Valente's Day is SO Gay
Contents:
- THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
- LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE
- VALENTE’S DAY IS SO GAY
THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
Did Samuel Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Rudolph Valento, the legendary silent film star, have a sexual enunter? * valentino gay magazine *
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LEGENDARY STAR'S GAY LIFE
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VALENTE’S DAY IS SO GAY
Every so often someone claims Rudolph Valento was gay. 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.