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Contents:
- HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
- SCREENG: HIDG PLA SIGHT: THE CASE OF GAY LIFE
- HIDG PLA SIGHT: BREAKG THE GAY CO ART
HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
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Now that gay actors like Nathan Lane, Jim Parsons, Victor Garber, Jonathan Groff, and Neil Patrick Harris are “out of the closet” and on the rise, ’s hard to image jt how different thgs were the relatively recent past. Not only was the notn of beg openly gay and havg a viable reer unimagable, but gayns self was also a ncept pole society uldn’t untenance. “Homosexuals” subsisted on society’s margs, mentned only whispered gossip, fearsome psychiatric studi, and Conservative diatrib cryg perversn.
SCREENG: HIDG PLA SIGHT: THE CASE OF GAY LIFE
Still, spe of all, gay men managed to make their way to very top of the actg profsn the gild closets of Hollywood.
Here are five of the most noteworthy exampl of gay actors mid-Century Hollywood. Part of s all-star st, Liberace giv a marveloly wty performance as luxury ff salman who’s subtly yet obvly gay.
HIDG PLA SIGHT: BREAKG THE GAY CO ART
” What’s most tertg about the se is that on the stand, Liberace nied that he dulged homosexual practic. The ser cril receptn given to two of the postmortem Liberace bpic for televisn Liberace: Behd the Mic (1988) wh gay Victor Garber and a screenplay by the gay Gav Lambert, and Behd the Canlabra (2011) wh the straight Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, directed by the equally straight Steven Sorbergh reflects his populary. Their producer, Ross Hunter (who was also gay) nnily st the young actor alongsi veteran star Jane Wyman both films, th wng the heart of olr female moviegoers enamored of good-lookg young men.