Let's discuss gay actors from the past!
Who are your favorite gay actors from days gone by?
I always had a thing for Tom Drake
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 356 | April 30, 2024 3:27 AM |
Earl is still around at age 95!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 12, 2024 5:50 PM |
Agree with you about Tom Drake, OP. He had a beautiful profile and a fantastic speaking voice.
I always thought he had the looks to be a star of silent films, when the clean-cut collegiate look was the thing. He never broke through as a star during the war years, and heavy drinking took a toll on his looks quite early. If you ever see him in later TV appearances, he is almost unrecognizable as The Boy Next Door.
Grant Williams (“The Incredible Shrinking Man” and a key appearance in “Written on the Wind”)was another clean cut gay actor under contract to Universal in the ‘50s.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 12, 2024 5:56 PM |
Grant Williams died of “blood poisoning”…in 1985?
Hmm.
He was handsome, and I’m sure still had a great ass, etc…
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 13, 2024 7:01 PM |
A DLer once claimed to have had an "encounter" with Grant Williams, but it was when he was older, not at the peak of his hotness
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 13, 2024 7:03 PM |
Roger C Carmel. Chest hair galore.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 13, 2024 8:46 PM |
George Grizzard. An Oscar short of EGOT.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | April 13, 2024 9:08 PM |
Love George Grizzard. Great character actor
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 13, 2024 9:27 PM |
Grizzard was on The Twilight Zone when he was young. He was kinda cute back then
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | April 13, 2024 11:49 PM |
Gail looks positively possessed.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 13, 2024 11:59 PM |
Joel Crothers.
I didn't run home from school to watch Dark Shadows, I ran home from school to watch Joel.
My gaydar was already finely-tuned at age 6
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 13 | April 14, 2024 12:21 AM |
Larry Kert looked like he could be wild in bed.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 15 | April 14, 2024 12:56 AM |
David Oliver, gone 32 years now.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 16 | April 14, 2024 1:57 AM |
R16, David's partner, Terry Houlihan, survived him by 30 years, dying in 2022. Terry lost his brother, Brian, to AIDS in 1988.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 14, 2024 2:32 AM |
Interesting video ... "The Story of David Manners"
Manners is probably best known for playing the Jonathan Harker character in the 1931 film classic, Dracula.
He was born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom on April 30, 1900, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. .. What a name!
I guess Joan Crawford was completely nasty to him at the start of some picture in 1936, so he walked out and took a leave of absence from Hollywood.
His partner was playwright, Frederic William Mercer. They were together 30 years until Mercer's death in 1978. David himself lived to be 98 and died in 1998. He also did theatre work and wrote books.
btw - There's a fairly nice dick print at the 7:00 minute mark.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | April 14, 2024 8:28 AM |
Tom Neal. Loved him in Detour.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | April 14, 2024 10:24 AM |
Another vote for Earl Holliman. Love him.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 14, 2024 11:36 AM |
R19 Tom Neal was gay? Didn't he have an affair with Barbara Payton and didn't he kill his wife?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 14, 2024 12:14 PM |
Tom Neal was a straight pig who killed one of his wives.
I've always liked David Manners
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 14, 2024 4:06 PM |
[quote]Tom Neal was a straight pig who killed one of his wives.
He also killed his career by putting Franchot Tone in a coma.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 14, 2024 4:28 PM |
Raymond Burr. Often dreamed of sitting on his face.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 14, 2024 5:26 PM |
I wonder what cunty thing Joan said to David Manners
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 14, 2024 6:35 PM |
All the posts re Tom Neal are correct. He was a heterosexual pig but I always thought he was closeted and a self-hater.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 14, 2024 6:37 PM |
I always thought Michael Whalen was hot. He did a couple movies with Shirley Temple
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | April 14, 2024 9:09 PM |
Dark Shadows had SO MANY to choose from!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 29 | April 14, 2024 9:54 PM |
Jack Larson was a real cutie when he played Jimmy Olsen on "The Adventures of Superman":
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | April 14, 2024 10:32 PM |
Was Jack a top or bottom?
