Gore Vidal, who once said: "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." Asked whether his first romantic encounter was homosexual or heterosexual, Vidal replied that he had been "too polite to ask".
Gore Vidal claimed that the 'Bush junta' was complicit in 9/11
Gore Vidal claimed that "We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the USA."
Interview - The Times September 30, 2009.
Gore Vidal claimed that the 'Bush junta' was complicit in 9/11
Gore Vidal claimed that "We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the USA."
Interview - The Times September 30, 2009.
Gore Vidal with JFK
Gore Vidal, who died in 2012, had been a friend of the J F Kennedy family and of the Clintons.
According to Tim Teeman, author of 'In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood and the Private World of an American Master':
"Vidal and Austen (Vidal's partner) had sex with hustlers ... as Vidal called the handsome, 'straight-acting' young men he liked.
"Paying for sex appealed to Vidal because it meant with this, as with so much else in his life, he was in control...
"Vidal loved sex, and gossiping about it: he estimated he had had sex with a thousand men before he was 25.
"He told his nephew Burr Steers he had successfully pursued and had sex with Fred Astaire when he first moved to Hollywood.
"Steers says, 'He also told me Dennis Hopper had a lovely tuft of hair above his ass. He never told me how he knew that.'
Brad Davis
"Another close friend of Vidal's revealed Vidal had asked, when hearing the friend was staying at the legendarily louche Chateau Marmont, 'How is the Chateau?', before adding: 'Brad Davis (star of Midnight Express and Querelle) was a beautiful boy and I fucked him on the bathroom floor
of the Chateau Marmont.'
Gore Vidal reportedly slept with Anaïs Nin and enjoyed close friendships with women including Claire Bloom and Joanne Woodward.
Young Gore Vidal
When Gore was 10, his parents divorced.
Gore's alcoholic mother told Gore how, on the way to their honeymoon, Gore's father said: "There's something very important I want you to know. I have three balls."
Gore says of his mother: "She was a shit. A drunken shit."
Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his 'vicious' mother and rumours of a secret love child
Gore's alcoholic mother told Gore how, on the way to their honeymoon, Gore's father said: "There's something very important I want you to know. I have three balls."
Gore says of his mother: "She was a shit. A drunken shit."
Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his 'vicious' mother and rumours of a secret love child
Gore Vidal is famous for writing about Abraham Lincoln and certain other people considered to have taken an interest in boys.
Vidal's novel The City and the Pillar (1948) was one of the first major American novels about gay people.
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Vidal (centre) Band of Thebes: October 2007.
Vidal saw the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" as misleading, and believed that people are bisexual.
"Paul Newman and Gore Vidal shared ... Joanne Woodward, in the late 1950s, living as a happy threesome for a while.
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Vidal (centre) Band of Thebes: October 2007.
Vidal saw the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" as misleading, and believed that people are bisexual.
"Paul Newman and Gore Vidal shared ... Joanne Woodward, in the late 1950s, living as a happy threesome for a while.
"Paul and Gore remained close throughout the '60s, until Gore's live-in 'husband' got him to vamoose for Italy and away from the sultry arms of the box-office star."
Deep Inside the Hollywood Closet
Woodward and Newman
Deep Inside the Hollywood Closet
Woodward and Newman
Trimble?
"Vidal's true love ... was Jimmie Trimble, a boy he had known at prep school who died fighting at the Battle of Iwo Jima."
Vidal and his partner Howard Austen stayed together fifty-two years, until Austen’s death in 2003.
Vidal says the secret to their longevity was that they never had sex, not even at the beginning.
"Vidal and Austen (Vidal's partner) had sex with hustlers ... as Vidal called the handsome, 'straight-acting' young men he liked.
"Paying for sex appealed to Vidal because it meant with this, as with so much else in his life, he was in control...
"Vidal loved sex, and gossiping about it: he estimated he had had sex with a thousand men before he was 25.
"He told his nephew Burr Steers he had successfully pursued and had sex with Fred Astaire when he first moved to Hollywood.
"Steers says, 'He also told me Dennis Hopper had a lovely tuft of hair above his ass. He never told me how he knew that.'
