Gay/Bisexual actors old TV Seri ( Pt 1 ) ⋆ Historian Alan Royle

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• GAY/BISEXUAL ACTORS OLD TV SERI ( PT 1 ) JUNE 15, 2015 ADM TV SHOWS 7   WILID BRAMBELL (1912 – 1985)STEPTOE & SONAN IRISHMAN OM BELFAST, BRAMBELL SHOT TO PROMENCE THE 60S PLAYG THE IRASCIBLE, DIRTY OLD STEPTOE THIS POPULAR BRISH S. HE ALSO FEATURED THE BEATL’ FIRST FILM A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964). SHORTLY BEFORE FILMG BEGAN HE WAS CHARGED WH ‘IMPORTUNG FOR IMMORAL PURPOS’ A MEN’S TOILET LONDON, THE MAGISTRATE RELEASG HIM ON A ‘NDNAL DISCHARGE. FROM 1969 UNTIL HIS ATH, BRAMBELL LIVED WH HIS CHE BOYIEND, YSOF SAMAN, TO WHOM HE LEFT THE BULK OF HIS TATE. RAYMOND BURR (1917 – 1993)PERRY MASON – IRONSI BURR WAS A CANADIAN WHO ACHIEVED PHENOMENAL SUCCS THE LATE 50S AS PERRY MASON, THE LAWYER WHO NEVER LOST A SE; AND FOLLOWED UP WH AN EQUALLY SUCCSFUL 60S SERI LLED IRONSI. HIS LNS OF FEMALE FANS HAD NO KLG HE WAS GAY AND HAD BEEN LIVG WH ROBERT BENEVIS SCE THE TWO MET ON THE SET OF PERRY MASON 1957! THEY WERE STILL TOGETHER WHEN BURR DIED OM LIVER NCER 1993. FOR S HE PRETEND HE HAD BEEN WOUND ON OKAWA DURG WW2, JT ONE OF SEVERAL OF HIS FABRITNS. PATRICK CARGILL (1918 – 1996)FATHER, DEAR FATHERENGLISH ACTOR PATRICK CARGILL WAS GIFTED WH SUPERB EDIC TIMG WHICH HE ED TO GREAT EFFECT A FILM, TELEVISN AND STAGE REER THAT LASTED UNTIL THE 1990S. HE, TOO, APPEARED A HARD DAY’S NIGHT. ALTHOUGH CLEARLY GAY MANNERISMS AND SPEECH, HE PLAYED THE FATHER OF TWO TEENAGE GIRLS A UPLE OF S SERI, THE SEND OF WHICH HE PORTRAYED A PLAYBOY BENT ON DIVORCG HIS SIXTH WIFE AND GETTG HIS FIRST WIFE TO REMARRY HIM! IN REAL LIFE HE NEVER MARRIED. A BRA TUMOUR CLAIMED HIM AT 77. RICHARD CHAMBERLA (1934 -)DR. KILDAREBETWEEN 1961 AND 1966, RICHARD CHAMBERLA PLAYED THE TLE CHARACTER TV’S DR. KILDARE, AND WOULD BE PRETTY SAFE TO SAY THERE WAS SRCELY A WOMAN ON THE PLA WHO DID NOT FALL A LTLE B LOVE WH THE GUY. HE HAD EXTRAORDARY GOOD LOOKS, STYLE, ELEGANCE AND, ABOVE ALL, SCERY. HE HARBOURED A SECRET, HOWEVER, ONE THAT THE SOCIAL CLIMATE AT THE TIME FORBA HIM OM DISCLOSG, AND TOOK A HEAVY TOLL ON HIS HAPPS. HE SPERATELY FOUGHT TO HI HIS HOMOSEXUALY OM HIS FANS FOR S, UNTIL AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 69 HE FALLY ‘OUTED’ HIMSELF WH HIS TOBGRAPHY TLED SHATTERED LOVE. WILL GEER (1902 – 1978)THE WALTONSGEER ENARED HIMSELF TO A GENERATN OF FANS OF THE 70S SERI THE WALTONS, PLAYG GRANDFATHER ZEB WALTON. MARRIED ONCE (FOR 20 YEARS), HE HAD THREE CHILDREN; ONE OF HIS EARLY LOV BEG LOS ANGEL MUNIST AND RADIL, HARRY HAY, THE MAN WHO FOUND THE MATTACHE SOCIETY, AMERI’S FIRST LARGE-SLE GAY ACTIVIST ANIZATN. GEER DIED THE SAME YEAR AS THE WALTONS END S SIX-YEAR N. