Playboy founr Hugh Hefner, undoubtedly a ntroversial figure, was also an early supporter of gay rights.
Contents:
- FOR HUGH HEFNER, GAY RIGHTS WERE PART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN
- HOW PLAYBOY'S HUGH HEFNER CHAMPNED GAY RIGHTS AND RACIAL EQUALY, WHEN FEW OTHERS DID
- FOR HUGH HEFNER, GAY RIGHTS WERE PART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN
- LLIE JORDAN DREAMED OF BEG THE 'GAY VERSN' OF HUGH HEFNER
FOR HUGH HEFNER, GAY RIGHTS WERE PART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN
But Derek Hawks at the Washgton Post provis an anecdote that shows one of Hefner’s more progrsive views: In 1955, Playboy ran a short story, “The Crooked Man” by Charl Bemont, that “picted a dystopian future where homosexualy was the norm, heterosexualy was outlawed and angry anti-straight mobs marched through the street chantg ‘make our cy clean aga!
But Hefner stood his ground, wrg, “If was wrong to persecute heterosexuals a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too. The documentary reunted how 1955 Hefner published, “The Crooked Man, ” a science fictn story which heterosexuals were persecuted a homosexual world.
HOW PLAYBOY'S HUGH HEFNER CHAMPNED GAY RIGHTS AND RACIAL EQUALY, WHEN FEW OTHERS DID
“If was wrong to persecute heterosexuals a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too, ” Hefner wrote to outraged rears, acrdg to the LBGT magaze the Advote. “I’m a human rights activist, ” Hefner said a 1994 Advote terview when asked if he nsired himself a gay rights activist. “The Crooked Man” picted a dystopian future where homosexualy was the norm, heterosexualy was outlawed and angry anti-straight mobs marched through the street chantg “make our cy clean aga!
“If was wrong to persecute heterosexuals a homosexual society, ” he wrote, “then the reverse was wrong, too. ”The move would serve to reprent an early example of Hefner’s lifelong mment to gay rights, and civil rights general.
FOR HUGH HEFNER, GAY RIGHTS WERE PART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN
(Vio: Elyse Samuels/The Washgton Post)Hefner’s ntradictns weren’t lost on the Advote, a gay magaze that published a wi-rangg terview wh him 1994. “I’m surprised you regnize the issue of opprsn ncerng gays and lbians so clearly at a time when most Amerins still don’t.
LLIE JORDAN DREAMED OF BEG THE 'GAY VERSN' OF HUGH HEFNER
”Asked if he nsired himself a gay rights activist, Hefner rpond that he had been a “human rights activist” om the magaze’s ceptn.