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Within the theatrical profession, Bond was openly gay and from 1969 to 1976 was the partner of actor [[Jeremy Brett]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Manners|first1=Terry|title=The Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes: The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett|date=1997|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=978-1852276164}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mann|first1=William J.|author-link1=William J. Mann|title=Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger|date=2005|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0099451884|page=92|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zY57_2_UK7kC&pg=PA187}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/facts-and-faq.html |title=Facts and FAQs |publisher=The Wonderful World of Gary Bond |date=12 October 1995 |access-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717045020/http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/facts-and-faq.html |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=December 2014}}
In [[Garry O'Connor (writer)|Garry O'Connor]]'s 2019 biography of [[Ian McKellen]], he mentions that the two were in a relationship early in both of their careers, but it came to an end in 1972 when Bond was about to open in ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/ian-mckellen-memoir-biography-garry-o-connor-john-humphrys-today-peter-pan-white-city-closing-early|title=In lieu of Ian McKellen's own memoirs, a new biography offers revelations|last=Brooks|first=Richard|date=2019-09-01|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-09-12|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
In the same biography, a former lover of Bond said that <blockquote>He was part of one of the first relatively out [gay] couples with Jeremy Brett, but theirs was an on-off liaison which lasted for years...Bond was irresistible, with an easy warmth of manner, wonderful humour and sometimes a wicked sense of fun. He was divine, lovely and wonderful in bed.<ref>Garry O'Connor (2019) ''Ian McKellen: The Biography'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London {{ISBN|978-1-4746-0851-0}}</ref></blockquote>
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