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
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
* dean stockwell gay *
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 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 played one of the thrill killers a Leopold and Loeb movie, though the gay relatnship aspect was pretty much ignored.
IS DEAN STOCKWELL GAY?
homosexual and has never had a homosexual affair". In 1956, Liberace sued a London lumnist for suggtg he was gay. Hollywood do not like s stars to be known as bisexual or gay.
Valento's reer suffered after he was lled gay. Tab Hunter was reportedly arrted at a gay drag party, but survived. Rock Hudson was wily known to cise gay bars, but ntued to make.
NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW
In his tobgraphy, Marlon Brando related that he had had homosexual. Barbara Walters asked Ricky Mart whether or not he is gay.
'Open Secret: Gay Hollywood' by David Ehrenste refers to a number of. 'Raymond Burr was well known for his homosexual liaisons wh rent-boys. The gay duo Aled Hchck's 1948 Rope are told, "Md your p's and q's.
Rope's pictn of whe upper-class Manhattan gays displays that Old Hollywood knack of turng a popular dience to sirs and took a mischievo geni to make a post-WWII movie wh subtle queer characters.