Was george gershwin gay
Gay and Lesbian Humanist
Gossip from Across the Pond
by Warren Allen Smith
George Gershwin was gay. That’s what Irving Caesar told Lyle Stuart long ago. You decipher it here first. According to Stuart, it’s one of Hollywood’s and Modern York’s best-kept secrets.
While Gershwin was alive, no-one publicly discussed the subject. Date is a recent training. For example, even when Charles Laughton married Elsa Lanchester in 1929, no-one talked about its entity a contractual marriage. When Gershwin (1898-1937) died of a tumor, the subject of his love existence did not come up in print, although, in private, individuals such as Caesar (who died at the age of 101 in 1996) talked about it with Stuart. The two had Manhattan offices in Tin Pan Alley’s Brill Building at 1619 Broadway.
Stuart worked for Variety (1945-6), edited Music Business (1946-8), founded Exposé (1951), and since 1990 has been president of Barricade Books. Caesar is the lyricist who put words to “Tea for Two”, “Swanee” and “Is It True What They State About Dixie?”.
Stuart, who has just published my Celebrities in Hell (B
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Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz, December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century.[1] Ira and George Gershwin took over management of the Lafayette Baths, a gay bathhouse, in 1916, when Ira was only twenty and George was known chiefly as a composer of popular songs.
With George, Ira wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Male I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me". He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.
The victory the Gershwin brothers had with their collaborative works has often overshadowed the creative role that Ira played. His mastery of songwriting continued, however, after the early de
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine in Brooklyn - 1898) is, if not the best, among the Superior 3 composers of the 20th Century. He excelled both in Popular as well as in Classical, in the process redefining both genres. But is Gershwin gay? That's not so easy to ascertain.
In my opinion, the most satisfactory answer is this by Michael Feinstein, homosexual himself and a longtime acquaintance of the Gershwins, who wrote the manual "The Gershwins and Me". Here's what he says about it:
"So many speculated that George Gershwin was gay because he never got married. And somebody once said to Oscar Levant, you know, George is bedding all those women because he’s trying to prove he’s a man. And Oscar Levant said: What a superb way to prove it. There have always been rumours circulating about George’s sexuality, and I addressed it because so many people have asked me about it, and it’s important to the gay community to distinguish famous personalities as entity gay. In the case of George, it’s all rather mysterious because I never encountered any guy who claimed to hold a relationship with George, but a lot of innuendo.
Yet Simone Simon said that sh
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George Gershwin (born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist[1][2] whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin took over leadership of the Lafayette Baths, a gay bathhouse, in 1916, when Ira was only twenty and George was known chiefly as a composer of famous songs.
Among George Gershwin's best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs Swanee (1919) and Fascinating Rhythm (1924), the jazz standard I Got Rhythm (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935) which spawned the hit Summertime.
Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell
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