When Hollywood Studs Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexualy a Secret | HISTORY

Contents:

• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• GAY RIGHTS
• ROBERT GAT, AMERI'S UNLIKELY GAY-RIGHTS HERO
• A FAY HISTORY PROVIS MORE EVINCE THAT LLN WAS GAY
• FURTHER PROOF THAT LLN WAS GAY
• WAS ABRAHAM LLN OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED

Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020. Mayor was asked how he’d rpond to crics who ll him too young, too liberal and too gay. I would image we’ve probably had excellent prints who were gay — we jt didn’t know which on, ” Buttigeig said.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

Some of the most popular theori about whether there has ever been a gay print surround Print Jam Buchanan, one-term print om 1857-1861.

GAY RIGHTS

Has had a gay print–by the morn fn. “It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense.

Likely already had a gay print. For Buttigieg to say that another print may have been gay the way that ’s unrstood the 21st century, “’s jt farcil, ” Balcerski says.

Has had a gay print? Even if the two had some sort of attractn to other men, they wouldn’t have intified as gay bee that notn of livg as an out gay man didn’t exist, both historians say.

ROBERT GAT, AMERI'S UNLIKELY GAY-RIGHTS HERO

The term homosexual, for stance, didn’t exist until 1868. “I thk that there were always gray areas and nuanc and plenty of possibili for men the late 19th and 20th century to have sex wh other men and not nsir themselv gay, ” Clev says.

A FAY HISTORY PROVIS MORE EVINCE THAT LLN WAS GAY

But by the standard of morn gay inty, no print would f to that tegory. ” Both Balcerski and Clev say gay inty needs to be seen through the lens of the era.

“Did Jam Buchanan or Abraham Lln intify as gay the morn sense of the term? The 19th century was an era before homosexualy was medilly classified as a disorr or perversn.

FURTHER PROOF THAT LLN WAS GAY

“I fd that the early 19th century, ironilly, almost prents an era where the same kds of pathologi [agast gay men] that will be prent all the way through the pre-Stonewall era aren’t que place yet. Balcerski says ’s important to chronicle gay history, but he says popular theori about the lik of Buchanan and Lln are too simplistic.

“As we bee more and more terted broang the tt, so to speak, of LGBT history, what we fd is we’ve taken people, who for one reason or another, don’t f to a normative pattern of heterosexual marriage and we basilly put this label on them as gay, ” Balcerski says. 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 marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public.

WAS ABRAHAM LLN OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng 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.

Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk. He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars.