FIVE GAY ACTORS IN MID-CENTURY HOLLYWOOD - WalterFilm

Contents:

• GAY CELEBS WHO ARE MARRIED OR ENGAGED
• 10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

GAY CELEBS WHO ARE MARRIED OR ENGAGED

Throughout the Roarg Twenti, men drsed as women and genr non-nformy and queerns weren't as taboo big ci as they would be years later.Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag," acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV.The marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public. They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s.Lavenr marriag were a solve part for “moral cls” issued by big studs at the time. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng 1946.Bowers wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a .

Dpe the verage, Hudson never addrsed his sexual orientatn publicly before he died of AIDS 1985.Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 weddg.Some gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk.

10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars.Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969. Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. Wh more and more openly gay celebri gracg the stag at the annual award ceremoni, seems that the old fashned views of the lik of Walt Disney and Charlton Hton are buried along wh them.

This is not the se, however, and many the Hollywood ele still like to steal the limelight by ocsnally shockg their terviewers wh some anti-gay sentiments.

Not all of the celebri on this list are explicly “anti-gay”, but they have all at some pot ma clear that they are opposed to the marriage of two people of the same sex. There are many lists out there that claim to have done the same thg, but they ually nfe homophobia wh right-wg views on marriage: the two are not necsarily synonymo.

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

Neverthels, opposg gay marriage is nsired ntroversial due to the large numbers of people affects, wh an timated 6% of the populatn intifyg as LGBT. This list is certaly not exhstive – there are many other celebri who have shocked the world wh vrlic ments directed towards gay people - but the celebri on this list are the most proment to openly oppose, what many people nsir, a legimate form of love servg of legal regnn. A rather nfg aspect of Donald Tmp’s posn is that he has been heard fendg the gay-marriage laws of the USA (note that fense of a law is not fense of a prciple).

Ined, Tmp jumped to the fense of a judge who sentenced a man for refg to issue a gay marriage license, notg that “gay marriage is the law of the land. The star of Duck Dynasty, a show that shadows the Robertson fay while they n their bs that mak duck lls, Phil Robertson was actually recently rponsible for the spensn of the show followg some rather ntroversial remarks about gay people.