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class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Set Edwardian London, Hay’s <a href=" target=_blank>but novel</a> centers on a former hoekeeper lookg for revenge. Mrs. Kg search the cy’s hardscrabble streets to fd acplic for a darg heist that will relieve Mayfair’s most opulent hoe of s sparklg treasur. Schemg wh assorted workg women — a seamstrs, an actrs, a street-savvy bswoman — who all dream of somethg more for themselv, Mrs. Kg plans to rob her former employer while they are hostg society’s biggt ball of the season. Hay brgs a lively tempo and an elegant w to this zippy thriller that is also a social mentary on the plight of the powerls. (Graydon Hoe, out now)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-UK4AER6X7NB2PL7LEU22U2MZXQ-2"><div id="list-headle-UK4AER6X7NB2PL7LEU22U2MZXQ-2" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Tropicália’ by Harold Rogers</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For generatns, the Brazilian Cunha fay has been plagued by misfortune — li, betrayal, abandonment. Siblgs Daniel and Lucia are sperate to avoid their unfortunate legacy. When their pric mother, who left her young children to fd a better life for herself the Uned Stat, offers an olive branch, tendg to return home for Grandpa’s funeral, the fay speeds toward a clash on the sands of R’s Copabana Beach durg a rowdy New Year’s Eve party. As fay secrets are exposed, this fiery <a href=" target=_blank>but novel</a> explor how we n damage the people we love the most. (Atria, July 18)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-T2XETWOCJNCXJGCPUCISZFV3V4-3"><div id="list-headle-T2XETWOCJNCXJGCPUCISZFV3V4-3" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Speech Team’ by Tim Murphy</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh a healthy dose of Gen X nostalgia, Murphy’s touchg <a href=" target=_blank>novel</a> explor how thgs we are told as children n leave feelg bised as adults. Four iends who were on the speech team at a Massachetts high school the 1980s rennect 25 years later after learng of the suici of another team member who left behd a note mentng a vastatg remark ma by their former ach. Each iend shar a siar wound flicted by the same teacher, who, turns out, liv a retirement muny Sarasota, Fla. The group plans a trip together to see him, hopg to show him how his thoughtls remarks left srs. (Vikg, July 25)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-APF7BXPSHJGMLB7ZFXPZAXC2L4-4"><div id="list-headle-APF7BXPSHJGMLB7ZFXPZAXC2L4-4" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Lh Liv’ by J. Vansa Lyon</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Glory Hopks unexpectedly hered her nt’s storied Harlem brownstone wh s attic full of heirlooms. Appraiser Parkie De Groot is keen to help her unver the agg hoe’s history — and even more enthralled by the stant chemistry she feels wh Glory. While they work together to asss the signifince of the hoe’s history, a long-simmerg relatnship blossoms, and the women nceal personal stggl until their secrets threaten to stroy everythg they have worked to build. Lyon, an art historian and former appraiser, sightfully <a href=" target="_blank">portrays</a> two women who are meant to be together spe themselv. (Roxane Gay, Aug. 1)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">23 books to read this summer</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-DQIHTPFEDZGKLHZF6DCU4JSO7I-5"><div id="list-headle-DQIHTPFEDZGKLHZF6DCU4JSO7I-5" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Pullg the Chart of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnappg,’ by Shane McCrae</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When he was 3 years old, McCrae was kidnapped by his abive, whe-supremacist grandparents. In his lyril and poignant <a href=" target=_blank>memoir</a>, McCrae explor a childhood built on li: that his father, who is Black, didn’t want him, and that people who looked like his father — and him — were dangero. McCrae fally ran away om home at age 13 — a turng pot that helped him realize that stori he was told about his past were not te. As he reassembled the facts of his life, McCrae fed a path that led him to a rnn wh his father and a stronger sense of his own inty. McCrae, an award-wng poet, pats a strikg pictn of his childhood trma and the pths of his sire to unrstand and heal. (Scribner, Aug. 1)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-P6W5ATOSQNH2FAT2VWCBHWX6PY-6"><div id="list-headle-P6W5ATOSQNH2FAT2VWCBHWX6PY-6" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Las Madr’ by Esmerelda Santiago</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">After an early trma leads to a signifint bra jury, Luz forms