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON (1886 – 1970)F TROOP    AS ROARG CHICKEN                                   YOUNGER DAYSFANS OF THE EXTREMELY FUNNY TV SERI F TROOP OM THE MID-SIXTI WILL RELL HORTON PLAYG THE WIZENED UP ROARG CHICKEN AT WILD EAGLE’S HEKAWI MP, BUT THIS IN OF THE HOLLYWOOD GAY MUNY WAS SILENT PICTUR AS FAR BACK AS 1922. IF YOU EVER WATCH THE 1961 FILM POCKETFUL OF MIRACL, YOU WILL SEE HIM ACTG ALONGSI HIS PANN OF MANY YEARS, ACTOR GAV GORDON. IT WAS THE ONLY MOVIE THEY EVER MA TOGETHER. HORTON PASSED AWAY, STILL UNWED, AT 83. FRANKIE HOWERD (1917 – 1992)UP POMPEII!LIKE PATRICK CARGILL, FRANKIE WORE HIS GAYNS ON HIS SLEEVE FOR ALL TO SEE. PRIVATELY, HE WAS A MAN TORMENTED BY A LACK OF NFINCE HIS OWN NSIRABLE EDIC ABILY, A SUFFERER OF STAGE IGHT THROUGHOUT HIS LONG REER, AND PRONE TO BOUTS OF EP PRSN. HE MET THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, HIS MANAGER AND PARTNER DENNIS HEYMER, 1955, WHO STAYED WH HIM UNTIL FRANKIE’S ATH 1992. BENNY HILL PASSED AWAY THE SAME WEEK. GORN KAYE (1941 – )‘ALLO, ‘ALLOHIS FILM REER HAS SO FAR AMOUNTED TO VERY LTLE, BUT GORN KAYE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF RENE ARTOIS THE ABOVE-MENTNED SERI THAT RAN FOR A BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992, AND IS STILL ENJOYG RE-NS TODAY. HIS 1989 TOBGRAPHY SCRIB HIS EXPERIENC AS A SHY, GAY AND OVERWEIGHT YOUTH. IN 1990, HE VERY NEARLY DIED DURG A VLENT STORM WHEN A WOON PLANK OM A SIGNBOARD ME THROUGH THE WDSCREEN OF HIS R AND STCK HIM THE HEAD. INCINTALLY, THE SPELLG OF GORN (STEAD OF GORDON) ME ABOUT THROUGH AN ERROR WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG. ‘SIGN OF A MISS-SPELT YOUTH’, HE QUIPPED. GRAHAM KENNEDY (1934 – 2005)BLANKETY BLANKS – THE GRAHAM KENNEDY SHOWIF ONLY THERE WERE MORE GRAHAM KENNEDYS ON TV TODAY. BEG AN ATRALIAN, I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO GROW UP WATCHG HIM ON BLANKETY BLANKS AND THE GRAHAM KENNEDY SHOW, NEVER KNOWG WHAT OUTRAGEO MENT WOULD POP OUT OF HIS MOUTH OM ONE WEEK TO THE NEXT. HIS FAMO CROW LL, ‘FAAAAAARK!’ WAS TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS AFTER HE DID ON TV. PROBABLY STILL IS.LIKE A GREAT MANY INTI ON ATRALIAN TELEVISN, KENNEDY WAS HOMOSEXUAL. EVERYONE THE DTRY KNEW . THE PUBLIC DID NOT. WHEN HE DITED HE WOULD PROBABLY BE ANNOUNCG HIS ENGAGEMENT TO SGER LANA CANTRELL ON HIS SHOW, RATGS WENT THROUGH THE ROOF, BUT WAS ALL A PUBLICY STUNT. KENNEDY NEVER NFIRMED HIS GAYNS PUBLICLY, BUT BROADSTER ROB ASTBURY, HIS 2006 BOOK KG AND I: MY LIFE WH GRAHAM KENNEDY, STATED THAT HE AND ‘THE KG’ HAD BEEN LOVERS. JACK LARSON (1928 – )THE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMANLARSON & THE ILL-FATED GEE REEV AS SUPERMANLARSON MA THE SAME MISTAKE THAT GEE REEV MA BACK 1952. THEY BOTH ACCEPTED ROL THE TV SERI THE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMAN, JACK PLAYG JIMMY OLSEN, GEE THE LEAD, EXPECTG NOBODY TO WATCH THE THG. INEXPLIBLY, THE SERI WAS A BIG H AND THE TWO ACTORS WERE FOREVER TYPEST. INED, 1961, JACK’S BOYIEND AT THE TIME, MONTGOMERY CLIFT, ADVISED HIM TO RETIRE OM ACTG AND FOC ON HIS WRG. JOBS FOR ‘JIMMY OLSEN’ NO LONGER EXISTED. HIS LIFE PARTNER, WRER/DIRECTOR JAM BRIDG, PENNED SCRIPTS FOR URBAN COWBOY AND THE CHA SYNDROME. BRIDG PASSED AWAY 1993. GEE WAS MURRED OVER HALF A CENTURY AGO. AND JACK JT KEEPS ON TCK’.'ALLOBLANKETY BLANKSDR KILDAREEDWARD EVERETT HORTONF TROOPFATHER AR FATHERANKIE HOWERDGEE REEVGORN KAYEGRAHAM KENNEDYIRONSIJACK LARSONJIMMY OLSENPATRICK RGILLPERRY MASONRAYMOND BURRRICHARD CHAMBERLAROARG CHICKENSTEPTOE & SONTHE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMANTHE WALTONSUP POMPEIIWILID BRAMBELLWILL GEER PREVGARY COOPER – THE ULTIMATE MOVIE STAR. NEXTGAY/BISEXUAL ACTORS OLD TV SHOWS ( PT 2 ) 7 COMMENTS CRYSTAL MAY 29, 2021 AT 6:55 AM WILL GEER WAS NOT GAY AND I’M TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLG THIS LIE. I’M ALSO SICK OF THIS LIE ASSOCIATG HIM WH THAT DISGTG PEDOPHILE HARRY HAY WHO SHOULD OF BEEN HUNG OM A TREE, NOT WALKG NU ON A STREET FLNTG HIS PSYCHOTIC LT FOR CHILDREN. LGBT REALLY WHOR FOR ATTENTN, AND THEY WILL EVEN LIE ABOUT THE AD TO PH THEIR GENERATE AGENDA. DISGTG.REPLY ALAN ROYLE MAY 30, 2021 AT 3:50 PM I HAVE LOST UNT OF THE SOURC THAT SCRIBE MR. GEER AS GAY. IF THEY ARE ALL RRECT AND YOU ARE RIGHT, I APOLOGISE, ALTHOUGH I MT SAY THAT YOUR SCRIPTN OF THE LGBT AGENDA AS BOTH ‘DISGTG’ AND ‘GENERATE’ SAYS MORE ABOUT YOUR POSN THAN DO ABOUT THEIRS.REPLY JAM WIELANR FEBARY 12, 2021 AT 6:34 PM JACK LARSON PLAYED JIMMY OLSEN THE 1950’S MEGA-HT….”THE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMAN” I KNEW HE WAS CLARK KENT’S CLANSTE BOYIEND ON THE SHOW; HOWEVER,HAD NO IA HE WAS GAY REAL SURE HAVE CHANGED SCE THOSE OPPRSIVE AND SUFFOTG 1950’S!REPLY ALAN ROYLE FEBARY 12, 2021 AT 7:28 PM I SUPPOSE I SHOULD POT OUT, JAM, THAT I HAVE NO PERSONAL TERT ANYONE’S SEXUAL PREFERENCE. I KNOW SOME REARS ARE