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• SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED
• DIRECTOR WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR (AT RIGHT) WH HIS LONGTIME GAY PARTNER ART DIRECTOR GEORGE JAMES HOPKINS AND MAY MCAVOY STUME AS CARLOTTA ON SET NDID DURG FILMG OF MORALS 1921 OM PLAY AND NOVEL MORALS OF MARC ORYNE BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE SILENT FILM REALART PICTUR CORPORATN / PARAMOUNT PICTUR

SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED

Among his purported disveri:Taylor was homosexual. Here are six notor gay-related (or, some s, gay-speculated) murrs that ntue to fascate . The head and feet of gay porn mol Billy London (who also worked as a producer unr the name Bill E.

Police pursued all kds of leads but assumed the crime to be the rult of some sort of “homosexual motivatn. To celebrate their victory, the pair cid to go for a drk at The Mug, a gay bar Garn Grove. Was the director secretly gay?

Was his openly gay valet, Henry Peavey — on whose behalf Taylor was schled to appear urt on a sexual misnduct allegatn the followg day — rponsible for procurg men for the handsome director?

DIRECTOR WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR (AT RIGHT) WH HIS LONGTIME GAY PARTNER ART DIRECTOR GEORGE JAMES HOPKINS AND MAY MCAVOY STUME AS CARLOTTA ON SET NDID DURG FILMG OF MORALS 1921 OM PLAY AND NOVEL MORALS OF MARC ORYNE BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE SILENT FILM REALART PICTUR CORPORATN / PARAMOUNT PICTUR

Strong evince suggts that Taylor was gay and that his valet Henry Peavey was charged wh procurg young men for the director. Beg gay 1922 was, by fn, dangero.

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