The Hidn Gay Liv of 'The Waltons' Grandparents Ellen Corby & Will Geer spe Their Marriag

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On-screen, Ellen Corby and Will Geer were simply Grandma and Grandpa Walton, a happily married uple. But both were actually gay and guard their reers.

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PATRICK GALE: ‘I TURNED MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER GAY’

Free Onle Library: Happily ever after?; Gay grandpa, alhol abe and a Playboy centrefold ... would never have happened on Walton's mounta. But the perfect fay acted out the dramas real life ...(Featur) by "Daily Rerd (Glasgow, Stland)"; News, opn and mentary General tert * grandfather gay *

And wonrg how I would have ped wh beg obliged to marry and have children or wh beg propelled to a harsh, isolated and almost exclively mascule environment, was perhaps evable that I should have turned my great-grandfather of urse he uldn’t be gay.

I now repeatedly tch myself lookg at Harry’s photograph and drawg spur fort om the thought of havg a gay anctor who found te, if secret, love at last on a prairie farmstead. However, they were gay real life and were volved homosexual relatnships.

| Source: Getty ImagWILL GEER'S GAY LIFE, ACTIVISM, AND MARRIAGE Meanwhile, she lived a siar life to her long-time -star Geer, "Will Geer, who got blacklisted durg the anti-munist wch hunts, had a male lover.

THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG

This study explored the experienc of 79 gay grandfathers wh their adult children and grandchildren. Acrdg to fay systems theory, tergeneratnal relatnships such as parent-grandparent dyads or parent-child-grandparent triads are important to unrstandg dividual functng wh … * grandfather gay *

" His partner was Harry Hay, a gay rights activist, but their relatnship later end.

Geer opted to marry 1938 after beg both a Party activist and actively gay for at least four years. It remas unclear whether his marriage to Ware signaled an end to his same-sex sexual activy or if the mician married bee he believed the Communist Party strictly prohibed homosexuals om jog.

WHEN GRANDPA FOUND OUT I WAS GAY

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Hay was the founr of gay liberatn and created the first morn gay-rights anizatn 1950. At first, no one wanted to jo him formg a polil anizatn for homosexuals.

He spent two years searchg among the gay men he knew Los Angel.

One day, my mom received a phone ll om her sister Karen who said, “Dad jt lled me to ask if Stty was gay.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?; GAY GRANDPA, ALHOL ABE AND A PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD ... WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED ON WALTON'S MOUNTA. BUT THE PERFECT FAY ACTED OUT THE DRAMAS REAL LIFE ...

At the age of 90, Kenh Felts me out as gay and cid to search for the love of his life. The Colorado grandfather's g out story went viral. * grandfather gay *

“I am gay, ” I said. “The Bible is clear that homosexualy is a s.

Many Christian thkers, cludg entire nomatns, don’t thk scripture nmns homosexualy.

“Pappoo, I don’t believe beg gay is s.

GAY GRANDFATHERS: INTERGENERATNAL RELATNSHIPS AND MENTAL HEALTH

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“Are there other gay people your church?

‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY

“Our membership is mostly gays and lbians.

knew that Grandpa (Will Geer) was gay, Pa (Ralph Wae) was a reverg. lover of one of Ameri's most famo gay activists Harry Hay.

Hay formed the group the Radil Faeri to liven up the gay scene.

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

But he kept quiet that he was homosexual and was the lover of the. gay activist Harry Hay.

later won a Tony award for playg a gay Vietnam veteran on Broadway.

95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY

Gay grandfathers: Intergeneratnal relatnships and mental health.

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This study explored the experienc of 79 gay grandfathers wh their adult children and grandchildren.

Consistent wh fdgs of earlier rearch on heterosexual grandparents, gay grandfathers reported closer relatnships wh grandchildren who lived near them and wh whom they had equent ntact. In addn, gay grandfathers who reported that they had disclosed their sexual orientatn to grandchildren reported closer relatnships wh them. Consistent wh fdgs for heterosexual grandparents, greater perceived social support was associated wh better mental health among gay grandfathers.

MY MAD GAY GRANDFATHER AND ME

Th, over and above factors known to affect tergeneratnal relatnships and mental health among olr people, we found that some variabl specific to gay grandfathers were also important predictors of their relatnship qualy wh their grandchildren and of their mental health.

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However, their private liv, each was actually gay and homosexual relatnships of sorts. As lovers, the two spired and fluenced one another to gay rights activism. Today, Harry Hay is celebrated as a sort of foundg father gay rights activism.

Kenh Felts is a ttament to the age of 90, he’s fally openg up about an sential part of his life that he’s long kept hidn: Felts is gay. “In 1942 when I was 12, I realized I was gay, ” the nonagenarian a child growg up a strictly relig hoehold Kansas, he felt unable to exprs that to anyone else or pursue any such relatnship — at least until he left home. “A lot of them tellg me that they've got more urage now to e out, ” he said wh a se, also addg, "I'm out, I'm gay and I'm ee.

Roman Blank knew he was gay when he was jt five years old, but hid his sexualy for ne —who was married for 60 years and has two children, five grandchildren and one great grandchild—cid to e out last year when he was 95.

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"I jt told them pla, that I was born, and was all my life, gay. " Worked to a oth, Banis sat down to give the tablishment a full-throated--and very gay--screw right back.

The rult: The Why Not, a first-of-s-kd and very unabashed llectn of ank, often funny vigt about gay men livg Los Angel. It didn't take long for Banis to wre -- was based large part on his own life -- but sellg was a different story, one that changed gay culture forever, and one whose legacy I had to learn more about. "I don't thk any gay man that grew up before the revolutn got through whout srs.

"[And that] is probably the bt thg that uld happen to a gay boy growg up there and then.

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

" No one seemed to re he was gay, and a young Banis tacly acknowledged that openns by movg out Wt wh another man 's fay did, however, tend on him beg upright. " The same ia applied to gay books. "Why shouldn't a book show homosexualy a favorable light?

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