Ever sce the silent film era, Hollywood beefke photos have tillated both female and gay male fans. Here we beg our seri celebratg gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all.
Contents:
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
- HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
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The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.
Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns, ” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public. No one wanted to believe that Ameri’s goln boy uld be a gay man.
Cor’s mansn, rated by gay former actor William Ha, beme the center of LGBT society Hollywood. It was a well-known fact that Cor was gay, even though he never publicly spoke about . Cor may have never been able to explicly talk about his sexualy, but he helped solidify the gay muny Hollywood.
MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
He also stggled to accept his homosexualy thanks to his strict Roman Catholic upbrgg. Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s. Incintally, the film is noted for s untentnal homoerotic unrton.
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
Clift never publicly talked about , but close iend Elizabeth Taylor admted he was gay at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards. The two acted three movi together, cludg Sudnly, Last Summer, which had Clift play a gay man.
In 1939 he married Osr-wng actrs Ja Gaynor, to whom he remaed wed until his ath 1959. Rumors about both Adrian and Gaynor’s sexualy have been hard to prove. Their marriage is believed to be a lavenr marriage, which was an arrangement ma to bunk mors that they were both gay.
Diana McLellan mentns this her book The Girls and the uple’s relatnship is heavily analyzed William Mann’s Behd the Screen: How Gays and Lbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969. Actor Bob Cummgs is quoted the book as sayg, “Ja Gaynor’s hband was Adrian, the MGM fashn signer. Gaynor and Adrian were succsful durg a time when any sort of evince of their homosexualy would have hurt their reers, so ’s not surprisg that there isn’t ncrete evince about the tth of their relatnship.