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• KPOP STARS THAT HAS BEEN RUMORED AS GAY [PART 2]
• IS BILLY IDOL GAY? WHAT WAS HIS SEXUALY?
• IS RYAN SEACRT GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE RUMORS AND HIS DATG HISTORY
• KPOP STARS THAT HAS BEEN RUMORED AS GAY [PART 1]
• MATEE IDOL TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT JAM DEAN'S {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY CAREY O'DONNELLMARCH 19, 2015/12:43 PMBY CAREY O'DONNELLMARCH 19, 2015 / 12:43 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MATEE IDOL TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT JAM DEAN'S SEXUALY","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-03-19T16:43:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-03-19T16:43:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CAREY O'DONNELL","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INIC ACTOR JAM DEAN WAS THE SUBJECT OF GAY MORS EVEN BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY ATH 1955. VAR SOURC HAVE CLAIMED THE BROODG YOUNG STAR OF GIANT AND REBEL WHOUT A CSE WAS A HTLER, OR THAT HE SLEPT WH VAR HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS TO FURTHER HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: JOHN TRAVOLTA BLACKMAILED INTO STAYG CLOSETED BY SCIENTOLOGY, NEW DOC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REBEL DIRECTOR NICHOLAS RAY SUATED DEAN WAS A HOMOSEXUAL—AND POSSIBLY VOLVED WH -STAR SAL MEO, WHO WAS GAY—WHILE BGRAPHER JOHN HOWLETT MATAED JD WAS "MOST CERTALY BISEXUAL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}E! ONLE UGHT UP WH '50S SCREEN IDOL TAB HUNTER AT SXSW, WHERE HE WAS PROMOTG THE NEW DOC TAB HUNTER CONFINTIAL, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT DEAN'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUNTER, HIMSELF CLOSETED FOR MOST OF HIS REER, WAS IENDS WH THE LATE STAR—THEY SHARED AN AGENT AND HUNTER EVEN WENT ON ARRANGED DAT WH DEAN'S REBEL STAR NATALIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUNTER, NOW 81, ACKNOWLEDGED THE NSTANT MORS THAT SWIRLED AROUND HIS IEND. "PEOPLE ALWAYS SAID THAT [DEAN WAS BISEXUAL]," HUNTER TOLD E!'S MARK MALK. "PEOPLE WANT TO HANG LABELS ON PEOPLE: 'OH, HE'S LIKE THIS OR HE'S LIKE THAT.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT, HUNTER SAID, "I DON'T BUY TO THAT—AS FAR AS I KNOW JIMMY [WASN'T BI]."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MAYBE HE NEVER HEARD THE STORY ABOUT LIZ TAYLOR AND ROCK HUDSON WAGERG WHO ULD SCE DEAN FIRST ON THE SET OF GIANT? ACRDG TO LEGEND, ROCK WON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BELOW, WATCH THE TRAILER FOR TAB HUNTER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• RYAN SEACRT MIRED GAY RUMORS FOR YEARS AND SIMON COWELL NEVER MISSED A CHANCE TO FUEL IT
• IS BILLY IDOL GAY? IS IT JT A RUMOR? KNOW EVERYTHG ABOUT SGERS’S SEXUALY