CUR, HOWEVER, SO I OCSNALLY WRE ABOUT THEM.REPLY CHELLABRAHMZ MAY 21, 2017 AT 6:13 PM GEE REEV WASN’T MURRED, HE MTED SUICI. THERE WERE MOURS, BUT VTIGATNS EVENTUALLY LED OUT FOWL PLAY.REPLY ALAN ROYLE MAY 22, 2017 AT 3:12 AM THERE ARE A SRE OF DIFFERENT OPNS ON HOW HE DIED. I AM CERTALY NOT NVCED HE KILLED HIMSELF. I AM ALSO DUB ABOUT ANY VTIGATN BY THE LAPD AT THAT TIME OR ANY OF THE OTHER POLICE FORC THE REGN. THEY HAD BEEN THE POCKETS OF THE MOVIE STUDS FOR S AND WENT ALONG WH WHATEVER SCENAR AVOID SNDAL FOR THE STUDS. YOU MAY WELL BE RIGHT, OF URSE, BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE WAS EVER VTIGATED IMPARTIALLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MENT.REPLY VOLENA CICHSKI JULY 23, 2023 AT 2:03 AM HIS GIRLIEND ADMTED ON HER ATHBED SHE KILLED HIM. I SAW ON A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIM.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. IF A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED:DO NOT SEND EMAIL NOTIFITNS.SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN ONLY IF SOMEONE REPLI TO MY COMMENT(S).SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN WHENEVER A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED.ΔTHIS SE AKISMET TO RCE SPAM. LEARN HOW YOUR MENT DATA IS PROCSED.LOOKG FOR SOMETHG? 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GAY/BISEXUAL ACTORS OLD TV SERI ( PT 1 ) JUNE 15, 2015 ADM TV SHOWS 7   WILID BRAMBELL (1912 – 1985)STEPTOE & SONAN IRISHMAN OM BELFAST, BRAMBELL SHOT TO PROMENCE THE 60S PLAYG THE IRASCIBLE, DIRTY OLD STEPTOE THIS POPULAR BRISH S. HE ALSO FEATURED THE BEATL’ FIRST FILM A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964). SHORTLY BEFORE FILMG BEGAN HE WAS CHARGED WH ‘IMPORTUNG FOR IMMORAL PURPOS’ A MEN’S TOILET LONDON, THE MAGISTRATE RELEASG HIM ON A ‘NDNAL DISCHARGE. FROM 1969 UNTIL HIS ATH, BRAMBELL LIVED WH HIS CHE BOYIEND, YSOF SAMAN, TO WHOM HE LEFT THE BULK OF HIS TATE. RAYMOND BURR (1917 – 1993)PERRY MASON – IRONSI BURR WAS A CANADIAN WHO ACHIEVED PHENOMENAL SUCCS THE LATE 50S AS PERRY MASON, THE LAWYER WHO NEVER LOST A SE; AND FOLLOWED UP WH AN EQUALLY SUCCSFUL 60S SERI LLED IRONSI. HIS LNS OF FEMALE FANS HAD NO KLG HE WAS GAY AND HAD BEEN LIVG WH ROBERT BENEVIS SCE THE TWO MET ON THE SET OF PERRY MASON 1957! THEY WERE STILL TOGETHER WHEN BURR DIED OM LIVER NCER 1993. FOR S HE PRETEND HE HAD BEEN WOUND ON OKAWA DURG WW2, JT ONE OF SEVERAL OF HIS FABRITNS. PATRICK CARGILL (1918 – 1996)FATHER, DEAR FATHERENGLISH ACTOR PATRICK CARGILL WAS GIFTED WH SUPERB EDIC TIMG WHICH HE