Book Description
Helps blow the cover off the gilded cage. It opens the closet door for a look at, and conversation with, ten gay men of the silver screen.
Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Helps blow the cover off the gilded cage. It opens the closet door for a look at, and conversation with, ten gay men of the silver screen.
Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Mann looks at the influence of gay actors, directors, and set and costume designers on the development of the motion pictures.
Author : David Ehrenstein
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2000-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780688175856
Part social history and part exposé, this revealing, entertaining, and provocative book spans nearly seventy years as it explores the lives and careers of some of the silver screen's foremost gays and lesbians and the effect of their high-profile lifestyles on the general public. From Charles Laughton and Greta Garbo to Nathan Lane and Ellen DeGeneres, David Ehrenstein traces the gradual transformation of Hollywood from a time when it was box-office poison to be publicly gay to the modern era when many top entertainment figures are celebrating their gay sexuality--and are in turn celebrated for it. Updated, Open Secret reveals what has happened to the key players in gay Hollywood since the original hardcover publication.
Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781569800676
Dit boek is een vervolg op een eerdere gesprekkenreeks met homo's uit de wereld van film en theater. Enkele namen: Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Stanwyck en Marjorie Main. De gesprekken gaan natuurlijk vooral over film en de respectievelijke carrières van de geïnterviewden, maar er is ook plaats en tijd voor uitweidingen zoals bijvoorbeeld over vrouwen en politiek.
Author : Becket Cook
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400212340
The powerful, dramatic story of how a successful Hollywood set designer whose identity was deeply rooted in his homosexuality came to be suddenly and utterly transformed by the power of the gospel. When Becket Cook moved from Dallas to Los Angeles after college, he discovered a socially progressive, liberal town that embraced not only his creative side but also his homosexuality. He devoted his time to growing his career as a successful set designer and to finding "the one" man who would fill his heart. As a gay man in the entertainment industry, Cook centered his life around celebrity-filled Hollywood parties and traveled to society hot-spots around the world--until a chance encounter with a pastor at an LA coffee shop one morning changed everything. In A Change of Affection, Becket Cook shares his testimony as someone who was transformed by the power of the gospel. Cook's dramatic conversion to Christianity and subsequent seminary training inform his views on homosexuality--personally, biblically, theologically, and culturally--and in his new book he educates Christians on how to better understand this complex and controversial issue while revealing how to lovingly engage with those who disagree. A Change of Affection is a timely and indispensable resource for anyone who desires to understand more fully one of the most common and difficult stumbling blocks to faithfully following Christ today.
Author : Scotty Bowers
Publisher : Grove
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Male prostitutes
ISBN : 9781611856071
The wholesome image of America propagated by Hollywood in the 1940s, '50s and '60s is one of the most persistent in popular culture: loving wives, smiling children. But off the set, many of the actors who helped create this image were secretly leading very wild lives, and one man in particular was helping them: Scotty Bowers. At a time when sex outside of marriage was taboo, Scotty built up a reputation as the guy who could discreetly fix you up. Scotty slept with many stars himself, and connected others with his friends. Here, he tells his story for the first time. Scotty came to Hollywood after serving in the Marines in World War II, and began working at a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard. One day, he was approached and picked up by actor Walter Pidgeon, who whisked him off to a friend's villa for the first of many encounters with Hollywood's rich and famous. He developed long-term friendships with stars like Katharine Hepburn and Noel Coward, but he always kept it quiet--until he now provides a lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution.--From publisher description.
Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Here, for the first time, the stories of Hollywood's gay stars are seen in context with their times and with one another, revealing a pattern of intimidation by the studios and, ultimately, the establishment of the Hollywood closet. Alone among his contemporaries - Ramon Novarro, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power - Haines refused to play the game, and so was booted out.
Author : Richard Barrios
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415923293
"Mining studio records, scripts, drafts and cut scenes, censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory. He also offers a pointed warning: we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world - have made since Stonewall."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Terrance Dean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416553398
In the tradition of "New York Times" bestsellers "Confessions of a Video Vixen" and "It's No Secret," an entertainment industry insider presents an expos into the down low culture of Hollywood and hip hop, where straight male celebrities find themselves intimate with other men.
Author : Moira Kenney
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566398848
In this book, Moira Kenney makes the case that Los Angeles better represents the spectrum of gay and lesbian community activism and culture than cities with a higher gay profile. Owing to its sprawling geography and fragmented politics, Los Angeles lacks a single enclave like the Castro in San Francisco or landmarks as prominent as the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, but it has a long and instructive history of community building. By tracking the terrain of the movement since the beginnings of gay liberation in 1960s Los Angeles, Kenney shows how activists laid claim to streets, buildings, neighborhoods, and, in the example of West Hollywood, an entire city. Exploiting the area's lack of cohesion, they created a movement that maintained a remarkable flexibility and built support networks stretching from Venice Beach to East LA. Taking a different path from San Francisco and New York, gays and lesbians in Los Angeles emphasized social services, decentralized communities (usually within ethnic neighborhoods), and local as well as national politics. Kenney's grounded reading of this history celebrates the public and private forms of activism that shaped a visible and vibrant commu