Anrsoon Cooper Says Meetg Richard Gere Ma Him Realize He Was Gay

Contents:

• IS ANDREW COOPER GAY?
• ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
• CHANGG GAY MALE INTI
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

IS ANDREW COOPER GAY?

Andrew Cooper has never ma any public statement about this, so all mors about if Andrew Cooper is gay rema pletely unfound and unproven. While folks still say Andrew Cooper is gay, their ments hold no nsistency or accuracy of any kd. The g out of Andrew Cooper would greatly benef lns of homosexuals around the world who are still the closet.

Celebri such as Andrew Cooper have not admted they are homosexual, this is sce they're certaly not gay or sce they're and do not want to go public. “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 .

ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY

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. 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.

” And jt last year, same-sexualy figured major news stori about everythg om hate crime laws to gay marriage bat to the Boy Suts ntroversy, the Salvatn Army sndal and the onle sexual pecdillo of HIV-posive reactnary uber-pund Andrew Sullivan. Or--to put the entire subject on a more vulgar Natnal Enquirer level--the movi are the most acceptable route to divg who’s gay and who isn’ don’t play that game. More important, he’s well aware that “the closet is not an appropriate nstct” for scribg gay and lbian life at any level the stud era; Mann prefers the far more helpful terms “overt” and “circumspect” to scribe people and ntexts.

CHANGG GAY MALE INTI

The tegrated liv of today’s gay celebri weren’t possible back then. But, beg succsful, rpected and well-liked among his peers, Cor was able to navigate a “private life” the average gay or lbian of that era would em unparalleled s eedom. And then there’s “I Remember Mama, ” Gee Stevens’ credibly movg tribute to “fay valu” produced by Louella Parsons’ lbian dghter, Harriet, and wrten by DeWt Boen--a brilliant gay screenwrer whose creds clu “Cat People.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

”Clearly there were profsns wh the dtry that were more “gay iendly” than others. Mann tells much about the reers of set rators Henry Grace, Hopks (whose creds clu “A Streetr Named Dire”) and Howard Bristol (“Rope”) takg to acunt a gay-bashg cint the latter suffered. But the most genero portn of the book vers Hollywood’s top gay stume signers: Adrian, Travis Banton, Walter Plunkett and Orry-Kelly.

The first two, though wildly flamboyant and “obvly” gay, went so far as to marry. Mann not that the cidly macho Kelly, who once kept pany wh the young (pre-Randolph Stt) Cary Grant, never of urse nnects to the perennial problem prented by gay “visibily. ” The “obv” gayns of Edward Everett Horton, Frankl Pangborn is one thg.