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WAS GENE TRY GAY
Rock Hudson and Gee NarWhy do so many gay and lbian travelers flock to Palm Sprgs? There are valid qutns, and almost all n be answered by readg A Cy Com Out: How Celebri Ma Palm Sprgs a Gay and Lbian Paradise, David Wallace's timate and affable personable examatn of the sert town's gay archects, landspe signers and Hollywood producers who loved the same sex ntributed to Palm Sprgs's rise the early-to-mid Twentieth Century, was movie stars, then a new breed Amerin popular culture, who me to the sert to pe pryg ey provid the real thst for Palm Sprgs's boom. Sce the 1920s, Palm Sprgs has been a playground for Hollywood--both straight and gay--and pe to the sert was fairly easy, rarely more than a two-hour drive on the two-lane blacktops or a ri on the (much missed) tras of the day.
Sce the film dtry has always had a relatively high percentage of homosexual talent by s very nature was evable that many of the new arrivals people were gay or lbian, and th by their very prence, they created both a uniquely hip image for the place and, spe ocsnal efforts of reactnary policians and monied terts, an environment of, a few words about the book. All this appli even more tensely the evolutn of Palm Sprgs to a world-famo gay and lbian paradise, bee many of the people who shaped the place -- even if only by their prence -- were, bee of their Hollywood nnectns, among the bt-known celebri the world their film star William HaPalm Sprgs's early days unfold a time when "gay" was somethg pletely different, and not somethg an uniated Amerin public associated wh Hollywood, where agents and publicists very much forced stars like Rock Hudson to marriag of nvenience. If there existed a glass closet, was fogged, Wallace explas how public sndals, startg wh the gay-flavored ntroversy that brought down famo actor William Ha (pictured wh Ana Page, a woman he fely didn't sire), created Hollywood s and rerced the closet:In much of Ameri, the part that people ocsnally dismiss today as "fly-over" untry--plac like Wicha, Omaha, and other ci, towns, and wi plac the road where the only entertament may have been a weekend screeng of the latt movie--most people had never heard the word "homosexual.