When Hollywood Studs Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexualy a Secret | HISTORY

Contents:

• IS RUDOLPH GAY?
• REVEALED: THE OBV GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER’
• RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY
• HOMOPHOBE HAS PLETE MELTDOWN OVER SUGGTN THAT RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER IS POSSIBLY GAY
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• GROWG UP RUDOLPH, OM CHILDHOOD TO GAY MAN
• LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE
• MAYA RUDOLPH HAS A MOST EXCELLENT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE HOMEGSNL’S OIME MVP RETURNED FOR A TRIUMPHANT EPISO, FEATURG MART SHORT AS HER SEND GENTLEMAN AND AN EMOTNAL (BUT FUNNY!) APPEARANCE BY BOWEN YANG.BY KAREN VALBYMARCH 28, 2021SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "MAYA RUDOLPH" EPISO 1800 -- PICTURED: (L-R) MIL GUT JACK HARLOW, HOST MAYA RUDOLPH, AND CHRIS REDD DURG PROMOS STUD 8H ON THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 -- (PHOTO BY: ROSALD O'CONNOR/NBC)NBCSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAYA RUDOLPH, RADIANT QUEEN MOTHER, RETURNED TO HER ROOTS SATURDAY NIGHT, AND ALL WAS RIGHT THE WORLD. SPRG, AND THE SENSE THAT THE WRERS RETURNED RTED AND REJUVENATED AFTER A FEW WEEKS OFF, WAS THE AIR.REHGLY, THE LD OPEN TOOK A BREAK OM WASHGTON AND H MIAMI BEACH FOR A GAME SHOW LLED SNATCHED, VAXED OR WAXED. RUDOLPH PRID OVER A GROUP OF HORNY DUMB-DUMBS UNNCERNED WH THEIR “ANTIBODY-ODY-ODY-ODY-ODY-ODI.” HEIDI GARDNER’S NTTANT SAID SHE DIDN’T LIKE TO WEAR MASKS BEE THEY IRRATED HER LD SOR, WHICH SHE GUSED MA HER ANTI-VAX AND ANTI-MASK. BUT CHRIS REDD’S ROMANTIC THOUGHT SHE MIGHT NOT MEAN : “I THK SHE’S JT FLIRTG, SO I’M GOG TO SAY VAXED.” NOPE! REMD YOURSELF THAT YOUR PARENTS ARE VACCATED. MAYA RUDOLPH’S PARENTS ARE VACCATED. LET’S TST THAT MART SHORT IS VACCATED. THE IDTS WILL NOT W.RUDOLPH’S MONOLOGUE WAS CHARMG AND SILLY AND PERFECT. SHE SHOUTED OUT HER FOUR CHILDREN THE DIENCE AND WILLED HERSELF NOT TO CRY. THE SENTIMENTALY OF THEIR PRENCE HAD HER FEELG SOFT TOWARDS THE NEW ST MEMBERS, SO SHE VED THOSE BABI—ANDREW DISM, PUNKIE JOHNSON, AND LREN HOLT, WHO LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GOG TO SPL OPEN WH GLEE OVER THE FACT THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENG REAL LIFE—TO GATHER ‘ROUND. SHE REGALED THEM WH MEMORI OF BACK THE DAY, HOW RACHEL DRATCH WAS A B OF A PRCS, STTTG AROUND ON HER SIXTEEN CANDL BUZZ, AND JIMMY FALLON WAS THE BAD BOY HIS JEAN JACKET AND FGERLS GLOV. FISTS THE AIR, WE’LL NEVER FET GREATS LIKE HER. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY RETURN TO REMD HOW ’S DONE.THE SKETCH OF A VERY EXCELLENT NIGHT WAS BEYONCé ON THE HOT WGS TALK SHOW. RUDOLPH HAD HER STG PLACIDLY BLACK LEATHER GET-UP AND GOLD-TIPPED GLOV, A STUDY IMPERABLE OL. AFTER A WG DRENCHED HLER’S AN SCE, BEY WAS DRIPPG AND GASPG A LTLE, BUT STILL A WARRR. BUT THE NEXT WG WRECKED HER. WE WILL NEVER SEE BEYONCé UNDONE, BEE BEYONCé WILL NEVER ALLOW THAT, NOR DO WE WANT HER TO. WHICH IS WHY WAS ALL THE MORE FUN TO SEE RUDOLPH’S BEY POURG K DOWN HER FACE AND CHT. “OH, MY WHOLE HEAD IS ON FIRE,” SHE SAID, SUMMONG HER HAIR STYLIST D’MICHELANGELO, PLAYED BY KENAN THOMPSON. “I NEED YOU TO TAKE MY WIG OFF. PUT SIX ICE CUB ON MY HEAD. THEN PUT MY WIG BACK ON.” IF BEYONCé HAPPENS TO TCH THE SKETCH, I HOPE GIV HER A NTACT HIGH OF IMAGG WHAT A RIDICULO EXHALE WOULD BE SHOULD A HOT WG EVER SHOVED HER OUT OF HER GLOR, MAGIL, ART-RATED BUBBLE.IT’S A TTAMENT TO HOW THE BACKGROUND VICE PRINT KAMALA HARRIS HAS BEEN THE LAST TWO MONTHS THAT TOOK THIRTY MUT TO GET A SKETCH ABOUT HER. OUR TWKLY-EYED, SNEAKER-WEARG