Edited sentence: Author John Loughery reports that during World War II Spellman was carrying on a relationship with a chorus boy in the Broadway revue One Touch of Venus.ISBN 0805038965.Loughery, John (1998).New York, Henry Holt and Company.Spellman defended Senator Joseph McCarthy's 1953 investigations of subversives and homosexuals in the federal government.Spellman's biographer, John Cooney notes that many interviewees took his homosexuality for granted but has not documented his relationships.The Other Side of Silence – Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History.With the passage of time, most historians consider Spellman gay