Hollywood's Goln Age Gays. The list is LONG.

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Ever sce the silent film era, Hollywood beefke photos have tillated both female and gay male fans. Here we beg our seri celebratg gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all.

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IS RUDOLPH GAY?

Is Rudolph gay? * rudolph gay *

Seeg aga recently, though, I noticed somethg I hadn’t before: The whole special is kd of like a gay g-out story.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't gay.

HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.

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Murn was, but apparently every on 1930's Hollywood knew he was gay. Image of CG has him wearg eye make-up, and wh overly full lips (always a sign of beg gay back then) Anonymoreply 8Febary 23, 2020 4:05 AM. Could have left Clark Gable off that list (don't believe he was gay or even bi for a moment), and easily slipped Van Johnson.

I have never heard and would have a hard time believg that Monroe was gay.

How gay and mpy is that? Hart (gay)by Anonymoreply 22Febary 23, 2020 2:38 PM. The list is long e half of those weren't gayby Anonymoreply 25Febary 23, 2020 3:03 PM.

THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY

Did Samuel Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Rudolph Valento, the legendary silent film star, have a sexual enunter? * rudolph gay *

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&nbspEver sce the silent film era, Hollywood beefke photos have tillated both female and gay male fans. Here we beg our seri celebratg gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at left: Hollywood's first sex symbol superstar — Rudolph Valento.

Every so often someone claims Rudolph Valento was gay.

LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE

No one would ny that Valento is a gay in. But was he gay?

'"The claim that Steward "sexually serviced" Valento was repeated a send New York Tim article, by a different journalist, on Augt this mean that Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Valento, the legendary silent film star, had a sexual enunter? "So let me be clear that I was utterly agnostic when I first approached this issue, but there has been nothg my subsequent rearch to support that he was gay, and much to support that he was straight. And Valento scholars agree the actor wasn't gay.

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

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Brett claims that after his first homosexual enunter, Valento told iends, "It didn't hurt that much, " and accepted his orientatn. Startg 1921, he wr, Valento equented Los Angel' notor Torch Club, where gay men met for sex. (Cooper briefly roomed wh and beiend gay aspirg actor Andy Lawlor, but was primarily heterosexual, alas.

It's a splendid irony that when straight men are hailed as "Valentos, " the reference is to a gay superstar. Rudolf Nureyev was known publicly as a homosexual throughout his life.

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY

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.

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 .

IS MAYA RUDOLPH GAY?

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.

Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969. Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. Now, I know what you're thkg: Tony Bravo, you thk everythg is a gay allegory.

In the past, I've poted to the X-Men (mutant powers maniftg at puberty that require a g out procs and rults discrimatn), Twilight's gym queen werewolf, Morrissey-lookg vampire and sulky girl flannel (technilly, the books are a Mormon allegory for wag until marriage, but the movi are totally a gay allegory), Maria von Trapp (the mil versn, not the historil one), and even the Ltle Mermaid. Not only is our red-nosed iend a seasonal gay allegory, but he's one that generatns of children have grown up wh, through the song (gay) and the stop-motn Rank and Bass special that plays every year on an ABC Fay loop (extremely gay). The fact that I n immediately tie this special to a Tennsee Williams masterwork already lets you know jt how gay this is gog to get.

RUDOLPH VALENTO AND JEAN ACKER WERE BOTH RUMOREDLY GAY SPE THEIR RERD-BREAKG SHORT MARRIAGE

" That's sort of like when fathers of gay sons sist on givg them a football for Christmas stead of the One Directn lendar they asked for so they "will have somethg mon wh the boys on the playground.

THE GAY INS OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

- Wele to Rudolph's (and almost every ltle gay boy's) worst nightmare: gym class. Self-hatg Fireball tells him to get away, as if he might ntract the gay gene through nasal ntact. - While Rudolph is stgglg not to get gay bashed, a blond sprig of an elf (who looks and sounds like Carson Krsley) named Hermey is gettg a verbal beat down om the head of the toy partment bee he wants to be a ntist.

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