In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars
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THE APPARENTLY TE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SECURED GAY LOVERS FOR OLD HOLLYWOOD
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He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals. They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis. Cor was a gay man who never nied that he was LGBTQ+.
Durg this time, he beme volved wh and engaged to stage and stume signer Doris Zkeisen for a year while livg as a gay man public. Whale lived his life Hollywood as a gay man siarly to Cor, as an open secret that he ma no effort to hi. While he never fully acknowledged , Cocte wrote "Le Livre Blanc" or "The Whe Paper", which many nsir a nfsn of his orientatn as a gay man, but that one thor, Rictor Norton, se as a treatise on homophobia.
The Damned is possibly his bt known film and is ank s examatn of subject matter of homosexualy, ct, rape and pedophilia. The film that he ma after he disvered his orientatn and studyg film at USC was the homoerotic "Fireworks" 1947.