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SXSW: TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT LIFE AS A CLOSETED GAY STAR DURG HOLLYWOOD’S GOLN AGE
There have long been mors about Pl Newman’s sexualy, pecially after a quote attributed to him surfaced sayg, “I’m a supporter of gay rights. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to unrstand attacks upon the gay muny. It seems like the time is ripe for a renaissance of "Vidalism, " and the new documentary, Gore Vidal: Uned Stat of Amnia, may help te an entirely new generatn about the 20th century's pre-ement public tellectual--who always refed to intify as gay, although he was a proud lover of men.
On never que beg at odds wh the gay movement and feelg out of time wh marriage equaly:I thk he felt that was a fight he fought at a different pot his life. The wrer also claims Newman and Jam Dean had a gay romance. Publicly, he sisted that he loathed homosexuals, yet he often went to bed wh them, pecially if they were bikers or race r drivers.
Bee is the first om the perspective of a major movie star who lived through as a closeted gay man but is now open about his sexualy. Hunter rells first realizg that he was “different” his early teens, but says he’d “have gone crazy” if someone had asked him if he was homosexual (the word “gay” wasn’t really around then). Willson, a big-time agent and “gay svengali” who also disvered and/or reprented Guy Madison, Rory Calhoun and Rock Hudson, changed Gelien’s name to Tab Hunter after tryg to “tab” him somethg new and rellg that he was fond of huntg and jumpg on hors.