Sizemeat?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 14, 2024 10:37 PM |
Didn't Larson have an affair with Monty Clift?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 14, 2024 10:44 PM |
The ever-radiant John Fraser, whom you might remember from El Cid, Repulsion or as Bosie to Peter Finch's Wilde in The Trials of Oscar Wilde.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | April 14, 2024 11:18 PM |
That David Manners video was interesting
I didn't know he'd considered suicide :-(
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 14, 2024 11:20 PM |
Don't forget Hawaiian Eye, r3.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | April 14, 2024 11:27 PM |
Loved John Fraser in The Trials of Oscar Wilde
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 15, 2024 1:25 AM |
I'm not doubting anyone...just wondering how you know these people are gay?
Is it commotion knowledge and I missed it? Just random information that you picked up somewhere along the way? Personal connection?
I hadn't heard of some of these people so it's interesting to learn this and then research them.
TIA
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 15, 2024 12:32 PM |
^ Some of these guys (like John Fraser) actually came out in their later years
Others were "glass closeted" and, while they never publicly came out, weren't really living a lie, either
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 15, 2024 4:11 PM |
More love for Earl Holliman.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 41 | April 16, 2024 1:20 AM |
Patrick Bedford?
I know there was a gay British actor named Brian Bedford who loved openly with another actor named Tim MacDonald.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 16, 2024 3:01 AM |
Richard Deacon of "The Dick Van Dyke Show":
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 43 | April 16, 2024 3:18 AM |
Let's not forget Ramon Novarro
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | April 16, 2024 5:01 AM |
Two actors and longtime partners, DIrk Bogarde and Anthony Forwood
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 47 | April 16, 2024 6:42 AM |
^ They were a handsome couple
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 16, 2024 4:56 PM |
Jack Larson, best known as Cub Reporter Jimmy Olsen in the Adventures of Superman.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 49 | April 17, 2024 12:04 AM |
I would have done Jack Larson back in the day!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 17, 2024 12:06 AM |
Jean-Claude Brialy was really cute and a good actor
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 17, 2024 2:16 AM |
[R26] Well, since as Bette said, Joan Crawford slept with every MGM actor except Lassie, "Mommie" probably tried to get David into bed and he wasn't interested. That probably pissed her off.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 17, 2024 2:29 AM |
Joan was pretty gay-friendly, though
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 17, 2024 2:32 AM |
B-movie hunk, George Nader.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 57 | April 17, 2024 2:53 AM |
I first noticed David Manners in an excellent early talkie called The Last Flight about WW 1 veterans going aimlessly through life still shellshocked by what they had been through during the war. An unusual film for its time and when seen today you're amazed by its contemporary resonance despite featuring still young men drinking their way through life in black tie. Starring the once hugely popular Richard Barthelmess.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 17, 2024 2:55 AM |
I had such a crush on Jack Larson when I was a boy watching Superman. How happy I was to find out many years later he was gay.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 17, 2024 3:28 AM |
There are some very hot men pictured here!
George Nader can act on me, please.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 17, 2024 11:24 AM |
VICTOR BUONO. Loved him in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, hot!
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 17, 2024 7:50 PM |
Paul Lynn? Who the hell is he? Or did you go to Columbia?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 17, 2024 8:14 PM |
R64 Glad to see another big bear admirer. Buono was a sexy guy, especially with the beard.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 17, 2024 8:24 PM |
(John) Edward Penn - probably better known as a stage actor.
Penn was Daniel J. Travanti's partner for decades. They left L.A. in the mid-90s to live a simpler life in the Lake Forest, Illinois area.
Penn died in February 2020 at age 93. .. Travanti just turned 84 in March.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 68 | April 17, 2024 8:59 PM |
And speaking of "Dan Travanty" the name he went by when he first started out in Hollywood, he was involved with gay James Daly.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 69 | April 17, 2024 9:01 PM |
Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer but mention of Grant Williams always makes me sad. He had a lot of promise but went downhill personally and professionally and seemed to have had a very lonely end. No proof but certainly all signs are a killing closet.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 70 | April 17, 2024 9:22 PM |
GAY APES!
Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | April 17, 2024 10:09 PM |
R72 Sorry your post sent me on a tangent.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 73 | April 17, 2024 10:26 PM |
Maurice Evans was into twinks, I heard
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 17, 2024 10:28 PM |
MORE GAY APES!
Roddy McDowall as Cornelius.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | April 17, 2024 10:42 PM |
STILL MORE GAY APES!
