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From blackmail to fake marriag, Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson led strange double liv as '50s heartthrobs who were secretly gay.

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IS JOHN GAV GAY?

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From blackmail to fake marriag, Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson led strange double liv as '50s heartthrobs who were secretly gay. Later, when I went off to llege the San Francis Bay Area, I learned what "everyone" knew: Rock Hudson was not only gay, he was the basis for the closeted movie star who romanced one of the male characters Armistead Mp's serialized novel "Tal of the Cy.

‘THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK HUDSON’ IS A REVELATORY DISSECTN OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE A GAY MOVIE STAR

Unlike other gay performers, he wasn't a good enough actor to nvcgly simulate the lt for Doris Day that he never personally felt. The most fascatg parts of both the books scribe what was like to be a proment gay man 1950s Hollywood.

The great nemis of gay Hollywood durg the '50s was Confintial magaze, a scurrilo sndal sheet that reported on pecdillo the mastream prs and fan magaz wouldn't touch. Hofler matas that 's mon knowledge that Willson ma this tra -- dirt on Calhoun and Hunter (who was picked up a raid on a gay party 1950) exchange for protectn for Rock Hudson. "In 1957 the mastream media uldn't even e up wh aquate phemisms for homosexualy -- that's how taboo still was, " he wr.

Ironilly, as Hofler pots out, "Tab's mise had ltle to do wh a gay arrt, which was pletely substantiated, and more to do wh the dog-beatg charge, which was pletely unfound.

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