Some crics dismiss the value of stori about the private liv of Hollywood’s gay stars of yore. But those stori are ccial to unrstandg the tth of who they were.
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- THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARYALSO: PARKER POSEY ON WHETHER THE ORIGAL DR. SMH WAS GAY!{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;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018/12:48 {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:4800PX;WIDTH:4508PX;}KM ARCHIVE/GETTY ROCK HUDSON GETTG A MASSAGE AT THE FLANDIA BATHS HOLLYWOOD, CA, 1950. (PHOTO BY KM ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG)BY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018 / 12:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+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":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{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;}“WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?” SAYS OLD-TIME PROCURER TO THE STARS STTY BOWERS MATT TYRNER’S DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE AT A BOWERS BOOK SIGNG PLAS THAT THE THOR BROKE THE NFINCE OF HIS CELEBRY CLIENTS AND WONRS WHAT IF THOSE AD INS HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND THEY FD OUT THEY WERE GAY. THE “SO WHAT?” LE OF FENSE OM BOWERS IS SPOT ON, AND HE ALSO SAYS THAT THE REALLY WEREN’T SECRETS TO THOSE HOLLYWOOD WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOG ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{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;}BIS, I WOULD ADD, CELEBS’ PRIVATE LIV ARE ALWAYS DISSECTED BY THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC, AND IF EVERYONE N EMBRACE THE LI ALL THOSE YEARS, THEN WHY NOT FALLY LEARN THE TTH? THERE WERE A LOT OF GAYS THE MOVI (BIG SURPRISE), AND THEY WERE ONLY HUMAN THEIR QUT FOR NSTANT SEX, AS LONG AS NO ONE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THEM, AND BOWERS NEVER DID—UNTIL THEY WERE GONE, {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;}THE TTHS YOU LEARN OM THE FILM (AND THE BOOK THAT PRECED ) CLU THE FOLLOWG:{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;}THE TRACY-HEPBURN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{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;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHERE HEPBURN WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942).{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;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN DID NOT ACTUALLY LIVE TOGETHER AND WEREN’T A UPLE AT ALL, BUT THE BIG SHOTS THOUGHT WOULD BE BETTER TO PAWN THEM OFF AS AN ADULTERO DUO THAN A GAY MAN AND A LBIAN. OH, BY THE WAY, THE DE AND DUCHS OF WDSOR WERE GAY, {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;}HUDSON, GRANT, AND A FLOOK MARRIAGEHERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGROCK HUDSON (PHOTO BY HERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA 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;}ROCK HUDSON MARRIED HIS AGENT’S SECRETARY SHORTLY AFTER LIFE MAGAZE POTED OUT THAT THE HUNKY ACTOR WASN’T MARRIED AND WOULD SOON NEED TO EXPLA WHY. ON THE WAY UP THE LADR, BOWERS HAD SET ROCK UP WH THE TR GAY CARY {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;}GROUP PLAY FOR COLE PORTERGETTYTHE AMERIN POSER AND LYRICIST COLE PORTER (1891-1964) SS AT THE PIANO. (PHOTO BY © HULTON-DTSCH COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA 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;}WTY SONGWRER COLE PORTER ASKED BOWERS FOR 15 GUYS AT ONCE, SO HE ULD BLOW THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE. I GUS HE WAS LIVG OUT HIS H SONG, “YOU’RE THE TOP.”{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;}BOWERS WAS A {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;}BOWERS ALSO PROVID OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS FOR STARS LIKE VIVIEN LEIGH AND BETTE DAVIS. AND BY THE WAY, HE NEVER TOOK A PENNY! HE JT WANTED PEOPLE TO BE {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;}HOLY TRY20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGMARILYN MONROE (1926 - 1962) AND TOM EWELL (1909 - 1994) A SCENE OM 'THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH', DIRECTED BY BILLY WILR, 1955. (PHOTO BY 20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/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;}GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS “THE SALIVATOR,” MPY ACTOR PL LYN WAS THE DNK, AND THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -STAR TOM EWELL HAD AN CH FOR A {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;}BOWERS' LIPS ARE SEALED (FOR NOW)EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES - JUNE 1: ACTOR CLT EASTWOOD TALKS ON A PAY PHONE OUTSI HIS HOME ON JUNE 1, 1956 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/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;}BEFORE THE MOVIE, WAS NOTED THAT WHATEVER BOWERS KNOWS ABOUT LIVG STARS LIKE CLT EASTWOOD AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IS NOT CLUD. (NOR ARE SOME OF THE MORE BODY-FLUID-ORIENTED TAL OM THE BOOK, FULL SERVICE. Y, I READ —TWICE.){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 PROGRSIVE KD OF MARRIAGETASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAGWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JULY 25: STTY BOWERS ATTENDS CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD HONORS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY ON JULY 25, 2018 WT HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY TASIA WELLS/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;}STTY BOWERS ONT OF A POSTER FOR STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF {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’S THE REAL SHOCK: BOWERS HIMSELF—WHO HAD SEX WH SOME OF HIS MALE MOVIE STAR CLIENTS BACK THEN, STARTG WH WALTER PIDGEON—HAS HAD A WIFE NAMED LOIS FOR 34 YEARS. THEIR DYNAMIC IS TERTG BEE LOIS SAYS SHE WISH BOWERS HAD TOLD HER ABOUT HIS PAST WHEN THEY MET. HE RPONDS THAT SHE DIDN’T TELL HIM ANYTHG ABOUT HER PAST EHER, AND FOR ALL HE KNEW, SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HOOKER. YEAH, BUT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT!{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 POCKETFUL OF POSEYNETFLIXLOST IN {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;}AS LONG AS WE’RE OUTG OLD INS, PARKER POSEY—WHO’S CELEBRATG A NEW MEMOIR, YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE—HAPPENS TO PLAY DR. SMH ON NETFLIX’S LOST SPACE, A CHARACTER WH AN TERTG HISTORY. ON THE ORIGAL LOST SPACE SERI THE ‘60S, THE PART WAS A RATHER EFFEMATE AND EXCABLE MALE AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS. (WHEN THE ROBOT YELPED “DANGER, WILL ROBSON!” MANY VIEWERS THOUGHT THEY WERE WARNG WILL ABOUT THE DOCTOR.) EVEN -STAR JUNE LOCKHART LATER SAID THAT THE CHARACTER WAS FELY GAY. SO I JT ASKED PARKER FOR HER TAKE ON THAT WHOLE SUATN, AND SHE FTLY REPLIED, “I THK HE WAS VERY HAPPY!”{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;}I WAS THRILLED WHEN I RECEIVED A PY OF THE NEW BOOK BLAME IT ON BIAN DEL R THE MAIL, UNTIL I OPENED AND THE DRAG RACE WNER HAD WRTEN, “MICHAEL, DO YOU NEED A LARGE PRT VERSN?” NO, I ULD READ JT FE—AND ’S HILAR, WH BIAN RPONDG TO MA-UP QUTNS WH TWISTED ANSWERS. WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAS NERV BEFORE A SHOW AND IF SO, HOW SHE P WH , BIAN SAYS, “WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PG MECHANISMS TO WORK THROUGH OUR NERV... BARBRA STREISAND THROWS BOILG HOT TEA ON THE LIGHTG DIRECTOR. AND MERYL STREEP MASTURBAT TO HOLOT PICTUR OM ACHWZ. I HAVE A MUCH EASIER WAY TO PE: I DO WH YOGA AND MEDATN. AND BY ‘YOGA AND MEDATN’, I MEAN BOOZE AND PILLS.”JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICSAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 02: BIAN DEL R PERFORMS ON THE COLOSSAL STAGE DURG CLTERFT AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA AND THE BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDORIUM ON JUNE 2, 2018 SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGIC){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;}ON BROADWAY, THE GO-GO’S MIL HEAD OVER HEELS IS A HANER-EE HIGH (SEE MY REVIEW HERE) AND SO WAS THE OPENG NIGHT PARTY AT GUASTAVO’S. AT THE EVENT, GO-GO JANE WIEDL TOLD ME SHE WELLED UP WATCHG THE SHOW BEE SHE THOUGHT OF THE LTLE PUNK GIRL SHE WAS 40 YEARS AGO, “AND LOOK AT WHO I AM TODAY.” IS THERE STILL THAT PUNK GIRL SI HER? “Y!” SHE SAID, LGHG AND POTG TO HER WONRFULLY WACKY OUTF—A RED-ROS-PATTERNED DRS WH LACE-UP BAT {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;}ALSO THERE, DOMIQUE JACKSON OM POSE SAID SHE HAD BEEN SPIRED TO S WH ME AND SOME OTHERS AT A WHOOPI GOLDBERG SAGE TABLE LAST YEAR. “AND NOW YOU’RE BIGGER THAN I AM,” I NOTED. “NO, I’M NOT,” SHE JOKED, SG. “I HAD SURGERY. I CUT OFF!”ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTYDOMIQUE JACKSON ATTENDS THE 2018 FX ANNUAL ALL-STAR PARTY AT SVA THEATRE ON MARCH 15, 2018 NEW YORK CY. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ ANGELA WEISS/AFP/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;}AND OUR LIPS WEREN’T SEALED WHEN I DID ONSTAGE Q&AS WH JOHN WATERS AT IFC CENTER ON FRIDAY, AFTER SHOWGS OF HAIRSPRAY AND FEMALE TROUBLE. JOHN ADMTED THAT AT ONE POT THE PREPARATN FOR HIS DARK 1994 EDY SERIAL MOM, ROSEANNE WAS GOG TO PLAY THE TLE ROLE (WHICH END UP GOG TO KATHLEEN TURNER). “SHE WAS A LIBERAL THEN,” WATERS ADPANNED. “WHAT HAPPENED?”{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;}I'M DREAMG OF A WHE CHRISTMASWALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGENEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR 'STRAIGHT WHE MEN' BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AT DADONG ON JULY 23, 2018 NEW YORK C (PHOTO BY WALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGE){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;}KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR STRAIGHT WHE {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;}“LADI AND GENTLEMEN AND THE RT OF ,” SAYS NONBARY PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND THOR KATE BORNSTE ON WELG TO YOUNG JEAN LEE'S STRAIGHT WHE MEN. JANGLY RAVE MIC HAD PRECED THE SHOW, AND BORNSTE WAS NOW ONSTAGE WH TWO-SPIR PERFORMER-WRER-ACTIVIST TY DEFOE—THEY’RE THE PEOPLE CHARGE, ACRDG TO THE PROGRAM—BOTH BACKED BY A SILVER TSEL {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;}ALL OF IS NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT AND NOT WHAT MAY SEEM, WHICH WAS EXACTLY THE POT. “NEHER OF IS A STRAIGHT WHE MALE,” KATE ADDS, AND THE TWO NTUE TO BANTER HILARLY, WHILE BRGG UP POTS ABOUT PRIVILEGE, EXPECTATN, ACCEPTANCE, AND REFAL TO HATE. AND THEN THE PLAY BEGS, WH THOSE TWO OCSNALLY APPEARG ONSTAGE TO GUI THE ACTORS THEIR MOVEMENTS, STAGEHANDS ALSO FULL VIEW AS THEY REMOVE PROPS BETWEEN {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;}WHAT FOLLOWS IS A CHRISTMAS EVE GATHERG WH A SPUNKY OLD WIDOWER NAMED ED (STEPHEN PAYNE) WHO BRGS TOGETHER HIS THREE SONS FOR BANTER, CHE FOOD, AND MISBEGOTTEN GIFT GIVG. OF THE SONS, JAKE (JOSH CHARL) TURNS OUT TO BE A RICH BANKER WHO ASTS ON HIS PRIVILEGE, ONLY HIRG WH AT HIS PANY, TO GIVE THE CLIENTS WHAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY WANT, EVEN THOUGH HE HAPPENS TO HAVE MIXED RACE CHILDREN. DREW (ARMIE HAMMER OM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) HAS MANAGED TO DO GOOD THE WORLD WH HIS TEACHGS AND WRGS. AND MATT (PL SCHNEIR) IS A HARVARD GRAD WHO IS STILL PAYG OFF STUNT LOANS AND WHO’S PRETTY MUCH GIVEN UP, HAVG FAILED AT TRYG TO CHANGE THE WORLD, SO HE’S NOW LIVG WH DAD AND CRYG AT UNSPECTG MOMENTS. (DREW ACTUALLY WONRS IF MATT MIGHT BE GAY AND NEED OF G OUT.)JOAN {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;}FROM LEFT: ARMIE HAMMER, STEPHEN PAYNE, AND PL SCHNEIR STRAIGHT WHE {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;}THE THREE BROTHERS HAVE A HIGHLY ENTERTAG MARARIE, GOG TO RACY, SILLY SHTICK AS IF THEY WERE STILL PRE-ADOLCENTS, AND TWO FUNNY SET PIEC EMERGE—A KKK VERSN OF THE TLE SONG OM OKLAHOMA! (YOU HAVE TO SEE THE SHOW) AND A WILD DANCE ROUTE WHERE THE BROTHERS GET TO RRY ON AND SHOW OFF TAG-TEAM