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Contents:

• PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
• IS DEBBIE KASPER GAY?
• CARDAL KASPER GEARS UP FOR VATIN SYNOD: ‘YOU ARE BORN GAY’
• CARDAL KASPER FENDS IRELAND’S GAY ‘MARRIAGE’ CISN
• ABOUT KASPAR LUGAY

PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS

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.

Wh this year’s Gay Pri Month markg the fiftieth anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, the acplishments of LGBT hero of the past fifty years have been wily celebrated. But along wh polil activists and social revolutnari, there were a number of entertaers who, the s surroundg the rebelln, brought a clear, if often exaggerated, gay prence to Amerin hom. He was a gay man.

In Hollywood the 1960s, life was played out the shadows for Dean and other gay actors who often played heterosexual hbands and fathers on televisn and movi.

IS DEBBIE KASPER GAY?

“I’m nearly the oppose of Pl Lyn, ” Dean told Boze Hadleigh that terview the late 1970s for the book, Hollywood Gays.

When Hadleigh asked if he thought any of the public assumed he was gay, Dean shook his head. “Not even gays.

CARDAL KASPER GEARS UP FOR VATIN SYNOD: ‘YOU ARE BORN GAY’

Only bee what you see on TV — a ser guy a su, unsg– isn’t how anyone thks of gay mal. “Have you ever been st as gay? “Do you thk wh the dtry ’s known you’re gay?

Carmel also was gay.

“Dickie Dean” uld be seen at gay bars Wt Hollywood wh iends like Pl Lyn and Nancy Walker, and at parti at ho like Rock Hudson’s. Dean had perhaps first seen Feste perform at Stud One’s Backlot, a gay nightclub Wt Hollywood, when Feste was acpanyg the female impersonator Charl Pierce.

CARDAL KASPER FENDS IRELAND’S GAY ‘MARRIAGE’ CISN

In the Pierce bgraphy, From Drags to Rich, John Wallraff wr that Dean was among the celebri who me out to watch Pierce perform at the Gild Cage gay nightclub on Ellis Street San Francis. Flynn, a Hollywood actor, was beg very open about his ‘gayns. He was 76, openly gay and had earned a reputatn as an acclaimed stage director.

Now, a recent terview wh UnWeWhTashaK, sger Aveon Falstar unveiled an explosive secret allegg he had a secret homosexual affair wh Wendy William's hband.

I already had cursy that he was gay.

ABOUT KASPAR LUGAY

As wh a number of other celebri, has always been speculated the qutn - Debbie Kasper is gay?

However, there are people who say Debbie Kasper is gay, but their ments have no nsistency or accuracy of any kd. Although Debbie Kasper has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other. On the eve of the Vatin synod on marriage and the fay, progrsive German Cardal Walter Kasper has e out publicly agast doctral “fundamentalism” the Church, while exprsg his hope that the synod will open a “dialogue” on ntraceptn for Catholics and rensir the suatn of homosexuals.

In his book, released to ci wh the openg of the synod, the Cardal als wh a number of hot-button issu, such as homosexualy. “For me, this clatn is a qutn mark: do not reflect the origal sign of God and yet is a realy, bee you are born gay, ” he says the book. The disput will no doubt rise aga, as the Ain bishops have also been preparg for the synod, vowg to rist wtern secularism and s fixatn wh homosexualy and fay planng issu to the excln of topics of real ncern to the Church Ai.