Gay History - July 17, 1982: The Sndal of Commanr Michael Trtrail. The Queen's Gay Bodyguard.

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: MERV GRIFF’S BODYGUARD OF LI
• IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• MEET THE ACTIVIST RABBI AND HIS GAY BODYGUARD: THE KNSET’S MOST INCREDIBLE ALLI
• GAY HISTORY – JULY 17, 1982: THE SNDAL OF COMMANR MICHAEL TRTRAIL. THE QUEEN’S GAY BODYGUARD.
• ROYALS: A GAY M/M BODYGUARD ROMANCE (BODYGUARDS BOOK 2) KDLE EDN
• DWAYNE JOHNSON LIVERS A PERFORMANCE THAT ALMOST MAK BE COOL WORTH SEEG BY NATHAN RAB STNCH CHARACTERS PAYS TRIBUTE TO GREAT CHARACTER ACTORS BY SGLG OUT A SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE THAT ILLTRAT THEIR MASTERY. SOMETIM A CHARACTER ACTOR’S GREATNS STANDS OUT SHARPER RELIEF WHEN THE FILM THEY’RE STUCK N CHARABLY BE EMED A CRIME AGAST CEMA. THAT IS CERTALY THE SE WH DWAYNE JOHNSON’S JOYOLY UNSELF-NSC TURN AS A GAY BODYGUARD WH A YEN TO BEE A SGER-ACTOR-MOL F. GARY GRAY’S ABYSMAL 2005 BOTCH OF THE ELMORE LEONARD’S BE COOL. A WILDLY UNRPERFORMG SEQUEL TO GET SHORTY, BE COOL GETS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG OTHER THAN JOHNSON'S STG WRONG, BEGNG WH A PREMISE THAT REQUIR EVERYONE WHO LISTENS TO THE MIC OF R&B ALSO-RAN CHRISTA MILIAN TO BE SO BLOWN AWAY THEY’RE NVCED THEY’RE LISTENG TO THE NEXT NA SIMONE. THE FILM’S TAKE ON POP MIC IS SIARLY TONE AF. ITS NCEPTN OF HIP CLUS THE BLACK EYED PEAS, MTV, THE AFOREMENTNED MILIAN, AND AEROSMH, WHO FIGURE PROMENTLY THE PLOT AND ADD TO THE GRAND TRADN OF HUGE ROCK STARS PLAYG THEMSELV MOVI TERRIBLY. ALREADY EP TO THE MADAME TSD’S WAX-FIGURE ERA OF HIS REER, A LACQUERED AND IFFED JOHN TRAVOLTA LIVERS A PERFORMANCE SO SLEEPY AND APATHETIC THAT TO LL SLEEPWALKG WOULD BE AN SULT TO SOMNOLENT PERAMBULATORS. PAIRG HIM WH A HORRIFILLY SHOT AND STUMED UMA THURMAN ALMOST SEEMS SIGNED TO ERASE FOND MEMORI OF PULP FICTN AND RETROACTIVELY STROY THE SEXUAL CHEMISTRY THEY DISPLAYED THAT FILM.  JT ABOUT EVERYTHG ABOUT BE COOL IS A BLOATED, TONE-AF MS WH THE EXCEPTN OF JOHNSON’S PERFORMANCE AS ELLT, THE BODYGUARD AND SIKICK OF ROGER “RAJI” LOWENTHAL, VCE VGHN’S RACIALLY NFED WOULD-BE UNRWORLD PLAYER. IN HIS FIRST SCENE, ELLT IS DISPENSED TO BEAT UP JOHN TRAVOLTA’S CHILI PALMER ON BEHALF OF RAJI, BUT THE MOMENT CHILI REGNIZ ELTT AS AN ACTOR—A MOR ONE, SPE HIS PHYSIL STATURE—HIS LD EXPRSN GIV WAY TO A SHAMELS WANNABE’S GRATIATG SE.  IN PART TO NTRALIZE THE THREAT, CHILI OFFERS TO BEE ELLT’S MANAGER. PUFFED FULL OF WONRFULLY MISPLACED NFINCE, ELLT SEEMS NVCED THAT HE N ATTA STARDOM MULTIPLE FIELDS—ACTG, UNTRY AND WTERN SGG—LARGELY ON THE BASIS OF HIS ABILY TO RAISE ONE EYEBROW DRAMATILLY. ELLT IS A NARCISSIST ABOVE ALL AND, ONE OF THE FILM’S BT SCEN, HE SASHAYS ABOUT A UNTRY-AND-WTERN STORE MOLG THE UGLIT POSSIBLE OUTFS, CLUDG A SILK SHIRT AND BABY-BLUE PANTS, VAMPG THE MIRROR, SMACKG HIS ASS, AND GENERALLY LUXURIATG ACTORLY SELF-LOVE.  