As a postscript, when actor Rock Hudson started looking bad with AIDs—sunken cheeks, etc.—I broke the news to my mother that he was, uh ... wired for alternating current.
She was a big fan of his and was terribly disappointed in him.
And mad at me for telling her, but I didn’t want her seeing it in a supermarket tabloid.
People knew about Rock Hudson all along, IF they wanted to know, I first learned it as a little boy in 1961.