Brandon me out as gay last month - and he has already nabbed Osr-wng sger Sam Smh as his new man.
Contents:
- PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
- INSI THE PERSONAL LIFE OF RUMORED GAY ACTOR NEIL FLYNN!
- ROME FLYNN, FIRST SPOTLIGHTED FOR GAY ROLE, HAS A DGHTER WH 2 MOMS
PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
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. 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. 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.
INSI THE PERSONAL LIFE OF RUMORED GAY ACTOR NEIL FLYNN!
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ROME FLYNN, FIRST SPOTLIGHTED FOR GAY ROLE, HAS A DGHTER WH 2 MOMS
"We don't see the same issue wh sexualy, we see straight people play gay all the time. He never actually me out as gay. Through tears, Flynn, who feels supported by the dtry regards to his sexualy, says he’s thrilled he gets the opportuny to be a role mol for “any gay boy at home.
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