Was Walt Disney Gay? Or Just A Freakish Pedophile?
Remember the rumor about gay porn star Casey Donovan’s relationship with Superman Christopher Reeve? It came from a book called Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again!: More Exhibitions! More Sex! More Sin! More Scandals Unfit to Print. The book came out on July 16th, 2010 and now they’re saying that Walt Disney hired rentboys and gave “wet sloppy kisses” to a child actor. Can you say “sleazy marketing”?
OK, we’ll bite:
“…not only was Walt fond of trying on his mother’s make-up, clothes and high heels when he was a child… he also could never get an erection for women… Though married for 41 years, Walt kept an apartment in L.A. where he would meet with male hustlers including Ralph Ferguson, who alleges Walt paid him $100 for a night of sex, and also that Walt was popular among the rentboys because he paid a lot.
Walt also allegedly fell in love with child actor Bobby Driscoll (pictured above), the young star of 1946’s Song of the South. Disney would give the young boy “wet sloppy kisses”… Actress Jane Wyman alarmingly said, “there was something going on between Walt and Bobby, something that’s been hushed up, something that should be investigated.”
Disney also confided in gay director George Cukor that “mothers wouldn’t let their kids go see a Disney picture if word got out that I’m a homo.”
Driscoll was the first actor Disney ever put under contract and the true first Disney child star (kinda like an old-timey Zac Efron). But according to the book Driscoll said, “[I was] dropped like garbage when I was no longer a cute little kid and I didn’t appeal to [Walt] anymore.” He ended up hooked on heroin, hanging out with Andy Warhol, and dying in a deserted East Village tenement—your future awaits, Mr. Efron.
Truth or bullshit? Probably bullshit. It’s easy to make up rumors about dead celebrities (which reminds us, Ronald Reagan used to eat babies). But looking at all the fairy princesses slutting around the Magic Kingdom, one has to at least wonder if Disney wasn’t a little “magical” himself. We mean, have you ever seen the Disney film heroes in their underwear? They’re hot as fuck. With them around, we’d wanna be fairy princesses too.
