‘Amerin Bandstand’ kept secret that teen stars were gay

Contents:

• ‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
• HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY
• DICK CLARK’S SECRET: ‘BANDSTAND’ DANCERS WERE HAVG A GAY OLD TIME

‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY

What they didn’t know was that Arlene and several of the other female dancers, and most of the handsome teen boys, were gay. But back the “Bandstand” days, Smh was one of the show’s secretly gay dancers. Ray Smh was one of the show’s secretly gay Chevrtt.

And while Smh knew he was gay, he was “shocked” to learn that “most of the guys on ‘Bandstand, ’ so many of them, were gay, ” he told The Post. Clark was “termed” to keep the homosexualy of popular “Bandstand” regulars a secret, Smh said. Sullivan and the other dancers often ngregated Rtenhoe Square, the historic epicenter of what is known as the Cy of Brotherly Love’s “Gayborhood.

HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY

” There even was chatter and fear that Clark, who died at 82 2012, sent members of his productn staff to spy on them and report back the nam of the spected gay regulars. “In other parts of the untry, if you were a gay kid growg up, you were probably the only one town who was gay, ” Sullivan said. But was not easy on the mean streets of Philalphia to be a “Bandstand” regular spected of beg gay.

The bashg of “Bandstand” regulars, gay and straight, happened all the time, Sullivan and Smh reveal.

DICK CLARK’S SECRET: ‘BANDSTAND’ DANCERS WERE HAVG A GAY OLD TIME

But he vividly rells that one of his fellow gay dancers “was thrown onto the El tracks” outsi the stud, and another popular regular who was gay and often danced wh Sullivan “was dangled over an elevator shaft. “The parents of one kid on the show found out that he was gay... Growg up, they knew many openly gay male dancers.

But Pyle’s md, they said, to be a ballet dancer, gay and a woman “jt wasn’t a possibily. But those who are most visible, and have been historilly, are gay men. In the pany, she said, “I was around a bunch of gay men who took me unr their wg and were like, ‘Yeah girl, this is OK.

No, this is about the ballero — my word for him — I met and what he reprented to a lonely gay kid Southern California 1984, a kid who had never before met another gay person. Somethg about his movement told me he was gay, and I felt he was dancg not only for himself but for me.