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Many of the gay mors surroundg Charl Bronson (Death Wish, Once Upon a Time the Wt, The Magnificent Seven) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most actors. However the poll suggts that a big majory (69%) of rponnts don't believe that he was gay.

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STONEWALL 1979: GAYS HOLLYWOOD

"The gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowl­ at the movi, very ltle has changed." * bronson gay *

Perfect Strangers star Bronson Pchot spoke out agast his past -stars, llg Tom Cise homophobic and scribg workg wh Denzel Washgton as a "dreadful experience, " acrdg to The A. He was tense and ma nstant, nstant unrelated homophobic ments...

The Closet Syndrome: Gays Hollywood. In January 1969, Variety screeched: HOMO N’ LESBO FILMS AT PEAK — DEVIATE THEME NOW BOX OFFICE. It was the year of The Boys the Band, the culmatn of a which Hollywood seized upon homosexualy as a seamier si of the Amerin dream.

In one year, 1968, there were more films alg wh homosexualy than the three s sce the g of sound. Lbians and gay men the movi were pathologil, predatory, and dangero; we were villas and fools, but never hero. Homosexuals were prime spects The Boston Strangler, rapists Rt, and hairdrsers or queens No Way to Treat a Lady and Valley of the Dolls.

AA BRONSON’S LIFETIME OF GAY JOY AND PROVOTN

Homosexualy was the dirty secret the last real.

” The ethic of the closet is also advanced The Boys the Band, which cid neatly wh the birth of the activist gay movement Ameri. Ten years later, the gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowledged. Plays, books, magaz, and even televisn shows have prented a steady stream of real and fictnal gay suatns.

BRONSON PCHOT NEARLY MARRIED! ON-REEL GAY'S ROMANTIC STAT NOW

Durg the ’70s, gays died vlent aths Diamonds Are Forever, The Day of the Jackal, Freebie and the Bean, The Eiger Sanctn, Swashbuckler and even Tfft’s Day for Night. In Jackson’s novel the hero’s alholism is the rult of a father fixatn aggravated by false accatn of homosexualy. The nsummatn of a homosexual affair which Hay scrib his book is halted the film by a gentle but manly rejectn.

CHARL BRONSON GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 69 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY

“I ma that cisn, ” says Parker, “bee I uldn’t afford to have my dience thk my hero was a homosexual. Gay fictn is big bs, but not one homosexual hero has reached the screen.

Ray Agayhari tried for three years to get a film versn of Lra Z. The story of a mother who mt e to terms wh her son’s homosexualy “was turned down by all the major studs wh enormo promptns, ” acrdg to the thor. Hobson uld sell Jews to Hollywood  1947 when she wrote Gentleman’s Agreement, but she uldn’t sell them gays  1979.

The most celebrated failure to produce a film om gay fictn volv Patricia Nell Warren’s btseller, The Front Runner. ” Most actors are as reluctant as ever to play homosexuals for fear that the dience will nfe them wh their rol.

ON-SCREEN GAY BRONSON PCHOT MARRIED AT AGE 59? STAT NOW!

When Perry Kg was about to accept the role of a gay man A Different Story, he was warned by his iend Sylvter Stallone, “Don’t play no faggots. As Paco says the film when John Cazale plas that the TV is llg him a homosexual, “It don’t matter, Sal. “Men never ed to be able to have emotnal liv on film; now they do, ” says Ron Gold, media adviser for the Natnal Gay Task Force.

STAR WRTLER LOS SCHOLARSHIP AFTER MAKG ANTI-GAY SLUR DURG PROTT

As we move to a refn of rol the movi, gayns will bee more acceptable.

Yet, the fact that heterosexuals are more vulnerable on the screen has produced a hancy about homosexualy. ” when the gay scene on.

IS BRONSON PCHOT GAY OR MARRIED TO A WIFE? WHERE IS HE NOW?

A mil number like “Whe Boys” n serve as lightful burlque a film like Hair, but when Woof is asked if he’s homosexual, the answer is a roundg no. ” More recently, Kle attacked the French film, La Cage Aux Foll, by implyg that only a gay cric uld fd s role reversal jok funny. When Casablan Filmworks recently pre-tted s dis film, Thank God It’s Friday, the Midwt, producer Kenny Freidman studied the reactn of dienc to a scene of two gay men dancg together amid a sea of heterosexual upl.

He found that the gays the dience “got ” and the straights “never saw a thg. Acrdg to screenwrer Arthur Lrents, a subplot The Turng Pot volvg a long-term gay relatnship was excised by nervo Herb Ross, a director whose work, The Owl and the Psyt, Funny Lady, and The Goodbye Girl, has been nsistently homophobic. “It was jt my feelg that was dishont and lackg texture to do a movie about the ballet world and not have homosexuals.

BRONSON PCHOT GAY, MARRIED, NET WORTH, NOW

One reason gays haven’t fared well films, says John Watson of the Los Angel Tim, is that “closeted homosexuals workg wh the dtry obstct projects that have posive gay them.

BRONSON PCHOT MARRIED, WIFE, GAY, NET WORTH, AGE, NOW

” After several attempts to terview gay people at var film pani, I asked a woman charge of advertisg and promotn for the Robert Stigwood Organizatn (Tommy, Saturday Night Fever, Moment by Moment) if there were any openly gay people the film dtry. Recent announcements the Hollywood tra prs that Grease imprar Alan Carr was planng a “gay-themed” film about the rise of The Village People drew swift mands for a retractn. Bce Vilanch, -thor of the screenplay, has wrten for Bette Midler and Peter Allen, and is rponsible for an album of gay humor lled Out of the Closets.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* BRONSON GAY

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