Chris Mart shar childhood stggl: I was 'terrified' to be gay

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• CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY
• MARTLOVEGAY
• IS MART SHORT GAY? GET TO KNOW THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE!

CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY

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MARTLOVEGAY

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Chris Mart has revealed that he qutned his sexualy as a teenager - but his own homophobia ma him supprs his Coldplay ontman explaed to Rollg Stone magaze how beg bullied at boardg school and explorg Evangelil Christiany ma him fear thoughts that he might be, 42, said: “When I went to boardg school I walked a b funny and I bounced a b, and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, ‘If I’m gay, I’m pletely f****ed for eterny’ and I was a kid disverg Mart has opened up to Rollg Stone magaze about stggl wh his sexualy (Cred: AP)Read more: Coldplay's Chris Mart 'happy to be a human punchbag'“‘Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this’ so I was terrified and I walked a b funny. “And I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, ‘You’re fely gay, ’ que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years.

“I don’t know [if I’m gay] and even if I am, I n’t be bee ’s wrong… If I am, I n’t be. I was jt, ‘So what if I’m gay? Maybe was growg up a b and havg a b more exposure to the world - thkg, ‘A lot of my hero are gay, ’ or whatever.

IS MART SHORT GAY? GET TO KNOW THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE!

Now that gay actors like Nathan Lane, Jim Parsons, Victor Garber, Jonathan Groff, and Neil Patrick Harris are “out of the closet” and on the rise, ’s hard to image jt how different thgs were the relatively recent past. Not only was the notn of beg openly gay and havg a viable reer unimagable, but gayns self was also a ncept pole society uldn’t untenance.

“Homosexuals” subsisted on society’s margs, mentned only whispered gossip, fearsome psychiatric studi, and Conservative diatrib cryg perversn. Still, spe of all, gay men managed to make their way to very top of the actg profsn the gild closets of Hollywood.

Here are five of the most noteworthy exampl of gay actors mid-Century Hollywood. Part of s all-star st, Liberace giv a marveloly wty performance as luxury ff salman who’s subtly yet obvly gay.

” What’s most tertg about the se is that on the stand, Liberace nied that he dulged homosexual practic. The ser cril receptn given to two of the postmortem Liberace bpic for televisn Liberace: Behd the Mic (1988) wh gay Victor Garber and a screenplay by the gay Gav Lambert, and Behd the Canlabra (2011) wh the straight Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, directed by the equally straight Steven Sorbergh reflects his populary.

Their producer, Ross Hunter (who was also gay) nnily st the young actor alongsi veteran star Jane Wyman both films, th wng the heart of olr female moviegoers enamored of good-lookg young men. He wed Phyllis Gat, the secretary of his gay manager Henry Willson, 1956. It lasted only two years, but served s purpose., Still didn’t fortall a joke mor that he had married his iend, sger-actor Jim Nabors (who was also gay but not closeted) om makg the rounds.

In 1950, he was arrted along wh a group of other gay men for Disorrly Conduct when the police raid a private party, which was not an unmon circumstance.

Que matter-of-fact about his gayns by then, Tab told all a book and documentary movie Tab Hunter Confintial. Perks me que late to marriage (1973) havg spent the better part of his life as a closeted but a somewhat eewheelg gay man whose lovers clud (the prevly noted) Tab Hunter, actor-dancer Grover Dale, Rudolph Nureyev (who certaly got around), and Stephen Sondheim, wh whom he -scripted the edy-thriller The Last of Sheila.

Yet Perks ntued to have gay liaisons — so dangero that he ntracted HIV and died of AIDS.