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• THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
• THE GREATT MAGAZE COVERS CELEBRATG GAY PRI
• 1977 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AFTER DARK BEEFK GAY BODYBUILDG SPORTS ART
• “I POSED FOR A GAY MAGAZE, WHICH ED MUCH MENT. BUT DON’T BOTHER ME. GAY PEOPLE ARE FIGHTG THE SAME KD OF STEREOTYPG THAT BODYBUILRS ARE: PEOPLE HAVE CERTA MISNCEPTNS ABOUT THEM JT AS THEY DO ABOUT .”
• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• PUMPG IRON: EXCLIVE, RARELY SEEN PHOTOS AND STORI OF THE FILM THAT BUILT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERCELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MCLE-BOUND DOCUDRAMA THAT STARTED ALL.BY JOANNA ROBSONJUNE 16, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPUMPG IRON: 20 RARELY SEEN PHOTOS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRON© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.ARNOLD ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS POS AND THOUGHT ABOUT PETG. HERE HE IS PRACTICG ON THE ROOF OF HIS NDO. SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, 1973.IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE THE GLISTENG, FLEXG BICEPS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, LOU FERRIGNO, AND THE RT OF THE GIANTS OF THE PROFSNAL BODYBUILDG SCENE BURST TO THE POP CULTURE NVERSATN VIA DIRECTOR GEE BUTLER’S DOCUDRAMA PUMPG IRON. THE FILM WAS THE ULTIMATE UNRDOG STORY, NOT BEE OF THE WAY THE PETN PLAYS OUT ON-SCREEN (SPOILER ALERT, SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS THE FILM AS A BODYBUILDG STAR AND ENDS THE FILM AN EVEN BIGGER BODYBUILDG STAR), BUT BEE OF THE GREAT LENGTHS BUTLER WENT TO TO GET MA. IN THE BURGEONG DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKG, NOBODY WANTED TO BACK BUTLER AND HIS PARTNER, ROBERT FRE, TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT A NICHE SPORT STARRG A HANDSOME ATRIAN WHOM NO ONE OUTSI THE BODYBUILDG WORLD HAD EVER HEARD OF.BUT BUTLER AND FRE PRSED, ON AND THE RT IS FILM HISTORY. BOTH SCHWARZENEGGER AND LOU FERRIGNO WOULD GO ON TO BEE HOEHOLD NAM, AND FOR THOSE CUR TO SEE HOW AN ATRIAN BODYBUILR ULD NQUER NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD BUT THE WORLD OF POLICS TOO, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NAKED AMBN, CLEVER LCULATN, AND TANIC WORK ETHIC SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS ON DISPLAY PUMPG IRON. GEE BUTLER—WHO, ALONGSI CHARL GA, SHOT THE 1974 BOOK OF THE SAME NAME—HAS SHARED SOME NDID, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OM SCHWARZENEGGER’S PUMPG IRON DAYS LLECTED THE GALLERY ABOVE. HE’S ALSO ANSWERED A FEW OF OUR QUTNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGACI AND MYTHS THAT HAVE SPNG UP AROUND THE FILM THE PAST 40 YEARS. PUMPG IRON WILL PLAY AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER'S WALTER REA THEATER ON AUGT 17 AS PART OF A 40TH ANNIVERSARY SERI CELEBRATG THE CEMA OF 1977.VANY FAIR: BEFORE PUMPG IRON, THERE WAS A STIGMA AROUND BODYBUILDG THAT ONLY GAY MEN PARTICIPATED THE SPORT. WAS THAT SOMETHG THE MACHISMO OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND SCHWARZENEGGER’S BEHAVR AROUND WOMEN SPECIFILLY TRIED TO ADDRS?GEE BUTLER: Y, THERE WAS A STIGMA THOSE DAYS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO E ACROSS AS THEMSELV— AND WH ARNOLD ONT AND CENTER, THE FILM TOOK ON A CERTA CHARACTER. IT WAS CLEAR THIS WAS A TOUGH SPORT.YOU MENTN THE 2002 DOCUMENTARY RAW IRON THAT THE 1975 I.F.B.B. MR. UNIVERSE AND MR. OLYMPIA NTTS WERE THE FIRST TERRACIAL PETNS TO BE HELD SOUTH AI. PUMPG IRON DON’T REALLY TOUCH ON THAT EVEN THOUGH SERGE NUBRET OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB SEND PLACE BEHD SCHWARZENEGGER. WAS THERE EVER AN IA TO EXPLORE THAT ASPECT OF THE BODYBUILDG SCENE?I WAS TERTED DIVIDUAL CHARACTER; A GROUP OF GUYS G THEIR WS AND BODI TO PETE AND W. SO I WAS LS TERTED RACIAL TEGORI THAN DIVIDUALS.