Jfk gay as hell

After JFK’s tragic death, Billings was said to be “probably the saddest of the Kennedy ‘widows’.”

Now, was JFK actually in love with Lem Billings? And this theory it’s definitely one of the spiciest.

Who Was Lem Billings, JFK’s Alleged Secret Lover?

Enter Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, JFK’s longtime bestie.

But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men, friendships which open the door to other histories. This may have been true of his wife, although perhaps she understood from the beginning that their marriage would be non-monogamous. Jack's best friend was Lem, and he would want to remind everyone of that today.

"The very fact that these men were friends reveals a hidden dimension of JFK's character," Gillon told the magazine. We might even attach the adjectives “exclusive” and “romantic” to this youthful friendship. He was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza when he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald (or so the official story goes—because let’s be real, the conspiracy theories about his death could fill a whole other article).

His assassination shocked the world, and ever since, people have been obsessed with uncovering every hidden detail about his life.

The two became friends, then roommates. Billings once admitted that he made a pass at Jack early on. One reason is that, in retrospect, the Kennedy presidency provides a transition from the years of what historian David K. Johnson calls “the lavender scare” and the unbuttoned, experimental 1960s that launched the gay rights movement. There was a fear Russian agents could use the relationship to blackmail Kennedy, says Oppenheimer.

Jackie was reportedly upset that her husband spent so much time with Billings and that he often spent the night at the White House.

After Kennedy’s assassination, Billings was devastated.

Our most accurate accounts of JFK’s emotional carelessness are not from Lem, who was loyal to his friend until his death, but from women who later came forward about affairs that now, in the era of #MeToo, sometimes raise harsh questions about whether some of these relationships were abusive. According to author Christopher Bram (2012), Vidal told the playwright “he shouldn’t cruise our next president, then repeated the remark to Kennedy.

He noticed that Billings followed Jack around. Now, most people would be mortified if their best friend confessed their feelings this way, but JFK?

His response was iconic: “Please don’t write to me on toilet paper anymore. However, he avoided the notoriety of coming out even after Kennedy’s death, perhaps because he feared that it would draw more negative attention to the extended Kennedy family, which soon struggled with a range of scandals: Chappaquidick, alcoholism, divorce and drugs were but a few.

"Jack was in love with Lem being in love with him and considered him the ideal follower adorer," Quirk wrote. In 1958, her cousin Gore Vidal brought playwright Tennessee Williams to the Kennedy home in Palm Beach, FL. Williams, a handsome gay southerner, had already written seven hit plays.