26-10-2015, 04:21 PM
Brian Castle Wrote:Yet another gay man in Oswald's life? What's your take Peter, was Oswald gay? Seems half the people in this story are gay somehow, or... let's see, Jack Ruby's roommate George Senator was a fixture in the Dallas gay scene for a very long time, then there's Rose Cheramie who says Ruby and Oswald were having a gay affair, then there's the whole business with Clay Shaw, there's David Ferrie, there's those two gay guys across the street at the Adolphus doing the revue, ... whole lot of gay vibe running through this story somehow. There must be an angle in here somewhere - I remember my dad telling me (who was in the oil business in Venezuela for a while), that in certain circles it was considered respectable for gay men to have girlfriends and wives and maintain as much of a normal life as possible. He said they called those people "bisexual", and I remember asking how you could be both at once, and he said "they're not really, they're just pretending". This was early 60's, yes? A lot of "that level of understanding" was going around.
Bi-sexuality/homosexuality are much more common throughout human history than most people realize. Until recently, it was very dangerous to be open about such things. In Britain as recently as the late 1960s it was still illegal to engage in such behavior. It was also a favorite way of blackmailing/controlling people (including heterosexual people who were not "discreet").