NETY MUT OF JOHNSON ADMIRG HIMSELF CREASGLY SEXUAL WAYS WOULD BE FELY PREFERABLE TO WHAT MAK UP THE BULK OF BE COOL. PERHAPS BEE HE OM THE WORLD OF WRTLG, JOHNSON DON’T NEED DIALOGUE TO BE PELLG. HIS CHARACTER’S HEAD SHOTS GET BIGGER LGHS THAN ANYONE ELSE’S ACTUAL DIALOGUE. HIS RAISED EYEBROW GETS QUE THE WORKOUT HERE— IS AS MUCH HIS LLG RD AS WAS DURG HIS TIME THE WWE—BUT WOULDN’T WORK HALF AS EFFECTIVELY IF WASN’T ACPANIED BY THAT BIG, CHEY, CHILD-LIKE GR THAT IMPLICLY SAYS, “CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE I N DO THIS?”  LATER, A TRATED ELLT, NCERNED THAT HIS REER AS AN ACTOR AND SGER ISN’T EXPLODG, SPE CHILI’S MANAGEMENT, BREAKS TO THE HOE OF UMA THURMAN’S CHARACTER, MAK SOME TEA, POPS A VIO OF HIM VERG, “YOU A’T WOMAN ENOUGH TO TAKE MY MAN,” AND CLIMACTILLY AGRE TO PERFORM WHAT HE NCEIV OF AS A “MONOLOGUE” OM BRG IT ON THAT NSISTS OF HIM TAKG ON BOTH SIS OF A HEATED NONTATN BETWEEN CHARACTERS OF DIFFERENT RAC. THE SCENE IS FULL OF WONRFUL LTLE CHOIC, AS WHEN JOHNSON EXHAL EPLY BEFORE THE “MONOLOGUE” AS IF NEEDG TO NJURE ALL OF HIS STRENGTH AND TENSY FOR THIS MOST MOMENTO OF OPPORTUNI, LIKE AN ACTOR PREPARG SOME SHAKPEARE  AN ATTEMPT TO GET TO JULIARD.  WHEN CHILI, AS DIPLOMATILLY AS POSSIBLE, SUGGTS MIGHT BEHOOVE ELLT TO SG SONGS OM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A MAN AND LIKEWISE LIVER MONOLOGU OM MALE CHARACTERS, ELLT TAK ALL THOUGHTFULLY, AS IF ’S THE FIRST TIME EHER NOTN OCCURRED TO HIM. THE TENNCY WH A CHARACTER LIKE ELLT IS TO GO AS BIG AND BROAD AS POSSIBLE, AND, SURE, JOHNSON EQUENTLY THE BODY LANGUAGE OF A SASSY TEENAGED GIRL, BUT ELLT’S STAT AS A SPERATE ACTOR-SGER WHO’LL DO ANYTHG TO GET AHEAD F HIM AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, THAN HIS SEXUALY. THERE’S A JOY TO JOHNSON’S PERFORMANCE THAT’S ABSOLUTELY FECT. HE’S FUN TO LOOK AT AND HE NEVER TAK HIMSELF SERLY. YOU N GO THOUGH JOHNSON’S ENTIRE FILMOGRAPHY AND NEVER FD A SGLE MOMENT OF PRETENSN OR SELF-NSCNS. EVEN THE DREGS OF PA & GA, HE GIV HIS ALL. I THK JOHNSON IS A LEGIMATELY GREAT CHARACTER ACTOR WH AT THE VERY LEAST AN AMY AWARD NOMATN HIS FUTURE. AND EVEN IF HE NEVER REACH THOSE RARIFIED HEIGHTS, HE’S STED TO IMPROVE EVERY MOVIE HE’S , PARTICULARLY WHEN PLAYG THE KDS OF CHARACTER PARTS.  UP NEXT: KATHY BAT MISERY  MOST RECENT NEWS
• THE BODYGUARD: THE ARTIFACT BOOK 1 (A GAY DETECTIVE ROMANCE) KDLE EDN
• LEVI JOHNSTON'S FLEDGLG GAY PORN CAREER

GAY HISTORY: MERV GRIFF’S BODYGUARD OF LI

LONDON -- Queen Elizabeth's chief bodyguard has nfsed to a years-long homosexual relatnship wh a male prostute and rigned his post, Home Secretary William Whelaw announced Parliament Monday. 'Commanr Trtrail has nfsed to havg a homosexual relatnship over a number of years wh a male prostute, ' Whelaw told members of Parliament eager to fd out why Trtrail rigned Saturday 'for personal reasons. The Trtrail se is the send time a senr member of the royal tablishment had been lked wh homosexual practic.