NUMBER 2 WAS HOSTG A UNY SER AT THE WHE HOE. MART SHORT AS HER SEND GENTLEMAN DOUG EMHOFF WAS AN ABSOLUTE GIFT. “I N’T DO THIS!” HE WORRIED, GRASPG ONTO HIS WIFE. “I’M JT A SHY ENTERTAMENT LAWYER.” THEY NUZZLED AND RSED AND TALKED DIRTY TO EACH OTHER UNTIL THE GUTS ARRIVED. NONE WAS MORE SPIRED THAN CHLOE FEMAN’S ELLA EMHOFF, WHO STOMPED TO HOE MIC AND CLARED HERSELF THE MOST NORMAL-LOOKG GIRL BHWICK, HOWEVER CRAZY SHE MIGHT APPEAR TO AIDY BRYANT’S TED CZ. ALEX MOFFAT’S EXCELLENT JOE BIN SOON JOED THEM, BRAGGG–AFTER HIS NOTERD NFIRMED–THAT HE’D NAILED HIS FIRST PRS NFERENCE. EVEN MAJOR SHOWED UP, THOUGH SEND GENTLEMAN EMHOFF’S SOCIAL ANXIETY APPARENTLY UNDID HIS RETRAG. WATCHG MART SHORT BE TAKEN DOWN BY A GIANT STUFFED DOG WAS SUCH AN OLD-SCHOOL SHOT OF JOY.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDWEEKEND UPDATE WAS SIARLY TOP NOTCH. COL JOST WENT HARD ON GUN NTROL, SISTG THAT REPUBLINS DROP THEIR CYNIL CLAIMS THAT ’S A SEND AMENDMENT ISSUE. “I DON’T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED WHEN THEY ALMOST HUNG YOU TWO MONTHS AGO,” HE SAID, FLASHG TO AN IMAGE OF THE CAPOL SURRECTN, “BUT OUR IAS AREN’T SUPER WELL-REGULATED.” HE GAVE PRINT BIN GOOD GRIEF, MIXG HIS STUMBLE UP AIR FORCE ONE’S STEPS TO A BREAKDANCE AND CLARG THE PRS ASKG ABOUT HIS NNG AGA 2024 “PROBABLY THE NICT WAY TO ASK HIM IF HE’LL BE ALIVE THREE YEARS.”BUT BIS RUDOLPH, THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT WAS BOWEN YANG. BILLED AS “ASIAN CAST MEMBER,” HE SUCCEED AT WALKG A TREMULO LE. HE MOURNED THE VLENCE AGAST ASIAN AMERINS THIS UNTRY, AND LLED OUT SOCIAL MEDIA JTICE WARRRS WHO POST FLEETG SOLIDARY FOR CRIS OF THE MOMENT, WHOUT EVER LOSG THE DIENCE. HE WAS GRACEFUL AND ADAMANT AND FUNNY THROUGHOUT. “I DON’T EVEN WANT TO BE DOG THIS CHARACTER PIECE,” HE SISTED. “I WANTED TO DO MY CHARACTER, GAY PASSOVER BUNNY—BUT WAS TOO SMART FOR THE SHOW.” WHEN JOST CHECKED HIM ON THAT, YANG SNEERED, “WHATEVER, YOU’RE SRED.” HE LLED ON TO LOOK AROUND OUR MUNI, STEAD OF OUR INSTAGRAM STORI, FOR REAL ANSWERS TO SER PROBLEMS. “FUEL UP, DO MORE,” HE SAID. “WE RI AT DAWN, GRANDMAS!”I ULD’VE WATCHED KENAN THOMPSON AND RUDOLPH–POP THE HIP, TIP THE HAT—AS RIVAL, LOVICK CHOREOGRAPHERS ALL NIGHT LONG. BUT ALL GOOD THGS E TO AN END. AND SO, DISM, NTERED AN NBC PAGE’S BLAZER, TOLD RUDOLPH HER R WAS WAG TO TAKE HER BACK TO HER REAL LIFE. BUT NOSTALGIA IS A DG, AND LED HER ONCE MORE DOWN THE RABB HOLE OF MEMORY LANE. IN THE MAYA-G: A STANLEY KUBRICK FILM, TA FEY SHOWED UP AT THE BAR, RACHEL DRATCH A BATHTUB, TW KRIST WIIGS A SPOOKY HALLWAY. THERE’S NO PG SOME PLAC, BEE THEY’RE TOO GRAND TO EVER FULLY LEAVE.WHERE TO WATCH SNL:POWERED BYJTWATCHALL PRODUCTS FEATURED ON VANY FAIR ARE PENNTLY SELECTED BY OUR EDORS. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU BUY SOMETHG THROUGH OUR RETAIL LKS, WE MAY EARN AN AFFILIATE MISSN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— WOODY ALLEN, DYLAN FARROW, AND THE LONG, UPHILL ROAD TO A RECKONG— THE FALL OF ARMIE HAMMER: A FAY SAGA OF SEX, MONEY, DGS, AND BETRAYAL— JTICE LEAGUE: THE SHOCKG, HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE #SNYRCUT— JIMMY KIMMEL BREAKS DOWN EMOTNAL INTERVIEW WH ADY BARKAN— SHARON STONE ON HOW BASIC INSTCT NEARLY BROKE HER, BEFORE MAKG HER A STAR— OSR NOMATN SNUBS AND SURPRIS: DELROY LDO, AARON SORK STRIKE OUT— RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN BELIEV HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WHO STOLE THE OSRS?— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.KAREN VALBY
• RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY
• 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. It’s super duper gay.

