Gay biographies and Histories with fabulous gossip

I loved the gossip of Gary Cooper having a male lover when younger

[R1] He was so beautiful!

Henry Willson was agent for Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter etc It was a fascinating story. I forget the authors name but the title was Henry Willson.Another book is “You’ll Never eat Lunch in this Town Again” is an insider’s view of Hollywood who knew where the bodies were buried.. I got both because of what Iread about them here. Both very funny and informative

Most biographies with "fabulous gossip" are full of lies.

I enjoyed this well-documented biography of this gay writer and the "amatory gyrations" of his clever group of friends. (it was plundered by an American journalist for his flashy fictional thing called 'The Hours'.

John Richardson's memoir "Sorcerer's Apprentice" recalls his years as Douglas Cooper's boy toy, if you like modern art and profiles of the high life, it includes Picasso and his many women, many other artists and wealthy collectors. Cooper was knifed by rough trade in France and was bleeding on a doorstep when some woman found him and saved his life.

R3: The Willson bio is very coy about details, except to say Willson bedded some of his straight guys and that some gay ones managed to avoid fucking him.

The one. The only.

In Her Sister's Shadow: An Intimate Biography of Lee Radziwell.

"In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master" by Tim Teeman

"City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 1970s" by Edmund White

"Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969" by William J. Mann

"Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant" by Philip Hoare

Suetonius’ Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

That Suetonius was such a card. Anyone here date him?

"Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins" by Amanda Vaill

"The Letters of Noel Coward," edited and with commentary by Barry Day

"The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman," edited by Stephen Pascal

The William Haines bio mentioned by the OP is "Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Holllywood's First Openly Gay Star," also by William J. Mann.

Mann has also written a bio of John Schlesinger, the gay director, "Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger," and the very controversial "Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn," in which he writes that Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were both gay. In addition, there is one about a gay icon--"Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Steisand."

Mann is currently writing a bio of Marlon Brando. Yikes!

Montgomery Clift: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth

Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter

Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins by Charles Winecoff

Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro by Andre Soares

The Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson

I'm about to start the first Snagglepuss graphic novel.

Scotty Bowers

Maria Riva's biography of her mother Marlene Dietrich is the best of the best in star bios.

She had quite the love-hate relationship with her mutter and doesn't hold back.