Can't We All Jt Gay Along?

Contents:

• LIZ SMH OUTS BARRY DILLER AS GAY AND LEE RADZIWILL AS A HOMOPHOBE
• NICK OR NOT A GAY?
• VILLAGE VOICE: ‘SHERMAN HEMSLEY WAS A GAY! DEAL WH IT!’
• CAN’T WE ALL JT GAY ALONG?

LIZ SMH OUTS BARRY DILLER AS GAY AND LEE RADZIWILL AS A HOMOPHOBE

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NICK OR NOT A GAY?

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Quirk claimed Mike Connolly (a gay gossip lumnist for The Hollywood Reporter om 1951 to 1966) "would put the make on the most proment young actors, cludg Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perks, Nick Adams, and Jam Dean.

VILLAGE VOICE: ‘SHERMAN HEMSLEY WAS A GAY! DEAL WH IT!’

Gay, was the butt of anti-gay humor Pillow Talk. Um, he was gay.

I get iffy on people outg those who are typilly harmls (as not beg a closeted gay who works to vilify or make life difficult for other gay). Des later, Adams’ highly publicized life and ath at a young age and his iendships wh cultural ins such as Jam Dean and Elvis Prley along wh his reported dg nsumptn ma his private life the subject of many reports and assertns by some wrers who have claimed Adams may have been gay or bisexual and may have had timate relatnships wh both Dean and Prley.

One of the earlit published mentns on this overall topic was ma by gossip lumnist Rona Barrett her 1974 tobgraphy, which she ma no assertn Adams was homosexual or bisexual but claimed Adams had told her, along wh a "whole roomful of people — that he wasn’t makg bee no one Hollywood’s upper stratosphere would accept his wife. She was one of the most rehg wiv the entire muny", and went on to say Adams "had bee the pann to a group of salac homosexuals" who flattered the actor, which affected his judgment and ed him to blame, Miss Rona (1974) Hollywood bgrapher Lawrence J. Quirk claimed Mike Connolly (a gay gossip lumnist for the Hollywood Reporter om 1951 to 1966) "would put the make on the most proment young actors, cludg Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perks, Nick Adams, and Jam Dean.

CAN’T WE ALL JT GAY ALONG?

Acrdg to Amerin Film (1986), "Nick Adams, who was … gay, was the butt of anti-gay humor Pillow Amerin Film, published by the Amerin Film Instute, 1986, p. Rutledge, The Gay Book of Lists (2003), p. In his 1986 gossip book about gay Hollywood, Conversatns Wh My Elrs, Boze Hadleigh claimed actor Sal Meo told him 1972, "I didn’t hear om Jimmy (Jam Dean), who was sort of awome to me when we did Rebel.