He is remembered as one of the great filmmakers of the 1940s, but his key bgraphers believe he was also an early example of a gay or bisexual man workg a ls than acceptg environment.
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WAS VCENTE MNELLI A GAY?
He is remembered as one of the great filmmakers of the 1940s, but his key bgraphers believe he was also an early example of a gay or bisexual man workg a ls than acceptg environment. Four tim married, wh two children, he has a strikg and eply ntented send legacy, one batably as a closeted gay man. Mnelli is wily regnised certa circl whout bate as a gay man.
In Mark Griff’s words A Hundred or More Hidn Thgs: ‘Dpe the fact that Mnelli was married to Judy Garland and three other women… was generally assumed that he was a closeted gay man who, due to the societal ndng of his era, felt pelled to marry and procreate. There seems to be a vast quanty of evince potg to the fact that Mnelli was openly gay New York, before a move to Hollywood forced him back to the closet.
As much as we n unrstand Mnelli did not ‘choose’ to bee gay, we mt know he did not choose to alter his herent sexualy to be wh the women he was.