Ross Gay Viss as 20th Wtmster Poet

Contents:

• A LIST OF JAM DEAN’S (ALLEGED) GAY LOVERS
• NOT GAY: DEAN WCHTER AND BISEXUALY
• ROSS GAY VISS AS 20TH WTMSTER POET
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GAY BARS AND CLUBS SOHO

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

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NOT GAY: DEAN WCHTER AND BISEXUALY

I thk we’d all like to BELIEVE that Jam Dean was gay – or at least bisexual – and that if we were around at the time we’d have a shot wh him. Acrdg to HomoHistory:. There are nflictg reports about Dean’s sexualy; there are a few who try to ny that he had any sexual affairs wh men, there are those who say that he was bisexual and some who say that he was exclively gay (those clu Rebel whout a Cse director Nicholas Ray and screenwrer Gav Lambert.

Jam Dean avoid the draft by registerg as a homosexual. Later, when qutned if he was homosexual he is reported to have said, “No, I am not a homosexual. At a time when was impossible for male leads to be openly gay, wasn’t at all unual for gay actors like Rock Hudson to enter to sham marriag.

Both the gay and straight muni want to claim Dean as one of their own, but I thk ’s safe to say that he was gay. Most of the acunts om those who were his iends and associat show that he had “very close” relatnships wh several gay and bi-sexual men. That an actor is gay or bi-sexually isn’t at all hard to believe, but when nflicts wh the on screen image, the public choos to reject the tth.

ROSS GAY VISS AS 20TH WTMSTER POET

Both the director and screenwrer of Rebel whout a Cse believed Jam Dean was exclively gay. Even his close iend, Elizabeth Taylor, once said matter-of-factly that all her bt iends had been gay, cludg Montgomery Cliff, Rock Hudson and the one and only Jimmy Dean. “It was a classic ‘kept boy’ scenar, ” acrdg to HomoHistory.

Dean apparently “stayed after the class to meet Brando, which lead to a sexual affair that lasted for several months, ” acrdg to HomoHistory. “Jam Dean was one of Brando’s most lastg yet troubled gay relatnships, ” adds Darw Porter a recent Marlon Brando bgraphy. ” Talk about gay drama, old Hollywood style.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

The nam of actors Clifton Webb and Jack Simmons (above) often get thrown to the mix when discsg Jam Dean’s gay lovers, but ltle rmatn exists about the mored love affairs. If we had to create a mored gay flg for Jam Dean, would have to be wh Pl Newman. The story is wrten om Sam’s pot of view, and two of the thgs which Sam unts as “evince” of Dean’s bisexualy the fic—knowledge of a gay bar lled “Purgatory” and “forced lghter when Sam had mentned him lookg butch”—are drawn om non elements.

However, he still emphasiz that he is “not gay” and seems to shy away om discsg his relatnships wh men on romantic terms. Other non male characters are also picted as bisexual and gay this fic, but the thgs rema “unspoken”, parallelg the way mastream media shi away om explic reprentatns of LGBT+ characters. “But take for example the weddg vendor who didn’t want to make webs for gay upl.

GAY BARS AND CLUBS SOHO

They’ll oftentim say, ‘We’re beg persecuted for our beliefs about homosexualy’ when, really, you’re not beg persecuted for your fah, but jt asked to serve a gay uple. Wtmster celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Wtmster Poet Seri wh a vis by award-wng poet Ross Gay March 2-3.

“But whout a doubt, Ross Gay was the most engagg of the poets we have had so far. DG: Dean, as a Canadian cizen portrayg a gay character on QAF, do you yourself have an opn on what gay and lbian Amerins should be most ncerned about this, an important Printial electn year? I mean, my ncern specifilly would be the fact that huge atroci such as the Matthew Shepard murr are still beg mted the name of homophobia.