Vgarne – A ‘Gay-Themed Film’ | THE EARLY SILENT ERA 1895-1915

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One of the biggt challeng facg silent film historians today is this, “Whout sound, jt how are you supposed to tell if your favore silent era film star was gay?” Whout sound, there’s no tell-tale lisp; no guttural bulldog growl mblg om an otherwise mure, dove-whe throat. The qutn of silent era sexualy has ed […]

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SILENTE è GAY? SPIEGATA LA RELAZNE DI ALB N GRLWALD

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In Harry Potter è sempre stata mistersa la va di Silente, ma n i nuovi eventi è stato nfermato che il personagg è gay e ha avuto una vera storia d’amore propr n nferma che Alb Silente è gayNel tempo cui sono stati pubbliti i libri e i film diti a Harry Potter, molti i più acni fan hanno iziato a ipotizzare che il pri di Hogwarts fosee gay, per via di varie equentazni solo maschili, poi è arrivata una nferma nel 2007 quando durante la lettura di Harry Potter e il Prcipe Mezzosangue, alla Carnegie Hall è stato chito alla Rowlg se Silente si fosse mai stsa ha risposto di aver sempre pensato a Silente e gay e che aveva una relazne n Gellert Grlwald, la storia d’amore segue anche una tragedia perché l’uomo si è dimostrato periloso e atroce soprattutto verso i babbani, portando Silente a un profondo dolore. Perché Silente non viene scrto e gay nei film e nei libri?

ALB SILENTE GAY? LA POLEMI TRA I FAN E JK ROWLG SUL NUOVO 'ANIMALI FANTASTICI'

The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.”.

Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns,” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public. No one wanted to believe that Ameri’s goln boy uld be a gay man. Cor’s mansn, rated by gay former actor William Ha, beme the center of LGBT society Hollywood.

It was a well-known fact that Cor was gay, even though he never publicly spoke about . Cor may have never been able to explicly talk about his sexualy, but he helped solidify the gay muny Hollywood.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

He also stggled to accept his homosexualy thanks to his strict Roman Catholic upbrgg. Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s. Incintally, the film is noted for s untentnal homoerotic unrton.

Clift never publicly talked about , but close iend Elizabeth Taylor admted he was gay at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards. The two acted three movi together, cludg Sudnly, Last Summer, which had Clift play a gay man. In 1939 he married Osr-wng actrs Ja Gaynor, to whom he remaed wed until his ath 1959.

LBIAN? GAY? QUEER?

Rumors about both Adrian and Gaynor’s sexualy have been hard to prove. Their marriage is believed to be a lavenr marriage, which was an arrangement ma to bunk mors that they were both gay. Diana McLellan mentns this her book The Girls and the uple’s relatnship is heavily analyzed William Mann’s Behd the Screen: How Gays and Lbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969.

Actor Bob Cummgs is quoted the book as sayg, “Ja Gaynor’s hband was Adrian, the MGM fashn signer. Gaynor and Adrian were succsful durg a time when any sort of evince of their homosexualy would have hurt their reers, so ’s not surprisg that there isn’t ncrete evince about the tth of their relatnship.

SILENT FILMS, RATED BY GAYNS

Hudson’s homosexualy was kept a secret for most of his life. Rowlg rivelò ai fan lle sue storie che Alb Silente è gay e che, prima che le loro ve prenssero stra pletamente diverse, lui e Gellert Grlwald erano namorati.

Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public.

VGARNE – A ‘GAY-THEMED FILM’

They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a . They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up.

Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk. He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars. Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.

Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past.

HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

The spe of the cints that got this hh-hh treatment ranged om public dnkenns, illegal abortns and homosexual relatnships, to fights, r wrecks, rape and murr.

Homosexualy was reprsed.

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