The Way We Were's Secret Gay Backstory

Contents:

• THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
• THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

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He had reason to make this statement; the 1960s and ’70s, gay wrers were often cricized for turng their experienc to fictnal heterosexual romanc.

So he set out to thoroughly explore the gay angle of The Way We Were. “There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay don’t thk Hubbell is a directly fictnalized versn of any of the men Lrents loved, but he do thk the character was fluenced by the wrer’s relatnships wh some of them, cludg his longtime partner, Tom Hatcher, and actor Farley Granger.

HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)

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THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

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I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD

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