Elizabeth Taylor origally tried to sce gay actor Montgomery Clift, acrdg to the thor who chronicled their iendship.
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- MAKG MONTGOMERY CLIFT: TTH BEHD GAY SELF-LOATHG MYTH
- ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CREDIBLE IENDSHIP WH THE GAY ACTOR SHE TRIED TO SCE
MAKG MONTGOMERY CLIFT: TTH BEHD GAY SELF-LOATHG MYTH
Our celebratn of post-war gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all. * monty clift gay *
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.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CREDIBLE IENDSHIP WH THE GAY ACTOR SHE TRIED TO SCE
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.