Anthony Perkins and AIDS

He got it like ALL celebrities get it. Through oral sex

Oh,R1 you are a sweet summer child!

[quote]He was married up until his death. Was he running around on her?

Are you serious with this shit?

How old are you? We can tell you're a straight woman. Just wondering if you're very, very old and stupid, or very, very young and stupid.

He got it from sex, likely with a man given his history and other obvious signs. And yes, Virginia, married men often have sex with other people, often other men.

"Mother. What are you doing with that turkey baster? Mother, no. Please mother, I'll be good. Not there, mother. Oooooh mother!"

He wouldn't hurt a fly.

PLEEEEEEEEASE, WON'T SOMEONE SHIT IN MY MOUTH????!!!!!!!!!

[quote]Are you serious with this shit?

I'm looking for someone to spill the tea on their relationship, you dumb fuck!

R6 = braindead OP.

How did he get it?

It was falling off the trees OP.

From riding a tractor in a speedo.

He was also into drugs so who knows.

I heard he got it from a toilet seat.

W&W, R10.

Oh pul-eeez. I'm sure he was taking it up the ass from time to time. Besides bisexuality amongst men is much more commonplace than people want to admit, even today.

He told me he was bitten by a gay mosquito, and that made perfect sense to me after he patiently explained it. I never saw Tony riding a tractor! He did love Speedos though, so I suppose there might've been some things he didn't tell me.

[quote]I'm sure he was taking it up the ass from time to time.

But he was married. To a woman. How is that possible?

Are you saying his wife had a penis? And she infected him through anal sex? Wouldn't she have died, too?

I'm so confused. I had no idea Anthony Perkins married a transsexual woman who gave him AIDS. How awful.

Wait a minute. How did SHE get it?

Perkins always came off bad, in every interview he was always bitching about how he should be a bigger star but it was never his fault. It was because of Psycho, then AIDS, then his sexuality, then something else. Never would he admit, it was just him and thousands of other actors faced the same problem and managed to cope successfully where he failed miserably.

He might have been hansome, he might have been talented but his bitchiness alone puts him in the stereotypical gay category.

She got it when she was giving birth to one of her sons, who was infected.

Can't Datalounge have a requirement that OP's either have to have an IQ in the 3 figures or be over 10 years old, or BOTH? This is a level of stupidity it's sad to see.

I wonder if he regretted doing The Black Hole. I regretted spending my allowance to see it.

"Besides bisexuality amongst men is much more commonplace than people want to admit, even today.

He's a closet gay who only got married because his quack therapist told him to. Lumping him in with bisexuals is the reason people think bisexual men are really just gay.

Who's the trick that infected him?

He has two hot sons.

Sadly, Perkins was infected through a blood transfusion when he had gallbladder surgery. Until 2000, the blood supply was unknowingly full of AIDS and Hepatitis. 20/20 did several exposes about this. Tens of thousands of innocents contacted the virus that way. This is why Prince never got his hip repaired because he didn't want to catch the aids virus during surgery. Instead he died from too many pain meds. Ironic.

I'm guessing that he wasn't fucking his wife if she some how avoided getting infected. She died in the 9/11 attacks. His sons were born in the mid-70s. He died in 92. Somewhere in there he was fucking around and not fucking his wife.

I did NOT have AIDS! It was that damned watermelon diet!

r24 is full of shit.

R23, you're nuts. He never gave up the boyz. Google Christopher Makos. Even with Berry in the house, Chris said Tony would tell him all the creepy things he wanted done to him. (Tony was into the whole "I'm asleep in my unlocked apt. and you're a rapist" scenario. ) Chris would say, "Whatever you want, Norman."

National Enquirer says Perkins has AIDS before the actor knew himself....

In 1990, the American National Enquirer had this headline, "Psycho Star Has AIDS Virus". No-one was more shocked to see this than the Psycho star himself, Anthony Perkins, who had never had an AIDS test. So, how did this mag get its scoop?

Well, Perkins had given a blood sample to a hospital treating him for facial palsy, the Enquirer illegally obtained the sample, had it tested for HIV and then published, without telling the actor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.155.77.36 (talk) 16:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, meant R24.

He got it from sharing needles with Rock Hudson, OP.

Both were diabetics.

God, for a site full of elder-gays, no one has any inside dirt or gossip as to how Perkins ended up contracting AIDS?