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• THE QUEERG OF RYAN SEACRTTHE AMERIN IDOL HOST—WHOSE RECENT ERRATIC BEHAVR ON THE AIR HAS PROMPTED CHATTER—HAS FOR YEARS ALTERNATED BETWEEN RECEIVG AND LIVERG HOMOPHOBIC, GAY-BAG ATTACKS. THAD RSELL ON THE SEACRT PERSONA.THAD RSELLUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 1:14PM EDT PL SAKUMA / AP PHOTO EVEN IF HE IS HETEROSEXUAL, RYAN SEACRT SHOULD NSIR BEG GAY.AFTER WATCHG THE AMERIN IDOL HOST BOTH GAY-BA ADAM LAMBERT ("MY TONGUE ISN'T NEARLY AS TALENTED AS YOURS") AND DANCE WH A MAN THE DIENCE DURG ONE OF LAST WEEK’S BROADSTS, I WAS REMD OF THE LATE LERARY CRIC EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK. WHEN ASKED BY A JOURNALIST WHETHER SHE WAS GAY, SEDGWICK, WHO HELPED CREATE THE AMIC FIELD KNOWN AS "QUEER THEORY" BY FDG HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXTS WH CLASSIC LERATURE, RPOND THAT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUTN PEND UPON WHICH "REGIME" ONE WAS OPERATG WH.BRIAN DUNKLEMAN, SEACRT'S -HOST DURG THE SHOW'S FIRST SEASON, REPORTED THAT "THE QUTN I GET ASKED THE MOST" WAS "IS RYAN GAY?" SEDGWICK, LIKE RYAN SEACRT, LIVED BETWEEN TWO REGIM. BEE OF HER BRAZEN "QUEERG" OF CULTURAL INS AND CELEBRATN OF HOMOSEXUAL SIRE, SHE WAS OFTEN ASSUMED TO BE GAY. BUT FACT SHE WAS MARRIED TO A MAN AND SEXUALLY MONOGAMO WH HIM OM 1969 UNTIL HER ATH 2009. THOUGH AS QUEER AS A THREE-DOLLAR BILL HER SCHOLARLY WORK, SEDGWICK'S OWN SEX LIFE ULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE RPECTABLE. "AS FAR AS 'HAVG SEX' GO," SHE WROTE HER MEMOIR, "THGS ULDN'T POSSIBLY BE MORE HYGIENIC OR ROUTIZED FOR ME. WHEN I DO , 'S VANILLA SEX, ON A WEEKLY BASIS, THE MISSNARY POSN, DAYLIGHT, IMMEDIATELY AFTER A SHOWER, WH ONE PERSON OF THE SO-LLED OPPOSE SEX, TO WHOM I'VE BEEN LEGALLY MARRIED FOR ALMOST A QUARTER OF A CENTURY." • VIEW OUR VERAGE OF AMERIN IDOL SEASON 9 I DON'T KNOW WHETHER SEDGWICK EVER WATCHED AMERIN IDOL, BUT I IMAGE THAT IF SHE HAD, SHE WOULD HAVE UNRSTOOD RYAN SEACRT AS SOMEONE SIAR TO HERSELF AND TO THE FICTNAL CHARACTERS WHOSE INTI SHE PLITED. THERE IS LIKELY NO AMERIN CELEBRY WHO MORE FULLY HABS WHAT QUEER THEORISTS LL A "LIMAL" SEXUAL STATE—A PLACE -BETWEEN A CULTURE'S SEXUAL TEGORI—THAN THE IDOL HOST.SEACRT'S SEXUALY HAS BEEN A MAJOR PART OF THE IDOL STORY SCE THE SHOW BEGAN 2002, LARGELY BEE OF SIMON COWELL'S RELENTLS ATTEMPTS TO DO TO SEACRT WHAT SEDGWICK DID TO BRISH NOVELS. THE ACIDIC BRISH TALENT JUDGE SIMPLY WILL NOT LET SEACRT BE STRAIGHT. PERHAPS UNAWARE THAT AMERINS DON'T SAY SUCH THGS PUBLIC, COWELL PUNCTUAT HIS PUT-DOWNS OF SEACRT WH "SWEETHEART," SUGGTED THE HOST "SHOULD KNOW" WHETHER A NTTANT'S HIGH HEELS WERE FASHNABLE, AND EVEN UNSELED SEACRT TO "E OUT" OF THE CLOSET. IN 2006 THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN WAS SO TROUBLED BY COWELL'S HECTORG SUATNS THAT NTACTED THE AMERIN IDOL PRODUCERS TO "DISCS OUR NCERNS—AND THE NCERNS OF MUNY MEMBERS AND ALLI—WHO HAVE NTACTED ABOUT THIS MATTER." TWO YEARS LATER, BRIAN DUNKLEMAN, SEACRT'S -HOST DURG THE SHOW'S FIRST SEASON, REPORTED THAT "THE QUTN I GET ASKED THE MOST" WAS "IS RYAN GAY?"THE IDOL HOST, WHOSE ERRATIC BEHAVR THIS SEASON HAS TENSIFIED THE SPECULATN ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE, IS HOUND ABOUT HIS SEXUALY EVEN OUTSI THE SHOW. AT THE 2009 OSRS, WHERE SEACRT WORKED THE RED RPET FOR E!, -HOST JAY MANUEL, THE OPENLY GAY MAKP ARTIST AND STAR OF AMERI'S NEXT TOP MOL, NOTED SEACRT'S UNABASHED ENTHIASM