Brad Davis
"Another close friend of Vidal's revealed Vidal had asked, when hearing the friend was staying at the legendarily louche Chateau Marmont, 'How is the Chateau?', before adding: 'Brad Davis (star of Midnight Express and Querelle) was a beautiful boy and I fucked him on the bathroom floor
of the Chateau Marmont.'"Davis, who was HIV-positive, died of a drug overdose in 1991...
"Vidal caroused with Tennessee Williams and Christopher Isherwood...
"He slept with Jack Kerouac...
"His much-cherished years in Rome in the 1960s were a merry sexual circus. He had sex with hustlers in the afternoons, he said, so he could concentrate on conversation with friends in the evening.
"One of Vidal’s oldest friends was Scotty Bowers, who had sex with, and procured sex for, celebrities including Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, and Vidal himself."
"He slept with Jack Kerouac...
"His much-cherished years in Rome in the 1960s were a merry sexual circus. He had sex with hustlers in the afternoons, he said, so he could concentrate on conversation with friends in the evening.
"One of Vidal’s oldest friends was Scotty Bowers, who had sex with, and procured sex for, celebrities including Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, and Vidal himself."
How Gay Was Gore Vidal? - The Daily Beast
William F Buckley (left)
Vidal made enemies.
"He would say that the young guys involved were hustlers who were sending signals."
For Gore Vidal, a Final Plot Twist - NYTimes.com
William F Buckley (left)
Vidal made enemies.
Gore Vidal said of William F. Buckley: "He's like Hitler without the charm."
Buckley called Vidal 'a queer' after Vidal had called Buckley a 'crypto-Nazi', during a 1968 television debate.
Gore Vidal upset his family when he gave his entire fortune and assets to Harvard University.
Buckley called Vidal 'a queer' after Vidal had called Buckley a 'crypto-Nazi', during a 1968 television debate.
Gore Vidal upset his family when he gave his entire fortune and assets to Harvard University.
Italy, where Gore Vidal spent a lot of time.
According to Vidal's nephew Burr Steers, Vidal was terrified that Buckley may have had evidence that Vidal had sex with boys.
"Jerry Sandusky acts," says Nina Straight, Vidal's half sister.
Burr Steers says: "Gore spent a lot of time in Bangkok, after all.
"Gore also had a very weird take on the abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests.
For Gore Vidal, a Final Plot Twist - NYTimes.com
Gore Vidal had a villa at Ravello. tonygill.com
In the September 1969 edition of Esquire, Vidal wrote:
We are all bisexual to begin with.
At a 1999 lecture in Dublin, Vidal said:
"A characteristic of our present chaos is the dramatic migration of tribes.
"They are on the move from east to west, from south to north.
"Liberal tradition requires that borders must always be open to those in search of safety or even the pursuit of happiness.
"But now with so many millions of people on the move, even the great-hearted are becoming edgy.
"Norway is large enough and empty enough to take in 40 to 50 million homeless Bengalis.
"If the Norwegians say that, all in all, they would rather not take them in, is this to be considered racism? I think not. It is simply self-preservation, the first law of species."[64]
In the September 1969 edition of Esquire, Vidal wrote:
We are all bisexual to begin with.
And we are all responsive to sexual stimuli from our own as well as from the opposite sex.
Certain societies at certain times, usually in the interest of maintaining the baby supply, have discouraged homosexuality.
Other societies, particularly militaristic ones, have exalted it.
But regardless of tribal taboos, homosexuality is a constant fact of the human condition and it is not a sickness, not a sin, not a crime ... despite the best efforts of our puritan tribe to make it all three.
Gore Vidal and Michael York.
Vidal wrote in the 1970s:
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ...
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ...
"And it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
"Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt...
"And more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." [61]
Princess Margaret, Gore Vidal, Jack Nicholson
Princess Margaret, Gore Vidal, Jack Nicholson
At a 1999 lecture in Dublin, Vidal said:
"A characteristic of our present chaos is the dramatic migration of tribes.
"They are on the move from east to west, from south to north.
"Liberal tradition requires that borders must always be open to those in search of safety or even the pursuit of happiness.
"But now with so many millions of people on the move, even the great-hearted are becoming edgy.
"Norway is large enough and empty enough to take in 40 to 50 million homeless Bengalis.
"If the Norwegians say that, all in all, they would rather not take them in, is this to be considered racism? I think not. It is simply self-preservation, the first law of species."[64]
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