Broadway star and gay in Elae Strch di at 89 | PkNews

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• REMEMBERG GAY IN ELAE STRCH
• ELAE STRCH ON BEA ARTHUR, ROCK HUDSON AND BEG A GAY IN
• LIZ SMH OUTS BARRY DILLER AS GAY AND LEE RADZIWILL AS A HOMOPHOBE
• THE TIME ELAE STRCH APPEARED ON "THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW": {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY DAN AVERYJULY 17, 2014/2:58 PMBY DAN AVERYJULY 17, 2014 / 2:58 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE TIME ELAE STRCH APPEARED ON \"THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW\": WATCH","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-07-17T18:58:34.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-07-17T18:58:34.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ENTERTAMENT WORLD LOST ONE OF S GREATS TODAY, WHEN ELAE STRCH PASSED AWAY AT AGE 89. THOUGH SHE HAD A REPUTATN FOR BEG BOMBASTIC, STRCH ULD TAKE A JOKE. SHE EVEN MA A SURPRISE APPEARANCE ON LOGO'S BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW, TERACTG WH NIL PAONE'S LOVGLY HUMORO IMPERSONATN OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE'LL MISS YOU. STRCHY!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• BROADWAY STAR AND GAY IN ELAE STRCH DI AT 89

REMEMBERG GAY IN ELAE STRCH

Still, the 89-year-old star, whose new documentary, "Elae Strch: Shoot Me, " is earng rave reviews om crics and fans, says she's surprised to learn that she's nsired a gay in.

ELAE STRCH ON BEA ARTHUR, ROCK HUDSON AND BEG A GAY IN

"She also dish on a number of other show bs figur, and even clarifi tails of her relatnship wh Rock Hudson, who was later revealed to have been a closeted gay man. ' but that he 'worships' his wife Diane Von Furstenberg (above)Smh tells The Hollywood Reporter that this nversatn me the wake of David Geffen, another high profile executive, revealg he was gay gossip lumnist claims she advised Diller, the chairman of media pany IAC, agast , tellg him; 'No, Barry, David Geffen needs to e out.

LIZ SMH OUTS BARRY DILLER AS GAY AND LEE RADZIWILL AS A HOMOPHOBE

And she felt adored and appreciated and, most of all, loved by the sea of people she looked out on every night, cludg and perhaps pecially, her gay dience. And isn’t that I fally disvered that gay people unrstand me and straight people don’t – oh, no no no. But not knowg you have a gay followg until now, 70 years to your reer … a reer one of the gayt profsns pursuable: the theater?

” The rpect she has for Albee is jt immense, she says, but that fondns also extends to the other gay men her life, near and far. “I gotta get that le, bee I thk gay people have extraordary humor. Even if she didn’t know , and many tim she says she didn’t, Strch nurtured many close relatnships wh gay men throughout her reer.

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And there’s nobody who says that gay guys don’t have fun wh women, bee they do! But Strch is only now realizg that gay people go nuts for her. “I don’t even know if (Rock) was aware of anybody beg gay, ” she says, notg she found out when was announced that he had AIDS.

BROADWAY STAR AND GAY IN ELAE STRCH DI AT 89

” She stops and backpedals: “Not by not beg gay, but I jt got off easy. Though Strch didn’t know what “gay” meant then, wouldn’t have mattered anyway. “I don’t re who’s gay and who isn’t!

And he was gay.