Did Samuel Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Rudolph Valento, the legendary silent film star, have a sexual enunter?
Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- RUDOLPH VALENTO AND JEAN ACKER WERE BOTH RUMOREDLY GAY SPE THEIR RERD-BREAKG SHORT MARRIAGE
- THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
- LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE
HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
* was rudolph valentino gay *
He and Rambova would divorce 1925, leadg to public speculatn that Valento was a homosexual and that he had been engaged “lavenr marriag” of nvenience to hi . There is no five evince any credible bgraphi wrten of the two that eher Valento or Rambova was gay; rather, the speculatn reflected ntemporary sterotyp and prejudic, and was no doubt spired by Valento’s personal style and refed European tast.
Homo Amerin! The followg year he married actrs Jean Acker, who was reportedly gay, and the unhappy uple divorced 1922. 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.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
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. I'm fascated by the ia that there is a straight actor bee they would have to nstantly b shoulrs wh gays all day. Mart short gay.
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.
RUDOLPH VALENTO AND JEAN ACKER WERE BOTH RUMOREDLY GAY SPE THEIR RERD-BREAKG SHORT MARRIAGE
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.
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.
THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
People Claimed He Was Gay. Given Valento’s unnventnal masculy for the time, many narrow mds whispered that he was a closeted homosexual wh lovers rangg om Mexin actor Ramon Novarro to French poet Jacqu Hebertot. 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. And Valento scholars agree the actor wasn't gay.
LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE
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.