Gays of hollywood

Flashback! The Hollywood film industry has always had a high percentage of gay and womxn loving womxn employees, drawn to the theatre as a world of creativity, open mindedness and experimentation. Yet the hypocrisy is that as gay as Hollywood was (and is), actors hold had to sham that it isn’t.

Hollywood has a history where it welcomes and nurtures same-sex attracted and lesbian lifestyle behind the scenes but has often gone to excellent pains to retain its queer small secret from the heterosexual viewing public.

It all started during the early days of motion pictures. During the sexual revolution of 1920s there was ambivalence around gender roles and this was reflected in accepted movies with icons like Valentino and Marlene Dietrich. But eventually the media started to construct fun of these gender-bending characters.

The very handsome Valentino (pictured below) held a number of widespread boxing matches to affirm his masculinity after the media named him the “pink powder puff”. Sadly it was wounds from one of these fights that ultimately guide to his death at only 31-years-old. At the occasion of his death he was romantically involved with a woman.

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