The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

Contents:

• THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• 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
• THE SECRET GAY BS NETWORK OF MIDCENTURY AMERI
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

As the first few hntg not of the tle song sound and the unmistakable voice of Barbra Streisand ton “mem’ri, ” most of n’t help but settle for yet another viewg of The Way We Were, even though we know how the turbulent romance of Katie Morosky and Hubbell Garder turns few of know about the beloved 1973 film’s behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs. In other rearch, he terviewed s two still-livg, inic stars, Streisand and Robert rult is a tale of clash between Lrents, Pollack, and producer Ray Stark, the differg styl of Streisand and Redford, and how a gay Jewish man, Lrents, channeled his love of betiful Gentile men to the years, Lrents said the character of Katie, a polilly radil Jew who falls love wh and marri apolil Gentile Hubbell, was based on a woman he knew llege. He had reason to make this statement; the 1960s and ’70s, gay wrers were often cricized for turng their experienc to fictnal heterosexual romanc.

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

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.

Ambiguoly Gay: Richard has spicns about Francis (which are nfirmed), Charl (which are partially nfirmed), Bunny and Julian (which are not). 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)

Gore Vidal was yet another famo homosexual bedazzled by Hatcher’s looks, and knowg Lrents’s taste handsome Gentile men, the novelist remend that his fellow wrer iend pay a vis to William B.

THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

As the MoMA crowd learned that summer on Quoque, Lrents was gay but his lover was a very bisexual man.

But few of know about the beloved 1973 film’s behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs. The rult is a tale of clash between Lrents, Pollack, and producer Ray Stark, the differg styl of Streisand and Redford, and how a gay Jewish man, Lrents, channeled his love of betiful Gentile men to the story.

“There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay man. ” This is tly a historic em the history of homosexualy.

THE SECRET GAY BS NETWORK OF MIDCENTURY AMERI

To claim that is homophobia.

It’s that the people who were gay or lbian their published diari are leavg out the Stty Bowers part, bee wasn’t pole to talk about.

Did learng about this rmatn change your unrstandg of how Hollywood functned, wh the notn that there was a gay world wh largely hidn om sight? It’s tertg that you refer to this as a “gay and lbian Hollywood, ” bee Stty himself the documentary rists any label for his sexual inty. Do you thk the people would have nsired themselv to be gay or lbian?

WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

The word gay wasn’t really ed to mean what we mean by today. Gay was a kd of word among gay people, ed as a tell or a tip of the hand.

The wispread acceptance of the gay inty so lled pole society jt didn’t exist.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

My sense om Stty is that there was a gay muny, but was very vert and they didn’t ll themselv “gay” necsarily at the begng. Stty Bowers, now 95, ran a prostun rg for celebri and gay men post-WWII Hollywood. Stty Bowers tells many stori about the secret gay sex liv of Hollywood celebri.

Perhaps a world termed to supprs homosexualy was jt thrillg to know there were so many other gay men the world.