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Contents:

• ‘PERRY MASON’ STAR RAYMOND BURR BLAZED TRAILS FOR GAY ACTORS—EVEN IF HE HID BEHD A STRAIGHT TRAGEDY
• WAS PERRY MASON GAY? WHO WAS HIS LOVE INTERT?
• HOW ‘PERRY MASON’ TACKLED QUEERNS WH A CONTEMPORARY LENS: “YOU’VE BEEN GAY, BUT YOU’VE NEVER BEEN GAY THE 1930S”

‘PERRY MASON’ STAR RAYMOND BURR BLAZED TRAILS FOR GAY ACTORS—EVEN IF HE HID BEHD A STRAIGHT TRAGEDY

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Red, Whe and Royal Blue’ on Amazon Prime Vio, a Charmgly Star-Crossed Gay Rom-Com. Perry isn’t a queer in like RuPl or Ellen or Elton—but the kids gettg to HBO’s Perry Mason should know their history and know the character’s place wh the gay non.

WAS PERRY MASON GAY? WHO WAS HIS LOVE INTERT?

Perry Mason serv a ltle regnn durg Pri bee of the actor most associated wh the role: Raymond Burr, one of the first—if not the first—gay actors to ever star the lead role of a succsful TV seri.

Blanche Deverex’s gay brother) played him a short-lived ’70s TV revival, and Matthew Rhys is the current Mason. Burr was also gay, and he achieved a level of notoriety on televisn that was unrivaled by every other gay TV actor of the era(s)—and like all of his gay peers, Burr was also eply closeted. To put Burr’s imposg stature ntext, of urse there were closeted gay actors workg on televisn when Burr land the lead role of Mason 1957.

It’s speculated that Burr or his people paid money to tone down the story om “Raymond Burr hooks up wh gay male bartenr” to “Raymond Burr unknowgly kiss a drag queen. In Burr’s se, his tth was gayer and greater than his fictn.

HOW ‘PERRY MASON’ TACKLED QUEERNS WH A CONTEMPORARY LENS: “YOU’VE BEEN GAY, BUT YOU’VE NEVER BEEN GAY THE 1930S”

So, now that his love life is revealed more, we fally have the answer to whether Perry Mason was gay and who was his love tert.

Perry Mason is not gay.

From the 1930s to this day, there have been many portrayals of his character; any of them, Mason is not scribed as gay.