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Contents:
- ROCK HUDSON'S 'TE LOVE' SPEAKS: HOW WE KEPT OUR GAY LIFE SECRET
- ROCK HUDSON: THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIV OF A GAY HOLLYWOOD IDOL
- IS DAVID LEE ROTH GAY? THE REASON WHY HE’S NOT MARRIED
ROCK HUDSON'S 'TE LOVE' SPEAKS: HOW WE KEPT OUR GAY LIFE SECRET
A new HBO documentary explor the public and private worlds of the actor who was Hollywood's epome of heterosexual sire while livg a closeted gay liftyle, who 1985 beme the first celebry to die of AIDS. * rock lee gay *
"He was the biggt movie star the world, and the mors were that he was gay, " he says. The partial homo list om William Dakota's book:GEORGE MAHARIS, ROBERT WAGNER, PERRY KING, JIM HUTTON, DIRK BENEDICT, RICHARD ANDERSON, DENNIS DAY, LEE MAJORS, LIBERACE, FABIAN, JOHNNY WEISMULLER, CARLTON CARPENTER, RAPHAEL CAMPOS, GEORGE NADER, MARLON BRANDO, WALLY COX, JOHN PHILLIP LAW, GUY MADISON, RICHARD GERE, JOE DALLESANDRO, JOHNNY CRAWFORD, NORMAN FELL, TONY BILL, PETER FONDA, FARLEY GRANGER, PERNELL ROBERTS, BRIAN HYLAND, ANDREW STEVENS, MICHAEL BLODGETT, JAMES DEAN, HORST BUCHOLTZ, JOHN TRAVOLTA, CHRISTOPHER ATKINS, TONY CURTIS, DON "RED" BARRY, TYRONE POWER, ERROL FLYNN, KEITH CARRADINE, BOBBY CARRADINE, ROCK HUDSON, YUL BRYNNER, JIM NABORS, PATRICK WAYNE, DAVID CASSIDY, BURT REYNOLDS, PAUL LYNDE, CHARLES NELSON REILLY, MICHAEL MULLINS, SHAUN CASSIDY, RICHARD THOMAS, ROBERT CONRAD, STUART WHITMAN, MARTIN SHEEN, GILBERT ROLAND, LEIGH McCLOSKY, RICHARD HATCH, RAY STRICKLYN, ROBERT "LOCKE" LORRAINE, RAYMOND ST. But now, his new HBO documentary, "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, " Kijak explor Hudson's whole life, as a global star, and closeted gay man.
ROCK HUDSON: THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIV OF A GAY HOLLYWOOD IDOL
"In real life, Hudson was datg men, like Lee Garlgton, who the documentary relled, "We were orred never to have our picture taken together, bee somebody would know that we were gay. In an archival terview Day said, "Many, many people would ask me, you know, 'Is Rock Hudson really gay? However, the two stars hid a secret om the pair were both gay but hid their sexuali throughout their liv until they were much olr.
IS DAVID LEE ROTH GAY? THE REASON WHY HE’S NOT MARRIED
| Source: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collectn/Getty ImagAcrdg to Griff, the star was also a gay man who tried beg everythg people expected om him. In the mid-century, the star suffered om harassment and blackmail attempts as a closeted gay man often posed for photographs wh female iends like actrs Cldia Cardale to shut down the mors. | Source: Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty ImagAcrdg to Meaww, Hudson's -stars knew about his homosexualy.
"The Advote published a story claimg Gat was a lbian and knew about Hudson beg gay. After her ath, allegatns me out that she had been blackmailg Hudson that she would out NABORS' CHALLENGES AS A GAY MAN IN HOLLYWOODJim Nabors a promotnal stud portra cir 1965.
| Source: Hulton Archive/Getty ImagOn the other hand, Nabors revealed that his "The Andy Griffh Show" -stars knew about him beg homosexual, but Ronny Howard relled how the crew lled him gay slurs behd his back, "And not wh any ht of kdns.