Gay Love Letters through the Centuri: Osr Wil

Contents:

• IS BLAKE RSON’S OSR VAN RHIJN GAY THE GILD AGE?
• WAS OSR WIL GAY?
• IS GOTHAM KNIGHT STAR OSR MAN GAY? BOYIEND RUMORS SURROUND HIM AS HE KISSED MISIA BUTLER
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• AN O TO OSR, THE REHGLY BORG GAY VILLA OF THE GILD AGE
• OSRS HOSTS TAKE ON FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AND GOLN GLOB NTROVERSY

IS BLAKE RSON’S OSR VAN RHIJN GAY THE GILD AGE?

The Gild Age is tellg a different story about a closeted gay man than Downton Abbey but Osr van Rhijn has a better life than Thomas Barrow. Barrow was a footman who was wily disliked by Downton's other servants for beg llo and cel, but he was also hidg the secret that he was gay.

WAS OSR WIL GAY?

Barrow was eply unhappy and hated his life as a closeted homosexual, pecially when his few attempts to nnect wh other men were met wh risn and revulsn. In Ellis, Barrow ma a te iend who was also gay, and he realized that he didn't have to be alone and unhappy any longer. The Gild Age's premiere episo, "Never The New, " revealed that Osr van Rhijn is gay, which no one but his lover, John Adams (Claybourne Elr), is aware of.

IS GOTHAM KNIGHT STAR OSR MAN GAY? BOYIEND RUMORS SURROUND HIM AS HE KISSED MISIA BUTLER

Th, Osr has dited himself to accumulatg money by fdg an heirs to marry while matag his private life as a gay man.

There's no possibily Osr n live openly as a gay man The Gild Age's 1882 New York, pecially not nsirg who his mother is, yet Osr seems to be makg the bt of his lot even if he's not pecially happy about .

But stead of repeatg Barrow's Downton Abbey story The Gild Age, Julian Fellow, who created both seri, is wisely explorg a different kd of life for a closeted gay man 1882 New York Cy. It’s te: Levant’s paful, eply homoerotic iendship wh the “Rhapsody Blue” poser seems to have equally spired and tortured him. “This is the first of my plays where there isn’t an explicly gay character, ” Wright explas.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

“But bee I’m gay, the director of the play [Lisa Peterson] is a lbian, and Sean Hay is an out-gay actor, was impossible not to nsir Osr om that perspective.

“I do thk his relatnship wh Gershw was somewhat homoerotic. If you are wonrg whether Osr is gay ‘The Gild Age, ’ we got you vered.

AN O TO OSR, THE REHGLY BORG GAY VILLA OF THE GILD AGE

A pre-Stonewall gay bar at the rner of Christopher Street and Gay Street was lled The Flower Pot.

OSRS HOSTS TAKE ON FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AND GOLN GLOB NTROVERSY

Notably, a group of seven gay male wrers who met up regularly New York Cy 1980 and 1981 named themselv “The Vlet Quill. As Looby not Flowers of Manhood, “daisy, ” “buttercup, ” and pecially “pansy, ” as well as the generalized “horticultural lad” were early twentieth century terms for “flamboyant gay men.

The police eventually shut them all down, cludg a 1939 one Harlem that end a 70-year annual tradn (for more, see Gaylaw: Challengg the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. “Chncey pots out that while the pansy craze often drew on or reproduced the most meang stereotyp of male homosexuals, did, at tim, provi a space for some gay performers to speak about, to rist, and even to unter heterosexist prumptns about fairi and other queers, ” the film scholar Mark Lynn Anrson wr his 2011 book Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Scienc 1920s Ameri. ” This phrase, “the love that dare not speak s name, ” was later brought to promence as reference to homosexualy Wil’s gross cency trial 1895.

The Lavenr Sre was a 1950s wch hunt for homosexual feral employe, much like the Red Sre was one for munists, as tailed “The Lavenr Sre and Empire: Rethkg Cold War Antigay Polics” by the historian Naoko Shibawa. “Was Osr Wil gay?