Sal Mineo as Doctor Milo.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 76 | April 17, 2024 10:45 PM |
Maurice Evans, more recognizable as Maurice, Sam’s father on Bewitched.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | April 17, 2024 11:56 PM |
psychopath Lawrence Tierney.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 78 | April 18, 2024 12:00 AM |
We can't forget the boys from Hitchcock's "Rope."
Farley Granger
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 79 | April 18, 2024 12:23 AM |
And then there's Robert Calhoun, Granger's longtime partner, who was also an actor.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 81 | April 18, 2024 12:30 AM |
And Clement Brace, who was John Dall's partner at the time of Dall's death.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | April 18, 2024 12:32 AM |
Who was that beefy hairy-chested 40s noirish hunk, slick black hair, with the first name Steve?
Could he have been gay??
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 18, 2024 12:43 AM |
84 responses and no one's mentioned DL fave Richard Chamberlain?
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 18, 2024 1:07 AM |
R84 Steve Cochran? Doubtful.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 86 | April 18, 2024 1:07 AM |
YES. Read about Lawrence Tierney. The dude was not just playing a psycho. He was a violent nut case. He was just about A list when the studios couldn't have anything to do with him. He should have been in jail and never got out. The closet kills. Sometimes it's not the closeted it kills.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 18, 2024 1:16 AM |
Another vote for Joel Crothers, one of my favorite daytime TV actors. Can’t believe he’s been gone nearly 40 years now.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 18, 2024 1:32 AM |
Guy Madison
Rory Calhoun
Troy Donahue
Anyone with a funny first name
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 18, 2024 1:34 AM |
Where are you getting that he was gay, r88?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 92 | April 18, 2024 1:46 AM |
Anthony Perkins and Grover Dale
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 95 | April 18, 2024 2:00 AM |
Steve Cochran was a notorious womanizer with a big dick.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 18, 2024 2:07 AM |
Ivor Novello supposedly got around
He was depicted by Jeremy Irvine in the movie Benediction
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 18, 2024 2:17 AM |
Disney actor, Tommy Kirk.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 100 | April 18, 2024 2:40 AM |
Isn't "notorious womanizer" often code for "bisexual" in Old Hollywood?
by Anonymous | reply 101 | April 18, 2024 2:44 AM |
I always liked Cesar Romero
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 18, 2024 3:30 AM |
Tierney in action. He just oozes creepiness.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 103 | April 18, 2024 3:31 AM |
I'm not finding anything gay about him, r103.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 18, 2024 3:48 AM |
Well what do you want him to do? Beat someone to death with his murse?
by Anonymous | reply 106 | April 18, 2024 3:49 AM |
Richard Cromwell was Angela Lansbury's first husband.
Needless to say, it didn't work out
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 18, 2024 3:55 AM |
Like the comments at youtube say, if Nedra hadn't been sitting there, I think Lawrence would have beat (gay) Skip E. Lowe up.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 108 | April 18, 2024 7:13 AM |
Winston Churchill supposedly had sex with Ivor Novello and described the experience as “musical.”’
by Anonymous | reply 110 | April 18, 2024 10:03 AM |
I didn't know that Ty Power and Cesar Romero had an affair
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 111 | April 19, 2024 1:16 AM |
At least Ty's sitting like a lady.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | April 19, 2024 1:30 AM |
Wasn’t Zachary Scott a poofter?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | April 19, 2024 1:40 AM |
Scott was married multiple times, I believe, but he always pinged for me
by Anonymous | reply 116 | April 19, 2024 1:45 AM |
Larry Kerr was described as an uninhibited Californian. Sounded fun and it’s a shame that Kert did most of the heavy lifting for “Company” but Dean Jones gets all the glory because he was on the damn cast album.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | April 19, 2024 1:51 AM |
Well, Dean had the star quality.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | April 19, 2024 1:55 AM |
Henry Brandon. His longtime partner was one of Judy Garland's husbands, Mark Herron.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 119 | April 19, 2024 9:35 AM |
Henry Brandon was a good character actor. He had a great voice too
by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 19, 2024 3:43 PM |
Gay actor of yore Roddy McDowall playing gay and bitchy in the gayest murder mystery ever, Evil Under the Sun.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 121 | April 20, 2024 12:13 PM |
The gayest Joker ever to grace the screen.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 122 | April 20, 2024 12:18 PM |
R117, Larry Kert was just a replacement. Anyone who saw Dean Jones in the role, knows he was excellent.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | April 20, 2024 12:21 PM |
R112, Cesar speaks of his friendship with Ty.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 125 | April 20, 2024 12:24 PM |
I wonder what more gay actors of yore thought of one another.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | April 20, 2024 12:31 PM |
Lon McCallister and William Eythe lived together, much to the consternation of Darryl Zanuck.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 128 | April 20, 2024 4:01 PM |
Gordon Heath and Lee Payant fell in love, moved to Paris and opened L'Abbaye on the Left Bank, running it and performing together for 27 years until Lee died of cancer in the 70s.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 130 | April 20, 2024 4:23 PM |
Actor Hayen Rorke and his partner of over 40 years, director Justus Addiss.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 131 | April 20, 2024 6:13 PM |
Hayden Roarke is a new one to me . . .
