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ROCK HUDSON’S WIFE SECRETLY RERD HIS GAY CONFSN
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Johnson lls “the lavenr sre” and the unbuttoned, experimental 1960s that lnched the gay rights movement. By the time he beme print, however, that revolutn had been lnched: the birth ntrol pill, veloped the 1950s, beme wily available the 1960s and, more importantly, 1964, Life magaze would publish a major photo say about gay men’s bars San Francis. JFK’s numero affairs (before, durg and after his marriage to Jackie) and his iendships wh gay men sudnly had a social and cultural ntext that was neher gay or straight, but a harbger of the sexual eedom and experimentatn that would soon be champned the unterculture and the all the while, Lem Billgs was there: wag, servg, fortg and helpg the Kennedy fay adjt to the public glare.