"Gore had a medium-sized cock, seven inches, he looked circumcised but wasn't," Bowers recalls. "He was basically a top [he liked to penetrate, rather than be penetrated], but with Bob he allowed himself to be fucked. With some men I fixed him up with he didn't have sex with them at all. He just talked to them if they were very bright. Gore enjoyed talking to people."

The few times Bowers had sex with Vidal were "pleasant, not mad love." Vidal was always "on the ball, not bashful or shy, rather aggressive and pushy," Bowers says, and was "more or less into a quick trick. He did everything sexually, you sucked his cock, he would suck yours, but he preferred to fuck. Gore and I fucked and rolled around and played with each other's cocks. He'd grab your cock and, boom, he was young and hot and sex was rather quick."

Did Vidal have sex with any of Bowers' other famous friends? "I fixed him up with my friend Tyrone Power, which Gore asked me for as a favor, and he did me a favor and had sex with him," Bowers reveals. "Charles Laughton was not Gore's type, but Gore went with me for kicks." It was a three-way? "Yes, Charles was a dirty old man, but they wanted to meet each other. It was the same with Tyrone Power." Bowers says, laughing, that he "probably introduced Gore to more famous people than he introduced me to." He recalls Jacqueline Kennedy at one party going off to a bedroom with one man, her parting shot to Bowers, "I can't fucking help myself." Bowers says: "They always talk about her husband [JFK] fucking people, but she was a regular little tramp too. She'd fly out to Hollywood just to see William Holden."

When Vidal and Power got together, Bowers recalls, it was a "sucky-fucky thing. Gore put his cock between Tyrone's legs and fucked him between his legs. They sucked each other off and played together." Bowers laughs and adds: "Gore told people I had introduced him to people he wanted to know, and that was certainly the case with Tyrone Power. Both Charles and Gore sucked each other off and of course Tyrone liked being pissed on, so we did that. Gore went right along with it."

Bowers introduced Vidal to Rock Hudson; the men "hit it off" and they "buddy-buddied" together as friends too. "We had three-ways just when Rock was getting started as an actor," says Bowers. "Gore did a little bit of everything with Rock. He started necking with him and pretty soon he was playing with his cock. Gore was quite into fucking people between their legs. He did that with Rock. Rock had a steam room, and that was across the courtyard as you came in. We went into the steam room. Gore was rubbing Rock and sucking his prick. There were hands here and hands there. We were necking, sucking and fucking: Whatever position you wanted to be in you got in. We had three-ways a dozen times, and I'm sure they did it on their own a few times. When you fix up two people very often, they see each other. Separately they both told me how glad they were I introduced them. I know without a doubt they got together other times on their own, and I'm sure, when they did, that Gore fucked Rock."

Hudson, Power, Laughton, and Fred Astaire weren't the only celebrities Vidal had sex with. The writer John Bowen says Vidal described once having sex with Noël Coward. "Coward said to him, 'Let's have a roll in the hay.' And they did. Gore said it was quite enjoyable, but nothing very new." In his diaries, Kenneth Tynan, the writer and theater critic, wrote that Vidal had told him that Coward asked him to bed in Italy. "When he entered the bedroom Graham Payn [Coward's partner] was already naked between the sheets. Noël bustled in and stripped; Gore buggered Graham, and Noël masturbated with his prick against Gore's bottom. Having rapidly come, he rose and dressed within seconds and went off to work…"