When Hollywood Studs Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexualy a Secret | HISTORY

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• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• GAY MENSWEAR FASHN DIGNERS

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsIt's no surprise that of all the great gay fashn signers to have clared their sexual preference recent years, cludg Versace, Tom Ford, Dolce and Gabbana and Grg Armani, Valento should be the last to e 's no surprise that of all the great gay fashn signers to have clared their sexual preference recent years, cludg Versace, Tom Ford, Dolce and Gabbana and Grg Armani, Valento should be the last to e "secret that is not a secret", as Valento's bs partner Gianrlo Giammetti puts , is splashed across an article on the multilnaire Italian signer the Augt issue of Vany Fair 's no surprise he's late bee beg out on the leadg edge has never been the style of the signer who burst on to the fashn scene 1959 and quickly tablished himself as the favoure of the ladi who Giammetti, who has n the bs si of Valento's fashn hoe for 40 years, said: "Ours was not a story of money or fashn.

“I was too ‘gay’ for them! “I was different om all my gay iends, too, bee I had a girliend.

GAY MENSWEAR FASHN DIGNERS

Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public. They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s.

Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a . They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk.

He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars.