'The Waltons': Married TV Couple Grandma & Grandpa Were Both Actually Gay

Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG
• ‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY
• HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...
• THE FOUNR OF THE 'GAY' LEFT AND 'GRANDPA WALTON'
• GAY CELEBRITIES FROM CLASSIC TV: PAUL WINFIELD & WILL GEER
• THE FOUNR OF THE 'GAY' LEFT AND 'GRANDPA WALTON'

THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG

However, they were gay real life and were volved homosexual relatnships. | Source: Getty ImagWILL GEER'S GAY LIFE, ACTIVISM, AND MARRIAGE Meanwhile, she lived a siar life to her long-time -star Geer, "Will Geer, who got blacklisted durg the anti-munist wch hunts, had a male lover. " His partner was Harry Hay, a gay rights activist, but their relatnship later end.

‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY

Geer opted to marry 1938 after beg both a Party activist and actively gay for at least four years. It remas unclear whether his marriage to Ware signaled an end to his same-sex sexual activy or if the mician married bee he believed the Communist Party strictly prohibed homosexuals om jog.

Hay was the founr of gay liberatn and created the first morn gay-rights anizatn 1950. At first, no one wanted to jo him formg a polil anizatn for homosexuals. He spent two years searchg among the gay men he knew Los Angel.

However, their private liv, each was actually gay and homosexual relatnships of sorts. As lovers, the two spired and fluenced one another to gay rights activism.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...

Today, Harry Hay is celebrated as a sort of foundg father gay rights activism. Joel Gersmann as gay rights activist Harry Hay the play ‘Radil Harry. ’ The real Hay found spiratn through Will Geer, another gay man, who he had a relatnship wh / Wikipedia.

THE FOUNR OF THE 'GAY' LEFT AND 'GRANDPA WALTON'

Did you know that stern, tradnal, happily married Grandma and Grandpa Walton were actually both gay? Meanwhile, Will Geer actually beme volved wh gay rights activist Harry Hay and together the two beme vol members of the movement.

GAY CELEBRITIES FROM CLASSIC TV: PAUL WINFIELD & WILL GEER

knew that Grandpa (Will Geer) was gay, Pa (Ralph Wae) was a reverg. lover of one of Ameri's most famo gay activists Harry Hay.

Hay formed the group the Radil Faeri to liven up the gay scene. But he kept quiet that he was homosexual and was the lover of the. gay activist Harry Hay.

THE FOUNR OF THE 'GAY' LEFT AND 'GRANDPA WALTON'

later won a Tony award for playg a gay Vietnam veteran on Broadway. Geer and his partner Harry Hay were both big parts of the gay rights movement.

Grandpa Walton was a Gay, Blacklisted Communist Activist. When we look at the history of the Gay Rights Movement the USA, one name looms large. That famo early gay activist creded Will wh troducg him to activism!

Jt like Ellen Corby, Will had been advised by his agent to enter to a 'New York marriage' wh a woman, to nceal his homosexualy. People like Will Geer had no chance, particularly when a sub-plot of McCarthyism was to equally ot known homosexuals. He disvered a Prbyterian church Palm Sprgs, which was known for welg gay members to the ngregatn, addrsg gay issu and enuragg gay activism.