When Hollywood Studs Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexualy a Secret | HISTORY

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• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• 10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• 12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI
• GAY CELEBS WHO ARE MARRIED OR ENGAGED

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

It was an excg day for gay upl who had been hopg to legally tie-the-knot (and an excg day for everyone who believ #loveislove), and we're celebratg wh a pri-filled celebry weddg roundup. By the way, Ellen announced her plans to wed Portia durg a tapg of The Ellen Show, after California's Supreme Court reversed their ban on gay marriage.

Lance and Michael ma history as the first gay uple to have their weddg televised on Amerin TV, and their special, Lance Lov Michael: The Lance Bass Weddg, is fely worth watchg.

Comedian Wanda Syk and her wife, Alex, got hched 2008 (a month before Wanda me out as gay). The uple are pretty private about their relatnship, but Wanda did open up about her thoughts on the ristance toward gay marriage beg legalized. Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public.

10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a . They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up.

Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk. He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars. Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.

Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. "Obvly, the lotn was credible but everythg else was really relaxed, was jt so normal, " Daley wrote a social media post, acrdg to the London Gay Men's Choir sang "Marry You" by Bno Mars durg the weddg and Daley even reportedly baked the ke himself. Wh more and more openly gay celebri gracg the stag at the annual award ceremoni, seems that the old fashned views of the lik of Walt Disney and Charlton Hton are buried along wh them.

12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI

This is not the se, however, and many the Hollywood ele still like to steal the limelight by ocsnally shockg their terviewers wh some anti-gay sentiments.

Not all of the celebri on this list are explicly “anti-gay”, but they have all at some pot ma clear that they are opposed to the marriage of two people of the same sex. There are many lists out there that claim to have done the same thg, but they ually nfe homophobia wh right-wg views on marriage: the two are not necsarily synonymo. Neverthels, opposg gay marriage is nsired ntroversial due to the large numbers of people affects, wh an timated 6% of the populatn intifyg as LGBT.

Sce the passg of the feral gay marriage law the USA, the issue has once aga been thst to the foreont of polil bate. This list is certaly not exhstive – there are many other celebri who have shocked the world wh vrlic ments directed towards gay people - but the celebri on this list are the most proment to openly oppose, what many people nsir, a legimate form of love servg of legal regnn.

GAY CELEBS WHO ARE MARRIED OR ENGAGED

A rather nfg aspect of Donald Tmp’s posn is that he has been heard fendg the gay-marriage laws of the USA (note that fense of a law is not fense of a prciple). Ined, Tmp jumped to the fense of a judge who sentenced a man for refg to issue a gay marriage license, notg that “gay marriage is the law of the land. Still, he matas a stereotypil right-wg view on the matter, and has the past said that gay marriage should not be allowed.

While not anti gay, Donny Osmond, like his brothers, is clearly not an advote of equal rights for gay people. Apparently, his relign do not allow gays to marry; therefore, he nnot ndone gay marriage. The star of Duck Dynasty, a show that shadows the Robertson fay while they n their bs that mak duck lls, Phil Robertson was actually recently rponsible for the spensn of the show followg some rather ntroversial remarks about gay people.