Many of the gay mors surroundg Charl Bronson (Death Wish, Once Upon a Time the Wt, The Magnificent Seven) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most actors. However the poll suggts that a big majory (69%) of rponnts don't believe that he was gay.
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- STONEWALL 1979: GAYS HOLLYWOOD
- CHARL BRONSON GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 69 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY
STONEWALL 1979: GAYS HOLLYWOOD
"The gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowl at the movi, very ltle has changed." * was charles bronson gay *
The Closet Syndrome: Gays Hollywood. In January 1969, Variety screeched: HOMO N’ LESBO FILMS AT PEAK — DEVIATE THEME NOW BOX OFFICE. It was the year of The Boys the Band, the culmatn of a which Hollywood seized upon homosexualy as a seamier si of the Amerin dream.
In one year, 1968, there were more films alg wh homosexualy than the three s sce the g of sound. Lbians and gay men the movi were pathologil, predatory, and dangero; we were villas and fools, but never hero. Homosexuals were prime spects The Boston Strangler, rapists Rt, and hairdrsers or queens No Way to Treat a Lady and Valley of the Dolls.
Homosexualy was the dirty secret the last real.
CHARL BRONSON GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 69 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY
In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars * was charles bronson gay *
” The ethic of the closet is also advanced The Boys the Band, which cid neatly wh the birth of the activist gay movement Ameri. Ten years later, the gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowledged. Plays, books, magaz, and even televisn shows have prented a steady stream of real and fictnal gay suatns.
Durg the ’70s, gays died vlent aths Diamonds Are Forever, The Day of the Jackal, Freebie and the Bean, The Eiger Sanctn, Swashbuckler and even Tfft’s Day for Night. In Jackson’s novel the hero’s alholism is the rult of a father fixatn aggravated by false accatn of homosexualy. The nsummatn of a homosexual affair which Hay scrib his book is halted the film by a gentle but manly rejectn.
“I ma that cisn, ” says Parker, “bee I uldn’t afford to have my dience thk my hero was a homosexual. Gay fictn is big bs, but not one homosexual hero has reached the screen.