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He stayed shape most of his life by liftg weights and swimmg, and Universal Studs kept tryg to bolster his mascule image by settg him up on dat wh the moral climate of the 1950s, gay stars like Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter and Anthony Perks were terrified of beg exposed, so they all had "beards", women who provid them wh an emblem of spur virily. The uple, who were close iends of Rock Hudson - and beneficiari of his tate - would often vis rtrants wh years later, 1978, Nar had no fears about publishg a homoerotic sci-fi novel lled Chrome. Obvly a metaphor about the place of gay men society, the story is well-wrten and holds together on s own wrg the book, Nar mt have found difficult to fet his first starrg role, Robot Monster (1953), which has, at least, gaed a mp reputatn as one of the worst films ever ma.
Which beefke star wrote a groundbreakg gay sci-fi novel?
A tall, dark and handsome closeted gay man who worked Hollywood durg the 1950s, often ‘beefke’ rol, was perhaps evable that Nar – who was born 100 years ago on 19 October 1921 – would have been overshadowed by his close iend, Rock Hudson.
Which beefke star wrote a groundbreakg gay sci-fi novel? Who starred both an unrrated Brish noir and a notorly bad monster movie? Who played the German equivalent of 007? That would be Nar. Gee Nar. * george nader gay *
In 1978 he wrote Chrome, a groundbreakg and well-received work of gay science fictn, which a human man falls love wh an android.
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.
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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.