It was never spoken of, says vallelonga, who never heard any stories about the subject beyond the one at the ymca. But the one scene that truly shocked the shirley family was when don is arrested for soliciting gay sex from a white man at a ymca, resulting in tony bribing a cop into letting. Shirley's family have also said that he wasn't gay, as well as a couple of his friends in his later years who said he never brought up being gay or anything of the sorts.
Shirley's family have also said that he wasn't gay, as well as a couple of his friends in his later years who said he never brought up being gay or anything of the sorts. (one incident in the film relates to a gay encounter shirley had during the tour, though vallelonga said that shirley never came out as homosexual in real life. )
Julianne Nicholson Winning Time