Jam Wolk talks about his gay character on “Mad Men” proposg marriage to a woman

Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG
• ‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY
• HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...
• SO BOB BENSON IS DEFELY GAY, RIGHT? AN INVTIGATN
• ‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT
• JAM WOLK TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY CHARACTER ON “MAD MEN” PROPOSG MARRIAGE TO A WOMAN

THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG

However, they were gay real life and were volved homosexual relatnships. | Source: Getty ImagWILL GEER'S GAY LIFE, ACTIVISM, AND MARRIAGE Meanwhile, she lived a siar life to her long-time -star Geer, "Will Geer, who got blacklisted durg the anti-munist wch hunts, had a male lover. " His partner was Harry Hay, a gay rights activist, but their relatnship later end.

Geer opted to marry 1938 after beg both a Party activist and actively gay for at least four years. It remas unclear whether his marriage to Ware signaled an end to his same-sex sexual activy or if the mician married bee he believed the Communist Party strictly prohibed homosexuals om jog.

‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY

Hay was the founr of gay liberatn and created the first morn gay-rights anizatn 1950. At first, no one wanted to jo him formg a polil anizatn for homosexuals.

He spent two years searchg among the gay men he knew Los Angel. He has also done some Shakpearean actg and has won a Tony award for his portrayal of a gay Vietnam vet the play “The 5th of July. However, their private liv, each was actually gay and homosexual relatnships of sorts.

As lovers, the two spired and fluenced one another to gay rights activism. Today, Harry Hay is celebrated as a sort of foundg father gay rights activism.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...

knew that Grandpa (Will Geer) was gay, Pa (Ralph Wae) was a reverg. lover of one of Ameri's most famo gay activists Harry Hay.

Hay formed the group the Radil Faeri to liven up the gay scene. But he kept quiet that he was homosexual and was the lover of the. gay activist Harry Hay.

later won a Tony award for playg a gay Vietnam veteran on Broadway. Joel Gersmann as gay rights activist Harry Hay the play ‘Radil Harry. ’ The real Hay found spiratn through Will Geer, another gay man, who he had a relatnship wh / Wikipedia.

SO BOB BENSON IS DEFELY GAY, RIGHT? AN INVTIGATN

Did you know that stern, tradnal, happily married Grandma and Grandpa Walton were actually both gay? Meanwhile, Will Geer actually beme volved wh gay rights activist Harry Hay and together the two beme vol members of the movement. Geer then went on to bee an outspoken activist and stood up for a number of different cludg everythg om unn workers and labor rights, to gay rights and general polil activism.

No matter whether you're tstg the nspiracy theorists, the reppers, or Matthew Weer this season, Mad Men's big gay subplot probably won't get rolved that simply the last two episos.

‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT

All of which might be a slow build to the g-out party of the show's send major gay character, some of which might speak to bigger issu about beg gay the '60s, a ltle b of which might be a preview of the Stonewall Rts to e, and none of which may mean much of anythg ncrete. But no matter whether you're tstg the nspiracy theorists, the reppers, or Matthew Weer this season, Mad Men's big gay subplot probably won't get rolved that simply the last two episos.

) Redd's Mad Men page has been havg a field day wh spy theori, and gay blogs and reppers got more than clue about his veiled homosexualy on Sunday night, when this happened:(via Redd)Y, wasn't jt that Benson hooked up Pete wh a whimsil male nurse named Manolo to take re of his mother. "Of urse, " Bob says to Pete's nial, all broodg blank ser face on his way out the hear all sorts of reppers tell throughout the day today, the knei was or was not the ultimate sign that Bob Benson is gay. Over at Towleroad, the gay blog that has been followg the is-he-or-isn't-he speculatn closely, Bobby Hankson clared the issue all but over: "Sunday's episo of Mad Men fally answered the qutn.

Gay s like Tom and Lorenzo emphasized a very un-Mad Men lack of romance wh Joan durg that beach getaway a uple weeks back: "Let's note that there is yet to be any physil ntact or affectn at all between Joan and Bob.

JAM WOLK TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY CHARACTER ON “MAD MEN” PROPOSG MARRIAGE TO A WOMAN

So, we suppose you uld argue that asi om the knei wh Pete Campbell knei (we're gog to make this knei thg a thg), Benson hasn't really had a knei-level spark wh anyone, male or female, gay or, e on, Bob is supposed to be... Namely, the Stonewall Rts of June 28, 1969, a night that changed gay history Ameri, and pecially New York Cy. "Mad Men has a hab of brgg mor characters who signal the broar theme for the followg season, " Jaime Woo wrote at The Huffgton Post, addg that the gay reveal and "his sudn appearance Season 6 uld allu to next season's big theme.

) Could the parted sign director return wh the Stonewall plot, Bob Benson, and somethg more than subtlety when to the show's gay them?

Sure, the jump om handsome, sey, possibly-gay guy around the office to psycho killer sounds like a b much, but this is Mad Men, and the TV crics like to get meta. "I'd argue, Bob has masterfully honed on and exploed Pete Campbell's greatt secury, " wr The Wrap's Tim Molloy, who sists that playg knei was merely a ol and lculated move on Bob's part: "He's psyched out a potential rival, and if Pete later acc him of proposng him, then Joan, for one, will attt that Bob sure don't seem gay to her, based on their prev history.