FASHN. BUT THGS ARE AMISS AS JAKE’S GIFT TO DAD BREAKS, DAD N’T REMEMBER THE WORDS TO “O, TANNENBM,” AND DREW TRI TO HELP MATT OUT OF HIS PRSN WHILE MAKG THGS {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;}JAKE’S IAL VIEW OF MATT—THAT HE’S SELF-SABOTAGG ORR TO MAKE WAY FOR NON-WH TO GET OPPORTUNI—TURNS OUT TO BE MISGUID, AS THE TER-RELATNSHIPS GROW MORE PLITED. MORE LIKELY, MATT ISN’T GRABBG AT HIS WHE PRIVILEGE BEE THE RULTS DIDN’T MAKE HIM FEEL ALL THAT PRIVILEGED. THE PLAY, AS DIRECTED BY ANNA D. SHAPIRO, IS UNIFORMLY WELL-ACTED AND QUE FUNNY, THOUGH THE JOK ARE MORE PERSUASIVE THAN THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- HOLLYWOOD HAS A SECRET LGBT HISTORY. WE SHOULDN’T DISMISS ITTRUTH TELLERSOME CRICS DISMISS THE VALUE OF STORI ABOUT THE PRIVATE LIV OF HOLLYWOOD’S GAY STARS OF YORE. BUT THOSE STORI ARE CCIAL TO UNRSTANDG THE TTH OF WHO THEY WERE.WILLIAM J. MANNUPDATED JUL. 30, 2018 2:00AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 28, 2018 9:01PM EDT GREENWICH ENTERTAMENTTHE HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCSFUL ENTERPRIS AMERIN HISTORY. AT S HEIGHT, THE DTRY OF ILLN CRANKED OUT HUNDREDS OF PUBLICY RELEAS A WEEK, ALL DUTIFULLY REPORTED FAN MAGAZ AND NEWSPAPER LUMNS. AN ARMY OF PUBLICISTS AND “FIXERS” WERE ON HAND TO STAGE-MANAGE DOZENS OF ROMANC, WEDDGS AND HAPPY FAY PHOTO-OPS TO BOOST THE IMAG OF THE STARS THE DTRY HAD CREATED, ALL OF THEM ARCHETYPILLY WHOLOME, UPSTANDG—AND HETEROSEXUAL. THIS WAS THE WAY AMERINS THE 1940S AND 1950S WANTED TO SEE THEIR HERO—AND THEMSELV. THE DREAM MERCHANTS MA SURE THEY DID.SO POTENT WAS THIS EFFORT THAT EVEN TODAY, THOSE ILLNS ENDURE. DPE THE FACT THAT MY BOOK KATE: THE WOMAN WHO WAS HEPBURN ME OUT 2006, THERE ARE STILL THOSE WHO SIST I MA UP THE PARTS ABOUT HOW HEPBURN LOVED WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN, AND HOW SHE TURNED HER LARGELY PLATONIC IENDSHIP WH A SEXUALLY NFLICTED SPENCER TRACY TO A ROMANTIC, HETEROSEXUAL UNN FOR POSTERY. AT THE TIME OF THE BOOK’S PUBLITN, SOME “SPENCE AND KATE” FANS ME UNHGED. TROLLS ON AMAZON KEPT MY EDOR BY FENDG MY FIVE YEARS OF TENSIVE REARCH. MY WIKIPEDIA PAGE WAS HACKED AND I WAS LLED A LIAR. AT ONE BOOK EVENT, THE VENUE RECEIVED A THREATENG PHONE LL BEFORE I WENT ONSTAGE. FOR SOME PEOPLE, TAGGG BELOVED FIGUR AS QUEER WAS A CLARATN OF WAR; THEY ME READY TO FIGHT. NO AMOUNT OF REARCH WAS ENOUGH FOR THEM. FOR THE “NIERS,” AS I LL THEM, THEIR HOLLYWOOD ILLNS ARE BOUGHT, PAID FOR, AND NONRETURNABLE.MATT TYRNER, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW FILM, STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, OPENG TONIGHT LOS ANGEL AND ON AUGT 3 NEW YORK, HAS NOT, AS FAR AS I KNOW, HAD TO AL WH PHONE THREATS OR WIKIPEDIA VANDALISM. BUT HE’S GOTTEN HIS SHARE OF PHBACK OM THE NIERS, TOO. GREENWICH ENTERTAMENT STTY BRGS TO LIFE THE STORY OF STTY BOWERS, THE LEGENDARY “MALE MADAM” OF HOLLYWOOD’S GOLN AGE, WHOSE LIAISONS WH DISCREETLY GAY ACTORS THE 1940S AND 1950S EXPOSE THE REAL WORLD THE DREAM MERCHANTS WERE TENT ON HIDG.THE FILM IS BASED ON BOWERS' OWN BOOK, FULL SERVICE: MY LIFE HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I’M ONE OF THE TALKG HEADS TYRNER'S FILM, AND BOWERS WAS ONE OF MY MA SOURC FOR KATE; BOWERS WAS ALSO A CHIEF SOURCE FOR DAILY BEAST EDOR AND WRER TIM TEEMAN'S BOOK, IN BED WH GORE VIDAL: HTLERS, HOLLYWOOD, AND THE PRIVATE WORLD OF AN AMERIN MASTER.) WHILE THE BROADSIS AGAST TYRNER HAVE BEEN MORE DISCREET, THEY’RE NO LS ROOTED A EP, PERVASIVE ANTI-GAY BIAS. “THERE HAS BEEN ODD, SUBTLE, HOMOPHOBIC MENTARY SURROUNDG THE PROJECT,” TYRNER TOLD ME. “PEOPLE SAY THGS LIKE ‘NOT MY CUP OF TEA,’ WHICH JT HAS THAT CERTA FEELG TO .” A CRIC N’T E RIGHT OUT AND SAY, 2018, “THE IA OF QUEER SEX MAK ME QUEASY.” BUT THEY N SAY THGS SUCH AS WHAT JEANE BASGER, FILM HISTORIAN AND FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE WLEYAN UNIVERSY CEMA ARCHIV, TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM: “THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE EXPRSN, ‘PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE.’ PERSONALLY, I’M MORE TERTED THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE THAN THEIR POSSIBLE OFF-SCREEN SHENANIGANS.” BASGER’S MENTS IGNED A MI-FIRTORM ON TWTER. BUZZFEED RRPONNT KATE AURTHUR LL BASGER’S REMARK “NSCENDG AND HOMOPHOBIC.” VANY FAIR’S REBEC KEEGAN ASKED, “SERLY, WHAT WAS THE POT OF THAT QUOTE? ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE TERTED THAT ERA OF HOLLYWOOD BUT NOT TERTED THE WAY S BIGGT STARS NAVIGATED SEXUALY IS SO FULL OF .” HEARST OVER HOLLYWOOD THOR LOU PIZZOLA TWEETED, “IT’S TERTG HOW PEOPLE, CLUDG FILM HISTORIANS, WHO NEVER OBJECT TO STORI EXPLORG THE SEXUAL AND ROMANTIC LIV OF ACTORS AS LONG AS THEY ARE PERCEIVED AS STRAIGHT, BEE PURANIL ABOUT DISCSNS ABOUT QUEER LIFE HOLLYWOOD, CLARG THE CUR SHOULD ‘GET A LIFE’ AND FOC ONLY ON ‘THE WORK.’ ”IF ONLY TWTER HAD BEEN AROUND WHEN KATE ME OUT! WHILE THE LN’S SHARE OF MY REVIEWS WERE POSIVE (THE NEW YORK TIM NAMED KATE ONE OF THE NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR) THERE WERE SOME WHO, MUCH LIKE BASGER TRIED WH STTY, ATTEMPTED TO DISEMPOWER THE WORK BY TRIVIALIZG . THE LATE RICHARD SCHICKEL, HIS REVIEW OF KATE FOR THE LOS ANGEL TIM, DISMISSED MY SOURC AS “STREET HTLERS” (STTY WAS NOTHG OF THE SORT) AND THE BOOK AS “GOSSIP-MONGERG WH HIGH-END ASPIRATNS.” MY DISCSNS OF THE SEXUALY OF HEPBURN’S IENDS (“CLUDG JOHN FORD!”) WERE “TIROME,” SCHICKEL NCLUD. HIS EXCLAMATN POT SAYS ALL. THE 73-YEAR-OLD REVIEWER SIMPLY ULD NOT FATHOM A MAN’S MAN LIKE FORD (DIRECTOR OF JOHN WAYNE WTERNS!) STGGLG WH SEXUALY. