Hollywood’s (Very, Very Wild) “Gay Cheers” Turns 25: An Oral History of The Abbey – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• MICHAEL OVZ BLAM HIS DOWNFALL ON ''GAY MAFIA''
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• HOLLYWOOD’S (VERY, VERY WILD) “GAY CHEERS” TURNS 25: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ABBEY
• A WEHO GAY DRAMA’S ACT II FEATUR AN INTERTG CAST OF CHARACTERS

MICHAEL OVZ BLAM HIS DOWNFALL ON ''GAY MAFIA''

Michael Ovz blam his downfall on ''gay mafia.

'' Once the most powerful man Hollywood, the former top agent and manager acc dtry power brokers -- many of them not gay -- of nspirg agast him Michael Ovz, the former agent and manager who was once the most powerful and feared man Hollywood but is now all but exiled om the dtry, knows who’s to blame for his downfall: the ”gay mafia.

The ”gay mafia” charge is puzzlg, pecially sce many of the people on the list are, by all acunts, not gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

One who is openly gay, Geffen, tells the magaze, ”This is sane.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

” Callg Ovz’s notn of a gay bal homophobic, he says sarstilly, ”All the gay people get together, like the Jewish people get together.

HOLLYWOOD’S (VERY, VERY WILD) “GAY CHEERS” TURNS 25: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ABBEY

Chuck Jam went through hell as a gay assistant Hollywood. It was a time of yellg and screamg and judgg -- this is outsi of beg part of the LGBT muny or beg gay at that pot.

But ascendg the entertament dtry as a gay man was no crystal stairse for Jam.

A WEHO GAY DRAMA’S ACT II FEATUR AN INTERTG CAST OF CHARACTERS

But he wasn't always able to pletely hi his gay inty. In fact, he was once termated om ICM by a senr agent he didn't name this terview due to what he perceived as antigay bias.