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
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LARRY KRAMER CLAIMS SPENCER TRACY, KATHARE HEPBURN WERE GAY
* katherine hepburn was gay *
He offers evince that her adored olr brother Tom's suici at age 15 may have been triggered by tnts about his "unmanly" terts and by a fellow stunt's rebuffg his homosexual advanc. Hardg acpanied Hepburn to Hollywood for her screen but A Bill of Divorcement (32), directed by openly gay Gee Cor, who would bee her very close iend. At one of Cor's zy, ually gay parti, she met actrs Elissa Landi, mored to be bisexual, and for a time they were que timate.
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WAS KATHARE HEPBURN GAY?
Veteran screenwrer and thor Larry Kramer says some of the biggt movie stars of Hollywood's Goln Age -- cludg Kathare Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -- were gay. * katherine hepburn was gay *
He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals. They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis.
As reported by Ranker, she often played men onstage, worked wh lbian director Dorothy Arzner on the movie "Christopher Strong" which she played a headstrong aviator, and even ma a movie wh gay director Gee Cor, "Sylvia Srlett, " that featured a same-sex kiss as Hepburn played a woman pretendg to be a man. We often thk of Hollywood as beg acceptg of homosexual men and women. Hollywood has also given great films about same-sex relatnships and gay rights such as Brokeback Mounta to Milk.
But there was a darker time Hollywood when homosexual stars had to keep their sexualy as private as possible.