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY “TIROME” TO SCHICKEL WAS THE WHOLE DISCSN OF SEXUALY—UNWORTHY OF SER STUDY. “GET A LIFE,” HE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE SAID TO ME.SCHICKEL WAS MORE THAN HAPPY, HOWEVER, TO LEND HIS SUPPORT TO A BGRAPHY OF SPENCER TRACY THAT ME OUT A FEW YEARS LATER, SCE HEWED MORE CLOSELY TO THE OLD STUD LE. THE THOR OF THAT BOOK ED SCHICKEL’S TACTIC GOG AFTER KATE: S REVELATNS WERE LS TO BE REFUTED THAN RID. STTY BOWERS’S STORI, HE SAID, WERE “CHEERFULLY UNVERIFIABLE”—EVEN THOUGH ALL STORI ABOUT SEX ARE UNVERIFIABLE, CHEERFULLY OR OTHERWISE, UNLS BOTH PARTI E FORWARD TO VERIFY. ALTHOUGH THE TRACY BGRAPHER EMBRACED STORI ABOUT HIS SUBJECT’S HETEROSEXUAL PAIRGS WHOUT ANY NEED FOR SOME HIGHER PROOF, HE SISTED THERE WAS NO EVINCE OF “HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY” TRACY’S PRIVATE PAPERS. “THE TTH IS THAT THIS PART OF HOLLYWOOD’S STORY — ED, THIS PART OF THE STORY OF THE ENTIRE TWENTIETH CENTURY — HAS UALLY ONLY BEEN PRERVED THROUGH ORAL TRADNS, PASSED DOWN BY THOSE ' THE LIFE'” NOW WHAT WOULD SUCH EVINCE LOOK LIKE? EVEN THE PAPERS OF GEE COR AND RODDY MCDOWALL, BOTH OF WHOM LIVED FAIRLY UNDISGUISED GAY LIV, THERE’S LTLE “EVINCE” TO SPEAK OF. APPARENTLY SOME HISTORIANS (THOSE WHO E TERMS LIKE “HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY” OR SCRIBE SAME-SEX LOVE AS “SHENANIGANS”) N ONLY REGNIZE THE REALY OF LGBT EXPERIENCE WHEN SASHAYS DOWN THE STREET A PRI PARA. THE TTH IS THAT THIS PART OF HOLLYWOOD’S STORY—ED, THIS PART OF THE STORY OF THE ENTIRE TWENTIETH CENTURY—HAS UALLY ONLY BEEN PRERVED THROUGH ORAL TRADNS, PASSED DOWN BY THOSE “ THE LIFE.” MANY OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE WH FOR KATE—AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE TYRNER TERVIEWED FOR STTY, AND TEEMAN FOR IN BED WH GORE VIDAL—WERE NOT THEMSELV FAMO, BUT THEY SAW FAR MORE, AND UNRSTOOD THE SUATN FAR BETTER, THAN THE MARQUEE NAM AROUND THEM OR EVEN MEMBERS OF TRACY’S AND HEPBURN’S FAI, WHO, AFTER ALL, BELIEVE THEY HAVE A LEGACY TO PROTECT. THE SOURC, WHO SCHICKEL DISMISSED AS MOR, WERE THE REAL FAI OF MY SUBJECTS, SOMETHG MOST QUEER PEOPLE STCTIVELY UNRSTAND—YET THE TRACY BGRAPHER CHOSE NOT TO SPEAK WH ANY OF THEM. THAT KD OF SNOBBERY DON’T ALLOW FOR THE WDOW TO BE OPENED WI ENOUGH FOR THE TTH TO GET . ON SOCIAL MEDIA DISCSN GROUPS, FANS OF CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD ARE DIVID TO TWO: THOSE WHO ARE CUR TO UNRSTAND THE FULL REALY OF THEIR HERO’ LIV AND THOSE WHO HOLD TIGHT TO THE OFFICIAL LE AS HAND OUT BY THE MGM OR PARAMOUNT ONT OFFIC. GREENWICH ENTERTAMENT STTY BOWERS HAS THE LATTER GROUP PANICKED. IT’S ONE THG TO DISMISS FACELS “MOR” SOURC. BUT THEY N’T WISH AWAY STTY, WHO’S UP ON THE SCREEN CHEERFULLY VERIFYG HIS HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AND ALL THOSE SAME-SEX "SHENANIGANS" HE PARTICIPATED . I FY ANYONE TO WATCH THE FILM, OR READ TEEMAN'S REVEALG TERVIEWS WH HIM, AND NOT FD STTY SCERE. HE’S EVEN A LTLE NAïVE HIS UNABASHED LOVE OF SEXUAL ADVENTURE AND HIS ABSOLUTE REJECTN OF RIGID MARTNS OF GAY AND STRAIGHT. STTY SEEMS NGENALLY UNABLE TO LIE. TYRNER AND I BOTH TRIED TO FD HOL HIS STORI; THERE ARE NONE. IF HE DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT SOMEONE, HE ADMTED THAT. STTY’S THE REAL AL, AND THAT’S WHAT MAK THE NIERS TREMBLE THEIR SHO. GORE VIDAL HIMSELF SAID OF BOWERS, “I HAVE KNOWN STTY BOWERS FOR THE BETTER PART OF A CENTURY. I’M SO PLEASED THAT HE HAS FALLY CID TO TELL HIS STORY TO THE WORLD… STTY DON’T LIE—THE STARS SOMETIM DO—AND HE KNOWS EVERYBODY.”AT BOWERS’ BOOK LNCH, WHAT WOULD BE HIS LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE, VIDAL TOLD GUTS THAT HE’D NEVER “UGHT BOWERS A LIE” THE MANY YEARS HE HAD KNOWN HIM A TOWN “WHERE YOU N MEET A THOAND LIARS EVERY DAY.”PRUMABLY, THEN, HE WOULD HAVE NCED AS FACT BOWERS’ REVELATNS TO TEEMAN THAT VIDAL NOT ONLY HAD SEX WH HIM, BUT ALSO “MANY” HTLERS BOWERS ARRANGED FOR HIM, AS WELL AS HOLLYWOOD STARS ROCK HUDSON, TYRONE POWER, AND CHARL LGHTON. “GET READY TO BELIEVE,” I TWEETED WHEN THE FILM OF STTY WAS FISHED, BUT WHETHER THE NIERS WILL EVER E AROUND IS AN OPEN QUTN. DREAMS DIE HARD. BUT SHOULDN’T STTY’S STORI—AND THE STORI OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO’VE PULLED BACK THE CURTA ON THE ILLNS—MAKE HEPBURN AND TRACY (AND CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT AND JOHN FORD AND CLTTE COLBERT AND SO MANY OTHERS) EVEN MORE FASCATG TO , KNOWG HOW THEY HAD TO CHART THEIR LIV THROUGH THE MEFIELDS OF HOLLYWOOD PUBLICY? SHOULDN’T WE ADMIRE THEM EVEN MORE, FEEL EVEN MORE PASSN AND RPECT FOR THEM, ROOT FOR THEM WAYS WE HADN’T EVEN NSIRED BEFORE? IF WE DON’T, THEN I SUGGT WE LOOK DOWN EP, BEE THERE MIGHT JT BE SOME HOMOPHOBIA LURKG AT THE HEART OF OUR NIAL. WHY, AFTER ALL, SHOULD BE A BAD THG IF KATE HEPBURN LOVED WOMEN? THOSE WHO NEED TO “GET A LIFE” AREN’T THE HISTORIANS CUR TO FD OUT HOW PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVED, BUT RATHER THOSE WHO REFE TO SEE THE REALY OF QUEER HISTORY, OR DO THEIR BT TO TRIVIALIZE WHEN THEY DO.WILLIAM J. MANN IS THE THOR OF SEVERAL BOOKS ON HOLLYWOOD AND AMERIN HISTORY. HE IS ALSO A PROFSOR OF LGBT HISTORY AND POPULAR CULTURE AT CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSY. WILLIAM J. MANN
THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARYALSO: PARKER POSEY ON WHETHER THE ORIGAL DR. SMH WAS GAY!{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;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018/12:48 {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:4800PX;WIDTH:4508PX;}KM ARCHIVE/GETTY ROCK HUDSON GETTG A MASSAGE AT THE FLANDIA BATHS HOLLYWOOD, CA, 1950. (PHOTO BY KM ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG)BY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018 / 12:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+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":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{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;}“WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?” SAYS OLD-TIME PROCURER TO THE STARS STTY BOWERS MATT TYRNER’S DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE AT A BOWERS BOOK SIGNG PLAS THAT THE THOR BROKE THE NFINCE OF HIS CELEBRY CLIENTS AND WONRS WHAT IF THOSE AD INS HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND THEY FD OUT THEY WERE GAY. THE “SO WHAT?” LE OF FENSE OM BOWERS IS SPOT ON, AND HE ALSO SAYS THAT THE REALLY WEREN’T SECRETS TO THOSE HOLLYWOOD WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOG ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{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;}BIS, I WOULD ADD, CELEBS’ PRIVATE LIV ARE ALWAYS DISSECTED BY THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC, AND IF EVERYONE N EMBRACE THE LI ALL THOSE YEARS, THEN WHY NOT FALLY LEARN THE TTH? THERE WERE A LOT OF GAYS THE MOVI (BIG SURPRISE), AND THEY WERE ONLY HUMAN THEIR QUT FOR NSTANT SEX, AS LONG AS NO ONE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THEM, AND BOWERS NEVER DID—UNTIL THEY WERE GONE, {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;}THE TTHS YOU LEARN OM THE FILM (AND THE BOOK THAT PRECED ) CLU THE FOLLOWG:{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;}THE TRACY-HEPBURN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{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;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHERE HEPBURN WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942).