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MONTGOMERY CLIFT: EL GAY QUE HOLLYWOOD OCULTó Y EL ROSTRO QUE SFIGURó UN CHE
ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CREDIBLE IENDSHIP WH THE GAY ACTOR SHE TRIED TO SCE
MONTGOMERY {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ACTOR MONTGOMERY CLIFT STARRED FILMS LIKE RED RIVER (1948), A PLACE THE SUN (1951), AND FROM HERE TO ETERNY (1953).{MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{LE-HEIGHT:1.6;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: SEP 15, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;--POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:TO;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;} A{POSN:ABSOLUTE;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{BACKGROUND:#C92228;BOTTOM:0;PADDG:.5REM;RIGHT:0;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG:0.39REM;}}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:1REM;WIDTH:1REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:1.063REM;HEIGHT:1.063REM;}}{LE-HEIGHT:1;MARG-TOP:0.3125REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0;}}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}KOBAL FOUNDATN/GETTY {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;}(1920-1966){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}SYNOPSISACTOR MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS BORN OCTOBER 17, 1920, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST METHOD ACTORS, HE MA HIS FILM BUT HOWARD HAWKS' 1948 WTERN, RED RIVER. CLIFT -STARRED WH ELIZABETH TAYLOR A PLACE THE SUN, RATREE COUNTY AND SUDNLY, LAST SUMMER. A NEAR-FATAL TO ACCINT 1957 CHANGED HIS LOOKS AND SENT HIM TO DG AND ALHOL ADDICTN. CLIFT DIED 1966.EARLY YEARSHAILED AS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST TE METHOD ACTORS, EDWARD MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS BORN OCTOBER 17, 1920, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. "MONTY," AS HIS FAY LLED HIM, WAS THE SON OF WILLIAM CLIFT, A SUCCSFUL WALL STREET BROKER, AND HIS WIFE, ETHEL. CLIFT'S EARLY LIFE WAS SHAPED BY PRIVILEGE. WHILE HIS FATHER WAS AWAY ON WORK, WHICH WAS OFTEN, ETHEL LED HER FAY ON JNTS TO EUROPE OR BERMUDA, WHERE THE CLIFTS HAD A SEND HOME.IN THE WAKE OF THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH, HOWEVER, THE FAY'S SUATN GREATLY CHANGED. THE CLIFTS, WHICH CLUD MONTY'S TW SISTER, ROBERTA, AND A BROTHER, BROOKS, SETTLED TO A NEW, MORE MOST LIFE SARASOTA, FLORIDA. AT THE AGE OF 13, CLIFT STARTED ACTG WH A LOL THEATER PANY. HIS MOTHER WAS IMPRSED BY HER SON'S MMENT TO THE STAGE AND ENURAGED HIM TO PURSUE HIS CRAFT. SHORTLY AFTER THE FAY MOVED TO MASSACHETTS, HE DNED AND WON A PART THE BROADWAY PLAY FLY AWAY HOME. WHEN THE FAY MOVED AGA, THIS TIME TO NEW YORK CY, CLIFT EARNED A SEND BROADWAY NOD AS THE LEAD DAME NATURE. THE ROLE CEMENTED CLIFT, JT 17 YEARS OLD, AS A BROADWAY STAR. OVER THE NEXT , HE APPEARED SEVERAL OTHER PRODUCTNS, CLUDG THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT, THE SK OF OUR TEETH AND OUR TOWN, AMONG OTHERS.HOLLYWOOD CALLSFOR YEARS CLIFT HAD RISTED LLS TO JUMP TO THE BIG SCREEN. HE WAS PARTICULAR ABOUT HIS WORK AND HIS DIRECTORS. HE FALLY MA THE LEAP WH THE 1948 RELEASE RED RIVER, A HOWARD HAWKS–DIRECTED WTERN -STARRG JOHN WAYNE. THAT SAME YEAR DIENC WERE TREATED TO A SEND CLIFT FILM, THE SEARCH, WHICH STARRED THE ACTOR AS AN AMERIN G.I. POST-WAR GERMANY. THE FILM TAPULTED CLIFT TO FULL-FLEDGED HOLLYWOOD STAR STAT AND EARNED HIM AN AMY NOMATN FOR BT ACTOR. OVER THE NEXT CLIFT STARRED SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE FILMS, CLUDG A PLACE THE SUN (1951) WH ELIZABETH TAYLOR, ALED HCHCK'S I CONFS (1953) AND THE BOX-OFFICE SMASH FROM HERE TO ETERNY (1953), -STARRG BURT LANSTER, FRANK SATRA AND DEBORAH KERR. FOR HOLLYWOOD, CLIFT REPRENTED AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KD OF LEADG MAN. HE WAS SENSIVE AND VULNERABLE, AND FEARLS THE ROL HE ACCEPTED, EVEN IF THEY ST HIM AS A VILLA. WHILE THE FILM WORLD CELEBRATED HIS HEARTTHROB STAT—GOSSIP LUMNISTS NSTANTLY LKED CLIFT WH TAYLOR, A CLOSE IEND—CLIFT AND THOSE AROUND HIM HID THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY.FAL YEARSIN MAY 1957 TRAGEDY STCK WHEN CLIFT, DRIVG HOME OM A PARTY AT TAYLOR'S CALIFORNIA HOME, VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND STCK A TELEPHONE POLE. THE ACCINT VASTATED CLIFT, PHYSILLY AND PSYCHOLOGILLY. HE HAD ALREADY BEEN ALG WH ALHOL AND PRCRIPTN DG PROBLEMS, AND HIS ADDICTNS SOARED. OVER THE NEXT , CLIFT NTUED TO WORK, APPEARG SEVEN MORE FILMS. HE RECEIVED AN AMY NOMATN FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTOR FOR THE ROLE OF RUDOLPH PETERSEN JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961), WHICH -STARRED JUDY GARLAND, MARLENE DIETRICH, SPENCER TRACY AND BURT LANSTER. HIS FAL ROLE ME THE DEFECTOR (1966), WHICH HE PLAYED AN AMERIN PHYSICIST WORKG WH A CIA AGENT GERMANY TO SECURE THE FECTN OF A RSIAN SCIENTIST. CLIFT DIED OF A HEART ATTACK AT HIS HOME NEW YORK CY ON JULY 23, 1966.RELATED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

