Off camera, Perkins suffered great anxiety over his sexual orientation and underwent therapy to help overcome his attraction to other men.
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There are photos of Perkins and Tab Hunter on arranged double dates as they sit next to each other in movie houses with the girls flanking the outside. His fame exploded with the release of Hitchcock's Psycho, and forever after he was typecast as the "disturbed young man." He was an award-winning actor early in his career as well as a recording star with Billboard-charted hits. Perkins's appeal was a sincere and vulnerable personality with a face that revealed emotions that lurked beneath the surface. The dark and brooding boy next door had a secret, and that secret was that his boyfriend was the sunny and athletic boy next door Tab Hunter. Is Bowers to be believed? Cynic, truth-seeker, and homosexual Gore Vidal insisted that Bowers's stories hold up. He claims to have arranged over 150 hook-upsĀ for the Oscar-winning actress and claims that her famed relationship with Spencer Tracy was a sham. Names are named, among them Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, George Cukor, Anthony Perkins, and Rock Hudson. His decades as a procurer for the various colorful sexual personalities in Hollywood and Beverly Hills spell out in stark terms the specifics to which the gay rumors had only just alluded.
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Scotty Bowers's 2012 book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars lays raw the sex lives of the bronze, golden, and silver ages of Hollywood. The original gender-norm rebel, Hepburn was iconoclastic in her choices of film roles, her choice of men's clothing, and her lovers. Katharine Hepburn (pictured above in Sylvia Scarlett)