Now that you’re married, do you still prefer men – or women?’ He looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘Well, Doug, I still prefer men!’ I said, ‘Okay.’ And that’s the last time we saw each other.” We were making small talk when suddenly, I blurted out, ‘So, John, tell me. The 62-year-old pilot, who last saw Travolta in 1992, told The National Enquirer, “They’d just gotten back from the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Center in Hollywood when I arrived and John asked me to go with him for a walk on the beach. Male pilot claims he was John Travolta’s loverĭoug Gotterba, a male pilot, claims he was John Travolta’s gay lover in the 1980s and that the actor admitted to him that he was still into men even after marrying actress Kelly Preston in 1991.