Elrgays, Tell Me About Dean Stockwell

Contents:

• ELRGAYS, TELL ME ABOUT DEAN STOCKWELL
• IS DEAN STOCKWELL GAY?
• NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW

ELRGAYS, TELL ME ABOUT DEAN STOCKWELL

Stockwell brgs an unexpected tragic ponent of stifled romanticism and homoerotic closeted angst to his horrific amoral character.

" He me a long way om his uptight gay murrer "Compulsn" and his geoly tubercular Edmund Tyrone "Long Day's Journey. He played one of the thrill killers a Leopold and Loeb movie, though the gay relatnship aspect was pretty much ignored. 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.

IS DEAN STOCKWELL GAY?

Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Dean Stockwell is gay? Neverthels, speculatns over whether Dean Stockwell is gay or not are still prent certa rners of the tabloids and on var webs, once aga whout any solid foundatn. In any se, celebri too often refe to talk about their private liv, so we never know which celebs are gay or straight.

NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW

Regardls of what people may thk, is creasgly mon for people to openly adm to beg gay, even more beg such an important such as artist Dean Stockwell. Sourc at NBC said Thursday that the work lost about $500, 000 on Wednday’s disputed “Quantum Leap” episo about gays and gay bashg.

However, Brd said that the “make-good” was not ma rponse to a reported suggtn by the work that the stud help unrwre any advertisg loss curred as a rult of airg the a squabble wh the work over productn of the episo last September, “Quantum Leap” executive producer Don Bellisar had asserted that NBC officials raised the possibily of the stud pensatg NBC for airg the episo the event of a sponsor had nied makg such a suggtn, but even so, there would have been a basis for ncern, given the recent history of advertiser whdrawals om ntroversial programs--cludg an episo of ABC’s “thirtysomethg” pictg two gay men bed and NBC’s own movie “Roe vs. Wednday found him surfacg at a naval llege 1964 and assumg the inty of a t faced wh savg the life of a iend beaten by stunt vigilant bee of his homosexualy. Although NBC and Bellisar had mataed that only mor chang were ma the shootg script that origally was submted for work approval, Wednday’s versn appeared to have been signifintly altered om the script that was rejected by NBC’s standards and practic partment and acced by gay rights activists of beg “negative and unbalanced.