Contents:
- WAS PERRY MASON GAY? WHO WAS HIS LOVE INTERT?
- ‘PERRY MASON’ STAR RAYMOND BURR BLAZED TRAILS FOR GAY ACTORS—EVEN IF HE HID BEHD A STRAIGHT TRAGEDY
- HOW ‘PERRY MASON’ TACKLED QUEERNS WH A CONTEMPORARY LENS: “YOU’VE BEEN GAY, BUT YOU’VE NEVER BEEN GAY THE 1930S”
WAS PERRY MASON GAY? WHO WAS HIS LOVE INTERT?
Portra of Actor Raymond Burr, cir 1950 | Photo: Getty ImagHowever, the inic actor had to say those li bee of the fear that he would lose his role as Perry Mason and his whole reer if people found out he was gay and had a male lover. Dpe the risk he faced if the tails of his private life ever beme known, Burr lived unr the radar as a closeted gay man. So, now that his love life is revealed more, we fally have the answer to whether Perry Mason was gay and who was his love tert.
Perry Mason is not gay. From the 1930s to this day, there have been many portrayals of his character; any of them, Mason is not scribed as gay. Perry Mason wasn’t gay.
No, Perry Mason is not gay; he wasn’t gay any eratn of his character and is not gay HBO’s Perry Mason show, eher. Now I want to share wh you why there were mors that Perry Mason was gay.
‘PERRY MASON’ STAR RAYMOND BURR BLAZED TRAILS FOR GAY ACTORS—EVEN IF HE HID BEHD A STRAIGHT TRAGEDY
The mors regardg Mason’s homosexualy started when Raymond Burr portrayed Perry Mason. Raymond Burr was a closeted homosexual.
HOW ‘PERRY MASON’ TACKLED QUEERNS WH A CONTEMPORARY LENS: “YOU’VE BEEN GAY, BUT YOU’VE NEVER BEEN GAY THE 1930S”
He hid that fact to protect his reer sce he worked and lived at different tim when beg a homosexual was ntroversial. Perry isn’t a queer in like RuPl or Ellen or Elton—but the kids gettg to HBO’s Perry Mason should know their history and know the character’s place wh the gay non. Perry Mason serv a ltle regnn durg Pri bee of the actor most associated wh the role: Raymond Burr, one of the first—if not the first—gay actors to ever star the lead role of a succsful TV seri.