ED TO GREAT EFFECT A FILM, TELEVISN AND STAGE REER THAT LASTED UNTIL THE 1990S. HE, TOO, APPEARED A HARD DAY’S NIGHT. ALTHOUGH CLEARLY GAY MANNERISMS AND SPEECH, HE PLAYED THE FATHER OF TWO TEENAGE GIRLS A UPLE OF S SERI, THE SEND OF WHICH HE PORTRAYED A PLAYBOY BENT ON DIVORCG HIS SIXTH WIFE AND GETTG HIS FIRST WIFE TO REMARRY HIM! IN REAL LIFE HE NEVER MARRIED. A BRA TUMOUR CLAIMED HIM AT 77. RICHARD CHAMBERLA (1934 -)DR. KILDAREBETWEEN 1961 AND 1966, RICHARD CHAMBERLA PLAYED THE TLE CHARACTER TV’S DR. KILDARE, AND WOULD BE PRETTY SAFE TO SAY THERE WAS SRCELY A WOMAN ON THE PLA WHO DID NOT FALL A LTLE B LOVE WH THE GUY. HE HAD EXTRAORDARY GOOD LOOKS, STYLE, ELEGANCE AND, ABOVE ALL, SCERY. HE HARBOURED A SECRET, HOWEVER, ONE THAT THE SOCIAL CLIMATE AT THE TIME FORBA HIM OM DISCLOSG, AND TOOK A HEAVY TOLL ON HIS HAPPS. HE SPERATELY FOUGHT TO HI HIS HOMOSEXUALY OM HIS FANS FOR S, UNTIL AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 69 HE FALLY ‘OUTED’ HIMSELF WH HIS TOBGRAPHY TLED SHATTERED LOVE. WILL GEER (1902 – 1978)THE WALTONSGEER ENARED HIMSELF TO A GENERATN OF FANS OF THE 70S SERI THE WALTONS, PLAYG GRANDFATHER ZEB WALTON. MARRIED ONCE (FOR 20 YEARS), HE HAD THREE CHILDREN; ONE OF HIS EARLY LOV BEG LOS ANGEL MUNIST AND RADIL, HARRY HAY, THE MAN WHO FOUND THE MATTACHE SOCIETY, AMERI’S FIRST LARGE-SLE GAY ACTIVIST ANIZATN. GEER DIED THE SAME YEAR AS THE WALTONS END S SIX-YEAR N. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON (1886 – 1970)F TROOP    AS ROARG CHICKEN                                   YOUNGER DAYSFANS OF THE EXTREMELY FUNNY TV SERI F TROOP OM THE MID-SIXTI WILL RELL HORTON PLAYG THE WIZENED UP ROARG CHICKEN AT WILD EAGLE’S HEKAWI MP, BUT THIS IN OF THE HOLLYWOOD GAY MUNY WAS SILENT PICTUR AS FAR BACK AS 1922. IF YOU EVER WATCH THE 1961 FILM POCKETFUL OF MIRACL, YOU WILL SEE HIM ACTG ALONGSI HIS PANN OF MANY YEARS, ACTOR GAV GORDON. IT WAS THE ONLY MOVIE THEY EVER MA TOGETHER. HORTON PASSED AWAY, STILL UNWED, AT 83. FRANKIE HOWERD (1917 – 1992)UP POMPEII!LIKE PATRICK CARGILL, FRANKIE WORE HIS GAYNS ON HIS SLEEVE FOR ALL TO SEE. PRIVATELY, HE WAS A MAN TORMENTED BY A LACK OF NFINCE HIS OWN NSIRABLE EDIC ABILY, A SUFFERER OF STAGE IGHT THROUGHOUT HIS LONG REER, AND PRONE TO BOUTS OF EP PRSN. HE MET THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, HIS MANAGER AND PARTNER DENNIS HEYMER, 1955, WHO STAYED WH HIM UNTIL FRANKIE’S ATH 1992. BENNY HILL PASSED AWAY THE SAME WEEK. GORN KAYE (1941 – )‘ALLO, ‘ALLOHIS FILM REER HAS SO FAR AMOUNTED TO VERY LTLE, BUT GORN