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.YOU’VE SAID THAT IALLY THE IA WAS TO PRENT LOU FERRIGNO AS THE VILLA OPPOSN TO SCHWARZENEGGER’S HERO. BUT SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SAID THAT EVENTUALLY HE REALIZED THAT FERRIGNO WAS TOO “VULNERABLE” TO BE THE BAD GUY. AT WHAT POT DID YOU REALIZE THIS AS WELL?MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLOUIE IS A TOUCHG CHARACTER. I KNEW EARLY ON THAT HE ULDN'T BE A VILLA, BUT THAT HE HAD A CENTRAL PART. LOUIE WAS PERFECT AS THE MOCK VILLA, HOWEVER. ARNOLD WORKED OUT ON THE BEACH, OUTDOORS SUNSHE, LOUIE THE GYM, THE SHADOWS—WHICH IS THE FILM, WAS SO PERFECT—LOUIE WAS BIGGER, DARKER, HE WAS EVERYTHG OPPOSE OF ARNOLD. HE ALSO GREW STATURE DURG THE NTT AND HIS TRAG. PEOPLE WHO WATCH THE MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW ARE AMAZED TO SEE THAT ARNOLD IS NOT THE UNEQUIVOL STAR OF THE FILM.BEE FERRIGNO ULDN’T FILL THE CLASSIC VILLA ROLE, PARTWAY THROUGH THE FILM SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS PLAYG THE HEEL AND BOASTG ABOUT HIS ABILY TO MENTALLY MANIPULATE HIS PETN. HOW MUCH OF THIS WAS FABRITED FOR THE SAKE OF TELLG A GOOD STORY? SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SCE SAID WAS ALMOST ALL FABRITED.NOT TE. WE DIDN'T FABRITE SCEN THE SENSE OF VENTG SUATNS OUT OF TH AIR. WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REVEAL CHARACTER. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT I HAD DONE THE BOOK PUMPG IRON (WH WRER CHARL GA) BEFORE THE MOVIE, AND I KNEW ARNOLD AND THE OTHERS VERY, VERY WELL. SO WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THEMSELV, SO TO SPEAK.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.THERE ARE SO MANY HEARTWARMG SCEN THE PHOTOS WE’RE FEATURG HERE, LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER POSG WH THE OLR WOMEN. HOW MANY OF HIS MORE CHARMG TERACTNS WERE CUT ORR TO CREATE A CERTA NARRATIVE?I DON'T THK WE PAID ANY ATTENTN TO THAT. WE WERE FOLLOWG A DRAMATIC ACTN—THE PETN—AND SO WE HAD TO FOLLOW THAT, NOT DILUTE THAT.SCHWARZENEGGER IS REFUL TO LL THE FILM A “DOCUDRAMA” BASED ON THE HEIGHTENED DRAMATIC ELEMENTS. DO BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT SOME PEOPLE MISTAKENLY INTIFY PUMPG IRON AS A DOCUMENTARY?MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISY, I WHDREW OM THE 1977 AMY AWARDS BEE I DID NOT THK WAS PURELY, STRICTLY A DOCUMENTARY—A DOCUMENTARY THOSE DAYS WAS MORE LIKE AN STERE HISTORY BOOK. TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT—CREATIVE LIBERTI ARE ROUTELY TAKEN TO GET TO THE TTH. BUT WE WERE AT THE ABSOLUTE BEGNG OF A GENRE, MAKG A KD OF NONFICTN MOVIE NOVEL.WHAT’S A SCHWARZENEGGER STORY OM THE PUMPG IRON DAYS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?Y, I HAVE A GREAT ONE. ARNOLD THE OAK ED TO GET LUNCH AT THE BROWN BAGGER VENICE. HE’D S AT A TABLE WH ALL THE BIG BODY BUILRS. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT TO ARNOLD TO GET A TAN AFTER LUNCH, SO HE’D BE AT THE BEACH SCENE, LYG ON A LTLE PATCH OF GRASS WH THE OTHER BODY BUILRS, LIKE LOU FERRIGNO AND EDDIE GUILLIANI, WHO WAS A GREAT TRICKSTER BY THE WAY. ARNOLD WALKED UP TO A U.C.L.A .CHEERLEAR AND ASKED HOW’D SHE LIKE TO POSE WH THE BT BODY BUILRS THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE SHOULD GET TO KNOW THEM. HE SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS BI HER AND PRETEND TO GO TO SLEEP, FAVORG THE U.C.L.A. CHEERLEAR OVER HIS BODY-BUILR IENDS. SUDNLY SHE WAS AWARE WE WERE FILMG. HER EY BRIGHTENED, SHE LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, “ARE YOU SHOOTG 16MM FILM?” ARNIE, KNOWG A LTLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS ASKG, SAID “Y,” TO WHICH SHE RPOND, “UH UH, WELL, I ONLY DO 35MM.”YOU HAD TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THIS FILM FUND. YOU WERE LGHED OUT OF PCH MEETGS BUT, OF URSE, YOU HAD THE LAST LGH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ENURAGE STGGLG FILMMAKERS OUT THERE?ONWARD. ALWAYS ONWARD. YOU’LL N TO EVERYTHG YOU NEED, IF YOU JT KEEP MOMENTUM.JOANNA ROBSON
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS

THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE

His notn of gayns was rmed by a “Co of Behavr” that he rerd his high-school diary: “More mascule at all tim. ” Among his mols were the gay and the straight, profsnal bodybuilrs and profsnal beach bums, llege stunts and returne om the European ont.

But there’s jt as much reason to nsir Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner—a tirels llector of physil specimens. In 1951, he found what is generally nsired the untry’s origal gay magaze, Physique Pictorial, and would ntue publishg for nearly four s**. ** In the magaze’s early years he clud no explic referenc to gay inty, though he thored d edorials agast the hypocrisi of the straight world.

THE GREATT MAGAZE COVERS CELEBRATG GAY PRI

Although gays had long been si-eyeg the emblems of straight masculy, Mizer fed them wh new meang: the very men who had looked stoic and impassive the straight magaz seemed, unr Mizer’s directn, to be havg fun. When David Hurl, the gay pornographer and Mizer protégé, was a teen-ager Ccnati, he glimpsed Physique Pictorial_ _at a newsstand and felt, as he put to Taschen, “stantly clud, as if the men were beckong him to look.

1977 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AFTER DARK BEEFK GAY BODYBUILDG SPORTS ART

” It appealed, Coat wrote, “to the sick half-world of homosexuals, sadists, and masochists. “Homosexualy was the standard way of life among the gged Greek warrrs, ” he wrote 1960. ” Dpe such objectns, he reportedly ma a fortune the eighti by distributg so-lled “ssn vios, ” rerdgs of photo shoots that then veered to more recreatnal Mizer’s Greek-warrr fixatn, ’s temptg to thk of him as one early source of the “body fascism” for which ntemporary gay-male culture is often maligned.

“I POSED FOR A GAY MAGAZE, WHICH ED MUCH MENT. BUT DON’T BOTHER ME. GAY PEOPLE ARE FIGHTG THE SAME KD OF STEREOTYPG THAT BODYBUILRS ARE: PEOPLE HAVE CERTA MISNCEPTNS ABOUT THEM JT AS THEY DO ABOUT .”

