The Way We Were's Secret Gay Backstory

Contents:

• HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
• HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ROBERT REDFORD WON A GLOBE PLAYG A GAY ACTOR 1965
• IS ROBERT REDFORD GAY?
• THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• WAS ROBERT REDFORD GAY

HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)

Gore Vidal was yet another famo homosexual bedazzled by Hatcher’s looks, and knowg Lrents’s taste handsome Gentile men, the novelist remend that his fellow wrer iend pay a vis to William B. As the MoMA crowd learned that summer on Quoque, Lrents was gay but his lover was a very bisexual man.

She quickly be a star and marri a fellow actor, played by Redford, who is secretly gay. (Redford has said the character is not explicly gay but “myster, arrogant and charmg, attractive to both sex. Clover — which earned Redford the Goln Glob’ new star of the year award — was one of the first Hollywood films which a gay character is not ashamed of his sexualy.

HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ROBERT REDFORD WON A GLOBE PLAYG A GAY ACTOR 1965

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IS ROBERT REDFORD GAY?

The g out of Robert Redford would greatly benef an credible number of homosexuals all over the world who are still the closet. Although Robert Redford has refed on numero ocsns to beg homosexual, mors are nstantly found on-le. Is Robert Redford Gay?

Far om gay. I thk Redford's "buddyship" wh Newman was jt one a long seri of stanc a movement to "imply" a homosexual relatnship.

Wallgford wrote:I thk Redford's "buddyship" wh Newman was jt one a long seri of stanc a movement to "imply" a homosexual relatnship.

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

The first movie I'm aware of that has a theme of more-or-ls supprsed homosexualy ironilly volv Dt Hoffman, one of Redford's famo -stars, and is of urse Midnight Cowboy. Anyway, I don't agree wh the origal premise, as most gay guys I've known seem to do well wh the ladi - terms of social facily, I mean.

WAS ROBERT REDFORD GAY

Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors really were gay (Nabors' reer was famoly ed by an outg based on false and malic reportg that he had married another man). Gay men sometim teract wh heterosexual women a peculiar but ually beneficial relatnship that is as explible as the existence of homosexualy the first place. Of urse they were, and there was an ' joke' the gay muny that they were lked romantilly.

As far as gay men and women gettg along I don't mean a 'mp' or flirtat way. I've observed that some gay men get along well wh women bee a) they are physilly attractive, and b) any sexual overton/ unwanted advanc are not a factor the dialogue.

How do we tell if an actor is 'really' gay g this logic? Rupert Everett, a fe actor who is gay, has played both straight and gay rol and is nvcg, as a romantic figure, eher. Stereotypg don't work - many of the actors later known to be gay were very hot screen hunks and hunks earlier.