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IS CHAD EVERETT GAY?

I featured Chad Everett as the Morng Man Classic on Sunday bee he was an early csh and bee he played a gay rol late his reer on the CBS seri Cold Case. It has been said on other postgs, that Chad Everett was a closeted gay.

A while back, I started thkg about dog perd novels centerg gay male characters and tellg their stori about the tim when prim-and-proper society swept all thgs gay unr the g and homophobia was kg (or Queen, I suppose). I had already e up wh a great ia for a gay noir centered around a health club that operated as a money-lnrg ont for the lol mob a cy Florida lled Mcl, which I hope to wre at some pot…I nnot rell exactly how or why Mcl led to thkg about other one-word tled gay noir novels set different perds of the twentieth century; but there you have . I thk Mcl led me to thk about settg one a gay bar the early 1990’s, built around the time gay porn star Joey Stefano was arrted while performg at a Tampa gay bar for public cency; Incency was such a great tle that I uldn’t fet –and I also figured I uld lk the two books, the way I always lk my books together an Easter eggy kd of way that the majory of people don’t notice but pleas me immensely.

Right round that same time a gay man who was very active as a fundraiser and a donor for polil died; he had started out owng a pany that published gay-tert magaz wh nu mols and had been arrted, and served time, for g the mail to liver pornography; I wanted to wre about him and the rise of gay porn films Southern California and ll Obsceny. So there was: a trilogy of loosely nnected gay noirs I hoped to wre someday…and then one day, as I was bloggg–I thk maybe two years ago? I don’t rell–my md was wanrg (as is wont to do) and I started riffg about an ia that was formg my head as I wrote the entry for a book set 1950’s Hollywood, alg wh the unrground gay muny, McCarthyism, and sndal-mongerg that would open wh a gay movie star’s body beg found naked the surf at the beach…only the topsy found that the water his lungs actually ntaed chlore…so he hadn’t drowned, he’d been murred and the body moved.

And the meantime, I uld start readg up on the perd, gay Hollywood, and root myself firmly the perd.

I was also vaguely aware–my memory is a lot dimmer than ed to be–of the gay Hollywood unrground; the Sunday afternoon pool parti at Gee Cor’s, for example–and I had read some gay Hollywood histori (the on by William J. He was the five “stg uch” agent–and per this book, which is very well wrten and very entertag–men who wanted to be movie stars (whether gay, straight or bi) were more than willg to service Henry if meant a leg up the bs. This perd of Hollywood history is fascatg, and I love that wrg this book–or rather, planng and rearchg, sce I haven’t really started wrg –is givg me an amazg exce to study gay Hollywood history and the post-war film dtry.

Make no mistake about –Henry Willson was good at what he did, but he was also a terrible person; tryg to make a homophobic culture, society and dtry at the time which he lived would fely twist a person.

I do remend this book, if you’re terted Hollywood history general or gay Hollywood history specifilly.

Veteran actor Chad Everett, perhaps bt known for starrg the 1970s drama Medil Center, has died of lung ncer at age 75, reports Los Angel actor's reer spanned more than four s, wh numero other televisn performanc cludg his portrayal of a closeted gay police officer the seri Cold Case. Lily Toml never officially me out as gay. For much of her reer, Lily Toml's homosexualy was the worst-kept secret Hollywood, sce she and wife/creative partner Jane Wagner (they married on New Year's Eve of 2013) have visibly been a uple sce the early 1970s.