FOR ONE ACTRS' GOWN. WH A SE, MANUEL TOLD THE DIENCE THAT "RYAN WAS LOVG THAT DRS" THEN ASKED HIS LLEAGUE, "FASHN'S YOUR FAVORE SUBJECT, RIGHT, RYAN?" AND WHEN SEACRT SERVED AS SUBSTUTE HOST ON CNN'S LARRY KG LIVE HE RECEIVED A MOST UNWELE PLIMENT OM CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER—HIMSELF A PUBLIC FIGURE OF GREAT LIMALY. "THAT'S THE BIGGT TIE I'VE EVER SEEN," COOPER SAID OF SEACRT'S EXAGGERATED PK NECKPIECE. TRAPPED SI THE JOKE, SEACRT BLURTED, "YOUR BOW IS TY AND ME IS HUGE," TO WHICH COOPER LIVERED THE FATAL QUEERG BLOW: "I'VE HEARD THAT OFTEN."TRAGILLY, SEACRT'S RPONSE TO ALL THIS HAS BEEN TO FIGHT RATHER THAN SUBM. "DON'T LL ME SWEETHEART," HE SHOT BACK AT COWELL AFTER ONE OF THE FIRST PROVOTNS. “WE DON’T HAVE THAT KD OF RELATNSHIP. I DON’T WANT THAT KD OF RELATNSHIP.” OFTEN THE BATTL, SEACRT TURNS THE ACCATNS BACK AT HIS PERSECUTOR, RATCHETG UP THE HOMOPHOBIA AND BRGG TO MD SHAKPEARE'S OBSERVATN THAT THE SURT WAY TO CRIMATE ONELF IS TO "PROTT TOO MUCH." TO COWELL'S "CLOSET" QUIP, SEACRT JABBED BACK, "STAY OUT OF MY CLOSET" AND "THIS IS ABOUT THE TOP 12, NOT YOUR WISH."SEACRT ACTS MORE SUBTLY BUT NO LS FORCEFULLY AGAST HIS GAY INTY ON HIS SYNDITED RAD PROGRAM, ON AIR WH RYAN SEACRT, WHERE HE ADOPTS A HIGHLY MASCULE, "DU-BRO" POSE. TO WHAT MT BE A YOUNG, MORE HETEROSEXUAL MOGRAPHIC THAN IDOL HAS, SEACRT LETS FLY WH HOMOPHOBIC NUENDO AND LASCIV MENTS ABOUT FEMALE CELEBRI.ASI OM S NTRIBUTN TO ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT A SOCIETY WHERE "FAGGOT" REMAS THE PRIMARY EPHET SCHOOLYARDS, SEACRT'S REFAL TO ACCEPT HIS OWN QUEERG MIGHT ALSO BE A POOR BS CISN. LAST WEEK HE NEED TO LOOK NO FARTHER THAN THE ONT OF THE DORIUM FOR EVINCE OF THIS.STG TWO CHAIRS OM COWELL WAS AMERIN IDOL'S NEWT JUDGE, ELLEN DEGENER, WHOSE REER AND STATURE HAVE MOVED TO GREATNS SCE SHE ME OUT 1997. ADAM LAMBERT SERVED AS THE GUT MENTOR FOR THE SHOW, FOLLOWG A YEAR WHICH HE TABLISHED HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR IDOL NTTANTS WH A SERI OF BARET-FLECTED SUBVERSNS OF AMERIN POPULAR MIC AND EXTEND HIS FAME AT THE AMERIN MIC AWARDS SHOW WH WHAT MANY HAVE LLED THE RNCHIT AND MOST OUTWARDLY HOMOEROTIC PERFORMANCE WORK TELEVISN HISTORY. SEATED BEHD LAMBERT WERE THE STARS OF GLEE, THERE TO PROMOTE WHAT IS FOX'S SEND HOTTT SERI AND, ACRDG TO ROLLG STONE MAGAZE, THE "GAYT. SHOW. EVER."REGARDLS OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN, SEACRT IS UNIQUELY POSNED TO BROAN OUR CULTURE WH LTLE OR NO PENALTY. THE NEXT TIME HE IS LLED GAY HE NEED SIMPLY SAY, "Y, I AM."EDOR’S NOTE: AN EARLIER VERSN OF THIS STORY NTAED THE PHRASE “SEXUAL PREFERENCE.” IT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO “SEXUAL ORIENTATN.”PL: CHECK OUT MORE OF THE LATT ENTERTAMENT, FASHN, AND CULTURE VERAGE ON SEXY BEAST—PHOTOS, VIOS, FEATUR, AND TWEETS.THAD RSELL IS THE THOR OF THE FORTHG A RENEGA HISTORY OF THE UNED STAT (FREE PRS/SIMON & SCHTER, 2010). HE TEACH HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDI AT OCCINTAL COLLEGE AND HAS TGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, BARNARD COLLEGE, EUGENE LANG COLLEGE, AND THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL REARCH. THAD RSELL

