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Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
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Hollywood’s First Gay Marriage. The story of William Ha is remembered, if ’s remembered at all, as the story of the first openly gay Hollywood star. And through all he was, proudly, one-half of Hollywood’s first openly gay marriage.
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WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
For years, everyone at MGM had known that William Ha was gay and livg wh a man he loved. Members of the Hollywood gay scene of the time believe that Billy had taken the h for Jimmy, who had been arrted a bar or a park, where he was known to cise.
MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
We know that many other stars Hollywood had gay relatnships, but most prented themselv as straight when told to. Billy’s old iend Archie Leach, for stance, is acknowledged now by many bgraphers to have lived as a gay man before he me to Hollywood and to have ntued relatnships wh men after he beme Cary Grant. The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood.
Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.
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