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Marv Gaye's "Whats Gog On" was released 1971. 50 years on and the album still has cultural signifince.

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Bretman Rock is makg history wh his appearance on the ver of Playboy magaze's October 2021 digal issue, as the 23-year-old be the first openly gay male to secure the veted Hawaii-based Filipo fluencer isn't new to the spotlight after makg a name for himself on YouTube and the short-form vio app Ve, where Rock displayed both his humor and his skill wh makp.

However, he is only the third to appear on the ver of the men's liftyle and entertament magaze, behd the magaze's late founr Hugh Hefner and, July 2020, Lat pop star Bad Bunny; Rock is the first openly gay man. "As the first out gay man to ver the magaze, pecially durg Filipo Amerin History Month, Bretman Rock is ntug to fy genr norms and e his massive social platform to not only break down barriers for LGBTQ cln the dtry, but also spire so many other LGBTQ Filipos who have been unrreprented fashn, molg, and across media.

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Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'. Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public. They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s.

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Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a .

They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up.

Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk. He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars.

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Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.

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Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job.

“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. It has officially been 50 years sce the release of Marv Gaye's inic "What's Gog On" legendary sger-songwrer was born 1939, Washgton, D. He started out sgg church and later beme a member of popular doo-wop group The the genre began fizzlg out the 50s, the group's foundg member Harvey Fuqua took then 20-year-old Gaye to Detro where he met Berry Gordy Jr., the founr of Motown rerds.

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At the label, he earned the tle of Prce of Motown for his soulful sound and duetted wh the lik of Diana was shot ad 1984, the day before his 45th birthday, by his father Marv Gaye Sr.

It was Gaye's eleventh stud album, "What's Gog On", that went on to fe him for s after his album was released on May 21 1971, exactly 50 years ago today. In the years followg Gaye's ath, the rerd achieved new heights and earned the top place on Rollg Stone's 500 Greatt Albums Of All Time.

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Marv Gaye's "What's Gog On" turns 50.

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The rerd went on to bee one of Gaye's most highly-regard albums of all time. The album's powerful artwork featur a close-up image of Gaye lookg emotnal as he gaz off to the distance ntemplatn. The photograph was taken the backyard of Gaye's ver was signed by Motown art director Curtis McNair and photographed by Jim asked an terview for Boston newspaper The Bay State Banner 2008 what his favore ver was, McNair named "What's Gog On.

"McNair then suggted they ask Gaye for his opn as he also happened to be the Motown buildg at that time. Soul sger Marv Gaye plays piano as he rerds a stud cir 1974. But we had no ia how majtilly awful and hilarly chey some of the gay book vers we would fd would be.

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