'The Waltons': Married TV Couple Grandma & Grandpa Were Both Actually Gay

Contents:

• A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE
• THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG
• HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...
• ‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY
• MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE

Sama'an Ashrawi, mic producer and host of The Nostalgia Tap podst, is ed to tellg other people's stori, but on Sunday he opened up about a more personal one -- his grandfather's gay love story -- on love story thread has been liked almost 200, 000 tim. "My Grandpa Dave told me he was sure he was gay when he was movg to his dorm room hman year of llege and there was a boy 'wh the prettit ey, '" Ashrawi began. However, they were gay real life and were volved homosexual relatnships.

| Source: Getty ImagWILL GEER'S GAY LIFE, ACTIVISM, AND MARRIAGE Meanwhile, she lived a siar life to her long-time -star Geer, "Will Geer, who got blacklisted durg the anti-munist wch hunts, had a male lover.

" His partner was Harry Hay, a gay rights activist, but their relatnship later end. Geer opted to marry 1938 after beg both a Party activist and actively gay for at least four years.

THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG

It remas unclear whether his marriage to Ware signaled an end to his same-sex sexual activy or if the mician married bee he believed the Communist Party strictly prohibed homosexuals om jog. Hay was the founr of gay liberatn and created the first morn gay-rights anizatn 1950. At first, no one wanted to jo him formg a polil anizatn for homosexuals.

He spent two years searchg among the gay men he knew Los Angel. knew that Grandpa (Will Geer) was gay, Pa (Ralph Wae) was a reverg.

lover of one of Ameri's most famo gay activists Harry Hay.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...

Hay formed the group the Radil Faeri to liven up the gay scene. But he kept quiet that he was homosexual and was the lover of the. gay activist Harry Hay.

‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY

later won a Tony award for playg a gay Vietnam veteran on Broadway. However, their private liv, each was actually gay and homosexual relatnships of sorts.

MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH

As lovers, the two spired and fluenced one another to gay rights activism. Today, Harry Hay is celebrated as a sort of foundg father gay rights activism.

Perri rells tellg a prit he was gay when he was 17, durg a nfsn. It was hard, but Tony fally told his wife he was gay.

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

His wife asked him to never tell the children, but eventually, he had to s down wh the kids and "jt say the word gay — I'm gay.

" Ironilly, Jefey was aaid to e out to his openly gay grandfather. Picture this: your grandson has jt told you he’s gay. When your grandchild choos to e out to you and be openly gay, may be the most urageo choice they will ever make.

After the rolleraster of emotns they go through, many fai actually look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child. Michael LaSala says, “Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person – more open md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups.

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

A great example of how to set an example for your fay when your grandson tells you he’s gay is this letter of support wrten by a grandfather that went viral worldwi a uple of years ago.

She said that she already knew her son was gay, as did her 81-year-old mother, and that when he cid to e out to them, her mother wanted her her dghter to “tell him we love him too.

Kenh Felts is a ttament to the age of 90, he’s fally openg up about an sential part of his life that he’s long kept hidn: Felts is gay.