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Acrdg to two A-list bgraphers, the late star was gay. Their claims were emed reliable bee one of the bgraphers was certified by one of Clift's 'Red River star was then tagged a gay in. A portra of Montgomery Clift actg as Matt Garth the wtern film "Red River" on 01 January, 1948 | Photo: Getty ImagA documented nversatn between two stars, Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker, durg a dner party also showed that there was knowledge among stars that Clift was gay.

He died 1966 at the age of ON CLIFT'S SEXUALITY AFTER HIS DEATHDurg her appearance at the GLAAD Media Awards, Taylor openly spoke about her late iend’s sexualy while she addrsed the rights of gay people. She ma known that all boiled down to talked about the need for stnch support for gay people and their rights. "Marilyn Monroe, Clift's troubled -star The Misfs (1961), lled him the only person I know who's worse shape than I amThat secret, pendg on your source, was that Clift was gay or bisexual.

Speakg to the film-makers, Jack Larson, who beme famo for playg Jimmy Olsen the h 1950s TV seri Adventur of Superman, rells how Clift gave him a kiss on the mouth the first time they sually met, and sists that Monty was not remotely worried about beg gay: "The thg about Monty was he wasn't anythg like people thought he was, " says Larson. "Durg a taped phone ll wh Monty's elr brother Brooks, the actor's mother, Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift breezily not that: "Monty was a homosexual very early. In fact, Clift was nsirably ls closeted than such gay ntemporari as Rock Hudson and, more generally, he seemed perfectly happy to blaze his own Edward Montgomery Clift on October 17th, 1920, Monty and his siblgs, as his nephew Robert not: "Had an unnventnal upbrgg; they spent a good al of time Europe travellg wh their mother and were privately ted by tutors.

