“Gay men helped keep her alive for the last 10 years. And the gay muny kept her stardom alive. They ma her an in at a time when a lot of people
Contents:
ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S CREDIBLE IENDSHIP WH THE GAY ACTOR SHE TRIED TO SCE
Elizabeth Taylor origally tried to sce gay actor Montgomery Clift, acrdg to the thor who chronicled their iendship. * elizabeth taylor gay *
"There is no Gay agenda; 's a human agenda, " Elizabeth Taylor said her famo acceptance speech for the GLAAD Vanguard Award 2000. "Why shouldn't Gay people be able to live as open and eely as everybody else?
Elizabeth beme one of the most proment public figur durg the earlit years of the AIDS crisis, fightg fear and prejudice wh reason and empathy, well before the legalizatn of gay marriage 2008 by the state of California. Elizabeth’s close relatnships wh gay men throughout her life, and her passnate activism for equal treatment toward the LGBTQ+ muny, have refed what means to be emed a “gay in. ” The 2011 article by Brish newspaper The Guardian, entled “Elizabeth Taylor: A New Gay In, ” not that, “No longer was enough to be a woman wh whom gay men retaed a bass-note of empathy, the kd of glamour/tragedy axis that Judy Garland immortalized.
LIZ TAYLOR’S BONDG WH GAYS
Beneath the artifice, there was a human heart that gay men jt adored, que unequivolly, and wh ample reason, and vice versa.
” As an article Bra’s The Tim puts , “Of urse, her high-glam rol were often high-mp, but was her offscreen performanc that tly earned her elevatn to gay in. Elizabeth had always been drawn to the pany of gay men, perhaps bee, her younger days, such timate iendships were the only way that she, as the object of so much sire, uld relax the pany of men. At the 2000 Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) Media Awards, Elizabeth said, “All of my life I've spent a lot of time wh gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who were my lleagu, workers, nfidant, my clost iends, but I never thought of who they slept wh!
” Gay rights and marriage equaly were also that she passnately supported and never hated to tmpet. Elizabeth is regnized the world over as beg at the foreont of gay inography, not only for her credible glamour or inic film rol, but also forher activism. Ined, Elizabeth also beme a heroe to the gay muny for cricizg the U.