Was the krays gay

The story of Ronnie Kray’s queer machismo

The Kray Brothers are not the type of people I typically include in these profiles. My focus is been primarily people who have made a contribution to Gay Rights or Gay History. The Kray brother fall into that latter category - Gay Gangsters. Frank Sinatra once hired a security team from the Krays during a visit to London.

They were also once photographer by David Bailey. But their real source of income was an organized crime was in London's East End during the s and s. This included armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, violent assaults, torture and murder. According to reports by other gang members Ronnie Kray was openly gay, refusing to hide his orientation from either them or the police.

Even if gang members objected, Ron just smiled at them and told them they didn't know gay they were missing. The twins threatened the reporters who wrote the story with physical harm. And Boothby threatened to sue. This discourage any other news outlet from pursuing the story. The Krays and 15 other members of the Firm were arrested in May with the plan to convince gang members to testify against the Krays.

It eventually worked and the twins were convicted in Both were sentenced to life prison. While in prison Ronnie was eventually certified insane paranoid schizophrenia the was transferred to Broadmoor Hospital for the rest of his sentence. He died in March from a heart attack. Reggie died 5 years later from cancer October He had been released 2 months earlier on compassionate grounds to spend his final time with his wife who he married 3 years earlier while in prison.

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