{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;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN DID NOT ACTUALLY LIVE TOGETHER AND WEREN’T A UPLE AT ALL, BUT THE BIG SHOTS THOUGHT WOULD BE BETTER TO PAWN THEM OFF AS AN ADULTERO DUO THAN A GAY MAN AND A LBIAN. OH, BY THE WAY, THE DE AND DUCHS OF WDSOR WERE GAY, {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;}HUDSON, GRANT, AND A FLOOK MARRIAGEHERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGROCK HUDSON (PHOTO BY HERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA 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;}ROCK HUDSON MARRIED HIS AGENT’S SECRETARY SHORTLY AFTER LIFE MAGAZE POTED OUT THAT THE HUNKY ACTOR WASN’T MARRIED AND WOULD SOON NEED TO EXPLA WHY. ON THE WAY UP THE LADR, BOWERS HAD SET ROCK UP WH THE TR GAY CARY {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;}GROUP PLAY FOR COLE PORTERGETTYTHE AMERIN POSER AND LYRICIST COLE PORTER (1891-1964) SS AT THE PIANO. (PHOTO BY © HULTON-DTSCH COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA 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;}WTY SONGWRER COLE PORTER ASKED BOWERS FOR 15 GUYS AT ONCE, SO HE ULD BLOW THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE. I GUS HE WAS LIVG OUT HIS H SONG, “YOU’RE THE TOP.”{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;}BOWERS WAS A {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;}BOWERS ALSO PROVID OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS FOR STARS LIKE VIVIEN LEIGH AND BETTE DAVIS. AND BY THE WAY, HE NEVER TOOK A PENNY! HE JT WANTED PEOPLE TO BE {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;}HOLY TRY20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGMARILYN MONROE (1926 - 1962) AND TOM EWELL (1909 - 1994) A SCENE OM 'THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH', DIRECTED BY BILLY WILR, 1955. (PHOTO BY 20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/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;}GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS “THE SALIVATOR,” MPY ACTOR PL LYN WAS THE DNK, AND THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -STAR TOM EWELL HAD AN CH FOR A {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;}BOWERS' LIPS ARE SEALED (FOR NOW)EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES - JUNE 1: ACTOR CLT EASTWOOD TALKS ON A PAY PHONE OUTSI HIS HOME ON JUNE 1, 1956 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/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;}BEFORE THE MOVIE, WAS NOTED THAT WHATEVER BOWERS KNOWS ABOUT LIVG STARS LIKE CLT EASTWOOD AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IS NOT CLUD. (NOR ARE SOME OF THE MORE BODY-FLUID-ORIENTED TAL OM THE BOOK, FULL SERVICE. Y, I READ —TWICE.){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 PROGRSIVE KD OF MARRIAGETASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAGWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JULY 25: STTY BOWERS ATTENDS CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD HONORS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY ON JULY 25, 2018 WT HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY TASIA WELLS/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;}STTY BOWERS ONT OF A POSTER FOR STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF {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’S THE REAL SHOCK: BOWERS HIMSELF—WHO HAD SEX WH SOME OF HIS MALE MOVIE STAR CLIENTS BACK THEN, STARTG WH WALTER PIDGEON—HAS HAD A WIFE NAMED LOIS FOR 34 YEARS. THEIR DYNAMIC IS TERTG BEE LOIS SAYS SHE WISH BOWERS HAD TOLD HER ABOUT HIS PAST WHEN THEY MET. HE RPONDS THAT SHE DIDN’T TELL HIM ANYTHG ABOUT HER PAST EHER, AND FOR ALL HE KNEW, SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HOOKER. YEAH, BUT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT!{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 POCKETFUL OF POSEYNETFLIXLOST IN {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;}AS LONG AS WE’RE OUTG OLD INS, PARKER POSEY—WHO’S CELEBRATG A NEW MEMOIR, YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE—HAPPENS TO PLAY DR. SMH ON NETFLIX’S LOST SPACE, A CHARACTER WH AN TERTG HISTORY. ON THE ORIGAL LOST SPACE SERI THE ‘60S, THE PART WAS A RATHER EFFEMATE AND EXCABLE MALE AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS. (WHEN THE ROBOT YELPED “DANGER, WILL ROBSON!” MANY VIEWERS THOUGHT THEY WERE WARNG WILL ABOUT THE DOCTOR.) EVEN -STAR JUNE LOCKHART LATER SAID THAT THE CHARACTER WAS FELY GAY. SO I JT ASKED PARKER FOR HER TAKE ON THAT WHOLE SUATN, AND SHE FTLY REPLIED, “I THK HE WAS VERY HAPPY!”