KPOP STARS THAT HAS BEEN RUMORED AS GAY [PART 2]

Holland is not the first known LGBT K-pop idol, but you n say that this new generatn of K-pop, he's one of the first idols who admted that he's gay.

IS BILLY IDOL GAY? WHAT WAS HIS SEXUALY?

He ially me out as gay 2015, and upon g Korea, his iends told him to keep his sexualy secret - but he's proud of his inty, makg him the first Korean artist who is openly gay. However, durg an terview, she nfsed she is gay, g her to be kicked out om her agency. Amerin Idol Season 7 nner-up David Archuleta has discsed the journey he went on wh his sexualy a recent social media Instagram June (aka Pri Month), the sger and Mormon revealed that he discsed g out as gay to his fay 2014, six years after beg on post scrib how Archuleta stggled to fd a better scriptn of his sexualy than simply "gay.

IS RYAN SEACRT GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE RUMORS AND HIS DATG HISTORY

I me out 2014 as gay to my fay. Amerin Idol had s first gay nttant way back s first season wh Jim Verraros, who ma the top his public life, he has sce said that Fox ma him lete an onle journal post where he talked about his sexualy, wh the work claimg he was not able to "self-promote" as a told The Advote: "Lookg back, [the work's policy] uld be terpreted a bunch of different ways.

Shortly after his n on the show, Aiken told Rollg Stone: "One thg I've found of people the public eye, eher you're a womanizer or you've got to be gay. He me out as gay 2016. That's why I wanted to share my own story as a gay man.

He said, "I don't thk should be a surprise for anyone to hear I'm gay. I've been livg Los Angel for eight years as a gay man.

KPOP STARS THAT HAS BEEN RUMORED AS GAY [PART 1]

"Nathaniel MarshallAfter makg to the top 36 of Season 8, Marshall first starred MTV realy show The Gay Real World. He then went on to a reer gay porn unr the name Jadyn told The Sword magaze: "I have always been a very sexual human beg. I am not this gay, feme boy.

MATEE IDOL TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT JAM DEAN'S {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY CAREY O'DONNELLMARCH 19, 2015/12:43 PMBY CAREY O'DONNELLMARCH 19, 2015 / 12:43 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MATEE IDOL TAB HUNTER OPENS UP ABOUT JAM DEAN'S SEXUALY","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-03-19T16:43:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-03-19T16:43:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CAREY O'DONNELL","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INIC ACTOR JAM DEAN WAS THE SUBJECT OF GAY MORS EVEN BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY ATH 1955. VAR SOURC HAVE CLAIMED THE BROODG YOUNG STAR OF GIANT AND REBEL WHOUT A CSE WAS A HTLER, OR THAT HE SLEPT WH VAR HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS TO FURTHER HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: JOHN TRAVOLTA BLACKMAILED INTO STAYG CLOSETED BY SCIENTOLOGY, NEW DOC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REBEL DIRECTOR NICHOLAS RAY SUATED DEAN WAS A HOMOSEXUAL—AND POSSIBLY VOLVED WH -STAR SAL MEO, WHO WAS GAY—WHILE BGRAPHER JOHN HOWLETT MATAED JD WAS "MOST CERTALY BISEXUAL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}E! ONLE UGHT UP WH '50S SCREEN IDOL TAB HUNTER AT SXSW, WHERE HE WAS PROMOTG THE NEW DOC TAB HUNTER CONFINTIAL, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT DEAN'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUNTER, HIMSELF CLOSETED FOR MOST OF HIS REER, WAS IENDS WH THE LATE STAR—THEY SHARED AN AGENT AND HUNTER EVEN WENT ON ARRANGED DAT WH DEAN'S REBEL STAR NATALIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUNTER, NOW 81, ACKNOWLEDGED THE NSTANT MORS THAT SWIRLED AROUND HIS IEND. "PEOPLE ALWAYS SAID THAT [DEAN WAS BISEXUAL]," HUNTER TOLD E!'S MARK MALK. "PEOPLE WANT TO HANG LABELS ON PEOPLE: 'OH, HE'S LIKE THIS OR HE'S LIKE THAT.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT, HUNTER SAID, "I DON'T BUY TO THAT—AS FAR AS I KNOW JIMMY [WASN'T BI]."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MAYBE HE NEVER HEARD THE STORY ABOUT LIZ TAYLOR AND ROCK HUDSON WAGERG WHO ULD SCE DEAN FIRST ON THE SET OF GIANT? ACRDG TO LEGEND, ROCK WON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BELOW, WATCH THE TRAILER FOR TAB HUNTER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