a lifetime bond wh three women: her tutor, Ada; Ada’s partner, Shirley; and their dghter, Graciela. The close-kn group of women helps Luz’s dghter re for her mother her Bronx apartment. But when Luz’s nfed md returns to her Puerto Rin childhood, she n remember only agments. A planned trip to Luz’s homeland uld clarify her memori, but when the women’s arrival cis wh Hurrine Maria, their survival sudnly pends on the kdns of neighbors, who may also have the answers Luz seeks. Santiago offers a vibrant <a href=" target=_blank>portrayal</a> of women supportg one another through disabily and hardship. (Knopf, Aug. 1)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-SZI64EY3BRGJZJX55JDHZC7DYY-7"><div id="list-headle-SZI64EY3BRGJZJX55JDHZC7DYY-7" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘The Many Liv of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lyg, Stealg, Wrg, and Healg’ by Lara Love Hard</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At the height of her dg addictn, Hard, a suburban soccer mom, rorted to stealg cred rds om her neighbors’ mailbox. When the law fally ught up to her, everyone her cul--sac watched as she was handcuffed and hled away to the Santa Cz unty jail. Homels, jobls, iendls and now childls, she rebuilt her life, navigatg rceratn by earng the rpect of her fellow mat. Release and revery allowed her to revent herself as a ghostwrer, yet even wh her newfound profsnal succs, she kept herself isolated om others bee of her shame about what she had done. Hard’s progrs om addict to shame to remptn started wh self-acceptance, and her <a href=" target=_blank>memoir</a> illtrat how a person’s future should never be wrten off bee of past mistak. (Simon & Schter, Aug. 1)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Sound on! 6 perfect dbooks to kick off your summer.</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-KZDSY6YJVBB3DII5GTLMSPOLKY-8"><div id="list-headle-KZDSY6YJVBB3DII5GTLMSPOLKY-8" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘The Way Life Should Be’ by William Dameron</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Thomas and Matt have found love late their liv. Both me out after marriage and fatherhood, and they have settled to a happy life together as a married uple. When their three young-adult children arrive on the doorstep of their fathers’ two-bedroom ttage on Mae’s southern ast seekg help and refuge, the disarray dredg up issu that threaten to wreak havoc on the tenuo extend-fay stabily. The joy Dameron’s <a href=" target="_blank">but novel</a> is found the chaotic mss of blendg fai, and the strength that love and lghter n provi. (Ltle A, Aug. 1)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Sign up for the Book World newsletter</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-PZQFXXOTXZAQ7GUMF4Y7JLJDXY-9"><div id="list-headle-PZQFXXOTXZAQ7GUMF4Y7JLJDXY-9" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Shark Heart: A Love Story’ by Ey Habeck</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Habeck’s <a href=" target=_blank>but novel</a> is a highly origal, heart-rendg story about abidg love that transcends trma, grief — and even metamorphosis. Lewis and Wren, newly married, receive a lamo diagnosis: Wh the year, Lewis will physilly bee a great whe shark. They vow to stay nnected whatever way they n. As Lewis transforms, his velopg aquatic habs offer a glimpse of what he is to bee, and Wren is forced to ntemplate a life wh, or perhaps someday whout, an ocean-dwellg creature who lov her but who nnot fight nature. The uple’s story alternat wh glimps of Wren’s life before Lewis, the stggl her mother faced and the sacrific they both ma for a chance at happs. (Marysue Rucci, Aug. 8)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-VGAAMVNZWZDBPK427NAT5ZFJCU-10"><div id="list-headle-VGAAMVNZWZDBPK427NAT5ZFJCU-10" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘The Great Transn’ by Nick Fuller Googs</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Set the near future, Googs’s dystopian <a href=" target=_blank>novel </a>centers on teenager Emi, whose parents were alive the day the polar ice ps gave way and flood astal ci across the world. Her parents beme well-known heroic activists who spent their young liv workg to save what remaed of drowng and suffotg ci. Jt as climate crimals are beg publicly assassated, Emi’s mother sudnly disappears, and Emi and her father journey om their home Nu, Greenland, to the s of New York to fd her mother. Googs eerily imag a world where the terts of a few are prrized over the health of the pla, and illtrat how future generatns might puzzle about why people once chose to look the other way. 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May the d-as-gay villa cease to exist.