{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;}I WAS THRILLED WHEN I RECEIVED A PY OF THE NEW BOOK BLAME IT ON BIAN DEL R THE MAIL, UNTIL I OPENED AND THE DRAG RACE WNER HAD WRTEN, “MICHAEL, DO YOU NEED A LARGE PRT VERSN?” NO, I ULD READ JT FE—AND ’S HILAR, WH BIAN RPONDG TO MA-UP QUTNS WH TWISTED ANSWERS. WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAS NERV BEFORE A SHOW AND IF SO, HOW SHE P WH , BIAN SAYS, “WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PG MECHANISMS TO WORK THROUGH OUR NERV... BARBRA STREISAND THROWS BOILG HOT TEA ON THE LIGHTG DIRECTOR. AND MERYL STREEP MASTURBAT TO HOLOT PICTUR OM ACHWZ. I HAVE A MUCH EASIER WAY TO PE: I DO WH YOGA AND MEDATN. AND BY ‘YOGA AND MEDATN’, I MEAN BOOZE AND PILLS.”JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICSAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 02: BIAN DEL R PERFORMS ON THE COLOSSAL STAGE DURG CLTERFT AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA AND THE BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDORIUM ON JUNE 2, 2018 SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGIC){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;}ON BROADWAY, THE GO-GO’S MIL HEAD OVER HEELS IS A HANER-EE HIGH (SEE MY REVIEW HERE) AND SO WAS THE OPENG NIGHT PARTY AT GUASTAVO’S. AT THE EVENT, GO-GO JANE WIEDL TOLD ME SHE WELLED UP WATCHG THE SHOW BEE SHE THOUGHT OF THE LTLE PUNK GIRL SHE WAS 40 YEARS AGO, “AND LOOK AT WHO I AM TODAY.” IS THERE STILL THAT PUNK GIRL SI HER? “Y!” SHE SAID, LGHG AND POTG TO HER WONRFULLY WACKY OUTF—A RED-ROS-PATTERNED DRS WH LACE-UP BAT {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;}ALSO THERE, DOMIQUE JACKSON OM POSE SAID SHE HAD BEEN SPIRED TO S WH ME AND SOME OTHERS AT A WHOOPI GOLDBERG SAGE TABLE LAST YEAR. “AND NOW YOU’RE BIGGER THAN I AM,” I NOTED. “NO, I’M NOT,” SHE JOKED, SG. “I HAD SURGERY. I CUT OFF!”ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTYDOMIQUE JACKSON ATTENDS THE 2018 FX ANNUAL ALL-STAR PARTY AT SVA THEATRE ON MARCH 15, 2018 NEW YORK CY. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ ANGELA WEISS/AFP/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;}AND OUR LIPS WEREN’T SEALED WHEN I DID ONSTAGE Q&AS WH JOHN WATERS AT IFC CENTER ON FRIDAY, AFTER SHOWGS OF HAIRSPRAY AND FEMALE TROUBLE. JOHN ADMTED THAT AT ONE POT THE PREPARATN FOR HIS DARK 1994 EDY SERIAL MOM, ROSEANNE WAS GOG TO PLAY THE TLE ROLE (WHICH END UP GOG TO KATHLEEN TURNER). “SHE WAS A LIBERAL THEN,” WATERS ADPANNED. “WHAT HAPPENED?”{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;}I'M DREAMG OF A WHE CHRISTMASWALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGENEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR 'STRAIGHT WHE MEN' BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AT DADONG ON JULY 23, 2018 NEW YORK C (PHOTO BY WALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGE){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;}KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR STRAIGHT WHE {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;}“LADI AND GENTLEMEN AND THE RT OF ,” SAYS NONBARY PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND THOR KATE BORNSTE ON WELG TO YOUNG JEAN LEE'S STRAIGHT WHE MEN. JANGLY RAVE MIC HAD PRECED THE SHOW, AND BORNSTE WAS NOW ONSTAGE WH TWO-SPIR PERFORMER-WRER-ACTIVIST TY DEFOE—THEY’RE THE PEOPLE CHARGE, ACRDG TO THE PROGRAM—BOTH BACKED BY A SILVER TSEL {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;}ALL OF IS NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT AND NOT WHAT MAY SEEM, WHICH WAS EXACTLY THE POT. “NEHER OF IS A STRAIGHT WHE MALE,” KATE ADDS, AND THE TWO NTUE TO BANTER HILARLY, WHILE BRGG UP POTS ABOUT PRIVILEGE, EXPECTATN, ACCEPTANCE, AND REFAL TO HATE. AND THEN THE PLAY BEGS, WH THOSE TWO OCSNALLY APPEARG ONSTAGE TO GUI THE ACTORS THEIR MOVEMENTS, STAGEHANDS ALSO FULL VIEW AS THEY REMOVE PROPS BETWEEN {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;}WHAT FOLLOWS IS A CHRISTMAS EVE GATHERG WH A SPUNKY OLD WIDOWER NAMED ED (STEPHEN PAYNE) WHO BRGS TOGETHER HIS THREE SONS FOR BANTER, CHE FOOD, AND MISBEGOTTEN GIFT GIVG. OF THE SONS, JAKE (JOSH CHARL) TURNS OUT TO BE A RICH BANKER WHO ASTS ON HIS PRIVILEGE, ONLY HIRG WH AT HIS PANY, TO GIVE THE CLIENTS WHAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY WANT, EVEN THOUGH HE HAPPENS TO HAVE MIXED RACE CHILDREN. DREW (ARMIE HAMMER OM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) HAS MANAGED TO DO GOOD THE WORLD WH HIS TEACHGS AND WRGS. AND MATT (PL SCHNEIR) IS A HARVARD GRAD WHO IS STILL PAYG OFF STUNT LOANS AND WHO’S PRETTY MUCH GIVEN UP, HAVG FAILED AT TRYG TO CHANGE THE WORLD, SO HE’S NOW LIVG WH DAD AND CRYG AT UNSPECTG MOMENTS. (DREW ACTUALLY WONRS IF MATT MIGHT BE GAY AND NEED OF G OUT.)JOAN {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;}FROM LEFT: ARMIE HAMMER, STEPHEN PAYNE, AND PL SCHNEIR STRAIGHT WHE {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;}THE THREE BROTHERS HAVE A HIGHLY ENTERTAG MARARIE, GOG TO RACY, SILLY SHTICK AS IF THEY WERE STILL PRE-ADOLCENTS, AND TWO FUNNY SET PIEC EMERGE—A KKK VERSN OF THE TLE SONG OM OKLAHOMA! (YOU HAVE TO SEE THE SHOW) AND A WILD DANCE ROUTE WHERE THE BROTHERS GET TO RRY ON AND SHOW OFF TAG-TEAM FASHN. BUT THGS ARE AMISS AS JAKE’S GIFT TO DAD BREAKS, DAD N’T REMEMBER THE WORDS TO “O, TANNENBM,” AND DREW TRI TO HELP MATT OUT OF HIS PRSN WHILE MAKG THGS {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;}JAKE’S IAL VIEW OF MATT—THAT HE’S SELF-SABOTAGG ORR TO MAKE WAY FOR NON-WH TO GET OPPORTUNI—TURNS OUT TO BE MISGUID, AS THE TER-RELATNSHIPS GROW MORE PLITED. MORE LIKELY, MATT ISN’T GRABBG AT HIS WHE PRIVILEGE BEE THE RULTS DIDN’T MAKE HIM FEEL ALL THAT PRIVILEGED. THE PLAY, AS DIRECTED BY ANNA D. SHAPIRO, IS UNIFORMLY WELL-ACTED AND QUE FUNNY, THOUGH THE JOK ARE MORE PERSUASIVE THAN THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars * homosexuality in hollywood golden age *
Throughout the Roarg Twenti, men drsed as women and genr non-nformy and queerns weren't as taboo big ci as they would be years later.Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag," acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV.The marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public. They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s.Lavenr marriag were a solve part for “moral cls” issued by big studs at the time.
Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng 1946.Bowers wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a . They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up.
Dpe the verage, Hudson never addrsed his sexual orientatn publicly before he died of AIDS 1985.Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 weddg.Some gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk. He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars.Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.
