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Contents:
- A REVELATORY DISSECTN OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE A GAY MOVIE STAR
- SXSW: TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT LIFE AS A CLOSETED GAY STAR DURG HOLLYWOOD’S GOLN AGE
A REVELATORY DISSECTN OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE A GAY MOVIE STAR
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His public relatns team at the time explaed that the actor had been diagnosed wh a ser liver disease, while they tried to avoid mors about his HIV stat and his until-then-alleged homosexualy. It was only after his ath that beme wily known that the actor had fact always been gay and had romanced many of his male -stars. Ined, the surge of AIDS related aths the late ‘80s and early ‘90s opened up a vlt of secrets that Hollywood had fought to keep silent sce s very ceptn; some of the most popular screen actors who sced women and ma female fans fat om excement had all along been homosexuals.
SXSW: TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT LIFE AS A CLOSETED GAY STAR DURG HOLLYWOOD’S GOLN AGE
From blackmail to fake marriag, Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson led strange double liv as '50s heartthrobs who were secretly gay. * guy madison gay *
There was one man particular who not only disvered and nurtured actors like Rock Hudson and Guy Madison, but who turned beg gay to a secret liftyle that clud some of the most powerful men the dtry. Bee is the first om the perspective of a major movie star who lived through as a closeted gay man but is now open about his sexualy. Hunter rells first realizg that he was “different” his early teens, but says he’d “have gone crazy” if someone had asked him if he was homosexual (the word “gay” wasn’t really around then).