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YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS

We learn about the Red Sre school, but not about the Lavenr Sre, the policy that discrimated agast gay ernment employe * gay scars *

Eisenhower’s Executive Orr 10450, the vtigatn, terrogatn and systematic removal of gay men and lbians om the feral ernment beme policy.

Known as the “Lavenr Sre, ” the policy was based on the unfound fear that gay men and lbians “posed a threat to natnal secury bee they were vulnerable to blackmail and were nsired to have weak moral characters, ” says historian David K. Joseph McCarthy’s fear-mongerg “Red Sre” mpaign the early 1950s, which targeted alleged subversive munists workg the feral ernment, thoands of ernment employe were forced out of their jobs as a rult of the anti-gay policy.

GAY BOY BATTLE SRS

I would like to say that beg gay is a small part of my life, and to some extent that is te. However, I am at a junctn of life where the choic I ma as an adolcent and as a young adult are… * gay scars *

The polil and moral fears about alleged subversiv beme tertwed wh a backlash agast homosexualy, as gay and lbian culture had grown visibily the post-war years.

OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE

* gay scars *

The Lavenr Sre tied the notns together, nflatg gay people wh munists and allegg they uld not be tsted wh ernment secrets and labellg them as secury risks, even though there was no evince to prove this.

Johnson timat that somewhere between 5, 000 and 10, 000 people lost their jobs as a rult of the Lavenr Sre, although is difficult to know the te number of people affected, as the policy acted as a terrent to any gay man or lbian woman who would have been prospective ndidat for ernment jobs. Acrdg to a 1983 oral history terview wh drag kg Rty Brown, who served the Navy, the fear went even beyond Washgton, permeatg the entertament dtry Hollywood and the bars and nightclubs New York Cy, as people were aaid they would be fired if their employers found out they were gay. By 1965, Kameny and other gay men and lbians were picketg outsi the Whe Hoe and helpg other fired employe wh their urt s.

A REFLECTN: J WAS (PROBABLY) GAYTHIS REFLECTN IS A PROLOGUE TO A MUCH MORE EXTENSIVE ARTICLE I HAVE WRTEN ON QUEER CHRISTOLOGY, WHICH I WILL SHARE VERY SOON. IT ENPSULAT QUEER THEORY, QUEER THEOLOGY, NRO-CHRISTOLOGY, AND PHYSIL AND SOCIAL SCIENC. LOOK OUT FOR !'STRENGTH FROM SCARS' - ROBERT CHARL KAVANAGH·FOLLOW4 M READ·NOV 4, 2022--15SHAREJ CHRIST ALLEGEDLY HAD A HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR WH JOHN, HIS BELOVED, AND HAD OTHER HOMOEROTIC TERACTNS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.

Srs: A Gay MM Romance Novel (Audible Aud Edn): Avery Ford, Jay Mart, Avery Ford: Audible Books & Origals * gay scars *

And although 1975 the Civil Service Commissn announced new l that meant gay people uld no longer be barred or fired om feral employment bee of their sexualy, discrimatn ntued other agenci where employe had secury clearance, like the NSA, where Shoemaker worked.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

"Jafar's orig story is that he's gay and pissed." * gay scars *

Wh the civil rights activist’s help, Shoemaker beme the first gay employee at the NSA to keep their job and their secury clearance after such an vtigatn, unr the ndn that he told his fay he was gay. And although Pete Buttigieg was recently announced as print-elect Joe Bin’s pick for Transportatn Secretary, which would make him the first openly gay Cabet member, discrimatn agast members of the LGBTQ muny is still prent current U.

[RELATED: "30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know"]Our relatnship had started more than a year earlier wh tense monthly BDSM play ssns. That distctly mky, lic aroma, which n only be found the playrooms of gay circu parti and gyms across the untry, lgered the stchg.

