Before the whole town was gay...

Salon interviews Steve Wilson and Joe Florenski, co-authors of the new book Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story. Strange to remember that despite the molasses-thick innuendo on ‘Hollywood Squares,’ Lynde was never quite ‘out’ in a public sense:

Did he ever officially come out, even to friends near the end?

J.F.: To his friends, sure he did. But he kept a fairly rigid line between his gay friends and his celebrity friends, rarely mixing the two except when he might bring a fling along on a “Squares” junket or the like.

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