9 Gay Adult Performers Tell Their Comg Out Stori

Contents:

• HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
• TAB HUNTER: HOW HOLLYWOOD'S BOY NEXT DOOR BEME A GAY IN
• BOY CULTURE : COVERG HOT MEN, GAY ISSU, CELEBRI, MOVI, MIC & MORE
• HUNTER GODSEY: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEAN AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST MAN, GA
• GOG BAREBACK: TIME AND AGG A GAY-FOR-PAY PORN CAREER

HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said.

TAB HUNTER: HOW HOLLYWOOD'S BOY NEXT DOOR BEME A GAY IN

But while I love a good fictnal gay (shout out to the legendary T Andromedon) and a good realy gay (RuPl’s Drag Race), I am nowhere near that flashy and/or fabulo my day-to-day. If Willson was a glorified pimp, he yet had an unnny read of the Amerin market, knowg what appealed to women as well as men--pl the special, subnsc allure of lite masculy that was particular to gay don't say much about that twilight world, but talks about growg up betiful, sought-after and "sred of my own shadow. Hunter looks back on Perks' own gay inty stggl wh fivens, which giv the film's special om teen idol to mp idol, Hunter earns ttimoni om Clt Eastwood ("He's a better man than I am.

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A blon, square-jawed and wholome symbol of mid-century Amerin masculy, Hunter, born 1931 as Arthur Gelien, was gay but kept his sexualy a secret for the bulk of his reer, until g out his 2005 tobgraphy Tab Hunter Confintial: The Makg of a Movie Star.

HUNTER GODSEY: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEAN AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST MAN, GA

”A product of an era that was famoly hospable to gay entertaers, Hunter kept up secret romanc wh film star Anthony Perks and figure skater Ronnie Robertson as movie studs trotted him out alongsi screen sirens Natalie Wood and Debbie Reynolds, wh whom he’d go on pretend dat. But not before an article Confintial, the bimonthly gossip rag om which Hunter’s memoir borrows s name, reported on the then 24-year-old’s volvement an arrt at a “limp-wristed pajama party” where other gay mal were attendance. The article, Hunter felt, suated he’d been party to a “gay y”, a mor that might have torpedoed his reer given the ntemporaneo moral panic around homosexualy and the “lavenr sre” that led to mass firgs.

But what would revalize his reer earnt was a phone ll om John Waters, the transgrsive gay film-maker whose mpy sensibily hadn’t yet been fully embraced beyond midnight moviegoers. But, s Insi Baseball approach to revealg the ner workgs of Hollywood before, durg and after the stud era, is a remarkably sightful, nfint acunt of and by one of Hollywood’s first gay movie stars, a label by which the famoly self-effacg Hunter would surely be ath, though, Tab Hunter’s legend won’t fa.

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The 2015 documentary adapted om his memoir, which n be seen on Netflix, helped her a wave of disurse about the ills of the stud era – homophobia, misogyny and abe among them – a topic that was revised last year Fd, the fict televisn reuntg of the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

But there is a kd of poetic jtice that a man who spent much of his life the shadows lived long enough to see his forbidn romance veloped as a movie, one produced, as ought to be, by two openly gay men. " The dner was beg held at the home of a gay uple and their two children, and Bin told the parents: "I wish every Amerin uld see the look of love that those kids had their ey for you guys.

Griff was one of several executive producers of the 2009 documentary Outrage, which vtigated allegatns of homosexualy among a seri of polil figur who had worked agast LGBT rights.