A Grandson Shared Discovering His Grandfather's Secret Gay Love Story and It’s so Pure
The Nostalgia Tapes podcast, is used to telling other people’s stories, but on Sunday he opened up about a more personal one — his grandfather’s gay love story — on Twitter.The love story threat has been liked almost 200,000 times.“My Grandpa Dave told me he was sure he was gay when he was moving into his dorm room freshman year of college and there was a boy ‘with the prettiest eyes,’” Ashrawi began.
It wasn’t until his grandfather had passed away that he learned who that boy was — and so much more about his grandfather in his college years.“His name was John Kander,” revealed Ashrawi. “After college, John, along with his partner Fred Ebb, would go on to compose two of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time.
One was called Chicago, and the other was Cabaret. John wrote the music and Fred wrote the lyrics.”“They also wrote the theme song for a 1977 Scorsese film called New York, New York; originally sung by Liza Minnelli; Frank Sinatra would immortalize it a few years later,” he continued.Ashrawi then detailed how he made an incredible discovery. “I always thought that was so cool, that grandpa and this guy Kander were in love, but during the pandemic, I noticed something on a bookcase,” he said.
It was a record with a handwritten label that said “Our Boy... Mummers ‘51” and was signed by John Kander. “My mom told me it was a song John had written for Grandpa.