by Anonymous | reply 132 | April 20, 2024 6:29 PM |
Did he ever hit on Larry?
I would have.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 134 | April 20, 2024 6:33 PM |
R135, At one point, he lost a ton of weight. I remember him as a guest on the Mike Douglas Show with his new body, looking like a different person.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | April 20, 2024 6:42 PM |
“Coco died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, on February 25, 1987, at age 56 after suffering a heart attack at his Greenwich Village home.“
Drastic weight loss is tough on the heart if it’s not done properly.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | April 20, 2024 6:45 PM |
[quote]Actor Hayen Rorke and his partner of over 40 years, director Justus Addiss.
Shit! I was careful to spell "Justus Addiss" correctly, but misspelled "Hayden."
by Anonymous | reply 138 | April 20, 2024 6:45 PM |
Justus Addiss directed a bunch of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone that I enjoyed
Did not know he was family!
by Anonymous | reply 139 | April 20, 2024 7:00 PM |
Actor Earle Hyman, cousin of singer Phyllis Hyman, with his partner of 50 years, Rolf Sirnes.
Earle became fluent in Rolf's native language, Norwegian, and headlined a Norwegian adaptation of "Othello", which was a smash hit throughout Scandinavia. He then regularly toured with a Norwegian theatrical company and picked up Swedish and Danish along the way. In 1986, he was awarded the St Olav Medal, Norway's highest honor, for his contributions to Norwegian theatre.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 140 | April 20, 2024 7:09 PM |
I almost didn't recognize Marie Windsor at first in the R125 interview. Must be her Korean wig. Caesar was a charming man. You can see the difference between him and Lawence Tierney though Skip E is still annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | April 21, 2024 12:20 AM |
John Darrow (aka Johnny Darrow), actor who became an agent, who was lovers with Charles Walters, Broadway dancer/choreographer and later MGM director.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | April 21, 2024 12:29 AM |
[quote]Do you mean Dick York?
Dick York wasn't gay.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | April 21, 2024 12:32 AM |
147 posts and no mention of Noel Coward.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | April 21, 2024 12:34 AM |
He was much more than an actor, r149.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | April 21, 2024 12:35 AM |
R144 Dick Sargent announced he was gay on National Coming Out Day, 1991.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 152 | April 21, 2024 12:40 AM |
R151 True. He was still a gay actor of yore.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | April 21, 2024 12:47 AM |
John Darrow was in Hell's Angel
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 154 | April 21, 2024 12:49 AM |
There are a lot of hotties in this post. I have some new ideas for that old if you had a time machine question.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | April 21, 2024 12:50 AM |
Furry blond Terry Lester.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 156 | April 21, 2024 1:02 AM |
Yeah, obviously I screwed up the Dicks. Sorry, all.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | April 21, 2024 1:03 AM |
Terry Lester was a hottie
by Anonymous | reply 158 | April 21, 2024 1:28 AM |
R159 I had no idea Kerwin Mathews was gay. What a lovely man he was.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 161 | April 21, 2024 1:50 AM |
Kerwin Mathews had a longtime partner who talked about their life together
by Anonymous | reply 162 | April 21, 2024 1:58 AM |
[quote]Mathews retired from acting in 1978 and moved to San Francisco, where he ran a clothing and antiques shop. Mathews died in his sleep in San Francisco on July 5, 2007, at age 81.
