The Way We Were's Secret Gay Backstory

Contents:

• THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
• THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• A BELOVED FILM'S GAY BACKSTORY: A NEW BOOK EXPLOR THE QUEER ORIGS OF THE WAY WE WERE.

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

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So he set out to thoroughly explore the gay angle of The Way We Were. “There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay don’t thk Hubbell is a directly fictnalized versn of any of the men Lrents loved, but he do thk the character was fluenced by the wrer’s relatnships wh some of them, cludg his longtime partner, Tom Hatcher, and actor Farley Granger.

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HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)

As the MoMA crowd learned that summer on Quoque, Lrents was gay but his lover was a very bisexual man. But few of know about the beloved 1973 film’s behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs.

The rult is a tale of clash between Lrents, Pollack, and producer Ray Stark, the differg styl of Streisand and Redford, and how a gay Jewish man, Lrents, channeled his love of betiful Gentile men to the story. “There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay man. Documentg the LGBTQ Movement: This article provis an overview of two projects fund by the NEH Divisn of Prervatn and Accs that foc on materials that help tell the many stori of gay rights the U.

THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

Learn more wh the ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv (Universy of Southern California) and the Gerber Hart Library and Archiv (Chigo, IL). Wrg Gay History: This digal feature about historian, playwright, thor and gay rights activist Jonathan Katz, whose rearch and publitns on LBTQ history beme foundatnal to scholarship on gay rights, culture, and inty.

Rochter, NY's LGBTQ History: The Universy of Rochter and the Gay Alliance of the Genee Valley were award an NEH grant 2017 to "prerve and provi wir accs to a signifint llectn of documents foced on the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement the Rochter, New York area. Gulf Coast LGBT Rad and Televisn Digizatn and Accs Project: An NEH grant was award to the Universy of Hoton Librari to digize and archive over 5, 000 hours of Hoton-area rad and televisn history created for and by lol Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans muni. The Way We Were's Secret Gay Backstory.

As the first few hntg not of the tle song sound and the unmistakable voice of Barbra Streisand ton "mem'ri, " most of n't help but settle for yet another viewg of The Way We Were, even though we know how the turbulent romance of Katie Morosky and Hubbell Garder turns few of know about the beloved 1973 film's behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs. He had reason to make this statement; the 1960s and '70s, gay wrers were often cricized for turng their experienc to fictnal heterosexual romanc.

A BELOVED FILM'S GAY BACKSTORY: A NEW BOOK EXPLOR THE QUEER ORIGS OF THE WAY WE WERE.

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