HOLLYWOOD HAS A SECRET LGBT HISTORY. WE SHOULDN’T DISMISS ITTRUTH TELLERSOME CRICS DISMISS THE VALUE OF STORI ABOUT THE PRIVATE LIV OF HOLLYWOOD’S GAY STARS OF YORE. BUT THOSE STORI ARE CCIAL TO UNRSTANDG THE TTH OF WHO THEY WERE.WILLIAM J. MANNUPDATED JUL. 30, 2018 2:00AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 28, 2018 9:01PM EDT GREENWICH ENTERTAMENTTHE HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCSFUL ENTERPRIS AMERIN HISTORY. AT S HEIGHT, THE DTRY OF ILLN CRANKED OUT HUNDREDS OF PUBLICY RELEAS A WEEK, ALL DUTIFULLY REPORTED FAN MAGAZ AND NEWSPAPER LUMNS. AN ARMY OF PUBLICISTS AND “FIXERS” WERE ON HAND TO STAGE-MANAGE DOZENS OF ROMANC, WEDDGS AND HAPPY FAY PHOTO-OPS TO BOOST THE IMAG OF THE STARS THE DTRY HAD CREATED, ALL OF THEM ARCHETYPILLY WHOLOME, UPSTANDG—AND HETEROSEXUAL. THIS WAS THE WAY AMERINS THE 1940S AND 1950S WANTED TO SEE THEIR HERO—AND THEMSELV. THE DREAM MERCHANTS MA SURE THEY DID.SO POTENT WAS THIS EFFORT THAT EVEN TODAY, THOSE ILLNS ENDURE. DPE THE FACT THAT MY BOOK KATE: THE WOMAN WHO WAS HEPBURN ME OUT 2006, THERE ARE STILL THOSE WHO SIST I MA UP THE PARTS ABOUT HOW HEPBURN LOVED WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN, AND HOW SHE TURNED HER LARGELY PLATONIC IENDSHIP WH A SEXUALLY NFLICTED SPENCER TRACY TO A ROMANTIC, HETEROSEXUAL UNN FOR POSTERY. AT THE TIME OF THE BOOK’S PUBLITN, SOME “SPENCE AND KATE” FANS ME UNHGED. TROLLS ON AMAZON KEPT MY EDOR BY FENDG MY FIVE YEARS OF TENSIVE REARCH. MY WIKIPEDIA PAGE WAS HACKED AND I WAS LLED A LIAR. AT ONE BOOK EVENT, THE VENUE RECEIVED A THREATENG PHONE LL BEFORE I WENT ONSTAGE. FOR SOME PEOPLE, TAGGG BELOVED FIGUR AS QUEER WAS A CLARATN OF WAR; THEY ME READY TO FIGHT. NO AMOUNT OF REARCH WAS ENOUGH FOR THEM. FOR THE “NIERS,” AS I LL THEM, THEIR HOLLYWOOD ILLNS ARE BOUGHT, PAID FOR, AND NONRETURNABLE.MATT TYRNER, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW FILM, STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, OPENG TONIGHT LOS ANGEL AND ON AUGT 3 NEW YORK, HAS NOT, AS FAR AS I KNOW, HAD TO AL WH PHONE THREATS OR WIKIPEDIA VANDALISM. BUT HE’S GOTTEN HIS SHARE OF PHBACK OM THE NIERS, TOO. GREENWICH ENTERTAMENT STTY BRGS TO LIFE THE STORY OF STTY BOWERS, THE LEGENDARY “MALE MADAM” OF HOLLYWOOD’S GOLN AGE, WHOSE LIAISONS WH DISCREETLY GAY ACTORS THE 1940S AND 1950S EXPOSE THE REAL WORLD THE DREAM MERCHANTS WERE TENT ON HIDG.THE FILM IS BASED ON BOWERS' OWN BOOK, FULL SERVICE: MY LIFE HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I’M ONE OF THE TALKG HEADS TYRNER'S FILM, AND BOWERS WAS ONE OF MY MA SOURC FOR KATE; BOWERS WAS ALSO A CHIEF SOURCE FOR DAILY BEAST EDOR AND WRER TIM TEEMAN'S BOOK, IN BED WH GORE VIDAL: HTLERS, HOLLYWOOD, AND THE PRIVATE WORLD OF AN AMERIN MASTER.) WHILE THE BROADSIS AGAST TYRNER HAVE BEEN MORE DISCREET, THEY’RE NO LS ROOTED A EP, PERVASIVE ANTI-GAY BIAS. “THERE HAS BEEN ODD, SUBTLE, HOMOPHOBIC MENTARY SURROUNDG THE PROJECT,” TYRNER TOLD ME. “PEOPLE SAY THGS LIKE ‘NOT MY CUP OF TEA,’ WHICH JT HAS THAT CERTA FEELG TO .” A CRIC N’T E RIGHT OUT AND SAY, 2018, “THE IA OF QUEER SEX MAK ME QUEASY.” BUT THEY N SAY THGS SUCH AS WHAT JEANE BASGER, FILM HISTORIAN AND FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE WLEYAN UNIVERSY CEMA ARCHIV, TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM: “THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE EXPRSN, ‘PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE.’ PERSONALLY, I’M MORE TERTED THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE THAN THEIR POSSIBLE OFF-SCREEN SHENANIGANS.” BASGER’S MENTS IGNED A MI-FIRTORM ON TWTER. BUZZFEED RRPONNT KATE AURTHUR LL BASGER’S REMARK “NSCENDG AND HOMOPHOBIC.” VANY FAIR’S REBEC KEEGAN ASKED, “SERLY, WHAT WAS THE POT OF THAT QUOTE? ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE TERTED THAT ERA OF HOLLYWOOD BUT NOT TERTED THE WAY S BIGGT STARS NAVIGATED SEXUALY IS SO FULL OF .” HEARST OVER HOLLYWOOD THOR LOU PIZZOLA TWEETED, “IT’S TERTG HOW PEOPLE, CLUDG FILM HISTORIANS, WHO NEVER OBJECT TO STORI EXPLORG THE SEXUAL AND ROMANTIC LIV OF ACTORS AS LONG AS THEY ARE PERCEIVED AS STRAIGHT, BEE PURANIL ABOUT DISCSNS ABOUT QUEER LIFE HOLLYWOOD, CLARG THE CUR SHOULD ‘GET A LIFE’ AND FOC ONLY ON ‘THE WORK.’ ”IF ONLY TWTER HAD BEEN AROUND WHEN KATE ME OUT! WHILE THE LN’S SHARE OF MY REVIEWS WERE POSIVE (THE NEW YORK TIM NAMED KATE ONE OF THE NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR) THERE WERE SOME WHO, MUCH LIKE BASGER TRIED WH STTY, ATTEMPTED TO DISEMPOWER THE WORK BY TRIVIALIZG . THE LATE RICHARD SCHICKEL, HIS REVIEW OF KATE FOR THE LOS ANGEL TIM, DISMISSED MY SOURC AS “STREET HTLERS” (STTY WAS NOTHG OF THE SORT) AND THE BOOK AS “GOSSIP-MONGERG WH HIGH-END ASPIRATNS.” MY DISCSNS OF THE SEXUALY OF HEPBURN’S IENDS (“CLUDG JOHN FORD!”) WERE “TIROME,” SCHICKEL NCLUD. HIS EXCLAMATN POT SAYS ALL. THE 73-YEAR-OLD REVIEWER SIMPLY ULD NOT FATHOM A MAN’S MAN LIKE FORD (DIRECTOR OF JOHN WAYNE WTERNS!) STGGLG WH SEXUALY. