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. homosexual and has never had a homosexual affair".
IS DEAN STOCKWELL GAY?
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. In his tobgraphy, Marlon Brando related that he had had homosexual. Barbara Walters asked Ricky Mart whether or not he is gay.
NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW
'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. Brandon, Philip, and Rupert take turns as leads Hchck's dance; they play hi-and-seek wh a homosexualy that the middle of the 20th century was still forbidn.
)Rope is based on a Brish stage play by Patrick Haton, adapted by actor Hume Cronyn om a screenplay by gay theater legend Arthur Lrents. Philip and Brandon are snobs, that age-old gay fense mechanism.