” And on The Sewers of Paris (a podst about gay men and the entertament that’s changed their liv) this week’s gut Jonathan Renteria-Elyea reflects on how meangful the songs about “misfs” were to him as a kid. Eventually, Rudolph fds a gay ghetto on the Island of Misf Toys, then returns to civilizatn when he learns to make himself eful — and as is noted on The Sewers of Paris, that’s precisely what out gay men had to do the 60s to survive.

‘Tis the season to bate whether Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reer, y, the inic 1964 stop-motn film, teach a lson of homophobia or not. You see, the film is super gay.

REVEALED: THE OBV GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER’

We’re talkg Matt-Bomer-enchg-Neil-Patrick-Harris-unr-the-mistletoe-gra gay. The kd of gay that if Hollywood was to remake the fay-iendly film today, would probably st Jam Corn to play the role, fearg ’s flamgly homosexual subtext would be too, well, gay for Karen and the kids to handle.

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY

When Hermey tells him, tentatively, that he don’t want to make toys, Foreman Elf repeats the phrase the ‘sissy’ voice that has hnted gay boys down through the ag.

But packg kids’ stockgs wh homophobia isn’t que the msage of the movie, rpond another cric, Jeet Heer, The Natn. On The Sewers of Paris podst, gut Jonathan Renteria-Elyea reflected on how Rudolph fleeg home and endg up at the Island of Misf Toys mirrored many gay men’s journeys the 1960s, even if such an analogy is a ltle on the nose.

Gay. But not whout battlg the embodiment of homophobia self – the Abomable Snow Monster.

