thanks Jinkx Monsoon for that inspiration.
A piece of revisionist news is making the rounds on the internet again. Frank Sinatra, arguably one of the greatest crooners of all time, is responsible for bringing a male lover love song to animation with his cover of “Fly Me to the Moon.”
Originally titled “In Other Words,” the classic anthem was written by composer Bart Howard in 1954. The tune was eventually reworked by Frank Sinatra under its new title in 1964 and became one of the singer’s biggest hits. What not many people have realized, though, is that its unique composer, Howard, was a gay man.
Bart Howard was in a decades lengthy relationship with Thomas Fowler. The pair remained together until Howard’s death in 2004. And with Fowler’s passing, the couple is interned together, bringing a lifelong and forever ending to their love story.
The song was originally called In Other Words and it was composed in a 3/4 timescale. The first recording was by Kaye Ballard, and many p
Anonymous asked:
what was frank's scene like with lesbian and gay friends? did he have many of them? did he or they ever talk about each other?
this is a excellent question that i sort of feel like i don’t have enough concrete information to answer, but i’ll present what i have and you can take it from there.
frank sinatra had a loyal, lifelong policy of exist and let live. it sounds shallow, but he actually lived it. it was that deceptively plain idea that influenced a lot of his politics and his social liberalism. he felt that, if you weren’t deliberately hurting another person, you should be able to perform whatever you want. in a way, i contemplate he took this mindset almost too far when you look at some of the more unsavory people he befriended–and not just mobsters.
in terms of lgbqp friends, he absolutely had them and some of them were very close friends. he absolutely adored montgomery clift. greta garbo stayed in his home (with his wife!). he slept with and was good friends with marlene dietrich. he was friends with cole porter, noel coward, joan crawford, jeff chandler. he was very close with cary grant. billie holiday was his hero, and he also greatly admired
The first teen idol, Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) had bobby-soxers and gay greasers swooning with syrupy-voiced romantic ballads like "Night and Day" (1942), "Begin the Beguine" (1946), and "I've Got a Crush on You" (1948).
Like all teen idols, his fan base aged with him, so by the adv 1950s, his songs had become "old favorites," the songs middle-aged couples danced to while they reminisced about when they first met: "My Blue Heaven" (1961), "I Love Paris" (1962), "It Was a Very Good Year" (1965)
By that time, he was making a splash in Hollywood, as the amorous lead in buddy musicals like Anchors Aweigh(1945), On the Town(1949), and Guys and Dolls(1955), in thoughtful dramas like From Here to Eternity(1953), The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), and Von Ryan's Express(1965).
By the 1960s, he had re-invented himself as a fast-talking middle-aged sharpie who loved the fast existence and had connections with disreputable types. He played parodies of himself in Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964), Tony Rome (1967), and The Detective (1968), which apparently contains some savage homophobia, even by 1960s stand.