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.