Did Samuel Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Rudolph Valento, the legendary silent film star, have a sexual enunter?
Contents:
- THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
THE SECRET HISTORIAN AND THE SILENT FILM STAR: ONE WAS GAY
A New York è un tolone e quello l Post: «Sono gay e sono oglsi di serlo». For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsIt's no surprise that of all the great gay fashn signers to have clared their sexual preference recent years, cludg Versace, Tom Ford, Dolce and Gabbana and Grg Armani, Valento should be the last to e 's no surprise that of all the great gay fashn signers to have clared their sexual preference recent years, cludg Versace, Tom Ford, Dolce and Gabbana and Grg Armani, Valento should be the last to e "secret that is not a secret", as Valento's bs partner Gianrlo Giammetti puts , is splashed across an article on the multilnaire Italian signer the Augt issue of Vany Fair 's no surprise he's late bee beg out on the leadg edge has never been the style of the signer who burst on to the fashn scene 1959 and quickly tablished himself as the favoure of the ladi who Giammetti, who has n the bs si of Valento's fashn hoe for 40 years, said: "Ours was not a story of money or fashn. Every so often someone claims Rudolph Valento was gay.
No one would ny that Valento is a gay in. But was he gay?
'"The claim that Steward "sexually serviced" Valento was repeated a send New York Tim article, by a different journalist, on Augt this mean that Steward, a secret historian of 20th century gay life, and Valento, the legendary silent film star, had a sexual enunter? "So let me be clear that I was utterly agnostic when I first approached this issue, but there has been nothg my subsequent rearch to support that he was gay, and much to support that he was straight. And Valento scholars agree the actor wasn't gay.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
The New York Tim gets right when stat that his archive mak for both a rare and revealg portra of gay life the early s of the Twentieth -- an acplished scholar, art historian and the thor of earlier books on artists Pl Cadm, Fairfield Porter and others -- has achieved somethg exceptnal wrg Secret Historian: The Life and Tim of Samuel Steward, Profsor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renega. After criqug another book which claimed Valento was gay, Leir prciently stat, "Valento exerted and ntu to exert enormo power as an object of sire for both sex.
More at Lifehomosexualybook newsSilent filmbooks. 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. They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s.