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Contents:

• IS THAT LIBIDO LATA TA GAY OR BI?
• FRANK OCEAN'S NOT ALONE: FIVE OTHER SGERS WHO'VE COME OUT AS GAY
• RTRANTS WANT YOU TO KNOW THEY LIKE RABOWS—AND GAY PEOPLE, TOO
• SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY
• GAY TA
• TEEN CALLED 'GAYTARD' WHILE WORKG AT TA JOHN'S CALLS ON OTHERS TO SHARE HURTFUL WORDS
• WE SPOKE TO THE GUYS MAKG 'GAY TA BELL' AND 'DRIVE-TH OLIVE GARN' COMMERCIALS
• TA BELL SAYS DID NOT CREATE MERCIAL FEATURG GAY UPLE
• TURNS OUT TA BELL LOV THAT VIRAL (AND FAKE) GAY-THEMED COMMERCIAL
• TA SUMMER:THE STORY BEHD CENTRAL PHOENIX'S LATE-NIGHT 'GAY TAS'
• PUT: TCHAIKOVSKY WAS GAY? SO WHAT?

IS THAT LIBIDO LATA TA GAY OR BI?

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.

” Durg his short life, there were mors that Dean was gay. When asked to discs the matter, he reportedly said, “No, I’m not homosexual, but I am also not gog through life wh one hand tied behd my back.

He accepts a gay in and perhaps if tim are different he is more open about his feelgs for men. Were you aware that the two great sex symbols were likely secretly homosexual?

FRANK OCEAN'S NOT ALONE: FIVE OTHER SGERS WHO'VE COME OUT AS GAY

Before we tell you even more about old Hollywood stars who were secretly homosexual, please like this vio and subscribe to our channel for more unique and fascatg stori. Bowers is famo as the pimp for servicg Hollywood’s closeted homosexuals. So how did the allegedly homosexual Spencer Tracy have a relatnship wh actrs Kathare Hepburn?

But what did Brando himself thk about homosexualy? In his 1976 tobgraphy, the actor claimed that homosexualy had bee so “ fashn” that was no longer news.

RTRANTS WANT YOU TO KNOW THEY LIKE RABOWS—AND GAY PEOPLE, TOO

He further stated that he had many ‘homosexual experienc’ and that he wasn’t ashamed to adm and that he uldn’t re ls about what others thought of him. Marlon Brando showed that he was very ahead of his time by boldly statg that he didn’t have any opposn to homosexualy. Perhaps years to e, he will remember as a champn for gay rights when wasn’t so fashnable.

SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY

It’s also mored that the actor received flack and was often mocked for his alleged homosexualy. Upon reflectn, perhaps he was a pneer makg Hollywood more acceptg toward homosexual stars.

Until 1967, homosexual relatns were illegal the UK. But travelg across the pond to Hollywood changed nothg, as the climate the first half of the twentieth century was still hostile to homosexualy. Neverthels, among his social circl seemed that his homosexualy was apparent.

As we discsed our troductn, this is one of the few dtri that’s tolerant toward homosexuals.

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We mt also be grateful for actors such as Jam Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift who weren’t aaid to be open about homosexualy. So what do you thk about how Old Hollywood stars who were secretly homosexual were treated? Negative character tras uld be: Prevaritn, Instabily, Incisn and Ta gay or straight?

We don't know for a fact whether Ta is gay, bisexual or straight. 75% of all voters thk that Ta is gay (homosexual), 18% voted for straight (heterosexual), and 7% like to thk that Ta is actually bisexual. Karl Walter/Getty Imag for CoachellaThe hip hop world explod wh support for sger Frank Ocean when he revealed his first love was a man last week, but the 24-year-old "Novane" crooner isn't the first mic-maker to e out as gay.

"I don't thk should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay, " the 30-year-old San Diego native told Rollg Stone 2009. ) openly gay sgers the world?! "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, " the proud papa of tws Matteo and Valento admted an open letter on his webse 2010.

TEEN CALLED 'GAYTARD' WHILE WORKG AT TA JOHN'S CALLS ON OTHERS TO SHARE HURTFUL WORDS

Chely Wright: The 41-year-old untry crooner, who had a brief romance wh fellow sger Brad Paisley over a ago, stggled terribly wh her sexualy before fally revealg to the world she's gay 2010.

Fifty-three years after brave participants the Stonewall Rts first gave voice to the fight for gay rights this untry, there’s this tweet om fay-dg cha IHOP on the first day of June, wily known as Pri Month: “S/O to everyone who puts the pan pank, ” the breakfast cha tweeted, referencg those who are pansexual. (Or, as the New York Tim put recently, “There may be gayer ways to spend an afternoon at Ta Bell, but ’s hard to image how. (TIF) isn't your grandfathers' ad: It shows a gay uple, a first for the jeweler.

