After the celebrated wrer divulged that he fed a gay subtext to Ben-Hur, he and the film's star, Charlton Hton, ded out prt.
Contents:
- GORE VIDAL’S SPAT WH CHARLTON HTON OVER GAY ‘BEN-HUR’ SUBTEXT
- HOW ONE SEXY GAY NOVEL RAILED GORE VIDAL'S LERARY REER
- GORE VIDAL'S DEFENSE OF BEN-HUR'S GAY SUBTEXT
GORE VIDAL’S SPAT WH CHARLTON HTON OVER GAY ‘BEN-HUR’ SUBTEXT
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HOW ONE SEXY GAY NOVEL RAILED GORE VIDAL'S LERARY REER
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GORE VIDAL'S DEFENSE OF BEN-HUR'S GAY SUBTEXT
'Tryg to make tegori is very Amerin, very stupid, and very dangero.' Gore Vidal’s refal to intify as gay was nsistent wh a man who worshipped ancient Greece, but was out of step wh the tim which he lived. * gore vidal gay *
Buckley was a reactnary, arguably a racist, and arguably a homophobe. ’Vidal boasted that he’d had 1, 000 sexual partners by the time he was private - surround by his terie of celebry iends such as Prcs Margaret, Pl Newman, Audrey Hepburn and his step-sister, Jacquele Kennedy - he loved nothg better than to brag about his rapac homosexualy.
The startlg accatns are ntaed a new book about the wrer’s private life that also reveals - the c language that the outspoken Vidal loved to e - how he worked his way through the gay aterny of Fifti Hollywood, sleepg wh the lik of Rock Hudson, Fred Astaire and Noel Coward.