Legendary star's gay life :: Bay Area Reporter

Contents:

• IS RUDOLPH GAY?
• HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
• THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
• LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY
• IS MAYA RUDOLPH GAY?
• RUDOLPH VALENTO AND JEAN ACKER WERE BOTH RUMOREDLY GAY SPE THEIR RERD-BREAKG SHORT MARRIAGE
• THE GAY INS OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

IS 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.

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.

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

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

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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.

LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE

Every so often someone claims Rudolph Valento was gay. 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.

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

And Valento scholars agree the actor wasn't gay. The New York Tim gets right when stat that his archive mak for both a rare and revealg portra of gay life the early s of the Twentieth -- an acplished scholar, art historian and the thor of earlier books on artists Pl Cadm, Fairfield Porter and others -- has achieved somethg exceptnal wrg Secret Historian: The Life and Tim of Samuel Steward, Profsor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renega.

After criqug another book which claimed Valento was gay, Leir prciently stat, "Valento exerted and ntu to exert enormo power as an object of sire for both sex. More at Lifehomosexualybook newsSilent filmbooks.

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY

95) ptur the tensn that beg homosexual ed this object of unprecented female sexual fantasi. 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.

IS MAYA RUDOLPH GAY?

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

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 . 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.

THE GAY INS OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

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. " 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.