We ALL know how Perkins got AIDS. He was gay and he got it like all the other gay people got it.

[quote]This is why Prince never got his hip repaired because he didn't want to catch the aids virus during surgery. Instead he died from too many pain meds. Ironic.

What you should have said was ..the aids virus during surgery. Instead he got it the old fashion way, butt sex.

From kissing?

From a toilet seat.

[quote] I wonder if he regretted doing The Black Hole.

Well, now you know how he got AIDS.

Perkins lived in Chelsea. The townhouse was in the far west 20s. I think 22nd around the seminary. I remember Rip Torn and Gerry Page lived nearby in a rundown house. Anyway, it's 1970s new York...you're having sex with men...the risk of AIDS was very high. Is that so hard to figure out?

[quote]no one has any inside dirt or gossip as to how Perkins ended up contracting AIDS?

How old are you? Seriously? You sound about 16.

It's very likely he did not even know how he got it, exactly. You seem to expect one of us to furnish you with the name of his infector and the exact date and time of his seroconversion.

Meanwhile anyone who actually lived through that time knows that many people were infected for years before finding out, and many never knew when, how or from whom they were infected.

[quote]Was he running around on her?

No, never. He was 100% faithful. But he was also a blood drinking vampire (some insider gossip for you), so maybe that's how he got it.

In Frank Langella's book "Dropped Names" he talks about working with Perkins, how he rebuffed an advance, and finally how he saw him in Los Angeles near the end in a pitiable condition.

Poor Frank Langella. Is he still pretending to be straight? I doubt he rebuffed Tony's advances

Frank Langella gave Tony Perkins AIDS??!!

[quote] I remember Rip Torn...Is that so hard to figure out?

With a name like Rip Torn, I would think getting AIDS was pretty much guaranteed.

More interested to hear what his relationship was to his wife, who was very well known. Like I said, he had two kids, and he did not too long after the second one was born, so they were fucking from time to time. She's lucky to not have been infected. I was wondering if there were any stories about where he would hang, if he was ever caught. As posted, the Enquirer outed his AIDS status by getting hold of his blood sample.

More interested to hear what his relationship was to his wife, who was very well known. Like I said, he had two kids, and he died not too long after the second one was born, so they were fucking from time to time. She's lucky to not have been infected. I was wondering if there were any stories about where he would hang, if he was ever caught. As posted, the Enquirer outed his AIDS status by getting hold of his blood sample.

Frank Langella's straight?

lol.

[quote]More interested to hear what his relationship was to his wife, who was very well known.

Berry wasn't that well known, at least not as well known as her sister Marissa who starred in Cabaret. Berry loved and understood Tony.

Here's an interview she gave to the Times after his death:

Poor Berry should read this thread.

r23

Elvis Perkins looks like he hasn't shaved or taken a bath EVER.

And Oz Perkins looks like an uglier version of the second Darrin on Bewitched.

[quote] Poor Berry should read this thread.

Yes, I'll be sure and tell her.

I remember reading Andy Warhol’s diary and Andy said he sent some young guy to interview Anthony Perkins for Interview magazine. Anthony Perkins said to the assistant demanding, I want to see that! pointing to the crotch of the young interviewer from interview magazine. When Andy found out he was disgusted and furious with Anthony Perkins and told Anthony Perkins to forget about the interview and he wanted to have nothing to do with him. Apparently Andy didn’t want his staff sexually harassed.

Anthony Perkins always seemed completely creepy to me and he seemed like he had some screws loose. He was definitely handsome, but I never thought he was super good looking like many other movie stars. I watched that film on the making of Psycho starring Anthony Hopkins who played Alfred Hitchcock. There is a scene in the film which Alfred Hitchcock is interviewing Anthony Perkins for the role of the murderer in Psycho. Anthony Perkins was talking about his personal life to Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins said he wished his father was dead because he wanted his mother to himself when he was a kid, and he smiled and he said my wished did come true, my father drop dead.

BTW, I think the OP wants to know was Anthony Perkins a bottom or a top. I think either he was versatile or a bottom.

BTW, I once read that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward tried to get Anthony Perkins help to go see a therapist to become strait. I don’t if that is true or not. Has anyone else heard that?

R53 Warhol was jealous because Christopher Makos was seeing both of them at the same time.

Andy was just as creepy as Tony Perkins.

