Re: Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) in Critical Condition - Massive Heart Attack (has d
Yes. Should have bolded that part. He used to have young guys who come to the waiting room of his office and he'd come out and select one for casual sex. As I said, such was the norm back then...
I never delved that deeply into that at the time, but I do vaguely recall hearing he was......well...promiscuous to say the least.
Hudson sticks out in memory (yes, even mine) because:
a) at the time AIDS was still viewed as "the gay disease"
b) Hudson's 'puff piece reputation' was a virile, straight guy
c) the press of the time reported his illness as AIDS
d) the press didn't 'really' even try to insinuate AT THE TIME that he was anything other than a straight guy (there was an article in "People" about two months before he died, but even though his sexuality was an 'open secret' in those final months, there was still the undercurrent of 'how did he get this')
e) my Mom, who never talked about such stuff, insisted he was known to like me (as it was put back then)
It wasn't that she had a cow over what he did so much as she was angry that in her view the press was perpetuating what they 'had' to know was a cover-up. Subsequent events proved her suspicion correct.
Another guy who was long rumored to have been flagrantly promiscuous about spreading AIDS was NASCAR driver Tim Richmond. I recall reading a comment from someone who said (paraphrasing here) that "we could have started a support group of AIDS victims from Tim Richmond just in the Charlotte area alone."
