Was Hemingway gay or straight? He was a fetishist “He really had a thing about androgyny and he liked to switch sex roles in bed, and he tells Mary, ‘Let’s play around, I’m gonna call you Pete, you call me Catherine.’” In the film, biographer Mary Dearborn calls him “brave” for his “sexual preferences” and admission to an “intense desire” for role play. This quest for nuance is key in understanding Hemingway’s marital bed. That black-white, good-bad labelling may be the de rigueur activity, but there's nothing binary about the world.” “He shows how incredibly difficult it is to have an on-off switch. “Hemingway is monstrous at times and there's never a moment in the film where we let him off the hook.” The writer’s epic and, ultimately, tragic life allowed him to create literature – considered to be among the most influential in the English language – that Burns says belies the imprisoning masculinity that he’s known for. “For us it's about making things more complex,” Burns tells me, on a call from his home in Walpole, New Hampshire. At a cultural moment which favours simplistic interpretations of iconic figures as villains or heroes, American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick muddy the waters of the fallen literary celebrity in Hemingway, their non-hagiographic, six-hour examination of the contradiction between the myth and the man. The outsized writer of stripped-back prose was also, a new documentary argues, an explorer of gender fluidity in the bedroom – both in his literature and his life. Even for his time, Ernest Hemingway was masculinity in hyperbole. John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Bostonīullfight-lover. Ernest Hemingway and his three sons with blue marlin on the docks of Bimini, in The Bahamas.
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