I know of no evince for this. Some of the characters Hchck's films may have suggted that they were gay, or at least sexually nfed. In Rope, he portrayed two men as a uple, gog about as far as the censors would allow those days.
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WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’
In typil Hchck-ian fashn, the "Master of Spense" often employed his films subtle referenc to gay culture, fyg nservative attus of the late '50s. * was hitchcock gay *
While Ripley‘s homosexual unrton are certaly more blatant, there’s somethg fely there Bno’s tert Guy — part of may be social climbg, but part of may very well be sexual. What’s so fascatg about the queer subtext Hchck’s films is that he knew, as a director and a provotr, that makg the simple suggtn of homosexualy was enough to create unease, to raise the stak for both his characters and his dience. Hchck was exposed to vibrant gay muni both England and Hollywood, and he worked wh many gay and bisexual profsnals var aspects of film productn, cludg wrers and actors.
GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
In late 1920s England, Aled and Alma Hchck socialized and were good iends wh Ivor Novello and his partner, Robert “Bobbie” Andrews, who had lavish parti that were notorly gay. After he had e out as gay later life, Rope’s screenplay wrer, Arthur Lrents, said a DVD mentary of the film, “What was cur to me was that Rope was obvly about homosexuals.
IS MICHAEL HCHCK GAY
The plot is nearly intil; however, the play explicly tablish that the two ma characters are a homosexual relatnship, and their former school teacher, Rupert, is also a homosexual who had affairs wh both of them.
Charters and Calditt are not sissy sikicks, the most mon gay male characterizatn allowed Amerin movi of the time (such as Edward Everett Horton’s rol the Gger Rodgers-Fred Astaire movi). Here's a portn of Ken's first-rate overview of Hch’s life a Sens of Cema article:"To gay actor/screenwrer Rodney Ackland (Number Seventeen) [Hch] nfid: "You know, if I hadn't met Alma at the right time, I uld have bee a poof. And Hch’s ep tert Wil’s novel would suggt, at the very least, a fascatn wh homosexualy – om the perspective of a bicur fact, to me, that one paragraph of Ken’s ncisely scrib a lot of Hchck's psychology – his exprsed bisexualy, his acknowledgment of the universaly of perversn (acrdg to the then-standard view that homosexualy is a perversn) and his view on `killg the thg you love' that I feel is more accurately lled `ializatn as a form of hatred.