Gay Inography: The Hollywood Legend Of Jam Dean - Towleroad Gay News

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Tony Guadagno discs legendary gay ins Jam Dean, Marlon Brando, Wally Cox, and Rock Hudson his May lumn about gay ins.

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GAY INS: JAM DEAN, MARLON BRANDO, WALLY COX, ROCK HUDSON

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His last movie, Giant, h theaters sixty-five years ago this culture has endlsly reimaged Jam Dean om the moment he died—he is straight, bisexual, and gay; sensive and aggrsive; misunrstood and manipulative; victim and predator; the bt of and the worst. Ple Kael, then a risg film cric, plaed 1955 that watchg him was like stumblg onto the vulgar eroticism of homosexual cisg grounds—“grossly explic, ” too dulgent of boys and their “toerotic” fixatns.

Too often, his negative experienc epted , aggrsive, or dangero behavr, what Bast spected was Dean’s way of takg revenge on a society that wronged Hollywood mors started as soon as Dean ma the papers, whispers that he was bisexual or gay. His stud, Warner Bros., promoted him alongsi Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, two closeted gay men, as their most eligible bachelor.

Much k would be spilled over the years tryg to p down his sexualy—straight, bisexual, gay, asexual all found their advot—but he risted labels, not least bee the labels were tied up bigger qutns of masculy and manhood.

GAY INOGRAPHY: THE HOLLYWOOD LEGEND OF JAM DEAN

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In those days, “homosexual” was synonymo wh a mpy, effemate stereotype he uldn’t intify wh. “I’m not a homosexual, ” he told a reporter who asked if he was gay, “but I’m not gog through life wh one hand tied behd my back. In the heart of the homophobic ’50s, he and director Nicholas Ray quietly weaved a queer love story to his most famo film, Rebel whout a Cse, a movie filled wh qutns about what masculy meant the postwar world.

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