'Star Wars' Actor Sir Alec Guns Begged Ian McKellen Not To Speak About Anythg ‘As Dirty As Homosexualy’ - Towleroad Gay News

Contents:

• ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN: ALEC GUNS ‘BEGGED’ ME NOT TO FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• STAR NI CLAIM LATE ACTOR WAS GAY
• ALEC GUS WAS GAY?
• GAY SI OF ALEC GUNS TO BE REVEALED UPG BGRAPHY
• A LIST OF JAM DEAN’S (ALLEGED) GAY LOVERS

ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED

Sir Alec Guns had a homosexual si which remaed publicly unknown his lifetime bee of the flair for evasn and secrecy which was also his tramark as an is to be disclosed three new theatril bgraphi.

They will reveal that Guns, who died last Augt aged 86, was arrted, charged and fed urt Liverpool 1946 for a homosexual act a public the se went unreported bee - unlike the late Sir John Gielgud a siar episo seven years later - he had the quickns of w to give a false name which aroed no spicns. He was quickly mbled and the se ma newspaper headl which shadowed him for their ceptns, both ement actors are thought to have been actg on private advice om sympathetic policemen who were impatient for homosexual law reform.

It is also to be disclosed by the novelist Piers Pl Read, Guns's thorised bgrapher, and another Guns bgraphy by Garry O' night Mr Morley - son of the actor Robert Morley, a Gielgud ntemporary - said Guns's gay si had "always been known" to his father and fay iends the theatre such as Dame Gladys Cooper.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN: ALEC GUNS ‘BEGGED’ ME NOT TO FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

Certa ppl are fettg Obi-Wan was origally played by a Bisexual actor, Alec Guns, who was marred by self-hatred due to societal homophobia. “You really should not, as a leadg actor, have anythg to do wh anythg polil, pecially anythg as dirty as homosexualy.

He was charged wh a homosexual act a public lavatory 1946, but managed to keep the episo out of the public eye, acrdg to an thorised bgraphy.

STAR NI CLAIM LATE ACTOR WAS GAY

Sir Ian McKellen has revealed that Star Wars actor Alec Guns warned him agast gettg volved the gay rights movement. He said: “Alec Guns took me out to lunch and said: ‘You really should not, as a leadg actor, have anythg to do wh anythg polil, pecially anythg as dirty as homosexualy. Lord Mayor Fna Woolf, who noted her keynote addrs that homophobia is still prevalent the Cy, announced at the event that McKellen will be award eedom of the cy.

Bgrapher Ian Kelly was able to rroborate two referenc om Casanova's memoir, The History of My Life, which Casanova had same-sex relatns:"The morn ncept of bisexualy, no ls than of homosexualy, didn't really exist the 18th century, and the nceptn of sexual preference was on the whole a much more fluid affair. A steadfast patrt, the renowned poet is seen as a inic voice creatg the ncept of 'The Amerin Dream' - but the homophobic nature of the Uned Stat at the time did e Whman grief and spoke publicly of relatnships wh women, but also had.

ALEC GUS WAS GAY?

Some have been quick to terme that the thor was actually gay and reprsg his te sexualy his marriage; others are certa that he was, fact, a bisexual 's grandson and bgrapher, Merl Holland, that Wil was heterosexual "up to a certa pot his life", and also spoken about his grandfather's long-term, yet tumultuo, wh poet Lord Aled Douglas. It's been noted that she dated nductor Leopold Stokowski, photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, fellow silent film star Louise Brooks, and openly gay wrer Merces Garbo's ath, the tate of fellow Swedish-born actrs Mimi Pollak between the pair, one of which (dated 1930) shows that Garbo wrote to Mimi after fdg out she was pregnant, "We nnot help our nature, as God has created . His long-time iend, Sir Ian McKellan (who is openly gay), allud to Guns' sexualy , sayg the late actor had told him not to bee an activist for LGBTQIA+ issu.

"Alec Guns took me out to lunch and said, “You really should not, as a leadg actor, have anythg to do wh anythg polil, pecially anythg as dirty as homosexualy. Source: BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF / TIMEThe creator of - the troductn of a more fluid spectm of sexualy, rather than relyg on strict tegori of homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual - was thought to personally he himself had same-sex relatnships wh graduate stunts and lleagu, and 's also noted that he and his wife Clara McMillen were polygamo. We all know about prent day, Travolta / Prton - and the past, Ja Gaynor/ Adrian, Mary Mart / Richard Halliday, and (allegedly) Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards.

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GAY SI OF ALEC GUNS TO BE REVEALED UPG BGRAPHY

He is generally thought not to be be fair, Garland's longt marriage was to Sid Luft who was most certaly not gay. I believe all their other hbands were gay, except perhaps Judy Garland's first, David Anonymoreply 28March 16, 2013 10:25 PM. You know, I really don't know but I thk was that he was gay and she was fe wh and was jt simply head over hils love wh Anonymoreply 31March 17, 2013 12:01 AM.

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But, I agree that almost certaly is any believe that Garland was unaware that Peter Allen was gay om the first time she met before Liza was Anonymoreply 60March 19, 2013 5:32 PM.

A LIST OF JAM DEAN’S (ALLEGED) GAY LOVERS

R58 is a b clamatory, but may be right about Kaye, who told his last girliend that he never had a gay experience even though Joan Plowright once said (and later nied everythg about ) that Kaye ed Olivier's and Leigh's marriage. But to me all smells like the Cary Grant Syndrome, where a bisexual man stifl his history and clatns to prerve what he thks should be his for Newman, I never heard anyone the bs talk about anythg tangible as far as gay relatnships. He was the town's Liberace: always sportg asts wh velvet jackets and the age of 55, he and the miss divorced, and he moved to Atlanta and greener(or more lavenr) kicker is (I am ad ser) his last name was Gaywright.

In that "MakIng Of Boys In The Band" documentary, Lawrence Luckbill said his female agent, Ja Roberts I thk her name was, was gay and so was her hband!

Ja Gaynor and AdrianJa Gaynor and Pl GregoryMary Mart and Ben HagmanMary Mart and Richard Hallidayby Anonymoreply 100December 18, 2013 4:05 PM. R2, Merchant and Ivory weren't married, and if they were, would not be a lavenr marriage; would be a gay marriage; they were both men. R9, although you are rrect that Liza had three gay hbands, one n't say that "all three" of her hbands were gay, that she had four, one of whom, Mark Gero, was apparently Anonymoreply 109December 18, 2013 6:09 PM.