Why Barry Manilow Kept Being Gay And Married A Secret Until Now Barry Manilow, who for decades has kept his private and public lives separate, is opening up for the first time about his sexuality and his partner of 39 years, manager Garry Kief. All that time, the "Looks Like We Made It" pop star was thinking about his fans, he told People, which features him on its newest cover. "I thought I would be disappointing them if they knew I was gay. So I never did anything,"the 73-year-old said. But in 2015, news leaked that he and Kief(who"s president of Barry Manilow Productions and Stiletto Entertainment) had gotten married in front of a few dozenguests in a surprise ceremony at their Palm Springs estate. Manilow had managed to keep the April 2014 wedding so far off the radar it took more than a year for the media to get wind of it. The leak, he said, was both blessing and curse, given that he"d kept his private life so very private until then even though his...