Anrson Cooper: 'Beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life' | CNN

Contents:

• IS ANDY PARSONS GAY?
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
• 'SPOILER ALERT' - JIM PARSONS AND BEN ALDRIDGE ON THEIR GAY 'LOVE STORY'

IS ANDY PARSONS GAY?

As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if Andy Parsons is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this.

ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’

While folks still say Andy Parsons is gay, their ments hold no nsistency or accuracy of any type. More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Andy Parsons sce this celebry never said so.

Although Andy Parsons has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other. “The time has e when we n serly and whout sensatnalism asss the gay and lbian experience of stud-era Hollywood, ” wrote William J.

Mann “Wisecracker, ” a bgraphy that explored the very public “private life” of gay silent-era-leadg-man-turned-terr-rator-to the-lg-class, William Ha. Takg his cue om Neal Gabler’s “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, ” Mann’s new book about gay Hollywood, “Behd the Screen, ” enavors to expla how gays and lbians shaped the those rears ls than faiar wh the stud era’s rise and fall--or gay polics and social history, for that matter--are relatively well aware of the fact that the same-sex-oriented played a major role . The stickg pot is precisely how that role was played, given the paradox of the culture’s stated disapproval of gays and lbians, and the haven that plac like Hollywood provid for sexual nonnformists.

'SPOILER ALERT' - JIM PARSONS AND BEN ALDRIDGE ON THEIR GAY 'LOVE STORY'

Although the film dtry’s gays and lbians had eedom, they did not--until the 1990s--have any real gree of make or break power. Mayer’s mom-and-apple-pie paeans to the fictnal ultra-WASP Hardy fay, and that “mory wh-and-whout” of gays who, while never igng to raise their voic, slipped one past the goalie, as the sayg go, om time to time--as, for example, Jack Cole’s eye-poppgly homoerotic “Is There Anyone Here for Love? ” Ever sce homosexualy was vented as a behavral tegory by Karoly Maria Benkert, a Hungarian physician, 1869 and adopted by the medil profsn as a quasi-disease (mental illns or “geic fect, ” take your pick) the 20th, a prolonged stggle ensued to get this “elephant the bedroom” (and everywhere else the “hoe” for that matter) regnized as a simple fact of this stggle has by no means end, the last four s have seen the “unspeakable” spoken wh creasg regulary, if not honty, tobgraphi such as Arthur Lrents’ “Origal Story By” and David Graham’s “Castg About.