Another friend said:' Steve liked switching. He enjoyed making love to a woman who was still warm, as it were, from sex with his buddies.' McQueen's other sexual preferences with women led to the rumours that he was a repressed homosexual but Elmer Valentine said:' When people say Steve was homosexual -- he absolutely was not. Absolutely. 'I personally know because there were times Steve and I f----- in the same room with different girls. 'He liked to switch girls but there was never a sign of homosexuality. I'm an ex-cop. I know when someone's a homo. I've been all over the world with Steve. I've been with him for months at a time. I know how he dug women. He never left me to go cruising. I know a cruiser. I know the excuses. He never wanted not to be with me. He never tried to get rid of me or duck me in any way. I would have seen that. 'If he was gay then it was the best performance I've ever seen and he was the greatest actor -- and I always told him he wasn't a very good actor. 'Steve loved women! He loved a nicely shaped ass on a woman -- he called them "bubble asses". 'He wasn't even kinky. He liked being in bed with two girls. All he could think about was getting a chick. But even if Steve were gay he wouldn't have let himself be. 'He was such a macho bastard that if he had that tendency he wouldn't have done it.' McQueen was anti-gay. He did not like working with homosexual actors and the kiss-kiss luvvie behaviour in Hollywood frightened him. He wanted motorcycles, Mexican beer drunk from the bottle and women. It is his one-track mind in the chase for 'chicks' which made him so magnetic to them. He was always in heat, always interested. At his death he regretted the failure of his marriage to Neile but by them he was married to model-actress Barbara Minty. He had stolen Ali MacGraw from her producer husband Robert Evans who had made her a star in 'Love Story' -- ironically they are now platonically living back together -- and they had a roustabout marriage which also ended in divorce. Today MacGraw, with the years and therapy and having lived through her own emotional problems, recalls McQueen with difficulty but a little more fondly. After her success with 'Goodbye Columbus' and as the doomed Jenny in 'Love Story' she was Hollywood 's most bankable actress. McQueen went to the home she shared with husband Robert Evans to ask her to co-star with him in 'The Getaway'. It was complicated from then on.
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