Director Peter Glenville: Conservative, Gay, and the Closet 1960s Hollywood

Contents:

• IS PETER O'TOOLE GAY?
• CONSERVATIVE, GAY, AND THE CLOSET 1960S HOLLYWOOD
• FROM MONTGOMERY CLIFT TO LORD OF THE RGS, GAY IS ALMOST PASSE THE MOVI

IS PETER O'TOOLE GAY?

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CONSERVATIVE, GAY, AND THE CLOSET 1960S HOLLYWOOD

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FROM MONTGOMERY CLIFT TO LORD OF THE RGS, GAY IS ALMOST PASSE THE MOVI

I am supposed to ll Peter Glenville a gay director who was also a nservative Republin and a tax dodger, but ’s more accurate to ll him a proment Cold War-era Hollywood and Broadway director—who also happened to be a closeted Catholic nservative tax dodger. ” They hobnobbed wh gay actors. Glenville’s greatt works bristled wh homoerotic energy.

“He told me you n’t be succsful Hollywood if you’re not OK wh Jews and homosexuals, ” says Omar Junr, lghg. Brish gay magaze Attu regnised his urage by givg him an Inspiratn Award last October.

Many scholars and historians have termed that Lawrence was gay, although this was a subject Lawrence himself never discsed public (que unrstandably, given the climate of his tim). The film, though, suggts a whisperg, tty manner that Lawrence is cidly homosexual – one scene, he clar, “Do you thk I'm jt anybody, Ali?