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Tab Hunter (1931 - 2018)

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Photoplay Magazine, December 1961

Tab Hunter and Rudolf Nureyev, lovers in the late 60s

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Who is the hottest old movie man?

Tab Hunter

Toshiro Mifune

Voting ended onDec 31, 2023

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Tab Hunter (Damn Yankees)—no propaganda submitted

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With actor Richard Chamberlain’s recent death, I’ve been thinking about other gay or bisexual actors of his generation. They achieved popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, seventy-five years ago. Homosexuals were condemned by churches, sex between two men was criminal, and any homosexual behavior was mocked.

Some of these men hid their true identities by “dating” young starlets or getting sham marriages. Others bucked studio pressures to straighten up their private lives. Some hid their sexuality to maintain their careers. Others allowed their careers to fade and found happiness outside the public eye.

For those actors whose careers came first, some might attempt gay conversion therapy or they would deny their homosexuality until their deaths by AIDS.

I’ve posted about some of these actors before, such as Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, and Tom Tryon. In the coming days, I will be updating and reposting them. Plus, I will be adding new entries on actors such as Anthony Perkins, Farley Granger, and Montgomery Clift.

One thing I’ve learned in researching these gay and bisexual men is that those that found a balance between their public and private lives were the happiest. Those that suppress their sexuality to the end lived lonely and empty lives.

RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN

💬 3 🔁 48 ❤️ 115 · Actor Richard Chamberlain died this week. He had a long and successful career, mostly on TV. Articles about his death pr

ANTHONY PERKINS

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Anthony Perkins is best known for his role as Norman Bates, a sexually repressed homicidal maniac in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Ps

TAB HUNTER

💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 12 · UPDATED: Roy Scherer, Jr. and Andrew (Kelm) Gelien had a lot in common. They had abusive fathers; their parents’ marriage

MARLON BRANDO

💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 4 · Marlon Brando had sex with Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, claims Quincy Jones · Marlon Brando’s career spanned six decades. He

JAMES DEAN

💬 0 🔁 5 ❤️ 13 · James Dean may be the most iconic actor of the 20th century. With only three films and a handful of TV roles, he cemented

SAL MINEO

💬 0 🔁 5 ❤️ 4 · Sal Mineo began his acting career as a child, appearing on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' play The Rose Tattoo (1951). The

FARLEY GRANGER

💬 0 🔁 7 ❤️ 13 · Farley Granger is best known for his roles in two films by Alfred Hitchcock: Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951) -

TOM TRYON

💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 5 · UPDATE: Tom Tryon began his acting career on Broadway in the early 1950s. Paramount offered him a contract, and he spent t

GEORGE MAHARIS

💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 4 · UPDATE: When I first posted about George Maharis in 2021, the stories that he was gay were mostly rumors. This isn’t unusu

MONTGOMERY CLIFT

💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 10 · Montgomery Clift helped redefine masculinity in the movies of the 1950s. Rather than portray macho men like John Wayne, Cl

GEORGE NADER

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"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲!" -𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 Lgbtq+ stars Liberace (as a funeral director), Tab Hunter (as a cemetery tour guide), Roddy McDowall (as a ruthless Hollywood film studio executive), and Sir John Gielgud (as washed-up English artist and studio dialect coach Sir Francis Hinsley) in the MGM/Tony Richardson dark comedy The Loved One, 1965. One of the gayest films of the era in-put wise, the movie was adapted from the 1948 novel The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy by the (highly problematic) bisexual British author Evelyn Waugh. Waugh wrote the novel after a trip to Hollywood when MGM expressed interest in adapting his queer 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited into a film. Having not actually read the novel beforehand, when apprised of the contents of the book and Waugh's refusal to relinquish editorial control, the studio abruptly backed out. Disillusioned by his experience in Hollywood and fascinated by what he perceived to be America's maudlin obsession with the funeral industry, The Loved One was based on the iconic Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, the final resting place of countless movie stars. In addition to Liberace, Tab, Roddy and Sir John, other lgbtq+ contributors to the production included director Tony Richardson (who was bisexual and sadly later died from AIDS in 1991), and acclaimed gay author Christopher Isherwood (who co-wrote the screenplay). Ahead of its time in many ways with its frank, irreverent and camp approach to death and funerals, the movie was critically slammed and wasn't a box office hit, though it's been re-appraised and gained a cult following in recent years.