He’d always be trying to get us to help him get commissions for portraits. At Studio, he’d ask, “Can we get one of those rich men you’re sleeping with to buy a portrait?” And later it was more like, “Why don’t you go sleep with that one, and then talk him into getting a portrait.” We did that a lot.”

“One time I did it for Andy and Dalí together. We were in a black limousine, going uptown on Park Avenue South. Potassa and Dalí’s wife, Gala, were there, too. I don’t know why Andy grabbed me; maybe he was trying to get Dalí turned on, or maybe he just wanted to show that he had control.”

from - Richard Dupont (the Dupont Twins

Anthony Perkins got it from sex. Probably a man. Maybe a women. Straight mens and women get HIV and back then, they got AIDS and died, too, just like gays. Though not as many proportionally. DUH FUCKING DUH.

Women contract the AIDS virus at a rate 1/10 of that of "mens."

True. But out of millions of people, there are some straight men and women who get HIV and get it from straight sex. And we're talking Europe and the USA. In Africa, I doubt the ratio is 1/10 but who knows.

Again we mention that AP's widow was the most well known casualty of 9/11. She was flying back to LA from A Massachusetts holiday, I believe it was Martha's Vineyard. AP and the light-footed Grover Dale ware and item for a long time, then they apparently parted company, wed women, and had children. Loved Grover in "Les Demoiselles….

How close was he with Sondheim?

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R5, "He wouldn't hurt a fly"; how about humans?

Hee Hee!!

Where do you come up with these stories? To say nothing of the idiocy of some of the little gaylings' questions.

R53, Warhol sent Berry Berenson to interview Perkins--at her request; she'd been crushing on him since adolescence. I think she was pretty relentless in her pursuit of him, but in any case they became lovers, she got pregnant and they got married.

By all accounts they loved each other, by all accounts Tony continued to have sex with men, and by all accounts both considered it a happy, committed marriage. Before his marriage he had long-term relationships with Grover Dale and Steve Sondheim., among others. Shorter term relationships with others, including Makos.

You forgot Tab Hunter.

Well, fine: Tab Hunter.

Who's Makos?

R64 Oh please, he was a run of the mill pathetic gay closet case who got cock left right and centre. Dont doubt him and his wife had a lovely relationship, but dont make him out to be some free-thinking ravenous bisexual in pursuit of pussy. Its just not true.

Sondheim and Perkins were friends, not lovers. They wrote the screenplay for the film THE LAST OF SHEILA.

R68, you have some fairly serious reading comprehension problems.

I think you're wrong about that relationship, R69. Late 50s/early 60s.

Anthony Perkins looks like Andrew Garfield's dad.

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[quote] How did he get it?

By means of a mosquito, Rose.

He's one of the most fascinating figures in the history of Hollywood. I'd love to see a movie about him.

In the 70s, Anthony Perkins hit on guys all around NYC. And he was not particularly discreet about it. This was but a poorly kept secret, at the time.

How did he get AIDS? He almost certainly sat on an unwrapped dick. That'll do it.

I’m sure he got it mail order, through the Spiegel Catalog.

Tony Perkins was overly competitive. When Tab Hunter got "Damn Yankees." Perkins soon played the same role in summer theater..

He drank from the ‘R’ cup.

He got it from Victoria Principal!

There wasn't a whole lot of choice for gay actors back in the 1950s/1960s. Any whispers of homosexuality would end your career, so the best defense was to find a beard, get married and have kids. Sad, but true.

Whatever.

Tony Perkins was an eligible bacherlor all throught the 1950s and 1960s. He and Berenson did not marry unitl 1973, when Perkins was about 41 years old.

Wait...Anthony Hopkins has AIDS ?

R76 true about Perkins hitting on guys around NYC/ hit on my friend who was a cater waiter at industry function.1980 or so.

R82 So...that means you think he wasn't gay?

No. He was well known to be gay. I was referring R81, the post stated that gay actors in the 50s and 60s were forced into marriage. I suppose some were. But Tony Perkins wasn't. He got married four years after Stonewall. R81 has nothing to do with Tony Perkins.

It's entirely possible that Berry might have been pozzed by Anthony and died before it was disclosed.

I live in NYC and know a woman in her late 50s/early 60s who has two adult sons fathered by a man who died of AIDS in the late '90s. He infected her but not them. She's alive and on the meds. It happens.