Mizer’s achievement, as a photographer and a publisher, was to take the standards of male bety as they existed and prove that gay men uld satisfy them, and be satisfied by them, too. Bowg to weeks of cricism, Arnold Schwarzenegger spelled out his views on abortn, gay marriage, tax and other issu. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California gubernatorial ndidate Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about sex, dgs, bodybuildg and homosexualy a 1977 terview wh an adult magaze that's now makg the rounds on the Inter.

GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68

Asked about homosexualy, Schwarzenegger ma clear his sexual tert was women, but said homosexualy didn't bother him. While we're by ntemplatg what an awful human beg Arnold Schwarzenegger is for fatherg a child out of wedlock and lyg to his wife about for 14 years, let's not fet all the other horrible thgs about Ameri's favore gay-porn-molg, serial lady-gropg, Nazi polician/statutory rapist.

"Arnold Schwarzenegger Was a Gay Porn MolThis isn't strictly horrible unls you later prent yourself, as Schwarzenegger did, as a paragon of wholome, mascule, Republin uprightns and veto two gay marriage bills. In 1977, he sat for an terview and 22-page nu photo spread for the gay magaze After Dark.

)He also sat for Robert Mapplethorpe, and was given to more up-close-and-personal molg: Spy reported that 1975 he enjoyed a weekend vis to the tate of Spanish lnaire and gay playboy Pa Arce Gomez.

