Ronald Reagan was apparently worried that his son Ron, might be gay, when he gave up Yale University to pursue a dancing in 1976.
Novelist Christopher Buckley, who discussed the former US President's doubts with playwright John Guare for the play 'The City of Conversation', revealed that his father, William F. Buckley, was close to Reagan, and the President had called him to express his worry at the time, New York Post reported.
Buckley said his father had advised that though he couldn't say much on the topic, not everyone who pursued arts was gay.
Reagan's son, now 56, currently lives in Seattle with his wife Doria Palmieri, a clinical psychologist whom he married in 1980.
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