Tom of Fland’s 1970s drawgs of biker boys, clad impossibly form-ftg leather, solidified leather as a staple of gay culture. Beards are so sexually charged and erotilly ialized among today’s scffier populatns of gay men that one might fet the fact that beards are still, technilly, fetish objects. Coprophilia is sexual stimulatn om fec, and while the general populatn’s rponse to is bound to be pretty strong, this fetish is more mon than you might spect, particularly among gay pig players, fistg enthiasts, and kky leather men.

JENNA LYONS ON BEG OUTED (AND HER FAKE TEETH)SHE OPENED UP ABOUT THE GEIC DISORR THAT LED HER TO G FAKE TEETH, HAIR, AND EYEBROWS. “MY HAIR IS ALSO FAKE, I N TAKE OFF, ’S LIKE A HAT."BY KASE WICKMANJULY 20, 2023FROM NATHAN CONGLETON/NBC VIA GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJENNA LYONS, FORMER HEAD SIGNER AND PRINT OF J. CREW, MAY BE A STYLE IN, BUT, EVEN OVER A LATER, BEG OUTED BEFORE SHE WAS READY TO SHARE HER SEXUALY STILL SMARTS.IN AN TERVIEW WEDNDAY ON THE VIEW, LYONS RELLED BEG PUBLICLY OUTED, THE MIDST OF HER 2011 DIVORCE OM VCENT MAZE. WHEN AN OUTLET LLED AND ASKED FOR NFIRMATN OF WHETHER SHE WAS GAY, SHE SAID, “I WAS SO OVERWHELMED WH EVERYTHG THAT WAS HAPPENG MY LIFE THAT I JT SAID Y.”SHE LLED BEG ASKED BY THE NEW YORK POST TO NFIRM OR NY WHETHER SHE WAS A LBIAN “AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE.”“I DIDN’T EXPECT ANYONE TO RE ABOUT WHAT I WAS DOG MY PERSONAL LIFE, AND ALL OF A SUDN EVERYONE RED,” SHE SAID, RELLG THAT THE STORY WAS MA PUBLIC BEE “SOMEONE LLED THE POST AND SAID LOOKED LIKE I WAS HAVG AN TIMATE DNER WH SOMEONE AT A RTRANT.”“I DON’T KNOW WHY,” SHE SAID, “BUT I JT SAID ‘NFIRM.’”THE NEXT DAY, SHE H THE NEWSSTANDS OF NEW YORK AND SOPED UP ALL THE PI OF THE POST SHE ULD FD. “FOR THE RERD, I WENT AND BOUGHT ALMOST EVERY SGLE ONE MANHATTAN,” SHE SAID.THOUGH THE CIRCUMSTANC SURROUNDG HER OUTG STILL STG, LYONS SAID THAT SHE’S PROUD TO BE A POSIVE REPRENTATN OF QUEER PEOPLE THE WORLD AND RELLED HOW YOUNGER EMPLOYE AT J. CREW WOULD TELL HER, “MY MOM IS SO RELIEVED TO SEE SOMEONE SUCCSFUL WHO’S OPENLY GAY.” NOW, TOO, SHE'S THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ST MEMBER ON THE REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK.DURG THE APPEARANCE, SHE ALSO OPENED UP ABOUT A GEIC DISORR SHE WAS BORN WH, NTENTIA PIGMENTI, THAT VISIBLY IMPACTS A PERSON’S SK, HAIR, TEETH, AND MORE.“ALL MY TEETH ARE FAKE,” SHE SAID, LGHG AT A PLIMENT AND RPONDG THAT “I PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR THEM.”“MY HAIR IS ALSO FAKE, I N TAKE OFF, ’S LIKE A HAT,” SHE SAID. “MY EYELASH ARE FAKE, I HAVE NO EYEBROWS, I ALSO HAVE SRS ALL OVER MY SK.”HER NDN HAS SPIRED HER: WHEN SHE ULDN’T FD FAKE EYELASH THAT SHE FELT SUED HER, SHE MA HER OWN AND CREATED HER PANY, LOVESEEN. COPG WH HER HEALTH IS ALSO PART OF THE ORIG STORY FOR HER ONGOG, EPIC LIFE FASHN.“IT’S ONE OF THE REASONS I WENT TO FASHN,” SHE SAID, “BEE I WANTED TO LOOK BETTER. I WAS NSTANTLY TRYG TO FD WAYS TO F .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE ACTORS STRIKE IS ON, THROWG HOLLYWOOD INTO TURMOILWHY A SEND TMP ADMISTRATN WOULD BE MUCH WORSEIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERIS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?THE BIGGT SNUBS AND SURPRIS OF THIS YEAR’S EMMY NOMATNSWHERE TO WATCH THE 2023 EMMY NOMEFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEVKASE WICKMAN