PUMPG IRON: EXCLIVE, RARELY SEEN PHOTOS AND STORI OF THE FILM THAT BUILT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERCELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MCLE-BOUND DOCUDRAMA THAT STARTED ALL.BY JOANNA ROBSONJUNE 16, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPUMPG IRON: 20 RARELY SEEN PHOTOS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRON© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.ARNOLD ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS POS AND THOUGHT ABOUT PETG. HERE HE IS PRACTICG ON THE ROOF OF HIS NDO. SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, 1973.IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE THE GLISTENG, FLEXG BICEPS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, LOU FERRIGNO, AND THE RT OF THE GIANTS OF THE PROFSNAL BODYBUILDG SCENE BURST TO THE POP CULTURE NVERSATN VIA DIRECTOR GEE BUTLER’S DOCUDRAMA PUMPG IRON. THE FILM WAS THE ULTIMATE UNRDOG STORY, NOT BEE OF THE WAY THE PETN PLAYS OUT ON-SCREEN (SPOILER ALERT, SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS THE FILM AS A BODYBUILDG STAR AND ENDS THE FILM AN EVEN BIGGER BODYBUILDG STAR), BUT BEE OF THE GREAT LENGTHS BUTLER WENT TO TO GET MA. IN THE BURGEONG DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKG, NOBODY WANTED TO BACK BUTLER AND HIS PARTNER, ROBERT FRE, TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT A NICHE SPORT STARRG A HANDSOME ATRIAN WHOM NO ONE OUTSI THE BODYBUILDG WORLD HAD EVER HEARD OF.BUT BUTLER AND FRE PRSED, ON AND THE RT IS FILM HISTORY. BOTH SCHWARZENEGGER AND LOU FERRIGNO WOULD GO ON TO BEE HOEHOLD NAM, AND FOR THOSE CUR TO SEE HOW AN ATRIAN BODYBUILR ULD NQUER NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD BUT THE WORLD OF POLICS TOO, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NAKED AMBN, CLEVER LCULATN, AND TANIC WORK ETHIC SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS ON DISPLAY PUMPG IRON. GEE BUTLER—WHO, ALONGSI CHARL GA, SHOT THE 1974 BOOK OF THE SAME NAME—HAS SHARED SOME NDID, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OM SCHWARZENEGGER’S PUMPG IRON DAYS LLECTED THE GALLERY ABOVE. HE’S ALSO ANSWERED A FEW OF OUR QUTNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGACI AND MYTHS THAT HAVE SPNG UP AROUND THE FILM THE PAST 40 YEARS. PUMPG IRON WILL PLAY AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER'S WALTER REA THEATER ON AUGT 17 AS PART OF A 40TH ANNIVERSARY SERI CELEBRATG THE CEMA OF 1977.VANY FAIR: BEFORE PUMPG IRON, THERE WAS A STIGMA AROUND BODYBUILDG THAT ONLY GAY MEN PARTICIPATED THE SPORT. WAS THAT SOMETHG THE MACHISMO OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND SCHWARZENEGGER’S BEHAVR AROUND WOMEN SPECIFILLY TRIED TO ADDRS?GEE BUTLER: Y, THERE WAS A STIGMA THOSE DAYS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO E ACROSS AS THEMSELV— AND WH ARNOLD ONT AND CENTER, THE FILM TOOK ON A CERTA CHARACTER. IT WAS CLEAR THIS WAS A TOUGH SPORT.YOU MENTN THE 2002 DOCUMENTARY RAW IRON THAT THE 1975 I.F.B.B. MR. UNIVERSE AND MR. OLYMPIA NTTS WERE THE FIRST TERRACIAL PETNS TO BE HELD SOUTH AI. PUMPG IRON DON’T REALLY TOUCH ON THAT EVEN THOUGH SERGE NUBRET OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB SEND PLACE BEHD SCHWARZENEGGER. WAS THERE EVER AN IA TO EXPLORE THAT ASPECT OF THE BODYBUILDG SCENE?I WAS TERTED DIVIDUAL CHARACTER; A GROUP OF GUYS G THEIR WS AND BODI TO PETE AND W. SO I WAS LS TERTED RACIAL TEGORI THAN DIVIDUALS.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.YOU’VE SAID THAT IALLY THE IA WAS TO PRENT LOU FERRIGNO AS THE VILLA OPPOSN TO SCHWARZENEGGER’S HERO. BUT SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SAID THAT EVENTUALLY HE REALIZED THAT FERRIGNO WAS TOO “VULNERABLE” TO BE THE BAD GUY. AT WHAT POT DID YOU REALIZE THIS AS WELL?MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLOUIE IS A TOUCHG CHARACTER. I KNEW EARLY ON THAT HE ULDN'T BE A VILLA, BUT THAT HE HAD A CENTRAL PART. LOUIE WAS PERFECT AS THE MOCK VILLA, HOWEVER. ARNOLD WORKED OUT ON THE BEACH, OUTDOORS SUNSHE, LOUIE THE GYM, THE SHADOWS—WHICH IS THE FILM, WAS SO PERFECT—LOUIE WAS BIGGER, DARKER, HE WAS EVERYTHG OPPOSE OF ARNOLD. HE ALSO GREW STATURE DURG THE NTT AND HIS TRAG. PEOPLE WHO WATCH THE MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW ARE AMAZED TO SEE THAT ARNOLD IS NOT THE UNEQUIVOL STAR OF THE FILM.BEE FERRIGNO ULDN’T FILL THE CLASSIC VILLA ROLE, PARTWAY THROUGH THE FILM SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS PLAYG THE HEEL AND BOASTG ABOUT HIS ABILY TO MENTALLY MANIPULATE HIS PETN. HOW MUCH OF THIS WAS FABRITED FOR THE SAKE OF TELLG A GOOD STORY? SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SCE SAID WAS ALMOST ALL FABRITED.NOT TE. WE DIDN'T FABRITE SCEN THE SENSE OF VENTG SUATNS OUT OF TH AIR. WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REVEAL CHARACTER. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT I HAD DONE THE BOOK PUMPG IRON (WH WRER CHARL GA) BEFORE THE MOVIE, AND I KNEW ARNOLD AND THE OTHERS VERY, VERY WELL. SO WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THEMSELV, SO TO SPEAK.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.THERE ARE SO MANY HEARTWARMG SCEN THE PHOTOS WE’RE FEATURG HERE, LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER POSG WH THE OLR WOMEN. HOW MANY OF HIS MORE CHARMG TERACTNS WERE CUT ORR TO CREATE A CERTA NARRATIVE?I DON'T THK WE PAID ANY ATTENTN TO THAT. WE WERE FOLLOWG A DRAMATIC ACTN—THE PETN—AND SO WE HAD TO FOLLOW THAT, NOT DILUTE THAT.SCHWARZENEGGER IS REFUL TO LL THE FILM A “DOCUDRAMA” BASED ON THE HEIGHTENED DRAMATIC ELEMENTS. DO BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT SOME PEOPLE MISTAKENLY INTIFY PUMPG IRON AS A DOCUMENTARY?MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISY, I WHDREW OM THE 1977 AMY AWARDS BEE I DID NOT THK WAS PURELY, STRICTLY A DOCUMENTARY—A DOCUMENTARY THOSE DAYS WAS MORE LIKE AN STERE HISTORY BOOK. TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT—CREATIVE LIBERTI ARE ROUTELY TAKEN TO GET TO THE TTH. BUT WE WERE AT THE ABSOLUTE BEGNG OF A GENRE, MAKG A KD OF NONFICTN MOVIE NOVEL.WHAT’S A SCHWARZENEGGER STORY OM THE PUMPG IRON DAYS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?Y, I HAVE A GREAT ONE. ARNOLD THE OAK ED TO GET LUNCH AT THE BROWN BAGGER VENICE. HE’D S AT A TABLE WH ALL THE BIG BODY BUILRS. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT TO ARNOLD TO GET A TAN AFTER LUNCH, SO HE’D BE AT THE BEACH SCENE, LYG ON A LTLE PATCH OF GRASS WH THE OTHER BODY BUILRS, LIKE LOU FERRIGNO AND EDDIE GUILLIANI, WHO WAS A GREAT TRICKSTER BY THE WAY. ARNOLD WALKED UP TO A U.C.L.A .CHEERLEAR AND ASKED HOW’D SHE LIKE TO POSE WH THE BT BODY BUILRS THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE SHOULD GET TO KNOW THEM. HE SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS BI HER AND PRETEND TO GO TO SLEEP, FAVORG THE U.C.L.A. CHEERLEAR OVER HIS BODY-BUILR IENDS. SUDNLY SHE WAS AWARE WE WERE FILMG. HER EY BRIGHTENED, SHE LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, “ARE YOU SHOOTG 16MM FILM?” ARNIE, KNOWG A LTLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS ASKG, SAID “Y,” TO WHICH SHE RPOND, “UH UH, WELL, I ONLY DO 35MM.”YOU HAD TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THIS FILM FUND. YOU WERE LGHED OUT OF PCH MEETGS BUT, OF URSE, YOU HAD THE LAST LGH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ENURAGE STGGLG FILMMAKERS OUT THERE?ONWARD. ALWAYS ONWARD. YOU’LL N TO EVERYTHG YOU NEED, IF YOU JT KEEP MOMENTUM.JOANNA ROBSON

