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HOMOPHOBIA HOLLYWOOD: WHY GAY MOVIE STARS STILL N'T E OUT OF THE CLOSET
He loved his “brothers and sisters” who were gay, but he jt wasn’t one of them. This was not admted 1957, and no one n blame a mercial movie of that era for lackg the urage or even the self-awarens that would have been so direct about a stctive homosexual relatnship. I don’t thk anyone uld ntemplate a remake of the film today whout seeg that there has to be a gay relatnship between lumnist and prs agent, a reliance that exclus the rt of life.
I am nfint that director Mackendrick and wrer Ots were not homosexual, though I’m ls sure that they didn’t unrstand the possibily of that relatnship and see an unrground life the stg.
It was the late 1940s, as he thought of a show bs reer, that he started workg hard on his looks and his body, and when he felt people the neighborhood were thkg he might be gay. In those late 1940s—and still today—there is a wispread feelg that a lot of people show bs are gay.