Thatcher told the Hoe of Commons that Sir Anthony Blunt -- a self-scribed homosexual -- was the 'fourth man' a spy rg cludg Guy Burgs, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby. Sger Luther Vandross, wrer San Sontag and film director Ismail Merchant had all been acrd the privilege of “ng” by the prs, however open a secret their homosexualy had been while they were alive. Nil nisi bonum appears to be the le for edors, and notg that a ceased famo person was gay certaly seems to unt as speakg evil.

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Still, the lawsus brought out to the open, if briefly, what had long been known Hollywood: namely, that the divorced father of one, and highly visible public rt of Eva Gabor, was also gay.

The New York gay magaze Outweek troduced the practice of outg closeted public figur, mostly policians and show bs celebri who were unwillg to enlist the e of fightg AIDS. When proment publisher Mallm Forb died Febary 1990, the exposure of his homosexual si was not long g. The March 18, 1990, ver of OutWeek showed a photo of Mallm Forb on his motorcycle, wh the bold headle: “The Secret Gay Life of Mallm Forb.

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” The article, by Michelangelo Signorile, begs wh Forb’ funeral, notg the prence among the mourners of many proment homophob — Richard Nixon, William F. First, he noted that, “All too often history is distorted, ” and the fact that one of the most fluential men Ameri was gay should be rerd.

” The third reason Signorile gave was that this story illumated a choice ma by many gay people. In rearchg the story Signorile tried to terview a gay man who had been close to Forb and his fay, someone who uld have shed light on “the real ner workgs of Forb’ md.

MEET THE ACTIVIST RABBI AND HIS GAY BODYGUARD: THE KNSET’S MOST INCREDIBLE ALLI

Currently livg a closeted existence wh regard to his own fay and bs, he said, “My choice speakg to you is between myself and the greater gay muny.

GAY HISTORY – JULY 17, 1982: THE SNDAL OF COMMANR MICHAEL TRTRAIL. THE QUEEN’S GAY BODYGUARD.

The day before Merv Griff’s funeral, the Hollywood Reporter, one of the dtry “bibl” read by everyone showbiz, ran a ont-page story by regular wrer Ray Richmond that began, “Merv Griff was gay.

ROYALS: A GAY M/M BODYGUARD ROMANCE (BODYGUARDS BOOK 2) KDLE EDN

” Richmond, who had worked for Griff the 1980s, went on to note that “Merv’s secret gay life was wily known throughout showbiz culture, if not the wir Ameri. Then aga, Merv rved his niche the entertament world at a time when beg gay wasn’t OK, when disclosure was unthkable and the allegatn alone uld ep-six one’s reer.

Even the pal of entertament — a bs where homosexualy isn’t exactly a rare phenomenon — ’s still spoken of hhed ton or, more often, not at all. ”In the se of homosexualy, we beg wh a topic that already puts a stra on the l of journalism.

