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THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY

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There is no five evince any credible bgraphi wrten of the two that eher Valento or Rambova was gay; rather, the speculatn reflected ntemporary sterotyp and prejudic, and was no doubt spired by Valento’s personal style and refed European tast.

Homo Amerin! For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsIt's no surprise that of all the great gay fashn signers to have clared their sexual preference recent years, cludg Versace, Tom Ford, Dolce and Gabbana and Grg Armani, Valento should be the last to e 's no surprise that of all the great gay fashn signers to have clared their sexual preference recent years, cludg Versace, Tom Ford, Dolce and Gabbana and Grg Armani, Valento should be the last to e "secret that is not a secret", as Valento's bs partner Gianrlo Giammetti puts , is splashed across an article on the multilnaire Italian signer the Augt issue of Vany Fair 's no surprise he's late bee beg out on the leadg edge has never been the style of the signer who burst on to the fashn scene 1959 and quickly tablished himself as the favoure of the ladi who Giammetti, who has n the bs si of Valento's fashn hoe for 40 years, said: "Ours was not a story of money or fashn. Every so often someone claims Rudolph Valento was gay.

LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE

No one would ny that Valento is a gay in. But was he gay? '"The claim that Steward "sexually serviced" Valento was repeated a send New York Tim article, by a different journalist, on Augt this mean that Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Valento, the legendary silent film star, had a sexual enunter?

"So let me be clear that I was utterly agnostic when I first approached this issue, but there has been nothg my subsequent rearch to support that he was gay, and much to support that he was straight. And Valento scholars agree the actor wasn't gay.

The New York Tim gets right when stat that his archive mak for both a rare and revealg portra of gay life the early s of the Twentieth -- an acplished scholar, art historian and the thor of earlier books on artists Pl Cadm, Fairfield Porter and others -- has achieved somethg exceptnal wrg Secret Historian: The Life and Tim of Samuel Steward, Profsor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renega. After criqug another book which claimed Valento was gay, Leir prciently stat, "Valento exerted and ntu to exert enormo power as an object of sire for both sex.