He was married three times. His first marriage ended largely because his first wife suspected he was fooling around and filed for legal separation. He married his second wife 10 days after the divorce from his first wife became final. He married his third wife (the woman his first wife suspected him of fooling around with) less than a month after his second divorce became final.
Gleason had two daughters from his first marriage.
It seems extremely unlikely that he was gay.
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