HOMOPHOBE HAS PLETE MELTDOWN OVER SUGGTN THAT RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER IS POSSIBLY GAY

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.

- 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.

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

Basilly, the Island of Misf Toys is a gay bar where slightly "off" but totally ol-lookg toys (stuffed elephants wh polka dots, lns wh wgs, talkg tras) all live together exile hopg Santa will take them to good ltle girls and boys for Christmas one day. " Fearg his red nose will attract the Abomable Snowman to Gay Bar Island (by the way, if I ever open a gay bar, I'm llg "Island of Misf Toys"), Rudolph leav and wanrs alone, eventually returng home to fd out that his terrible, guilt-ridn parents and Clarice went missg lookg for him.

GROWG UP RUDOLPH, OM CHILDHOOD TO GAY MAN

Once back at the North Pole, Donner and the other jerks sheepishly apologize to Rudolph bee hey, he may be gay and have a red nose, but he was braver than all of them ever were. Santa slightly reems himself by sendg the Misf Toys to good hom, even though means last ll at Gay Bar Island.

And, hey, maybe Rudy’s gay?!

LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE

The 35-year-old homophobe went on to say that “Rudolph don’t have sex wh any of the other male reer! Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #antigay #benshapiro stori and more. 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 .

MAYA RUDOLPH HAS A MOST EXCELLENT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE HOMEGSNL’S OIME MVP RETURNED FOR A TRIUMPHANT EPISO, FEATURG MART SHORT AS HER SEND GENTLEMAN AND AN EMOTNAL (BUT FUNNY!) APPEARANCE BY BOWEN YANG.BY KAREN VALBYMARCH 28, 2021SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "MAYA RUDOLPH" EPISO 1800 -- PICTURED: (L-R) MIL GUT JACK HARLOW, HOST MAYA RUDOLPH, AND CHRIS REDD DURG PROMOS STUD 8H ON THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 -- (PHOTO BY: ROSALD O'CONNOR/NBC)NBCSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAYA RUDOLPH, RADIANT QUEEN MOTHER, RETURNED TO HER ROOTS SATURDAY NIGHT, AND ALL WAS RIGHT THE WORLD. SPRG, AND THE SENSE THAT THE WRERS RETURNED RTED AND REJUVENATED AFTER A FEW WEEKS OFF, WAS THE AIR.REHGLY, THE LD OPEN TOOK A BREAK OM WASHGTON AND H MIAMI BEACH FOR A GAME SHOW LLED SNATCHED, VAXED OR WAXED. RUDOLPH PRID OVER A GROUP OF HORNY DUMB-DUMBS UNNCERNED WH THEIR “ANTIBODY-ODY-ODY-ODY-ODY-ODI.” HEIDI GARDNER’S NTTANT SAID SHE DIDN’T LIKE TO WEAR MASKS BEE THEY IRRATED HER LD SOR, WHICH SHE GUSED MA HER ANTI-VAX AND ANTI-MASK. BUT CHRIS REDD’S ROMANTIC THOUGHT SHE MIGHT NOT MEAN : “I THK SHE’S JT FLIRTG, SO I’M GOG TO SAY VAXED.” NOPE! REMD YOURSELF THAT YOUR PARENTS ARE VACCATED. MAYA RUDOLPH’S PARENTS ARE VACCATED. LET’S TST THAT MART SHORT IS VACCATED. THE IDTS WILL NOT W.RUDOLPH’S MONOLOGUE WAS CHARMG AND SILLY AND PERFECT. SHE SHOUTED OUT HER FOUR CHILDREN THE DIENCE AND WILLED HERSELF NOT TO CRY. THE SENTIMENTALY OF THEIR PRENCE HAD HER FEELG SOFT TOWARDS THE NEW