DWAYNE JOHNSON LIVERS A PERFORMANCE THAT ALMOST MAK BE COOL WORTH SEEG BY NATHAN RAB STNCH CHARACTERS PAYS TRIBUTE TO GREAT CHARACTER ACTORS BY SGLG OUT A SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE THAT ILLTRAT THEIR MASTERY. SOMETIM A CHARACTER ACTOR’S GREATNS STANDS OUT SHARPER RELIEF WHEN THE FILM THEY’RE STUCK N CHARABLY BE EMED A CRIME AGAST CEMA. THAT IS CERTALY THE SE WH DWAYNE JOHNSON’S JOYOLY UNSELF-NSC TURN AS A GAY BODYGUARD WH A YEN TO BEE A SGER-ACTOR-MOL F. GARY GRAY’S ABYSMAL 2005 BOTCH OF THE ELMORE LEONARD’S BE COOL. A WILDLY UNRPERFORMG SEQUEL TO GET SHORTY, BE COOL GETS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG OTHER THAN JOHNSON'S STG WRONG, BEGNG WH A PREMISE THAT REQUIR EVERYONE WHO LISTENS TO THE MIC OF R&B ALSO-RAN CHRISTA MILIAN TO BE SO BLOWN AWAY THEY’RE NVCED THEY’RE LISTENG TO THE NEXT NA SIMONE. THE FILM’S TAKE ON POP MIC IS SIARLY TONE AF. ITS NCEPTN OF HIP CLUS THE BLACK EYED PEAS, MTV, THE AFOREMENTNED MILIAN, AND AEROSMH, WHO FIGURE PROMENTLY THE PLOT AND ADD TO THE GRAND TRADN OF HUGE ROCK STARS PLAYG THEMSELV MOVI TERRIBLY. ALREADY EP TO THE MADAME TSD’S WAX-FIGURE ERA OF HIS REER, A LACQUERED AND IFFED JOHN TRAVOLTA LIVERS A PERFORMANCE SO SLEEPY AND APATHETIC THAT TO LL SLEEPWALKG WOULD BE AN SULT TO SOMNOLENT PERAMBULATORS. PAIRG HIM WH A HORRIFILLY SHOT AND STUMED UMA THURMAN ALMOST SEEMS SIGNED TO ERASE FOND MEMORI OF PULP FICTN AND RETROACTIVELY STROY THE SEXUAL CHEMISTRY THEY DISPLAYED THAT FILM.  JT ABOUT EVERYTHG ABOUT BE COOL IS A BLOATED, TONE-AF MS WH THE EXCEPTN OF JOHNSON’S PERFORMANCE AS ELLT, THE BODYGUARD AND SIKICK OF ROGER “RAJI” LOWENTHAL, VCE VGHN’S RACIALLY NFED WOULD-BE UNRWORLD PLAYER. IN HIS FIRST SCENE, ELLT IS DISPENSED TO BEAT UP JOHN TRAVOLTA’S CHILI PALMER ON BEHALF OF RAJI, BUT THE MOMENT CHILI REGNIZ ELTT AS AN ACTOR—A MOR ONE, SPE HIS PHYSIL STATURE—HIS LD EXPRSN GIV WAY TO A SHAMELS WANNABE’S GRATIATG SE.  IN PART TO NTRALIZE THE THREAT, CHILI OFFERS TO BEE ELLT’S MANAGER. PUFFED FULL OF WONRFULLY MISPLACED NFINCE, ELLT SEEMS NVCED THAT HE N ATTA STARDOM MULTIPLE FIELDS—ACTG, UNTRY AND WTERN SGG—LARGELY ON THE BASIS OF HIS ABILY TO RAISE ONE EYEBROW DRAMATILLY. ELLT IS A NARCISSIST ABOVE ALL AND, ONE OF THE FILM’S BT SCEN, HE SASHAYS ABOUT A UNTRY-AND-WTERN STORE MOLG THE UGLIT POSSIBLE OUTFS, CLUDG A SILK SHIRT AND BABY-BLUE PANTS, VAMPG THE MIRROR, SMACKG HIS ASS, AND GENERALLY LUXURIATG ACTORLY SELF-LOVE.  NETY MUT OF JOHNSON ADMIRG HIMSELF CREASGLY SEXUAL WAYS WOULD BE FELY PREFERABLE TO WHAT MAK UP THE BULK OF BE COOL. PERHAPS BEE HE OM THE WORLD OF WRTLG, JOHNSON DON’T NEED DIALOGUE TO BE PELLG. HIS CHARACTER’S HEAD SHOTS GET BIGGER LGHS THAN ANYONE ELSE’S ACTUAL DIALOGUE. HIS RAISED EYEBROW GETS QUE THE WORKOUT HERE— IS AS MUCH HIS LLG RD AS WAS DURG HIS TIME THE WWE—BUT WOULDN’T WORK HALF AS EFFECTIVELY IF WASN’T ACPANIED BY THAT BIG, CHEY, CHILD-LIKE GR THAT IMPLICLY SAYS, “CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE I N DO THIS?”  LATER, A TRATED ELLT, NCERNED THAT HIS REER AS AN ACTOR AND SGER ISN’T EXPLODG, SPE CHILI’S MANAGEMENT, BREAKS TO THE HOE OF UMA THURMAN’S CHARACTER, MAK SOME TEA, POPS A VIO OF HIM VERG, “YOU A’T WOMAN ENOUGH TO TAKE MY MAN,” AND CLIMACTILLY AGRE TO PERFORM WHAT HE NCEIV OF AS A “MONOLOGUE” OM BRG IT ON THAT NSISTS OF HIM TAKG ON BOTH SIS OF A HEATED NONTATN BETWEEN CHARACTERS OF DIFFERENT RAC. THE SCENE IS FULL OF WONRFUL LTLE CHOIC, AS WHEN JOHNSON EXHAL EPLY BEFORE THE “MONOLOGUE” AS IF NEEDG TO NJURE ALL OF HIS STRENGTH AND TENSY FOR THIS MOST MOMENTO OF OPPORTUNI, LIKE AN ACTOR PREPARG SOME SHAKPEARE  AN ATTEMPT TO GET TO JULIARD.  WHEN CHILI, AS DIPLOMATILLY AS POSSIBLE, SUGGTS MIGHT BEHOOVE ELLT TO SG SONGS OM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A MAN AND LIKEWISE LIVER MONOLOGU OM MALE CHARACTERS, ELLT TAK ALL THOUGHTFULLY, AS IF ’S THE FIRST TIME EHER NOTN OCCURRED TO HIM. THE TENNCY WH A CHARACTER LIKE ELLT IS TO GO AS BIG AND BROAD AS POSSIBLE, AND, SURE, JOHNSON EQUENTLY THE BODY LANGUAGE OF A SASSY TEENAGED GIRL, BUT ELLT’S STAT AS A SPERATE ACTOR-SGER WHO’LL DO ANYTHG TO GET AHEAD F HIM AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, THAN HIS SEXUALY. THERE’S A JOY TO JOHNSON’S PERFORMANCE THAT’S ABSOLUTELY FECT. HE’S FUN TO LOOK AT AND HE NEVER TAK HIMSELF SERLY. YOU N GO THOUGH JOHNSON’S ENTIRE FILMOGRAPHY AND NEVER FD A SGLE MOMENT OF PRETENSN OR SELF-NSCNS. EVEN THE DREGS OF PA & GA, HE GIV HIS ALL. I THK JOHNSON IS A LEGIMATELY GREAT CHARACTER ACTOR WH AT THE VERY LEAST AN AMY AWARD NOMATN HIS FUTURE. AND EVEN IF HE NEVER REACH THOSE RARIFIED HEIGHTS, HE’S STED TO IMPROVE EVERY MOVIE HE’S , PARTICULARLY WHEN PLAYG THE KDS OF CHARACTER PARTS.  UP NEXT: KATHY BAT MISERY  MOST RECENT NEWS

