‘The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson’ Is a Revelatory Dissectn of What It Was to Be a Gay Movie Star | PopMatters

Contents:

• IS GRANT WILLIAMS GAY?
• ‘THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK HUDSON’ IS A REVELATORY DISSECTN OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE A GAY MOVIE STAR

IS GRANT WILLIAMS GAY?

And bee Williams was so credibly guard about his private life, the thor mak no assumptns about the mors of Grant’s homosexualy. The ads for suggted that I was playg a character who was gay….

‘THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK HUDSON’ IS A REVELATORY DISSECTN OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE A GAY MOVIE STAR

I would never play a homosexual. I don’t know for a ad ld fact that Grant Williams, star of The Incredible Shrkg Man (’57), was gay, but he almost certaly was. The Los Angel vice squad, homophobic agents and producers, Williams’ father, the general atmosphere of disapproval.

The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.