ST MEMBERS, SO SHE VED THOSE BABI—ANDREW DISM, PUNKIE JOHNSON, AND LREN HOLT, WHO LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GOG TO SPL OPEN WH GLEE OVER THE FACT THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENG REAL LIFE—TO GATHER ‘ROUND. SHE REGALED THEM WH MEMORI OF BACK THE DAY, HOW RACHEL DRATCH WAS A B OF A PRCS, STTTG AROUND ON HER SIXTEEN CANDL BUZZ, AND JIMMY FALLON WAS THE BAD BOY HIS JEAN JACKET AND FGERLS GLOV. FISTS THE AIR, WE’LL NEVER FET GREATS LIKE HER. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY RETURN TO REMD HOW ’S DONE.THE SKETCH OF A VERY EXCELLENT NIGHT WAS BEYONCé ON THE HOT WGS TALK SHOW. RUDOLPH HAD HER STG PLACIDLY BLACK LEATHER GET-UP AND GOLD-TIPPED GLOV, A STUDY IMPERABLE OL. AFTER A WG DRENCHED HLER’S AN SCE, BEY WAS DRIPPG AND GASPG A LTLE, BUT STILL A WARRR. BUT THE NEXT WG WRECKED HER. WE WILL NEVER SEE BEYONCé UNDONE, BEE BEYONCé WILL NEVER ALLOW THAT, NOR DO WE WANT HER TO. WHICH IS WHY WAS ALL THE MORE FUN TO SEE RUDOLPH’S BEY POURG K DOWN HER FACE AND CHT. “OH, MY WHOLE HEAD IS ON FIRE,” SHE SAID, SUMMONG HER HAIR STYLIST D’MICHELANGELO, PLAYED BY KENAN THOMPSON. “I NEED YOU TO TAKE MY WIG OFF. PUT SIX ICE CUB ON MY HEAD. THEN PUT MY WIG BACK ON.” IF BEYONCé HAPPENS TO TCH THE SKETCH, I HOPE GIV HER A NTACT HIGH OF IMAGG WHAT A RIDICULO EXHALE WOULD BE SHOULD A HOT WG EVER SHOVED HER OUT OF HER GLOR, MAGIL, ART-RATED BUBBLE.IT’S A TTAMENT TO HOW THE BACKGROUND VICE PRINT KAMALA HARRIS HAS BEEN THE LAST TWO MONTHS THAT TOOK THIRTY MUT TO GET A SKETCH ABOUT HER. OUR TWKLY-EYED, SNEAKER-WEARG NUMBER 2 WAS HOSTG A UNY SER AT THE WHE HOE. MART SHORT AS HER SEND GENTLEMAN DOUG EMHOFF WAS AN ABSOLUTE GIFT. “I N’T DO THIS!” HE WORRIED, GRASPG ONTO HIS WIFE. “I’M JT A SHY ENTERTAMENT LAWYER.” THEY NUZZLED AND RSED AND TALKED DIRTY TO EACH OTHER UNTIL THE GUTS ARRIVED. NONE WAS MORE SPIRED THAN CHLOE FEMAN’S ELLA EMHOFF, WHO STOMPED TO HOE MIC AND CLARED HERSELF THE MOST NORMAL-LOOKG GIRL BHWICK, HOWEVER CRAZY SHE MIGHT APPEAR TO AIDY BRYANT’S TED CZ. ALEX MOFFAT’S EXCELLENT JOE BIN SOON JOED THEM, BRAGGG–AFTER HIS NOTERD NFIRMED–THAT HE’D NAILED HIS FIRST PRS NFERENCE. EVEN MAJOR SHOWED UP, THOUGH SEND GENTLEMAN EMHOFF’S SOCIAL ANXIETY APPARENTLY UNDID HIS RETRAG. WATCHG MART SHORT BE TAKEN DOWN BY A GIANT STUFFED DOG WAS SUCH AN OLD-SCHOOL SHOT OF JOY.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDWEEKEND UPDATE WAS SIARLY TOP NOTCH. COL JOST WENT HARD ON GUN NTROL, SISTG THAT REPUBLINS DROP THEIR CYNIL CLAIMS THAT ’S A SEND AMENDMENT ISSUE. “I DON’T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED WHEN THEY ALMOST HUNG YOU TWO MONTHS AGO,” HE SAID, FLASHG TO AN IMAGE OF THE CAPOL SURRECTN, “BUT OUR IAS AREN’T SUPER WELL-REGULATED.” HE GAVE PRINT BIN GOOD GRIEF, MIXG HIS STUMBLE UP AIR FORCE ONE’S STEPS TO A BREAKDANCE AND CLARG THE PRS ASKG ABOUT HIS NNG AGA 2024 “PROBABLY THE NICT WAY TO ASK HIM IF HE’LL BE ALIVE THREE YEARS.”BUT BIS RUDOLPH, THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT WAS BOWEN YANG. BILLED AS “ASIAN CAST MEMBER,” HE