US 芸能人 Joel Grey comes out as gay

Oscar-winning American 芸能人 Joel Grey, best known for his 星/主役にする turn in the 1973 big-審査する 見解/翻訳/版 of the musical "Cabaret," (機の)カム out as gay on Wednesday.

The 82-year-old actor, singer and ダンサー, who had two children with ex-wife Jo Wilder before their 24-year marriage ended in 1982, told People magazine that friends and family had known about his sexuality for years.

"I'm a gay man," Grey was 引用するd as 説, telling the magazine he had realized at an 早期に age he had "feelings for boys" -- while also 存在 attracted to girls.

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Oscar-winning American entertainer Joel Grey, best known for his star turn in the 1973 big-screen version of the musical "Cabaret," comes out as gay ?Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty/AFP/File)

Oscar-winning American 芸能人 Joel Grey, best known for his 星/主役にする turn in the 1973 big-審査する 見解/翻訳/版 of the musical "Cabaret," comes out as gay ?Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty/AFP/とじ込み/提出する)

He had kept his sexuality a secret, 用心深い of confiding in anyone after 審理,公聴会 adults in his childhood home talking "derisively about 'fairies' and men 存在 dragged off to 刑務所,拘置所... for 存在 homosexual, for 存在 who they were."

Grey said he believed it would have been impossible to have been 率直に gay in the entertainment 産業 he first started working in.

"You couldn't have a life, a career then... it was too dangerous in my world," he said.

Grey, whose daughter Jennifer starred in 1980s classic "Dirty Dancing," won a Tony Award for playing the 役割 of the Emcee in "Cabaret." He 選ぶd up an Oscar for the same 役割 in the movie 見解/翻訳/版 which starred Liza Minnelli.

最近の 行う/開催する/段階 外見s have 含むd parts in musicals "Chicago" and "Wicked."

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