Hudson lived a double life as a Hollywood heartthrob and a closeted gay man. Bgrapher Mark Griff says Hudson's ath om AIDS 1985 was a turng pot public awarens of the epimic.
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OLD HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PYGMALN
It ed to be unthkable for a Hollywood star to e out as gay.
Gay celebri often faced ser personal nsequenc for beg forced to live a double life. Readg your book about Rock Hudson, I was thkg how paful mt have been for him to be one of Hollywood's leadg men, one of the most, quote, "eligible bachelors" while beg a closeted gay man. And Rock tells this sort of tragic story that when he built up the urage to tell his stepfather that he had the ambns to be an actor, his stepfather h him - and not only that but I thk nfisted any toys that he thought were some way effemate and disuraged any theatril ambns that Rock may have When Rock Hudson was still Roy Fzgerald, he was disvered by Henry Willson, who was also gay.
GRIFFIN: He was a very fluential figure Hollywood, which is tertg when you thk, you know, here's a gay man who was - I wouldn't say overt, but he wasn't as closeted as some of the actors had to be. It's the gay stg uch, if you will. A lot of is about how Rock Hudson was closeted throughout his life and how that worked Hollywood, how that worked for him and other gay magaz often prented an illn of Rock Hudson.