Famed Mexin Hollywood actor Ramon Novarro was secretly gay his whole life.

Contents:

• THE EXCG LIFE & SHOCKG DEATH OF MOVIE STAR RAMóN NOVARRO, HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY IN
• ROCK LEGEND INTRODUC CLASSIC GAY STAR TO NEW GENERATN
• SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED
• WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME: A REVIEW OF “SONS OF HOLLYWOOD” AT WDY CY PLAYHOE

THE EXCG LIFE & SHOCKG DEATH OF MOVIE STAR RAMóN NOVARRO, HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY IN

For others, primarily LGBT circl, Novarro's ath beme -- and some ways remas -- a stand- for the vlence born om homophobia and closets. Pop culture fed off them, too: tabloids followed their every move, and traced their sordid histori, cludg Pl's stt as a nu mol for gay magaz. ” Only those clost to him knew his guard secret -- that he was homosexual.

It was not rare for vlence agast non-proment homosexuals to go unreported. The judge remend that they never be released, but they were, perhaps bee of homophobic attus toward Novarro.

For him to be chiefly remembered today as a perverted elrly homosexual... Beyond that, the reprsive prsur that ma possible the atrocy persist today, keepg famo actors closeted, even homophobic. Ramon Novarro was a Mexin actor and sger whose stardom at MGM the 1920s and ’30s was not imped by his off-screen life as a gay man.

ROCK LEGEND INTRODUC CLASSIC GAY STAR TO NEW GENERATN

There's gay people who might put you up. Gog to meet a homosexual for some drks, and one of would have to go to bed wh him. Novarro was a homosexual and probably had been one for many years, " Iman said his openg statement.

"But he was a discreet homosexual.

SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED

The Mexin heartthrob was actually thoroughly homosexual, even as he sperately tried to nceal this fact om the public eye, keepg his private life tensely private. Hollywood wasn’t ready to accept a gay leadg man, but more tragilly, Novarro uld barely accept himself. Unfortunately for Novarro, he was also gay, at a time when beg publicly gay was reer and social suici.

It would be his closeted homosexualy that would play a role his ath.

He was gay, and he was driven to stay the closet by societal expectatns and the mands of Hollywood, and as already mentned, his eply-held Catholic fah didn't allow room for his sexual orientatn. Meanwhile, LA Tim wrer John Rechey noted 2003 that the homophobia that rmed Novarro's murr was still persistent. "The reprsive prsur that ma possible the atrocy persist today, keepg famo actors closeted, even homophobic, " he wrote.

WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME: A REVIEW OF “SONS OF HOLLYWOOD” AT WDY CY PLAYHOE

Novarro was gay but kept mum about the prs. As far as we know, he was not a client of the famoly chatty Hollywood pimp to the gay stars Sttie Bowers. However, as celebry’s private liv beme creasgly public and homosexualy stigmatized, there would be a arth of LGBTQ Lato Lover reprentativ for s.

You are here: Home / Life / Born This Day / The Excg Life & Shockg Death of Movie Star Ramón Novarro, Hollywood’s First Gay In. Novarro was a nflicted man, choosg between his ambns as an actor and his passn as a mician, along wh stgglg between his ep-rooted Catholic fah and a gay inty that his relign and his Mexin society nmned.