Screen god Burt's sex life set the stage for Hollywood gay scene |

Contents:

• HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
• SCREEN GOD BURT'S SEX LIFE SET THE STAGE FOR HOLLYWOOD GAY SCENE

HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.

He was unr vtigatn for say that you nnot judge a book by s ver, and that seemed to be the se wh "From Here to Eterny" star Burt Lanster and his sexual almost three s, the FBI vtigated Lanster for a few reasons, cludg his alleged "homosexual behavr. "In the 1950s, the FBI also vtigated him for alleged homosexual behavr. Edgar Hoover labeled Lanster as a threat to US secury due to his sexual vtigatns disvered that the actor and his iend and fellow movie star Rock Hudson paved the way for the "open and promiscuo liftyle" many other homosexuals live Hollywood nowadays.

In January 1960, for example, the police and ary raid a notor homosexual's hoe and disvered that many "proment dividuals, " cludg Lanster and Hudson, were part of the Buford, an thor who wrote a book about Lanster, poted out that she uld never nfirm or ny the mors about his bisexualy. She explaed: "He had so many gay iends [... ] that he was never gog to stand up and say, 'I'm not gay, ' bee that implied that beg gay was beg somehow lser.

SCREEN GOD BURT'S SEX LIFE SET THE STAGE FOR HOLLYWOOD GAY SCENE

FRIENDSHIP WITH ROCK HUDSONLanster was good iends wh Hudson, who did ltle to nothg to hi his sexualy and equently vised gay bars Los Angel, which add fuel to the gay mors. This was not admted 1957, and no one n blame a mercial movie of that era for lackg the urage or even the self-awarens that would have been so direct about a stctive homosexual relatnship.

I don’t thk anyone uld ntemplate a remake of the film today whout seeg that there has to be a gay relatnship between lumnist and prs agent, a reliance that exclus the rt of life. I am nfint that director Mackendrick and wrer Ots were not homosexual, though I’m ls sure that they didn’t unrstand the possibily of that relatnship and see an unrground life the stg. It was the late 1940s, as he thought of a show bs reer, that he started workg hard on his looks and his body, and when he felt people the neighborhood were thkg he might be gay.

In those late 1940s—and still today—there is a wispread feelg that a lot of people show bs are gay. That notn exists above and beyond the fact that there are more homosexuals show bs than most other profsns. Curtis grew up the movie bs wh a rps of very good-lookg guys, many of whom were clients of the agent Henry Willson, who cultivated gay actors who did not e out of the closet on screen—one of them was Rock Hudson, a ntemporary of Curtis’s at Universal.