When Hollywood Studs Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexualy a Secret | HISTORY

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.

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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?

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

"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.