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!
HOW PLAYBOY'S HUGH HEFNER CHAMPNED GAY RIGHTS AND RACIAL EQUALY, WHEN FEW OTHERS DID
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. “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.
FOR HUGH HEFNER, GAY RIGHTS WERE PART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTN
“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!
LLIE JORDAN DREAMED OF BEG THE 'GAY VERSN' OF HUGH HEFNER
“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.