Our celebratn of post-war gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all.
Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- WHO WERE SOME GAY ACTORS OF SILENT SCREEN ERA?
- SILENT FILMS, RATED BY GAYNS
- MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
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Hollywood’s First Gay Marriage.
The story of William Ha is remembered, if ’s remembered at all, as the story of the first openly gay Hollywood star. And through all he was, proudly, one-half of Hollywood’s first openly gay marriage. That Ha was livg openly wh another man, thereby stroyg any possibily that he might not be gay, ially did absolutely nothg to impact Ha’ populary around town or at his home stud.
For years, everyone at MGM had known that William Ha was gay and livg wh a man he loved. Members of the Hollywood gay scene of the time believe that Billy had taken the h for Jimmy, who had been arrted a bar or a park, where he was known to cise.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
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We know that many other stars Hollywood had gay relatnships, but most prented themselv as straight when told to.
Billy’s old iend Archie Leach, for stance, is acknowledged now by many bgraphers to have lived as a gay man before he me to Hollywood and to have ntued relatnships wh men after he beme Cary Grant. The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight.
In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.”.
WHO WERE SOME GAY ACTORS OF SILENT SCREEN ERA?
One of the biggt challeng facg silent film historians today is this, “Whout sound, jt how are you supposed to tell if your favore silent era film star was gay?” Whout sound, there’s no tell-tale lisp; no guttural bulldog growl mblg om an otherwise mure, dove-whe throat. The qutn of silent era sexualy has ed […] * gay actors silent era *
Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns,” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public.
No one wanted to believe that Ameri’s goln boy uld be a gay man.
SILENT FILMS, RATED BY GAYNS
Cor’s mansn, rated by gay former actor William Ha, beme the center of LGBT society Hollywood. It was a well-known fact that Cor was gay, even though he never publicly spoke about .
Cor may have never been able to explicly talk about his sexualy, but he helped solidify the gay muny Hollywood. He also stggled to accept his homosexualy thanks to his strict Roman Catholic upbrgg. Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s.
Incintally, the film is noted for s untentnal homoerotic unrton. Clift never publicly talked about , but close iend Elizabeth Taylor admted he was gay at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards.
MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
The two acted three movi together, cludg Sudnly, Last Summer, which had Clift play a gay man. In 1939 he married Osr-wng actrs Ja Gaynor, to whom he remaed wed until his ath 1959. Rumors about both Adrian and Gaynor’s sexualy have been hard to prove.
Their marriage is believed to be a lavenr marriage, which was an arrangement ma to bunk mors that they were both gay. Diana McLellan mentns this her book The Girls and the uple’s relatnship is heavily analyzed William Mann’s Behd the Screen: How Gays and Lbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969. Actor Bob Cummgs is quoted the book as sayg, “Ja Gaynor’s hband was Adrian, the MGM fashn signer.