[quote]He was survived by his partner of 46 years, Tom Nicoll, a British display manager at Harvey Nichols, the British luxury department store. The two met in 1961.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | April 21, 2024 2:01 AM |
James Mitchell's longtime partner was costume designer Albert Wolsky who won Oscars for All That Jazz and Bugsy as well as many Broadway theater credits. He's still with us at 93.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | April 21, 2024 2:45 AM |
Not sure if they met on The Turning Point but James Mitchell was in it and Albert Wolsky designed the costumes.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | April 21, 2024 2:46 AM |
James Mitchell and Nora Kaye (Mrs. Herbert Ross) in "Fall River Legend."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 169 | April 21, 2024 3:31 AM |
Probably one of the very first gay Hollywood actor of yore
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 171 | April 21, 2024 5:47 AM |
I was drawn to actor George Nader as a youngster before I knew we were both gay.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | April 21, 2024 5:48 AM |
I read somewhere (here?) that Charles Bickford was gay, or bi. Could that be true? I only read mention of it in one place… where ever it was.
He seems like the type who’d rip your head off if you so much as enquired.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 173 | April 21, 2024 5:50 AM |
Did Bickford's family own all those cafeterias? He was a handsome man.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | April 21, 2024 1:18 PM |
Everybody in every book ever written by Boze Hadleigh.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | April 21, 2024 1:41 PM |
Everybody who Scotty Bowers ever met.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | April 21, 2024 1:44 PM |
There were always rumors about Bickford but why, exactly, I don't know.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | April 21, 2024 2:08 PM |
I followed the wiki link at r170, and I am perplexed by the saga of Raymond St Jacques’ son, Sterling. Are they insinuating he wasn’t his actual son but a kept boy toy? Any extra information appreciated!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 179 | April 21, 2024 2:39 PM |
Some dish on Raymond on the AIDS Memorial post about his nephew Sterling on Instagram.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 180 | April 21, 2024 2:43 PM |
R179, there's a DM article about Sterling St Jacques that mentions that he and Raymond were actually lovers.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | April 21, 2024 2:48 PM |
Even as a kid watching the original I Dream of Jeannie I thought Hayden Rorke was femmy.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | April 21, 2024 3:30 PM |
R93 that’s Bradley Cooper you silly gay
by Anonymous | reply 186 | April 21, 2024 3:43 PM |
Becky Thatcher was a bull dyke.
And let’s not talk about Aunt Polly.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | April 21, 2024 3:45 PM |
R88 Shelley Winters fucked him.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | April 21, 2024 3:45 PM |
R187 Only in the Chicago company.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | April 21, 2024 3:45 PM |
R15, Larry lived across the street from me on Horatio when he died. Partner, Ron, still with us.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | April 21, 2024 3:50 PM |
Soap Stars - Val Dufour, George Reinholt, Jean LeClerq, Louis Edmonds, Dennis Parker.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | April 21, 2024 3:53 PM |
Since today women are called Actors, add Connie Ford and Lois Kibbee to the list.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | April 21, 2024 3:55 PM |
My mom told me she had a big crush on Tom Drake when she was a teenager.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | April 21, 2024 3:56 PM |
I think I read that Judy was disappointed Tom rejected her advances, on Meet Me In St. Louis, so she started showing interest in Minnelli
She sure could pick 'em.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | April 21, 2024 4:03 PM |
R188, Who didn't Shelley Winters fuck?
by Anonymous | reply 197 | April 21, 2024 4:14 PM |
Might be the OG gay actor...J. Warren Kerrigan, a silent star. He passed his domestic partner off as his "gardener"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 198 | April 21, 2024 4:15 PM |
When Ron Palillo died in 2012 at 63, he left behind his partner Joseph Gramm. They’d been together since 1971.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 199 | April 21, 2024 6:52 PM |
Guess Travolta wasn't the only gay Sweathog
by Anonymous | reply 200 | April 21, 2024 6:55 PM |
Maureen O'Hara wrote that when they were filming Kangaroo in Australia, Richard Boone and Peter Lawford were caught in the raid of a male bordello.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 202 | April 21, 2024 7:16 PM |
R202, I think it's been established that Peter Lawford swung whichever direction the wind blew. But Richard Boone?
by Anonymous | reply 203 | April 21, 2024 7:24 PM |
A bit on the male bordello at the Poseidon link.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 205 | April 21, 2024 8:26 PM |
Tony and Emmy winner Michael Jeter.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 207 | April 21, 2024 11:19 PM |
Paul Winfield.
