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Contents:
- THE GAY LIFE OF NOëL COWARD
- A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
THE GAY LIFE OF NOëL COWARD
* was noel coward gay *
But perhaps the most astoundg thg of all is the fact that – at a time when homosexualy was illegal and would rema so for some time – he lived an openly gay is this that mak a newly disvered photograph album so extraordary.
Apparently piled the 1930s by Coward’s clost female iend, Joyce Carey, the album is a remarkable sight to gay liv of the terwar years, lived pla sight. I uld sense his nervons rellg a time when gay men had to watch their backs. Coward, like his fellow gay theatril superstar Ivor Novello, lived fear of Osr Wil’s fate.
But importantly, like Wil, he was the role mol for an entire generatn of gay people. I looked so gay, yet felt so natural. One of the biggt challeng I faced as a young actor was homophobia.
A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
I found the stigma of homosexualy almost reason enough to end my reer before started.
But several years later, I was fortunate to land a role Paramount Pictur’ Kiss Me, Guido, one of the first gay films produced by a major stud. On set, several of the other young gay actors and I bated and analyzed the dangers of embracg our te selv our work.