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Contents:

• IS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN GAY? INSI THE ACTOR'S LOVE LIFE
• SISTER OF NATALIE WOOD REVEALS ‘GAY AFFAIR’ ED DIVORCE
• MANY GAY ACTORS STILL FEAR G OUT WILL DAMAGE THEIR REERS
• IS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN GAY?
• CHRISTOPHER WALKEN – B, AGE, WIFE, KIDS, NET WORTH, IS HE GAY?

IS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN GAY? INSI THE ACTOR'S LOVE LIFE

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Article ntu below advertisementIs Christopher Walken gay?

As far as we know, Christopher Walken is not gay. If he is gay, he is not publicly out of the closet (though there have been mors that he's bisexual). Article ntu below advertisementSource: Getty ImagOn top of the Natalie and Robert ongog drama that Christopher has been a part of sce the day she died November 1981, a lot of the qutns of whether or not Christopher is bisexual are thanks to gay actor Robert La Tournex, who is now ceased.

SISTER OF NATALIE WOOD REVEALS ‘GAY AFFAIR’ ED DIVORCE

Before his ath, he told a gay magaze that the Amy Award-wner was one his closeted lovers.

Wood had a brief relatnship wh Elvis Prley, but Wagner stole her heart and they were married December 1957, spe her mother's were mours, which he has always strenuoly nied, that Wagner was gay or bisexual. In his 2008 memoir, Wagner claimed to have had affairs wh a long strg of A-listers, om Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor to Ana Ekberg, Joan Colls and Barbara Stanwyck, among many actor Robert Quarry, who was gay, once told an terviewer: 'Everyone knew Wagner was a hypocre.

MANY GAY ACTORS STILL FEAR G OUT WILL DAMAGE THEIR REERS

A iend of Wood would homophobilly pla, even her prence, about the 'f*****' keepg hoe for them. While a wars said Wood and Walken were holdg hands unr the table, the manager — who was gay — saw the two male actors touchg each other a way that he 'regnised as flirtg'. NATALIE Wood’s sister, Lana, has claimed that a gay affair is the reason the actrs spl om hband Robert Wagner two s before her was ially married to Wagner om 1957 until 1962 and then aga om 1972 until her ath Wood has revealed that her sister ught Wagner the arms of another man June 1961, which led to their divorce a new 12-part podst Fatal Voyage: The Myster Death of Natalie Wood, the Wt Si Story actrs scribed the end of her marriage a never-before-seen memoir, obtaed by the makers of the podst.

Wagner has not mented on Lana Wood’s allegatns of a gay love seri premiered on July 20, the exact day that would have been Natalie Wood’s 80th birlthday. When Antony Sher started actg wh the pneerg Gay Sweatshop theatre pany the 70s, he managed to stay the closet.

"We all agreed to do on the basis that was stated that not all the performers were gay so you didn't know who was and who wasn't.

IS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN GAY?

I was dog prs terviews about this great gay play that I felt so strongly about for a specific reason and I wasn't sayg – was an astonishg waste of energy. Yet, more than two s on, spe stris gay equaly and the entertament dtry's liberal reputatn, many gay actors still fear that beg open about their sexualy will damage their there is a highly visible younger generatn of gay actors, om Beg Human's Rsell Tovey to Coronatn Street's Charlie Condou and Jeremy Sheffield, a recent survey by the actors' unn Equy revealed that only 57% of gay actors felt they uld be open about their sexualy wh their agents.

A third had experienced homophobia the workplace, 57% sayg had e om other 2006, the actor Chris New, who starred the film Weekend last year, was advised by his agent not to talk about beg gay, spe starrg at the time Bent, Mart Sherman's play about the persecutn of gay people Nazi Equy has enlisted several well-known actors to lend their nam to a mpaign supportg gay actors who choose to e out.

"If actors experience homophobic bullyg we would be able to raise that wh the employer or if there was a se of member discrimatn we would offer them legal assistance.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN – B, AGE, WIFE, KIDS, NET WORTH, IS HE GAY?

However, he said that beg gay was still an issue TV and particularly what he lled "homophobic Hollywood" said he knew of a fellow gay actor "who's LA and makg films, and he's takg very visible steps to go back the closet. They say: 'Maybe you should back off om playg too many gay rol' and 'Don't do too much gay prs'. "Sher said that Hollywood was reluctant to give rol to out gay actors, bee was tryg to get the biggt possible mastream dience.

"Tt dienc are midwtern, very nservative people, so 's possible that those kds of people would be unfortable watchg a gay man play a sex scene wh a woman or whatever.

"He agreed wh the time-honoured belief of gay mpaigners that g out is the only way to change thgs. "If everybody me out of the closet, [beg gay] would cease to be an issue bee there would be so many of .