Schwarzenegger's bgrapher Wendy Leigh told Radar that Schwarzenegger also sought out the affectns of wealthy gay Brish patron John Dixey, a "well-known aficnado of mcle boys" who "was very, very kd to Arnold" the late 1960s.

"You have to unrstand, " Leigh told Radar, "before Arnold me on the scene, was mon currency that bodybuilrs were ls than macho— was absolutely given and accepted that they supported themselv by terg to the tast of wealthy gay men. Gay Pri Month culmat this weekend wh Pri Weekend ftivi around the untry. Here New York, the annual Pri Para will march through lower Manhattan on Sunday, and this is a big one – Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the very first Gay Pri March the cy, which took place exactly one year after the Stonewall Rts Greenwich Village.

In celebratn of Gay Pri Month and honor of this important anniversary, Mediae ntributor Robert Newman arranged a seri of magaze vers – each “featurg an artist, personaly, historil event, or publitn of signifince gay history” – and released one per day throughout the month of June on his Newmanology facebook page.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS

Ellen DeGener says, “Yep, I’m Gay.

Probably the most wily regnized of all the self-outg magaze vers, Ellen‘s appearance on the ver of Time to announce she’s gay opened the door for numero celebri to follow her footsteps.

Newmanology put together a si gallery specifilly dited to the “Yep, I’m Gay”-style ver, featurg celebri om Lance Bass to Alb Dumbledore. Andy Warhol, one of the first openly gay Amerin artists, started Interview 1969, and the entertament magaze has ntued om s ceptn to feature gay and lbian-themed ntent.