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Contents:

• HUMPHREY BOGART'S FEARS THAT HE WAS GAY 'ALMOST DROVE HIM TO SUICI'
• HUMPHREY BOGART'S FEARS THAT HE WAS GAY 'ALMOST DROVE HIM TO SUICI'
• VICTIM AT 60: THE HEARTBREAKG GAY DRAMA THAT PHED BOUNDARI
• WHAT ONE ACTOR DID FOR GAY RIGHTS BRA
• HUMPHREY BOGART GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 88 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY

HUMPHREY BOGART'S FEARS THAT HE WAS GAY 'ALMOST DROVE HIM TO SUICI'

Now has emerged that before marryg her 1945, Bogie had bedd an timated 1, 000 women cludg Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman - but still feared he might be gay.

Bogie had bedd an timated 1, 000 women cludg Bergman, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich - but still feared he might be gay He is said to have nfsed to another nfidante to thoughts of killg himself. He pretends to be gay the bookshop scene THE BIG SLEEP. Feared he might be gay?

HUMPHREY BOGART'S FEARS THAT HE WAS GAY 'ALMOST DROVE HIM TO SUICI'

For some people ’s “you’re gay” Anonymoreply 3October 29, 2018 2:51 PM. Let me clarifyFor some heterosexual people ’s “you’re gay”.

For some people ’s “you’re gay”.

If he feared he was gay, he dabbled wh someone at least once and liked Anonymoreply 15October 29, 2018 3:11 PM. Darw Porter wr about every famo person supposedly beg gay. Sounds like he wasn't ok about homosexualy, of urse a very monplace view at the time, but Hollywood had many people who were already fully evolved on the subject.

VICTIM AT 60: THE HEARTBREAKG GAY DRAMA THAT PHED BOUNDARI

And where did this "Humphrey Bogart fears that he was gay" rmatn e om? She ferred that he was fortable wh gays and even told one fairly shy gay male journalist that if he (Bogart) were gay he would want the young journalist. Homosexual OCDOffse Lkby Anonymoreply 41October 29, 2018 9:10 PM.

I don't know about Bogart but I heard that Clark Gable was gayby Anonymoreply 43October 30, 2018 10:28 AM. Is Elltt Gould Gay? It’s not a slur, or a profany, but was enough to make dienc wce and censors bristle: 1961, the simple word “homosexual” was more dangero than an idle swear.

WHAT ONE ACTOR DID FOR GAY RIGHTS BRA

A few years ago, Victim was rereleased Brish cemas; a young gay lleague of me saw and was aghast. “It’s jt so homophobic, ” he said wh a shudr. Dearn and his llaborators would have been horrified by the accatn, havg 1961 ma a film that was a new benchmark s acceptance and unrstandg of gay characters.

But my lleague wasn’t entirely wrong, eher: Victim is perhaps most movg as a snapshot of how far the mid-century gay man had (or hadn’t) e acceptg himself, amid a surfe of laws and popular disurse that st him, wh varyg gre of passn, as an aberratn of nature. As exprsns of allyship go, ’s on the tepid si – homosexualy is amed throughout Victim as an abnormaly, a setback, an unfortunate ndn to be managed, though as long as was still illegal (for another six years) unr the Sexual Offenc Act, the filmmakers would have been hard prsed to prent any other way a mastream entertament.

HUMPHREY BOGART GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 88 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY

“Nature played me a dirty trick, ” plas one gay sendary character the film; Victim dar to exprs sympathy for this pot of view, though keeps s disagreement ’s certaly as chaste a boundary-breakg film about cency as has ever been ma: the “sex” bracketed the troublome word “homosexualy” is as far as gets acknowledgg physil terurse between men. Dirk Bogar’s protagonist Melville Farr, a high-climbg London barrister, is prented as a gay man who has never acted on his forbidn sir. When he’s mbled a blackmail plot targetg an assortment of closeted gay men across the pal (begng, fatally, wh Boy Barrett, played by Peter McEnery, the young object of Farr’s affectn) the smokg gun isn’t pecially salac: the blackmailers are posssn of a ndid snap of a fully clothed Farr nsolg a cryg, fully clothed photograph is tenr, not explic; as one lawyer pots out, if the younger man wasn’t weepg, there’d be nothg crimatg about at all, which tells you everythg about the climate of macho paranoia which the film was ma.

While today, the emphasis on love over sex queer-rights disurse is often a sanisg measure, lculated to meet straight sceptics at their emotnal level, Victim ’s an addnal provotn, a suggtn that homosexualy ns eper than the thrill of the illic – and th a more piercg threat to the social norms that a wherg law was only barely holdg the rpects, Victim is a film plaly ma for a straight dience, patiently pleadg for them to open their mds even if means slightly patronisg s gay characters (and potential viewers) the procs.