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Gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray 'had secret gay sex with EACH OTHER'
Ronnie and Reggie Kray had a private incestuous relationship with each other so criminal rivals would not discover they were gay according to author John Pearson who interviewed them both
14:30, 31 Aug 2015Updated 08:11, 01 Sep 2015
Vicious gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray had an incestuous sexual relationship with each other as they were growing up.
The pair, who ran a inhumane and violent criminal empire in London's East End in the 1960s, were terrified of their secret coming out.
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They were worried that rivals would see their sexuality – Ronnie was a homosexual and Reggie was multi-attracted - as a sign of weakness so only had sex with each other in arrange to keep the secret.
Author John Pearson who extensively interviewed the brothers and their associates has made the discovery as a modern film comes out on the twins.
My life with the Krays: A first-hand account from one of the closest women to them
John said: “Homosexuality was nothing to be proud of in the East End.
“But as they became more notorious, Ronnie bec
The gay Kray twins remain two of the most notorious gangsters in British history. Ronnie and Reggie Kray ran a criminal organisation known as the Firm in East London during the 1950s and 1960s. But their reign of terror ended with convictions for murder in 1968.
Renowned for their ruthless tactics and aggressive behaviour, the Kray twins grew up in a penniless and violent common. Their abusive and alcoholic father was usually absent, so parenting fell on Violet, their doting mother. The teenage boxers became emotionally attached in petty crime and eventually formed their own gang.
“I’m a giver, not a receiver.”
However, Ronnie and Reggie Kray had a classified. They were homosexual. Years later, Ronnie told a biographer that the pair initially restricted their sexual activity to each other for fear of revelation. He eventually came to terms with his sexuality and flaunted his younger boyfriends in common. According to a barrister who represented the brothers, Ronnie boasted of his affairs while insisting he was a top. “It’s alright because I’m a giver, not a receiver.”
If Ronnie was a top, Sherlock Holmes would undoubtedly decide Reggie was a bottom. Elementary, dear
He was a a thug, a bully, and a murderer who made himself a British popular hero. He was a friend of Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, and he once said, “I’m homosexual but I’m not a poof”. We use the deplorable story of Ronnie Kray to explore class, crime and postwar British attitudes towards homosexuality. A content note: this episode contains frank discussions of childhood sexual abuse; as such, listener discretion is advised.
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SOURCES:
Campbell, Duncan. "The Selling of the Krays: How Two Mediocre Criminals Created Their Own Legend." The Guardian, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/the-selling-of-the-krays-how-two-mediocre-criminals-created-their-own-legendlegends
Kray, Ronnie. My Story. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1993.
Pearson, John. Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. London: Arrow Books, 2011.
Pearson, John. The Profession of Violence. Unused York: Harper Collins, 1995.
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Ronnie and Reggie Kray 'had classified sex with each other' so no one knew they were gay
Notorious London gangster Ronnie Kray allegedly once revealed in an interview that he and his twin brother Reggie would contain sex with each other when they were teenagers
The Kray twins had sex with each other as teenagers so no one else would know they were gay, a biographer claims.
Gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray terrorised east London in the 1950s and 60s with their thuggery and violence all the while keeping their homosexuality a secret, John Pearson wrote.
One of his books became second only to the Bible for popularity among locked up criminals, but Ronnie's shocking admission was in another, MyLondon reports.
The author chose to only publish the twin's shocking allegation once they had both died and his book Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins hit shelves in 2011.
Mr Pearson, who died last year aged 91, interviewed both twins upon t