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY “TIROME” TO SCHICKEL WAS THE WHOLE DISCSN OF SEXUALY—UNWORTHY OF SER STUDY. “GET A LIFE,” HE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE SAID TO ME.SCHICKEL WAS MORE THAN HAPPY, HOWEVER, TO LEND HIS SUPPORT TO A BGRAPHY OF SPENCER TRACY THAT ME OUT A FEW YEARS LATER, SCE HEWED MORE CLOSELY TO THE OLD STUD LE. THE THOR OF THAT BOOK ED SCHICKEL’S TACTIC GOG AFTER KATE: S REVELATNS WERE LS TO BE REFUTED THAN RID. STTY BOWERS’S STORI, HE SAID, WERE “CHEERFULLY UNVERIFIABLE”—EVEN THOUGH ALL STORI ABOUT SEX ARE UNVERIFIABLE, CHEERFULLY OR OTHERWISE, UNLS BOTH PARTI E FORWARD TO VERIFY. ALTHOUGH THE TRACY BGRAPHER EMBRACED STORI ABOUT HIS SUBJECT’S HETEROSEXUAL PAIRGS WHOUT ANY NEED FOR SOME HIGHER PROOF, HE SISTED THERE WAS NO EVINCE OF “HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY” TRACY’S PRIVATE PAPERS. “THE TTH IS THAT THIS PART OF HOLLYWOOD’S STORY — ED, THIS PART OF THE STORY OF THE ENTIRE TWENTIETH CENTURY — HAS UALLY ONLY BEEN PRERVED THROUGH ORAL TRADNS, PASSED DOWN BY THOSE ' THE LIFE'” NOW WHAT WOULD SUCH EVINCE LOOK LIKE? EVEN THE PAPERS OF GEE COR AND RODDY MCDOWALL, BOTH OF WHOM LIVED FAIRLY UNDISGUISED GAY LIV, THERE’S LTLE “EVINCE” TO SPEAK OF. APPARENTLY SOME HISTORIANS (THOSE WHO E TERMS LIKE “HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY” OR SCRIBE SAME-SEX LOVE AS “SHENANIGANS”) N ONLY REGNIZE THE REALY OF LGBT EXPERIENCE WHEN SASHAYS DOWN THE STREET A PRI PARA. THE TTH IS THAT THIS PART OF HOLLYWOOD’S STORY—ED, THIS PART OF THE STORY OF THE ENTIRE TWENTIETH CENTURY—HAS UALLY ONLY BEEN PRERVED THROUGH ORAL TRADNS, PASSED DOWN BY THOSE “ THE LIFE.” MANY OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE WH FOR KATE—AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE TYRNER TERVIEWED FOR STTY, AND TEEMAN FOR IN BED WH GORE VIDAL—WERE NOT THEMSELV FAMO, BUT THEY SAW FAR MORE, AND UNRSTOOD THE SUATN FAR BETTER, THAN THE MARQUEE NAM AROUND THEM OR EVEN MEMBERS OF TRACY’S AND HEPBURN’S FAI, WHO, AFTER ALL, BELIEVE THEY HAVE A LEGACY TO PROTECT. THE SOURC, WHO SCHICKEL DISMISSED AS MOR, WERE THE REAL FAI OF MY SUBJECTS, SOMETHG MOST QUEER PEOPLE STCTIVELY UNRSTAND—YET THE TRACY BGRAPHER CHOSE NOT TO SPEAK WH ANY OF THEM. THAT KD OF SNOBBERY DON’T ALLOW FOR THE WDOW TO BE OPENED WI ENOUGH FOR THE TTH TO GET . ON SOCIAL MEDIA DISCSN GROUPS, FANS OF CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD ARE DIVID TO TWO: THOSE WHO ARE CUR TO UNRSTAND THE FULL REALY OF THEIR HERO’ LIV AND THOSE WHO HOLD TIGHT TO THE OFFICIAL LE AS HAND OUT BY THE MGM OR PARAMOUNT ONT OFFIC. GREENWICH ENTERTAMENT STTY BOWERS HAS THE LATTER GROUP PANICKED. IT’S ONE THG TO DISMISS FACELS “MOR” SOURC. BUT THEY N’T WISH AWAY STTY, WHO’S UP ON THE SCREEN CHEERFULLY VERIFYG HIS HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AND ALL THOSE SAME-SEX "SHENANIGANS" HE PARTICIPATED . I FY ANYONE TO WATCH THE FILM, OR READ TEEMAN'S REVEALG TERVIEWS WH HIM, AND NOT FD STTY SCERE. HE’S EVEN A LTLE NAïVE HIS UNABASHED LOVE OF SEXUAL ADVENTURE AND HIS ABSOLUTE REJECTN OF RIGID MARTNS OF GAY AND STRAIGHT. STTY SEEMS NGENALLY UNABLE TO LIE. TYRNER AND I BOTH TRIED TO FD HOL HIS STORI; THERE ARE NONE. IF HE DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT SOMEONE, HE ADMTED THAT. STTY’S THE REAL AL, AND THAT’S WHAT MAK THE NIERS TREMBLE THEIR SHO. GORE VIDAL HIMSELF SAID OF BOWERS, “I HAVE KNOWN STTY BOWERS FOR THE BETTER PART OF A CENTURY. I’M SO PLEASED THAT HE HAS FALLY CID TO TELL HIS STORY TO THE WORLD… STTY DON’T LIE—THE STARS SOMETIM DO—AND HE KNOWS EVERYBODY.”AT BOWERS’ BOOK LNCH, WHAT WOULD BE HIS LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE, VIDAL TOLD GUTS THAT HE’D NEVER “UGHT BOWERS A LIE” THE MANY YEARS HE HAD KNOWN HIM A TOWN “WHERE YOU N MEET A THOAND LIARS EVERY DAY.”PRUMABLY, THEN, HE WOULD HAVE NCED AS FACT BOWERS’ REVELATNS TO TEEMAN THAT VIDAL NOT ONLY HAD SEX WH HIM, BUT ALSO “MANY” HTLERS BOWERS ARRANGED FOR HIM, AS WELL AS HOLLYWOOD STARS ROCK HUDSON, TYRONE POWER, AND CHARL LGHTON. “GET READY TO BELIEVE,” I TWEETED WHEN THE FILM OF STTY WAS FISHED, BUT WHETHER THE NIERS WILL EVER E AROUND IS AN OPEN QUTN. DREAMS DIE HARD. BUT SHOULDN’T STTY’S STORI—AND THE STORI OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO’VE PULLED BACK THE CURTA ON THE ILLNS—MAKE HEPBURN AND TRACY (AND CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT AND JOHN FORD AND CLTTE COLBERT AND SO MANY OTHERS) EVEN MORE FASCATG TO , KNOWG HOW THEY HAD TO CHART THEIR LIV THROUGH THE MEFIELDS OF HOLLYWOOD PUBLICY? SHOULDN’T WE ADMIRE THEM EVEN MORE, FEEL EVEN MORE PASSN AND RPECT FOR THEM, ROOT FOR THEM WAYS WE HADN’T EVEN NSIRED BEFORE? IF WE DON’T, THEN I SUGGT WE LOOK DOWN EP, BEE THERE MIGHT JT BE SOME HOMOPHOBIA LURKG AT THE HEART OF OUR NIAL. WHY, AFTER ALL, SHOULD BE A BAD THG IF KATE HEPBURN LOVED WOMEN? THOSE WHO NEED TO “GET A LIFE” AREN’T THE HISTORIANS CUR TO FD OUT HOW PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVED, BUT RATHER THOSE WHO REFE TO SEE THE REALY OF QUEER HISTORY, OR DO THEIR BT TO TRIVIALIZE WHEN THEY DO.WILLIAM J. MANN IS THE THOR OF SEVERAL BOOKS ON HOLLYWOOD AND AMERIN HISTORY. HE IS ALSO A PROFSOR OF LGBT HISTORY AND POPULAR CULTURE AT CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSY. WILLIAM J. MANN
Also: Parker Posey on whether the origal Dr. Smh was gay! * homosexuality in hollywood golden age *
Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood.
Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.
Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns, ” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public. No one wanted to believe that Ameri’s goln boy uld be a gay man. Cor’s mansn, rated by gay former actor William Ha, beme the center of LGBT society Hollywood.