MONTGOMERY CLIFT: EL GAY QUE HOLLYWOOD OCULTó Y EL ROSTRO QUE SFIGURó UN CHE

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MythsMany of the gay self-loathg myths surroundg Clift e om two bgraphi: a salac "pop Frdian" one by Robert Laguardia (who claimed "there was nothg obv about Monty except for his Oedipal plex") and another qutnable work by Patricia Bosworth, tled A Makg Montgomery Clift, Bosworth mak for a warm, iendly prence, but the film-makers pare and ntrast her words wh not and old taped nversatns she had wh the actor’s brother, Brooks, and fd notable discrepanci. Three to see at GAZECubby A gay nanny om the US midwt, played by director Mark Blane, strik up an unlikely iendship wh a former sex worker, played by former Interr.

Montgomery has been pated as a sperately unhappy gay man wh self-stctive patterns that many said led to his ath om a heart ailment at age 45 1966. "I feel his life has been fed through a lens that’s rmed by outdated and homophobic ias, " he said. Both the Bosworth and Robert LaGuardia bgraphi teeter between bisexual and homosexual, but if he was bisexual why would he not sleep wh her?

ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CREDIBLE IENDSHIP WH THE GAY ACTOR SHE TRIED TO SCE

She was a bterly jealo woman, pecially of young attractive women who would buzz around Monty non-stop so of urse she would need some way to le over the bgraphi acrdg to Brooks (Monty's hot ms of a brother) claims Monty uldn't be gay bee he got two girls pregnant, but the b's don't seem to go to any pth about the alleged pregnanci, almost seems like 's glossed over entirely, which is strange given that they mentned numero tim how Monty scerely wanted children and a tradnal fay. I didn't know he was gay, or even that I was, but I unrstood that if we were somehow magilly transported to the same bed together, semen would only time I ever paid for a hooker was when I first got on AOL, and a guy was advertisg who said he looked like Monty. He tracked him down to a nearby gay seedy tablishment.

Monty was 100% gay! GAY!!

They said he was so betiful that he uld sce any man he wanted even straight men were enchanted by his bety, which is extremely rare for a gay man to get a strong sexual attractn and such an attentn om a straight men like that. Monty adored Andrew McCarthy's wife and he said, if was straight I would steal you om your hband and marry always make like there was no such thg as a gay person Hollywood. Bi y, gay no such thg.