SUCCEED AT WALKG A TREMULO LE. HE MOURNED THE VLENCE AGAST ASIAN AMERINS THIS UNTRY, AND LLED OUT SOCIAL MEDIA JTICE WARRRS WHO POST FLEETG SOLIDARY FOR CRIS OF THE MOMENT, WHOUT EVER LOSG THE DIENCE. HE WAS GRACEFUL AND ADAMANT AND FUNNY THROUGHOUT. “I DON’T EVEN WANT TO BE DOG THIS CHARACTER PIECE,” HE SISTED. “I WANTED TO DO MY CHARACTER, GAY PASSOVER BUNNY—BUT WAS TOO SMART FOR THE SHOW.” WHEN JOST CHECKED HIM ON THAT, YANG SNEERED, “WHATEVER, YOU’RE SRED.” HE LLED ON TO LOOK AROUND OUR MUNI, STEAD OF OUR INSTAGRAM STORI, FOR REAL ANSWERS TO SER PROBLEMS. “FUEL UP, DO MORE,” HE SAID. “WE RI AT DAWN, GRANDMAS!”I ULD’VE WATCHED KENAN THOMPSON AND RUDOLPH–POP THE HIP, TIP THE HAT—AS RIVAL, LOVICK CHOREOGRAPHERS ALL NIGHT LONG. BUT ALL GOOD THGS E TO AN END. AND SO, DISM, NTERED AN NBC PAGE’S BLAZER, TOLD RUDOLPH HER R WAS WAG TO TAKE HER BACK TO HER REAL LIFE. BUT NOSTALGIA IS A DG, AND LED HER ONCE MORE DOWN THE RABB HOLE OF MEMORY LANE. IN THE MAYA-G: A STANLEY KUBRICK FILM, TA FEY SHOWED UP AT THE BAR, RACHEL DRATCH A BATHTUB, TW KRIST WIIGS A SPOOKY HALLWAY. THERE’S NO PG SOME PLAC, BEE THEY’RE TOO GRAND TO EVER FULLY LEAVE.WHERE TO WATCH SNL:POWERED BYJTWATCHALL PRODUCTS FEATURED ON VANY FAIR ARE PENNTLY SELECTED BY OUR EDORS. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU BUY SOMETHG THROUGH OUR RETAIL LKS, WE MAY EARN AN AFFILIATE MISSN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— WOODY ALLEN, DYLAN FARROW, AND THE LONG, UPHILL ROAD TO A RECKONG— THE FALL OF ARMIE HAMMER: A FAY SAGA OF SEX, MONEY, DGS, AND BETRAYAL— JTICE LEAGUE: THE SHOCKG, HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE #SNYRCUT— JIMMY KIMMEL BREAKS DOWN EMOTNAL INTERVIEW WH ADY BARKAN— SHARON STONE ON HOW BASIC INSTCT NEARLY BROKE HER, BEFORE MAKG HER A STAR— OSR NOMATN SNUBS AND SURPRIS: DELROY LDO, AARON SORK STRIKE OUT— RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN BELIEV HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WHO STOLE THE OSRS?— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.KAREN VALBY

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. &nbspEver sce the silent film era, Hollywood beefke photos have tillated both female and gay male fans.

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY

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. Commenters cried the 54-year-old fay show for s racism, sexism, xenophobia, patriarchy, homophobia, exploatn, and fosterg bullyg.

To me Rudolph has been both an spirg hero and a gay in. Thgs may not have worked out as well wh my parents as they did wh the lumcently accsorized reer’s, but he and fabulo Hermey, DDS helped me to be the proud gay man I am today. I’ll always remember those years layg on the floor ont of the TV watch watchg Rudolph save Christmas, only now I watch thkg, “This is the gayt thg om 1960’s televisn next to Pl Lyn!

THE GAY INS OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

Rank/Bass gave children of all ag who are gay a heart, a timels Christmas special that speaks to them on a whole other way.