KAYE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF RENE ARTOIS THE ABOVE-MENTNED SERI THAT RAN FOR A BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992, AND IS STILL ENJOYG RE-NS TODAY. HIS 1989 TOBGRAPHY SCRIB HIS EXPERIENC AS A SHY, GAY AND OVERWEIGHT YOUTH. IN 1990, HE VERY NEARLY DIED DURG A VLENT STORM WHEN A WOON PLANK OM A SIGNBOARD ME THROUGH THE WDSCREEN OF HIS R AND STCK HIM THE HEAD. INCINTALLY, THE SPELLG OF GORN (STEAD OF GORDON) ME ABOUT THROUGH AN ERROR WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG. ‘SIGN OF A MISS-SPELT YOUTH’, HE QUIPPED. GRAHAM KENNEDY (1934 – 2005)BLANKETY BLANKS – THE GRAHAM KENNEDY SHOWIF ONLY THERE WERE MORE GRAHAM KENNEDYS ON TV TODAY. BEG AN ATRALIAN, I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO GROW UP WATCHG HIM ON BLANKETY BLANKS AND THE GRAHAM KENNEDY SHOW, NEVER KNOWG WHAT OUTRAGEO MENT WOULD POP OUT OF HIS MOUTH OM ONE WEEK TO THE NEXT. HIS FAMO CROW LL, ‘FAAAAAARK!’ WAS TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS AFTER HE DID ON TV. PROBABLY STILL IS.LIKE A GREAT MANY INTI ON ATRALIAN TELEVISN, KENNEDY WAS HOMOSEXUAL. EVERYONE THE DTRY KNEW . THE PUBLIC DID NOT. WHEN HE DITED HE WOULD PROBABLY BE ANNOUNCG HIS ENGAGEMENT TO SGER LANA CANTRELL ON HIS SHOW, RATGS WENT THROUGH THE ROOF, BUT WAS ALL A PUBLICY STUNT. KENNEDY NEVER NFIRMED HIS GAYNS PUBLICLY, BUT BROADSTER ROB ASTBURY, HIS 2006 BOOK KG AND I: MY LIFE WH GRAHAM KENNEDY, STATED THAT HE AND ‘THE KG’ HAD BEEN LOVERS. JACK LARSON (1928 – )THE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMANLARSON & THE ILL-FATED GEE REEV AS SUPERMANLARSON MA THE SAME MISTAKE THAT GEE REEV MA BACK 1952. THEY BOTH ACCEPTED ROL THE TV SERI THE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMAN, JACK PLAYG JIMMY OLSEN, GEE THE LEAD, EXPECTG NOBODY TO WATCH THE THG. INEXPLIBLY, THE SERI WAS A BIG H AND THE TWO ACTORS WERE FOREVER TYPEST. INED, 1961, JACK’S BOYIEND AT THE TIME, MONTGOMERY CLIFT, ADVISED HIM TO RETIRE OM ACTG AND FOC ON HIS WRG. JOBS FOR ‘JIMMY OLSEN’ NO LONGER EXISTED. HIS LIFE PARTNER, WRER/DIRECTOR JAM BRIDG, PENNED SCRIPTS FOR URBAN COWBOY AND THE CHA SYNDROME. BRIDG PASSED AWAY 1993. GEE WAS MURRED OVER HALF A CENTURY AGO. AND JACK JT KEEPS ON TCK’.'ALLOBLANKETY BLANKSDR KILDAREEDWARD EVERETT HORTONF TROOPFATHER AR FATHERANKIE HOWERDGEE REEVGORN KAYEGRAHAM KENNEDYIRONSIJACK LARSONJIMMY OLSENPATRICK RGILLPERRY MASONRAYMOND BURRRICHARD CHAMBERLAROARG CHICKENSTEPTOE & SONTHE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMANTHE WALTONSUP POMPEIIWILID BRAMBELLWILL GEER PREVGARY COOPER – THE ULTIMATE MOVIE STAR. NEXTGAY/BISEXUAL ACTORS OLD TV SHOWS ( PT 2 ) 7 COMMENTS CRYSTAL MAY 29, 2021 AT 6:55 AM WILL GEER WAS NOT GAY AND I’M TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLG THIS LIE. I’M ALSO SICK OF THIS LIE ASSOCIATG HIM WH THAT DISGTG PEDOPHILE HARRY HAY WHO SHOULD OF BEEN HUNG OM A TREE, NOT WALKG NU ON A STREET FLNTG HIS PSYCHOTIC LT FOR CHILDREN. LGBT REALLY WHOR FOR ATTENTN, AND THEY WILL EVEN LIE ABOUT THE AD TO PH THEIR GENERATE AGENDA. DISGTG.REPLY ALAN ROYLE MAY 30, 2021 AT 3:50 PM I HAVE LOST UNT OF THE SOURC THAT SCRIBE MR. GEER AS GAY. IF THEY ARE ALL RRECT AND YOU ARE RIGHT, I APOLOGISE, ALTHOUGH I MT SAY THAT YOUR SCRIPTN OF THE LGBT AGENDA AS BOTH ‘DISGTG’ AND ‘GENERATE’ SAYS MORE ABOUT YOUR POSN THAN DO ABOUT THEIRS.REPLY JAM WIELANR FEBARY 12, 2021 AT 6:34 PM JACK LARSON PLAYED JIMMY OLSEN THE 1950’S MEGA-HT….”THE ADVENTUR OF SUPERMAN” I KNEW HE WAS CLARK KENT’S CLANSTE BOYIEND ON THE SHOW; HOWEVER,HAD NO IA HE WAS GAY REAL SURE HAVE CHANGED SCE THOSE OPPRSIVE AND SUFFOTG 1950’S!REPLY ALAN ROYLE FEBARY 12, 2021 AT 7:28 PM I SUPPOSE I SHOULD POT OUT, JAM, THAT I HAVE NO PERSONAL TERT ANYONE’S SEXUAL PREFERENCE. I KNOW SOME REARS ARE CUR, HOWEVER, SO I OCSNALLY WRE ABOUT THEM.REPLY CHELLABRAHMZ MAY 21, 2017 AT 6:13 PM GEE REEV WASN’T MURRED, HE MTED SUICI. THERE WERE MOURS, BUT VTIGATNS EVENTUALLY LED OUT FOWL PLAY.REPLY ALAN ROYLE MAY 22, 2017 AT 3:12 AM THERE ARE A SRE OF DIFFERENT OPNS ON HOW HE DIED. I AM CERTALY NOT NVCED HE KILLED HIMSELF. I AM ALSO DUB ABOUT ANY VTIGATN BY THE LAPD AT THAT TIME OR ANY OF THE OTHER POLICE FORC THE REGN. THEY HAD BEEN THE POCKETS OF THE MOVIE STUDS FOR S AND WENT ALONG WH WHATEVER SCENAR AVOID SNDAL FOR THE STUDS. YOU MAY WELL BE RIGHT, OF URSE, BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE WAS EVER VTIGATED IMPARTIALLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MENT.REPLY VOLENA CICHSKI JULY 23, 2023 AT 2:03 AM HIS GIRLIEND ADMTED ON HER ATHBED SHE KILLED HIM. I SAW ON A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIM.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. IF A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED:DO NOT SEND EMAIL NOTIFITNS.SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN ONLY IF SOMEONE REPLI TO MY COMMENT(S).SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN WHENEVER A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED.ΔTHIS SE AKISMET TO RCE SPAM. LEARN HOW YOUR MENT DATA IS PROCSED.LOOKG FOR SOMETHG? 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