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When Hollywood Studios Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexuality a Secret
Valentino also married costume designer Natacha Rambova in 1923, at a time when his career was starting to seize off and the roles he played were seen as less typically masculine, such as in the film “Monsieur Beaucaire” in 1924. His marriage to Rambova ended in 1925, which left some speculating that the marriages of the “pink powder puff” (a nickname Valentino acquired after playing effeminate roles on screen) were coverups to preserve the sex symbol’s reputation intact.
Identifying how many Hollywood couples tied the knot to cloak their sexuality is, of course problematic since it’s primarily based on speculation_._
“I believe the hardest thing for a historian is to nice of sift through what the rumor [is] and what is actually factual," says Tropiano.
One commonly cited source for speculation is the memoir of Scotty Bowers, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Bowers’ account details sexual encounters, queer and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part in, beginning in 1946.
Bowers wrote that he had been sexually involved with steer
Tab Hunter: 1950s Hollywood idol who hid his sexuality dies at 86
Actor Tab Hunter, one of Hollywood's biggest heartthrobs of the 1950s, has died at the age of 86.
Hunter was a screen idol in the 1950s and early '60s thanks to such hit movies as Damn Yankees and Battle Cry.
He also hosted his own TV production, while his song Childish Love went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic.
But he hid his homosexuality and his relationship with thespian Anthony Perkins. JJ Abrams is reportedly making a movie about the pair's relationship.
The film, titled Tab & Tony, will be produced by the director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Variety reported last month.
Hunter was often photographed on "dates" with actresses like Natalie Wood, his co-star in 1956's The Girl He Left Behind. But they were fabricated for the press.
The other producers on the film reportedly enclose Allan Glaser, Hunter's longtime partner, and Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto.
Quinto tweeted: "So sad to awaken up to the news of the passing of Tab Hunter. I was honoured to get to know him in the past year and am so grateful to
5. Stars from a Bi-Gone Era
Most of the stories that we discussed came from one guy: Scotty Bowers, a Hollywood pimp of the queer silver screen actors of the 1940s and beyond. He was also associated with Alfred Kinsey in his famous study of human sexuality in the 1950s by providing many of the interview subjects.
A former marine, Bowers kept still for many years about these stories, as he did not want to adversely affect the lives of any of the actors who were still around. Many of the stories were actively hushed up using fixers paid by the studios at the time, and several of the actors were in "lavender marriages"---marriages arranged by the studio, frequently with another queer player. At the time, studios especially would not own wanted the queer attractions of their headlining actors to be widely famous, as that would own damaged the 'wholesome family image' of many of the films they wanted to market.
After all of the actors died, Bowers finally decided that his experiences and stories couldn't harm their image or beloved status---plus the earth was a more unseal place to queer attraction---so he wrote about it. His memoir, Full Service, records many of the t
Before the word “gay” took roots in our daily being – and before we began to see movies featuring women, men and all variations of the word “gender” in all kinds of styles – the powerful engine of the industry of visual business was often driven by filmmakers who, even at the dawn of Hollywood, were themselves male lover. The word was mentioned rarely and only in intimate, but the show machine was constantly affected by sharp and daring same-sex attracted filmmakers, creating smack pictures and starting significant conversations between the story on the screen and the audience in the dark.
From the 1930s to the early years of the 60s, Hollywood had filmmakers capable of enthralling, entertaining and sometimes scaring the audience. Many of the superior directors were LBGTQ+. Many actors and innovative people behind the scenes were successfully known by the studios and its bosses to be gay – but as long as their private being was kept silent, their work was more than welcomed.
Among these filmmakers, many were European by birth, working in Hollywood and feeling themselves more at home there than in Europe.
Foremost among this group was James Whale. Born in Dudley, England, in 1889, Whale had been
Government Persecution of the LGBTQ Community is Widespread
The 1950s were perilous times for individuals who fell outside of society’s legally allowed norms relating to gender or sexuality. There were many names for these individuals, including the clinical “homosexual,” a term popularized by pioneering German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. In the U.S., professionals often used the term “invert.” In the mid-19th Century, many cities formed “vice squads” and police often labeled the people they arrested “sexual perverts.” The government’s preferred term was “deviant,” which came with legal consequences for anyone seeking a career in public service or the military. “Homophile” was the term preferred by some early activists, small networks of women and men who yearned for society and found creative ways to resist legal and societal persecution.
With draft eligibility officially lowered from 21 to 18 in 1942, World War II brought together millions of people from around the country–many of whom were vanishing their home states for the first time–to pack the ranks of the military and the federal workforce. Among them were gays and lesbians, who quietly formed kinships on m