There are reasons why there aren’t a lot of openly gay idols.

RYAN SEACRT MIRED GAY RUMORS FOR YEARS AND SIMON COWELL NEVER MISSED A CHANCE TO FUEL IT

Two sirs nfirmed that gay idols are more mon than expected.

| For their Dark Sis Of K-Pop segment, former Blady member Co and traee-turned-lyricist Ga Maeng were asked how Korean pani view same-sex relatnships and gay idols.

IS BILLY IDOL GAY? IS IT JT A RUMOR? KNOW EVERYTHG ABOUT SGERS’S SEXUALY

Dpe idols not talkg about their sexualy, there are que a few who are gay. In a society where celebri receive backlash for g out as gay, mak sense why K-Pop idols who are part of the LGBT muny want to protect themselv.

IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY

Well, isn't a surprised if there is some gay uple Korean entertament dtry, nsistg 4, 587 registered sgers and 15, 423 actors/actrs (acrdg to Natnal Tax service of South Korea). P, Sngho and, admted to beg a gay uple while dog a live on Instagram. Certaly 2016, there has been a lot of gay mors pops up and out.

So let's discs about several gay mor that has been floated around 2016:. Beg outed as gay will surely endg a reer for almost everyone.

THE QUEERG OF RYAN SEACRTTHE AMERIN IDOL HOST—WHOSE RECENT ERRATIC BEHAVR ON THE AIR HAS PROMPTED CHATTER—HAS FOR YEARS ALTERNATED BETWEEN RECEIVG AND LIVERG HOMOPHOBIC, GAY-BAG ATTACKS. THAD RSELL ON THE SEACRT PERSONA.THAD RSELLUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 1:14PM EDT PL SAKUMA / AP PHOTO EVEN IF HE IS HETEROSEXUAL, RYAN SEACRT SHOULD NSIR BEG GAY.AFTER WATCHG THE AMERIN IDOL HOST BOTH GAY-BA ADAM LAMBERT ("MY TONGUE ISN'T NEARLY AS TALENTED AS YOURS") AND DANCE WH A MAN THE DIENCE DURG ONE OF LAST WEEK’S BROADSTS, I WAS REMD OF THE LATE LERARY CRIC EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK. WHEN ASKED BY A JOURNALIST WHETHER SHE WAS GAY, SEDGWICK, WHO HELPED CREATE THE AMIC FIELD KNOWN AS "QUEER THEORY" BY FDG HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXTS WH CLASSIC LERATURE, RPOND THAT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUTN PEND UPON WHICH "REGIME" ONE WAS OPERATG WH.BRIAN DUNKLEMAN, SEACRT'S -HOST DURG THE SHOW'S FIRST SEASON, REPORTED THAT "THE QUTN I GET ASKED THE MOST" WAS "IS RYAN GAY?" SEDGWICK, LIKE RYAN SEACRT, LIVED BETWEEN TWO REGIM. BEE OF HER BRAZEN "QUEERG" OF CULTURAL INS AND CELEBRATN OF HOMOSEXUAL SIRE, SHE WAS OFTEN ASSUMED TO BE GAY. BUT FACT SHE WAS MARRIED TO A MAN AND SEXUALLY MONOGAMO WH HIM OM 1969 UNTIL HER ATH 2009. THOUGH AS QUEER AS A THREE-DOLLAR BILL HER SCHOLARLY WORK, SEDGWICK'S OWN SEX LIFE ULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE RPECTABLE. "AS FAR AS 'HAVG SEX' GO," SHE WROTE HER MEMOIR, "THGS ULDN'T POSSIBLY BE MORE HYGIENIC OR ROUTIZED FOR ME. WHEN I DO , 'S VANILLA SEX, ON A WEEKLY BASIS, THE MISSNARY