Dpe s populary wh a more niche sectn of the gay male populatn, is generally nsired an unhygienic fetish to explore, sce handlg and nsumg human fel matter rri wh certa health risks.

Proment gay clothg brands like Nasty Pig and Cellblock 13 draw their sign spiratn om tried-and-te sports wear, and standard gay circu attire will always feature a pair of football pants wh the ont lacg beckongly open. Disney has felt the heat as of late as fans ll on the pany to publicly nmn Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which jt passed through the state senate. As of today, Pixar animators are speakg out agast the pany, sharg an open letter that rporate offic "have mand the removal of 'nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn … regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar, '" acrdg to The ntroversy led some fans to pot out that LGBTQ+ folks have always been a part of Disney's succs.

1646685855Queer-dg villas was an easy way for 1900s animatn to signate a character as different, ually saddlg them wh a bunch of cliché, homosexual stereotyp that the dience digts and associat as evil, playg off of history's real-life stigma agast LGBTQ+ folks.

FOUR CLASSIC MOVIE ACTORS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAYA HOLLYWOOD HISTORY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY NEWNOWNEXT EDORSAUGT 24, 2017/8:00 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}MGMBY NEWNOWNEXT EDORSAUGT 24, 2017 / 8:00 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"FOUR CLASSIC MOVIE ACTORS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-08-24T12:00:59.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-08-24T12:00:59.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"NEWNOWNEXT EDORS","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GAY PRI MONTH IS CELEBRATED NATNALLY JUNE, BUT YEAR-ROUND ’S IMPORTANT TO LET YOUNG LGBT PEOPLE, WHO MIGHT BE NFLICTED ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, KNOW THAT WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN AROUND — EVEN THE BACKGROUND OF CLASSIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE ARE FOUR ACTORS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN WERE GAY WHO ARE WORTH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RICHARD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RICHARD HAYDN WAS BORN GEE RICHARD HAYDN LONDON ON MARCH 10, 1905. AS A YOUNG MAN, HE WORKED AS A MIC HALL ENTERTAER AND MANAGED A BANANA PLANTATN JAMAI BEFORE JOG A TOURG BRISH THEATER TROUPE. HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON FILM WAS THE TV MOVIE PRODUCTN OF RED PEPPERS 1938. HE MOVED TO AMERI AND FIRST APPEARED ON BROADWAY THE 1939 PRODUCTN OF SET TO MIC, AND FOLLOWED THAT UP WH TWO FOR THE SHOW 1940. HE MA THE FIRST OF HIS MORE THAN 50 FILMS 1941 – CHARLEY’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS BETTER KNOWN FILMS CLU BALL OF FIRE, DEAR RUTH, THE LATE GEE APLEY, FOREVER AMBER, STG PRETTY, THE EMPEROR WALTZ, ALICE WONRLAND, MISS PTATATLOCK’S MILLNS, THE MERRY WDOW, JUPER’S DARLG, THE LOST WORLD, PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISI, FIVE WEEKS A BALLOON, MUTY ON THE BOUNTY, CLARENCE THE CROSS EYED LN, THE ADVENTUR OF BULLWHIP GRIFF, AND YOUNG FRANKENSTE. HE IS PERHAPS BT KNOWN FOR THE PLAYG THE ROLE OF MAX DETWEILER THE CLASSIC FILM THE SOUND OF MIC.20TH CENTURY-FOX/GETTY IMAGELEANOR PARKER AND RICHARD HAYDN ARE GREETED BY CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER A SCENE OM THE FILM 'THE SOUND OF MIC', 1965. (PHOTO BY 20TH CENTURY-FOX/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS MANY TV APPEARANC CLU