Matt Tyrner ptured the notor gay matchmaker’s unique view of the stars.
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THE APPARENTLY TE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SECURED GAY LOVERS FOR OLD HOLLYWOOD
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 * charles laughton gay *
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. He picts Old Hollywood as teemg wh closeted gay stars willg to pay for discreet sex bee they were worried about morals cls, stud snch, Confintial magaze and those self-appoted Hollywood watchdogs, lumnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper.
G., that Charl Lghton liked sh sandwich, that the De and Duchs of Wdsor were both gay, that Cole Porter would suck off as many as 15 young men at a time — heavily sanized. Y, Bowers equently “troduced” young gay guys to olr men like Burr. In fact, Benevis nfirmed three of the most ntroversial claims Full Service: that Bowers, now 88, was the go-to procurer for many Hollywood stars — gay and straight — the pre-sexual revolutn, pre-AIDS, pre-Craigslist, postwar era; that he gladly shared his sex partners of both genrs; and that he was not a “pimp” the tradnal sense bee he llected money only when he personally serviced the ctomer.
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