POSN, DAYLIGHT, IMMEDIATELY AFTER A SHOWER, WH ONE PERSON OF THE SO-LLED OPPOSE SEX, TO WHOM I'VE BEEN LEGALLY MARRIED FOR ALMOST A QUARTER OF A CENTURY." • VIEW OUR VERAGE OF AMERIN IDOL SEASON 9 I DON'T KNOW WHETHER SEDGWICK EVER WATCHED AMERIN IDOL, BUT I IMAGE THAT IF SHE HAD, SHE WOULD HAVE UNRSTOOD RYAN SEACRT AS SOMEONE SIAR TO HERSELF AND TO THE FICTNAL CHARACTERS WHOSE INTI SHE PLITED. THERE IS LIKELY NO AMERIN CELEBRY WHO MORE FULLY HABS WHAT QUEER THEORISTS LL A "LIMAL" SEXUAL STATE—A PLACE -BETWEEN A CULTURE'S SEXUAL TEGORI—THAN THE IDOL HOST.SEACRT'S SEXUALY HAS BEEN A MAJOR PART OF THE IDOL STORY SCE THE SHOW BEGAN 2002, LARGELY BEE OF SIMON COWELL'S RELENTLS ATTEMPTS TO DO TO SEACRT WHAT SEDGWICK DID TO BRISH NOVELS. THE ACIDIC BRISH TALENT JUDGE SIMPLY WILL NOT LET SEACRT BE STRAIGHT. PERHAPS UNAWARE THAT AMERINS DON'T SAY SUCH THGS PUBLIC, COWELL PUNCTUAT HIS PUT-DOWNS OF SEACRT WH "SWEETHEART," SUGGTED THE HOST "SHOULD KNOW" WHETHER A NTTANT'S HIGH HEELS WERE FASHNABLE, AND EVEN UNSELED SEACRT TO "E OUT" OF THE CLOSET. IN 2006 THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN WAS SO TROUBLED BY COWELL'S HECTORG SUATNS THAT NTACTED THE AMERIN IDOL PRODUCERS TO "DISCS OUR NCERNS—AND THE NCERNS OF MUNY MEMBERS AND ALLI—WHO HAVE NTACTED ABOUT THIS MATTER." TWO YEARS LATER, BRIAN DUNKLEMAN, SEACRT'S -HOST DURG THE SHOW'S FIRST SEASON, REPORTED THAT "THE QUTN I GET ASKED THE MOST" WAS "IS RYAN GAY?"THE IDOL HOST, WHOSE ERRATIC BEHAVR THIS SEASON HAS TENSIFIED THE SPECULATN ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE, IS HOUND ABOUT HIS SEXUALY EVEN OUTSI THE SHOW. AT THE 2009 OSRS, WHERE SEACRT WORKED THE RED RPET FOR E!, -HOST JAY MANUEL, THE OPENLY GAY MAKP ARTIST AND STAR OF AMERI'S NEXT TOP MOL, NOTED SEACRT'S UNABASHED ENTHIASM FOR ONE ACTRS' GOWN. WH A SE, MANUEL TOLD THE DIENCE THAT "RYAN WAS LOVG THAT DRS" THEN ASKED HIS LLEAGUE, "FASHN'S YOUR FAVORE SUBJECT, RIGHT, RYAN?" AND WHEN SEACRT SERVED AS SUBSTUTE HOST ON CNN'S LARRY KG LIVE HE RECEIVED A MOST UNWELE PLIMENT OM CNN ANCHOR ANRSON COOPER—HIMSELF A PUBLIC FIGURE OF GREAT LIMALY. "THAT'S THE BIGGT TIE I'VE EVER SEEN," COOPER SAID OF SEACRT'S EXAGGERATED PK NECKPIECE. TRAPPED SI THE JOKE, SEACRT BLURTED, "YOUR BOW IS TY AND ME IS HUGE," TO WHICH COOPER LIVERED THE FATAL QUEERG BLOW: "I'VE HEARD THAT OFTEN."TRAGILLY, SEACRT'S RPONSE TO ALL THIS HAS BEEN TO FIGHT RATHER THAN SUBM. "DON'T LL ME SWEETHEART," HE SHOT BACK AT COWELL AFTER ONE OF THE FIRST PROVOTNS. “WE DON’T HAVE THAT KD OF RELATNSHIP. I DON’T WANT THAT KD OF RELATNSHIP.” OFTEN THE BATTL, SEACRT TURNS THE ACCATNS BACK AT HIS PERSECUTOR, RATCHETG UP THE HOMOPHOBIA AND BRGG TO MD SHAKPEARE'S OBSERVATN THAT THE SURT WAY TO CRIMATE ONELF IS TO "PROTT TOO MUCH." TO COWELL'S "CLOSET" QUIP, SEACRT JABBED BACK, "STAY OUT OF MY CLOSET" AND "THIS IS ABOUT THE