THE TWILIGHT ZONE, SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S STORYBOOK, BURKE’S LAW, THE MAN FROM UNCLE, BONANZA, BEWCHED AND MCCLOUD. HAYDN WAS ALSO A EQUENT PERFORMER ON RAD, AND A REGULAR ON THE BURNS AND ALLEN RAD SHOW. RICHARD HAYDN WAS GAY. HE LIVED A QUIET PERSONAL LIFE, AND WAS WELL-KNOWN HOLLYWOOD FOR HIS CHERISHED, AND LAVISH FLOWER GARNS WHICH HE TEND AT HIS BEVERLY HILLS HOME. HIS FAL ACTG ROLE WAS PROVIDG THE VOICE OF BOOKWORM THE 1985 FILM THE HUGGA BUNCH. HAYDN SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AT HIS HOME AND DIED LOS ANGEL ON APRIL 25, 1985. HE WAS 80 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VAN JOHNSONSILVER SCREEN COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGAMERIN ACTOR VAN JOHNSON (1916 - 2008) POSG ONT OF A TARTAN BACKGROUND, CIR 1955. (PHOTO BY SILVER SCREEN COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EMMY AWARD NOMATED SGER-DANCER-ACTOR VAN JOHNSON WAS BORN CHARL VAN DELL JOHNSON ON AUGT 25, 1916 NEWPORT, RHO ISLAND. HE WAS AN ONLY CHILD. HIS ALHOLIC MOTHER ABANDONED HIM WHEN HE WAS A CHILD. HE WAS RAISED BY HIS FATHER, WHO VAN SCRIBED AS “CHILLY.” AFTER GRADUATG OM HIGH SCHOOL, VAN MOVED TO NYC AND JOED THE OFF-BROADWAY REVUE, ENTRE NO 1935. HE TOURED A THEATER TROUPE AND MA HIS BROADWAY BUT NEW FAC OF 1936. IN 1939, HE APPEARED THE H BROADWAY MIL, TOO MANY GIRLS AND APPEARED THE FILM VERSN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE APPEARED THE BROADWAY MIL, PAL JOEY, 1940/41. HE WAS LURED BACK TO HOLLYWOOD BY HIS IEND, LUCILLE BALL, AND SIGNED A SIX-MONTH NTRACT WH WARNERS. HE MA SEVERAL FILMS THERE, BUT WASN’T UNTIL HE SIGNED WH MGM, THAT HE BEME A FULL FLEDGED SUPER STAR. WH HIS TALL, ALL-AMERIN GOOD LOOKS, VAN BEME ENORMOLY POPULAR WH THE FANS. HIS MOST POPULAR FILMS CLU THE HUMAN COMEDY, A GUY NAMED JOE (DURG THE MAKG OF THIS FILM HE WAS NEARLY KILLED A R ACCINT THAT LEFT HIM WH A METAL PLATE HIS FOREHEAD AND FACIAL SRS), TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR, THE WHE CLIFFS OF DOVER, THIRTY SENDS OVER TOKYO, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY, EASY TO WED, MOTHER IS A FRHMAN, AND IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME, AMONG MANY OTHERS. HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR LEADG MEN DURG THE WWII YEARS. HIS ACCINT PREVENTED HIM OM SERVG DURG THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1945, HE WAS RATED #2 BOX OFFICE STAR AMERI, AND 1946, HE WAS RATED #3. VAN JOHNSON WAS GAY. HE MARRIED EVE ABBOTT WYNN ON JANUARY 25, 1947, ONE DAY AFTER HER DIVORCE OM ACTOR KEENAN WYNN. THE THREE HAD BEEN VERY CLOSE IENDS. IN 1948, THE UPLE HAD A DGHTER NAMED SCHUYLER, BUT LAGE VAN MATAED A CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH KEENAN WYNN. VAN AND EVE SEPARATED 1961, AND DIVORCED 1968. EVE JOHNSON SAID THAT THEIR MARRIAGE HAD BEEN ENGEERED BY LOUIS B. MAYER AT MGM. “THEY NEED THEIR BIG STAR TO MARRIED TO QUELL MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUAL PREFERENC, AND UNFORTUNATELY, I WAS — THE ONLY WOMAN HE WOULD MARRY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VAN WORKED STEADILY FILMS AND TV (PLAYG MORE THAN 125 ROL DURG HIS 52 YEAR REER). HE PERFORMED SUMMER STOCK AND REGNAL THEATER, AND NATNAL TOURS CLUDG THE MIL, SHOW BOAT. HE RETURNED TO BROADWAY FOR COME ON STRONG (1962), MATG DANCE (1965), AND 1986, THE MIL LA CAGE AUX FOLL, WHICH HE ALSO TOURED. VAN LIVED ON MANHATTAN’S EAST SI UNTIL 2002 WHEN HE MOVED TO AN ASSISTED RE FACILY NYACK, NEW YORK. VAN JOHNSON DIED ON DECEMBER 12, 2008 NYACK AT THE AGE OF 92. AT THIS TIME OF HIS ATH, HE WAS LONG TRANGED OM HIS ONLY CHILD. HE WAS LARGER THAN LIFE, UTTERLY CHARMG, HILAR, VERY FLIRTY, AND A TE MOVIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOHN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOHN MEGNA WAS BORN JOHN INGOLIA ON NOVEMBER 9, 1952 QUEENS, NEW YORK CY. HIS FATHER WAS A PHARMACIST AND HIS MOTHER WAS A NIGHTCLUB SGER. HE WAS THE HALF BROTHER OF CONNIE STEVENS. JOHN MA HIS ACTG BUT 1958 ON BROADWAY THE MIL GREEENWILLOW. THE FOLLOWG YEAR HE STARRED ALL THE WAY HOME. HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM APPEARANCE WAS THE CLASSIC 1962 MOTN PICTURE TO KILL A MOCKGBIRD PLAYG THE ROLE OF THE “TOOTHY” SUMMER VISOR, DILL HARRIS.UNIVERSAL/GETTY IMAGROSEMARY MURPHY STG WH MARY BADHAM, PHILLIP ALFORD AND JOHN MEGNA A SCENE OM THE FILM 'TO KILL A MOCKGBIRD', 1962. (PHOTO BY UNIVERSAL/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS MANY TV APPEARANC CLU TARGET: THE CORPTORS, NAKED CY, THE ALED HCHCK HOUR, DR. KILDARE, BEN CASEY, STAR TREK, I SPY, THE DANNY THOMAS HOUR, THE BLUE KNIGHT, AND POLICE WOMAN. HE APPEARED THE PROVOTIVE MA-FOR-TV MOVI I WANT TO KEEP MY BABY, AND THE BOY THE PLASTIC BUBBLE. HE STARRED AS “LTLE ADAM” A SERI OF TNAL SHORT ANIMATED FILMS TLED THE BIG WORLD OF LTLE ADAM THAT WERE PRODUCED BY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOHN’S OTHER FILMS CLU HH…HH SWEET CHARLOTTE, BLD FOLD, FOLLOW THE BOYS, THE GODFATHER PART II, GO TELL THE SPARTANS, SUNNY SI, BUTCH AND SUNDANCE: THE EARLY DAYS, SMOKEY AND THE BAND II, AND THE CANNONBALL RUN. AS A YOUNG MAN, JOHN GRADUATED OM CORNELL UNIVERSY ITHA, NEW YORK. HE MAJORED PERFORMG ARTS. IN HIS LATER LIFE, HE TGHT ENGLISH, SPANISH AND HISTORY THE LOS ANGEL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. HE WAS THE FOUNDG DIRECTOR OF THE NONPROF THEATER GROUP, L.A. ARTS. HIS FAL ACTG ROLE WAS THE 1984 TV MOVIE THE RATGS GAME. JOHN WAS GAY. HE NTRACTED HIV, AND DIED OF AIDS RELATED ILLNS ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1995 AT MIDWAY HOSPAL LOS ANGEL. MEGNA WAS 42 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTON WALBROOKGENERAL FILM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTON WALBROOK WAS BORN ADOLF ANTON WILHELM WOHLBCK VIENNA, ATRIA ON NOVEMBER 19, 1896. HE ME OM A FAY OF ENTERTAERS, CLUDG CIRC PERFORMERS. ANTON STUDIED WH MAX REHARDT FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND WORKED ATRIAN THEATER AND FILM. IN 1936, HE TRAVELED TO HOLLYWOOD TO RE-SHOOT SOME SCEN FOR THE 1937 FILM, THE SOLDIER AND THE LADY. ANTON WALBROOK WAS GAY. HE DID NOT RETURN TO ATRIA, BUT BEE HIS MOTHER WAS JEWISH, HE QUALIFIED FOR THE NUREMBERG LAWS AS “HALF-JEWISH,” AND HE WAS ALLOWED TO SETTLE ENGLAND WHERE HE LATER FED A SOLID FILM REER. HIS FIRST FILM WAS MARTEN 1915. HE MA 19 FILMS ATRIA AND GERMANY, BEFORE MAKG HIS TRANSN TO AMERIN AND BRISH FILMS.GENERAL FILM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS LATER FILMS CLU THE SOLDIER AND THE LADY, VICTORIA THE GREAT, GASLIGHT, DANGERO MOONLIGHT, 49TH PARALLEL, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, THE MAN OM MOROC, THE QUEEN OF SPAS, LA RON, KG FOR ONE NIGHT, SAT JOAN, AND I ACCE!, AMONG OTHERS. HE IS BT KNOWN FOR PLAYG THE ROLE OF BORIS LEMONTOV THE 1948 DANCE CLASSIC THE RED SHO. IN THE LATE 1950S, HE RETIRED OM FILMS AND WORKED ON THE EUROPEAN STAGE AND TELEVISN. HIS FAL ACTG ROLE WAS THE GERMAN TV MOVIE, ROBERT UND ELISABETH 1966. ANTON WALBROOK DIED GARATSHSEN, BAVARIA, GERMANY ON AUGT 9, 1967 AFTER SUFFERG A HEART ATTACK. WALBROOK WAS 70 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A VERSN OF THIS ARTICLE ORIGALLY APPEARED ON WE ARE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

So for those of whom are not gay (and by gay, I mean homosexual — other groups are valid, but their paths are not the same as ours) — here’s one of the many stori of what is like to be a gay boy. This was before I learned of the word “gay” — that me when I was about eight years was sudnly a new playground sult flyg around — “faggot. Historilly, the ma way LGBTQ+ people have found ourselv reprented film and televisn was through characters that were d as queer, though their sexual and genr inti had no signifint prence, bee homophobia.

In the origal animated versn, the character, voiced by Jeremy Irons, fell le wh the then-expected d-as-gay villay that me to fe untls Disney properti. And if you jt listen to the origal versn of "Be Prepared, " Sr's voice is basilly remiscent of an entiled and disgntled (whe) gay man who mand his right to marry while ignorg the plight of LGBTQ+ folks of lor. Unrstandably, however, 's not absurd that those of who grew up on the origal Ln Kg would want to mata much of what we remember of the origal, cludg Sr's latent homosexualy.

In fact, that the new Sr is not sublimally gay -- and Billy Eichner says he played Timon wh a "gay sensibily, " whatever the hell that means -- is sign of progrs. the amount of people who replied to this sayg that shego was the e of their gay awakeng is outstandg so here’s an appreciatn post for our queen.

WHO WAS GAY IN THE ORIGAL "DARK SHADOWS" TV SERI?

are we all jt gog to ignore the fact that natalie certa and cz ramirez rs 3 are gay girls bound to hook up or what.

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36 Fetish Every Gay Man Should Know .

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