Was Arnold a closet? I think I remember hearing stories about him can anybody confirm?
Never heard G4Pleasure, but G4P, there's been a few famous rumored stories -
From Lacey Rich (Old time connected gay) -
"At the premiere of Pumping Iron, Tom Minchello had a friend named Margie, who wanted to make it with Arnold. Tom told Margie Arnie's room number. She went to the suite and knocked on the door. The door opened to a darkened room. Margie could see that a light was on in the bedroom and she could hear moans. She crept to the other door . What does she see; Nothing, but Charles Gaines (author of Pumping Iron & Stay Hungry) and the great Austrian oak with his heels spread to Jesus. She quickly backed up and hurriedly left. By the time she reach the lobby she was in hysterics telling everyone that Arnold was upstairs being f$$ked by a man. I guess that taught Arnie to lock the door."
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He mis spells the name, but the guy is Tom Minichiello, who owned Mid City Gym. He had a book called "Bodybuilders, Drugs, and Sex" where he tells a version of it. Over the years the rumor above got spread around, some say it was Gaines, some say Butler, but the rumor has always been that Arnold went gay for one of the guys from Pumping Iron, and Minichiello saw it.
Bob Bonham heard it was Butler -
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=306303.msg4391490#msg4391490 .
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Tom Minichiello in the Jun 1992 edition of Spy Magazine mentioned that Arnold was connected to Paco Arce, and Arce had pictures of him that Arnold posed for privately - (
https://books.google.com/books?id=K4N6CoFaMwQC&pg=PA8&dq=Tom+Minichiello+arnold+gay+spy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRyLPK7Z3tAhWrQzABHWtjAXEQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Minichiello%20arnold%20gay%20spy&f=false) .
Arce was a millionaire from Spain that was flamingly gay. He'd take briefcases of money around to all the big contests, and try and get bodybuilders to hang out. One of the photos he had of Arnold supposedly has him lounging around in his underwear reading Playgirl magazine -
https://books.google.com/books?id=Xa7j5ofHW0EC&pg=PA63&dq=Paco+Arce+bodybuilding&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwioyIqa753tAhWeRzABHUENAj8Q6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Paco%20Arce%20bodybuilding&f=false .
Paco is the guy in the red trunks seen in this famous schmoe shot -
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Also, just because it's a funny story about Ken "Dakota" Sprague fucking over Arnold (from John Fair's "Mr America" book) -
" Another occurrence relating to Sprague’s colorful career, conveyed in Carter’s novel, involved Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose posing footage was included in a porno production called Going Down. When Arnold heard that it was playing to packed houses, he was livid. As his girlfriend Barbara Outland (Baker) relates in her memoir: “When I arrived home one winter afternoon, I heard Arnold screaming into the phone, ‘You fucking prick! How dare you screw me like dis! I’ll have your ass, you Gott-damn cock-sucker. Jayzeus Kreest, you fucked me over, and now you are fucked, believe me!’ . . . He slammed down the phone, screaming, ‘Dat fucking asshole put my posing routine in his supposed documentary—a movie where guys are jacking off while watching me pose. Dat bastard!’”
Upon visiting the theater in North Hollywood where the supposed bodybuilding documentary was being shown, Outland expressed concern about what that kind of exposure would do to Arnold’s budding film career. What she saw on the screen was “rows of actors, seated in a movie theater setting . . .groaning in self-joy over my lover.”
[Outland's description of the filmed scenes in the porno film] -
"The scene flashed to Arnold in a double biceps pose, then to the audience of men holding gay men’s Schlongs. The camera took me back to Arnold doing a full back pose, his Olympian muscles bulging and taut, and then it slipped back to rows of rapid hand and mouth movement. Then the camera flipped back to Arnold performing a side-view of glistening muscularity, and then shrunk back to ejaculating penises, shriveled in compliance under their own muscular feats. I knew some of these scumbags. They were the Bills and Dennys of our distant social life on that silver screen, sucking their way to financial gain."
Sprague insists that “it was nothing like she describes.” It was a film featuring some gym members with footage inserts from a show. “Arnold and Franco were irate,” but Joe Weider told Schwarzenegger to “just go over and settle it with” Sprague, who explained why: “Joe didn’t want to ruffle me because I owned Gold’s. So Arnold came up and said ah, we’ve got to settle this, so I said I’ll give you $50 each. Okay.” So even when Schwarzenegger was Mr. Olympia, $50 was enough to buy him off. "
