Jo Anna Walker writes that she will be "pleased" and "relieved" to read a forthcoming account of Cary Grant's relationship with Maureen Donaldson, but has "absolutely no interest" in another book "which will chronicle the late actor's alleged homosexual liaisons" (Calendar Letters, June 19).
The reason?
Grant epitomized "elegance, sophistication, and masculinity," she says with emphasis, and no ludicrous allegations are going to convince her otherwise.
Walker mistakenly believes that masculinity and homosexuality are mutually exclusive; furthermore, she crudely assumes that "homosexual liaisons" are intrinsically distasteful in a way that heterosexual ones are not.
