May 25, 2025
Tab Hunter (1931 - 2018)
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Tab Hunter (1931 - 2018)
Photoplay Magazine, December 1961
Tab Hunter and Rudolf Nureyev, lovers in the late 60s
Who is the hottest old movie man?
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Toshiro Mifune
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Tab Hunter (Damn Yankees)—no propaganda submitted
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This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.
[propaganda photos submitted under the cut]
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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