Former New York Tim lumnist Roger Wilks, the first black wrer appoted to the paper’s edorial board, said that durg his two years as the urban affairs lumnist the late 1970s, only three of his lumns were killed — and two of them were on gay topics. Durg the outg furor of the early 1990s, gay journalist Randy Shilts, while not supportg outg, did scribe the system clearly:.

Many of the ems are patently false and tend only to ver up the celebry’s homosexualy.

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Edors who would never reveal that a public figure was gay have no problem wh routely sayg that same person is straight.

The gossip wrers, many of them lbian or gay, who speculated about when Mallm Forb would marry Elizabeth Taylor, or when Merv Griff would marry Eva Gabor, knew what they were dog. When sger Luther Vandross died 2005, the media obuari polely ignored the wispread speculatn that he was gay. The real problem is that the news media, which has no problem reuntg the endls het romanc of stars (real or alleged), is squeamish about even askg a star whether or not they are gay — how is this journalism?

In Vandross’s suatn (as well as the posthumo media -gayg s of San Sontag and Ismail Merchant), the verage bends over backwards, strag any sense of credibily, to avoid any fact-fdg about the subject qutn that might reveal they were gay, even if the person was openly gay their social circl, but not to their fan base.

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In the age of Wikipedia, ’s a given that anyone terted enough to Google Merv would quickly get the gist of the story, if not the gory tails, or even the ls savory tails, such as those reunted by Michelangelo Signorile his 1993 book, “Queer Ameri, ” which an unnamed Hollywood “Mogul” is scribed as firg men om his pany for beg openly gay. Self-proclaimed bodybuildg troll Vce Goodm posted a vio slammg Generatn Iron for hirg “Gay 4 Pay” bodybuildg nsult Nick Trigili. Vce Goodm, a YouTuber whose b simply reads “The First Ever Bodybuildg & Fns Inter Troll Of The Indtry, ” lled out Generatn Iron on his YouTube channel for mors that ntributor Nick Trigili was volved gay for pay schem spe not actually beg gay.