But there's also a bs se to be ma: The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny held $790 ln buyg power, acrdg to a 2012 timate om the Human Rights Campaign, a leadg LGBT advocy group. Seattle-based Amazon (AMZN) also released an ad spot that featur a gay man buyg a Kdle e-rear. "Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " he wrote October.

WE SPOKE TO THE GUYS MAKG 'GAY TA BELL' AND 'DRIVE-TH OLIVE GARN' COMMERCIALS

Google: Not only do Google (GOOG)have an ternal workg group for employe known as Gayglers, but ma a bold statement about LGBT rights ahead of the Wter Olympics Sochi last year. The pany joed protts of anti-gay polici Rsia by featurg a rabow-lored "Google doodle" on s homepage.

The rabow-lored Oreo was a high-profile nod to gay rights. Starbucks: For CEO Howard Schultz, supportg gay rights meant directly nontg an vtor who claimed the pany's stance was erodg s bottom le. ”Born the southern state of Oaxa, Marven is of Mixtec orig and intifi wh the neighborg Zapotec digeno transgenr tradn of mux, who mix gay male and female earned her ‘Lady Tas Canasta’ nickname after appearg a vio hawkg soft, steamed tas om a basket, or nasta, perched on her bicycle, turng heads wh both her loud chant of “tas nasta, tas!

TA BELL SAYS DID NOT CREATE MERCIAL FEATURG GAY UPLE

Historians don't doubt that Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will. Historians don't doubt that Peter Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will. Yuri Arabov told a Rsian newspaper that his adaptatn of the 19th century poser's life won't foc on his sexualy bee “ is far om a fact that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " The New York Tim also said that films that "advertise" homosexualy are "outsi the sphere of art, " and that only "philist" thk the poser was gay.

In light of Rsia's recent anti-gay legislatn, this uld be seen as another effort to erase the untry's gay history.

Well, sorry Rsia, but Tchaikovsky — along wh dozens of other Rsian cultural ins — were gay, as many scholars would readily Tchaikovsky (poser)Tchaikovsky posed two of the most qutsentially Rsian ballets — Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Harry wr (emphasis add): The history of Tchaikovsky's homosexualy was supprsed Rsia by the Soviets, and has only recently bee wily known post-Soviet Rsia. Tchaikovsky's letters and diari, as well as the letters of his brother Most, who was also gay, make clear his orientatn.

TURNS OUT TA BELL LOV THAT VIRAL (AND FAKE) GAY-THEMED COMMERCIAL

] Many of Tchaikovsky's most timate relatnships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Soonov and his nephew, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov. Gay thor E.

For stance, Wiley pots out that Tchaikovsky was openly gay all his life, to the pot that he femised the nam of the young men he nsorted wh, and ed his own – signg a letter to his brother (who was also gay) "Petrola".

Nikolai Gogol (thor)The 19th century novelist, bt known for Dead Souls and his short stori, was also homosexual. The Sexual Labyrth of Nikolai Gogol, by fellow gay Rsian Simon Karlsky, argued that evince of Gogol's homosexualy uld be found his works. In her review of the book for The New York Review of Books, Helen Muchnic laid out Karlsky's argument this way: His this, brief outle, is that Gogol, unable to be himself a world where homosexualy was proscribed, ncealed his clatns, attempted to supprs his emotns, projected his secretivens unnscly the ceptns, mystifitns, and symbols of his stori and plays, and ultimately broke down unr the stra, g his art and stroyg himself.

TA SUMMER:THE STORY BEHD CENTRAL PHOENIX'S LATE-NIGHT 'GAY TAS'

Here's an excerpt om her 1924 poem "Dreams": Only dreams, wh a broken off moan, so as not to die her sleep, on such a mellifluo wave, above this sky-blue drowng, her whole cht heavg eely wh breath, my soul is published several llectns of poems until censorship unr the Soviet ernment emed her works "unlawful" Nabokov (brother of Vladimir Nabokov)Vladimir Nabokov, bt known for his 1955 novel Lola, was a known homophobe. Y as Lev Grossman explaed this 2000 piece for Salon, his brother was a known homosexual.

PUT: TCHAIKOVSKY WAS GAY? SO WHAT?

Grossman wrote: Sergei’s homosexualy would st a long shadow over his strange and heroic life, and would also, ultimately, be the e of his horrifyg and untimely ath.

It st a shadow over Vladimir’s life as well: He loved his brother, but whatever else he may have been — a brilliant wrer, a lovg father — Vladimir was a nfirmed homophobe, and his gay brother was a nstant source of shame, nfn and regret to died a Nazi labor mp, while Vladimar went on to wre several novels. Meanwhile, gay characters appear throughout Vladimir's work, possibly regnn of his article is om the archive of our partner The Wire.