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WHAT 40 YEARS OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS TGHT ME ABOUT ATTUS TOWARDS GAY MEN

Andrews’ private life was no secret among his peers – the Oliviers would enterta him and Hosks at their home nearby Steyng – but he had never ma any kd of public announcement about , and no wonr bee homosexualy had, for most of his reer, been a crimal offence.

The most Andrews had ever done was to ht at later life when he had accepted the part of an overtly gay character the film versn of Joe Orton’s Entertag Mr Sloane. The homophobia of the tabloids was vilent those days bee of AIDS, and the verage of the last days of Rock Hudson — another Dynasty star — had been peculiarly tastels and judgemental. Did I really want on my nscience I had put not jt Andrews, but also Hosks, through a lot of lurid ‘gay secret’ headl their later years?

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Journalist Tim Walker reflects on rare chat wh gay star Harry Andrews .

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