PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS

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Ever sce the silent film era, Hollywood beefke photos have tillated both female and gay male fans. Here we beg our seri celebratg gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all.

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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.

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. Wh this year’s Gay Pri Month markg the fiftieth anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, the acplishments of LGBT hero of the past fifty years have been wily celebrated.

PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS

But along wh polil activists and social revolutnari, there were a number of entertaers who, the s surroundg the rebelln, brought a clear, if often exaggerated, gay prence to Amerin hom. He was a gay man.

CHAPTER 4 – QUEERS AND DYK THE DARK: CLASSIC, NOIR & HORROR CEMA’S COD GAY CHARACTERS:

In Hollywood the 1960s, life was played out the shadows for Dean and other gay actors who often played heterosexual hbands and fathers on televisn and movi. “I’m nearly the oppose of Pl Lyn, ” Dean told Boze Hadleigh that terview the late 1970s for the book, Hollywood Gays.

When Hadleigh asked if he thought any of the public assumed he was gay, Dean shook his head. “Not even gays. Only bee what you see on TV — a ser guy a su, unsg– isn’t how anyone thks of gay mal.

“Have you ever been st as gay?

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