TOP 12, NOT YOUR WISH."SEACRT ACTS MORE SUBTLY BUT NO LS FORCEFULLY AGAST HIS GAY INTY ON HIS SYNDITED RAD PROGRAM, ON AIR WH RYAN SEACRT, WHERE HE ADOPTS A HIGHLY MASCULE, "DU-BRO" POSE. TO WHAT MT BE A YOUNG, MORE HETEROSEXUAL MOGRAPHIC THAN IDOL HAS, SEACRT LETS FLY WH HOMOPHOBIC NUENDO AND LASCIV MENTS ABOUT FEMALE CELEBRI.ASI OM S NTRIBUTN TO ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT A SOCIETY WHERE "FAGGOT" REMAS THE PRIMARY EPHET SCHOOLYARDS, SEACRT'S REFAL TO ACCEPT HIS OWN QUEERG MIGHT ALSO BE A POOR BS CISN. LAST WEEK HE NEED TO LOOK NO FARTHER THAN THE ONT OF THE DORIUM FOR EVINCE OF THIS.STG TWO CHAIRS OM COWELL WAS AMERIN IDOL'S NEWT JUDGE, ELLEN DEGENER, WHOSE REER AND STATURE HAVE MOVED TO GREATNS SCE SHE ME OUT 1997. ADAM LAMBERT SERVED AS THE GUT MENTOR FOR THE SHOW, FOLLOWG A YEAR WHICH HE TABLISHED HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR IDOL NTTANTS WH A SERI OF BARET-FLECTED SUBVERSNS OF AMERIN POPULAR MIC AND EXTEND HIS FAME AT THE AMERIN MIC AWARDS SHOW WH WHAT MANY HAVE LLED THE RNCHIT AND MOST OUTWARDLY HOMOEROTIC PERFORMANCE WORK TELEVISN HISTORY. SEATED BEHD LAMBERT WERE THE STARS OF GLEE, THERE TO PROMOTE WHAT IS FOX'S SEND HOTTT SERI AND, ACRDG TO ROLLG STONE MAGAZE, THE "GAYT. SHOW. EVER."REGARDLS OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN, SEACRT IS UNIQUELY POSNED TO BROAN OUR CULTURE WH LTLE OR NO PENALTY. THE NEXT TIME HE IS LLED GAY HE NEED SIMPLY SAY, "Y, I AM."EDOR’S NOTE: AN EARLIER VERSN OF THIS STORY NTAED THE PHRASE “SEXUAL PREFERENCE.” IT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO “SEXUAL ORIENTATN.”PL: CHECK OUT MORE OF THE LATT ENTERTAMENT, FASHN, AND CULTURE VERAGE ON SEXY BEAST—PHOTOS, VIOS, FEATUR, AND TWEETS.THAD RSELL IS THE THOR OF THE FORTHG A RENEGA HISTORY OF THE UNED STAT (FREE PRS/SIMON & SCHTER, 2010). HE TEACH HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDI AT OCCINTAL COLLEGE AND HAS TGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, BARNARD COLLEGE, EUGENE LANG COLLEGE, AND THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL REARCH. THAD RSELL

It isn't a secret that South Korea is still homophobic untry and don't have good LGBTQ right yet. General awarens of homosexualy remaed low among the Korean public until recently, wh creased awarens and bate about this issu. Hong Seok-cheon is the only g out entertaer that has barely managed his reer South Korea entertament, and he is jt the only gay in that South korea has.

A gay app that flashed "Cute gay OOO is 100m away om you! D had no ia that C was gay and fell to a dilemma as to whether to protect his secret or not. A had been pursug a gay liftyle unbeknownst to his iends and agency.

Whenever he didn't have a schle, he'd be at gay clubs Itaewon and Gangnam after makg sure to ver up so that no one uld regnize him.