John ford gay

As increasing evidence of legendary film director John Ford's closeted homosexuality emerges, film historian and biographer Richard Douglas Jensen digs deeply into the record and the result is a riveting account of John Ford's dysfunctional relationship with legendary movie icon John Wayne.

It's possible that he wasn't gay but it wouldn't be because he was married for 50 years. Extramarital affairs go on all the time. Charles Laughton was married to Elsa Lanchester for a long time and he was quite gay. It's what was known in that era as having a beard.