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ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST METHOD ACTORS, HE MA HIS FILM BUT HOWARD HAWKS' 1948 WTERN, RED RIVER. CLIFT -STARRED WH ELIZABETH TAYLOR A PLACE THE SUN, RATREE COUNTY AND SUDNLY, LAST SUMMER. A NEAR-FATAL TO ACCINT 1957 CHANGED HIS LOOKS AND SENT HIM TO DG AND ALHOL ADDICTN. CLIFT DIED 1966.EARLY YEARSHAILED AS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST TE METHOD ACTORS, EDWARD MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS BORN OCTOBER 17, 1920, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. "MONTY," AS HIS FAY LLED HIM, WAS THE SON OF WILLIAM CLIFT, A SUCCSFUL WALL STREET BROKER, AND HIS WIFE, ETHEL. CLIFT'S EARLY LIFE WAS SHAPED BY PRIVILEGE. WHILE HIS FATHER WAS AWAY ON WORK, WHICH WAS OFTEN, ETHEL LED HER FAY ON JNTS TO EUROPE OR BERMUDA, WHERE THE CLIFTS HAD A SEND HOME.IN THE WAKE OF THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH, HOWEVER, THE FAY'S SUATN GREATLY CHANGED. THE CLIFTS, WHICH CLUD MONTY'S TW SISTER, ROBERTA, AND A BROTHER, BROOKS, SETTLED TO A NEW, MORE MOST LIFE SARASOTA, FLORIDA. AT THE AGE OF 13, CLIFT STARTED ACTG WH A LOL THEATER PANY. HIS MOTHER WAS IMPRSED BY HER SON'S MMENT TO THE STAGE AND ENURAGED HIM TO PURSUE HIS CRAFT. SHORTLY AFTER THE FAY MOVED TO MASSACHETTS, HE DNED AND WON A PART THE BROADWAY PLAY FLY AWAY HOME. WHEN THE FAY MOVED AGA, THIS TIME TO NEW YORK CY, CLIFT EARNED A SEND BROADWAY NOD AS THE LEAD DAME NATURE. THE ROLE CEMENTED CLIFT, JT 17 YEARS OLD, AS A BROADWAY STAR. OVER THE NEXT , HE APPEARED SEVERAL OTHER PRODUCTNS, CLUDG THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT, THE SK OF OUR TEETH AND OUR TOWN, AMONG OTHERS.HOLLYWOOD CALLSFOR YEARS CLIFT HAD RISTED LLS TO JUMP TO THE BIG SCREEN. HE WAS PARTICULAR ABOUT HIS WORK AND HIS DIRECTORS. HE FALLY MA THE LEAP WH THE 1948 RELEASE RED RIVER, A HOWARD HAWKS–DIRECTED WTERN -STARRG JOHN WAYNE. THAT SAME YEAR DIENC WERE TREATED TO A SEND CLIFT FILM, THE SEARCH, WHICH STARRED THE ACTOR AS AN AMERIN G.I. POST-WAR GERMANY. THE FILM TAPULTED CLIFT TO FULL-FLEDGED HOLLYWOOD STAR STAT AND EARNED HIM AN AMY NOMATN FOR BT ACTOR. OVER THE NEXT CLIFT STARRED SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE FILMS, CLUDG A PLACE THE SUN (1951) WH ELIZABETH TAYLOR, ALED HCHCK'S I CONFS (1953) AND THE BOX-OFFICE SMASH FROM HERE TO ETERNY (1953), -STARRG BURT LANSTER, FRANK SATRA AND DEBORAH KERR. FOR HOLLYWOOD, CLIFT REPRENTED AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KD OF LEADG MAN. HE WAS SENSIVE AND VULNERABLE, AND FEARLS THE ROL HE ACCEPTED, EVEN IF THEY ST HIM AS A VILLA. WHILE THE FILM WORLD CELEBRATED HIS HEARTTHROB STAT—GOSSIP LUMNISTS NSTANTLY LKED CLIFT WH TAYLOR, A CLOSE IEND—CLIFT AND THOSE AROUND HIM HID THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY.FAL YEARSIN MAY 1957 TRAGEDY STCK WHEN CLIFT, DRIVG HOME OM A PARTY AT TAYLOR'S CALIFORNIA HOME, VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND STCK A TELEPHONE POLE. THE ACCINT VASTATED CLIFT, PHYSILLY AND PSYCHOLOGILLY. HE HAD ALREADY BEEN ALG WH ALHOL AND PRCRIPTN DG PROBLEMS, AND HIS ADDICTNS SOARED. OVER THE NEXT , CLIFT NTUED TO WORK, APPEARG SEVEN MORE FILMS. HE RECEIVED AN AMY NOMATN FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTOR FOR THE ROLE OF RUDOLPH PETERSEN JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961), WHICH -STARRED JUDY GARLAND, MARLENE DIETRICH, SPENCER TRACY AND BURT LANSTER. HIS FAL ROLE ME THE DEFECTOR (1966), WHICH HE PLAYED AN AMERIN PHYSICIST WORKG WH A CIA AGENT GERMANY TO SECURE THE FECTN OF A RSIAN SCIENTIST. CLIFT DIED OF A HEART ATTACK AT HIS HOME NEW YORK CY ON JULY 23, 1966.RELATED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

She liked the homos bee they showed her adoratn and she didn't have to worry about them tryg to take sexual advantage of Anonymoreply 65May 26, 2019 12:27 PM. Both Libby Holman and Montgomery Clift were homosexuals. Dpe marriag, murrs, mors of affairs wh the other sex - they were both primarily gay.

Don't this sweaty bch know I'm gay, FFS? Tennsee Williams said Monty hated him bee he was so open about beg gay whereas Monty wasn't and that he didn't want him anyway bee he wasn't attractive lol. Was Billy a homo?

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