Hard to believe that he died two decades ago.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 209 | April 22, 2024 12:27 AM |
Surprised by Monty’s hairy back at r33!
by Anonymous | reply 210 | April 22, 2024 12:31 AM |
Michael Jeter was pals with Burt Reynolds
by Anonymous | reply 211 | April 22, 2024 1:36 AM |
[quote]Michael Jeter was pals with Burt Reynolds
They did Jazzercise together.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | April 22, 2024 2:08 AM |
r190, I also lived on Horatio Street throughout the 1990s down the block from Larry Kert and Ron Pullen. I'll never forget the sad day an ambulance showed up to take away Larry's body.
As you may remember that was a "star-filled" block with Cherry Jones and her architect gf Mary on one end and DL fave (not!) Mary Testa on the other, as well as Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly, who lived there together for almost a year when Billy appeared as Laertes in a Roundabout production of Hamlet. Oh, and Eddie Cibrian lived there briefly for awhile with his first wife and kids when he was shooting Third Watch.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | April 22, 2024 2:21 AM |
His first wife has a name. Brandi!
by Anonymous | reply 216 | April 22, 2024 2:31 AM |
Nelson Eddy, here in the 1940 film, "New Moon". William Tannen (on the left) became Eddy's lover when he was cast in a small role in "Rosalie" (1937). Tannen's role was larger by the time of "New Moon" and they remained involved for several years. Eddy also picked-up a young Ross Hunter, when Hunter was an actor, in the 40's. Hunter frequently shared the story including telling one of his closest friend actress Virginia Grey. Grey had made a pass at Eddy during the filming of "Rosalie" (she had a small role) and was rebuffed because, "Eddy only had eyes for Tannen..."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 218 | April 22, 2024 2:57 PM |
Brandi is a dyke-lite. Does that make her a gay actor of your?
by Anonymous | reply 219 | April 22, 2024 3:43 PM |
R205…great link! Thanks!
by Anonymous | reply 222 | April 22, 2024 6:34 PM |
It’s total bullshit—but enjoy
by Anonymous | reply 223 | April 22, 2024 6:48 PM |
Richard Boone looks sexy af in some photos. I especially like his man-in-black western look.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 224 | April 24, 2024 1:09 AM |
Boone was attractive in a rugged sort of way
by Anonymous | reply 225 | April 24, 2024 1:13 AM |
I wonder what Richard Boone might have requested at the male bordello.
The veracity of said scenario is even being debated in the comments on a John Wayne fan site.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | April 24, 2024 1:22 AM |
To be fair, "Geoffrey Toone" is a pretty gay name.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | April 24, 2024 6:15 PM |
r230...
[quote]For many years he had shared a house with his close friend, the actor Frank Middlemass. "To their general amusement", they were often mistaken to be lovers, but in fact were not.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 232 | April 24, 2024 6:20 PM |
Roscoe Lee Browne even got to play gay - a gay sociopathic robot named Box in Logan’s Run.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 235 | April 24, 2024 11:59 PM |
According to IMDb, Roscoe Lee Browne expected hostility from John Wayne on the set of The Cowboys, but somehow the two ended up friends.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 236 | April 25, 2024 12:03 AM |
R236. Wayne was famous for gladly excepting blowies from any guy on set.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | April 25, 2024 1:08 AM |
Rock Hudson got along well with John Wayne but Wayne HATED Monty Clift
by Anonymous | reply 238 | April 25, 2024 1:26 AM |
[quote]Roscoe Lee Browne even got to play gay - a gay sociopathic robot named Box in Logan’s Run.
He played a gay bookstore owner on "Will & Grace."
by Anonymous | reply 239 | April 25, 2024 1:29 AM |
Wayne hated Monty Clift for his Method acting, not his gayness.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | April 25, 2024 1:41 AM |
When I was 10, I named my dog Roscoe. I guess I knew somehow.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | April 25, 2024 1:42 AM |
R242, he had a pretty nice body there!
by Anonymous | reply 244 | April 25, 2024 2:38 AM |
Alan Bates
(No--not the one fighting the Post Office on PBS.)
by Anonymous | reply 245 | April 25, 2024 2:40 AM |
Alan Bates was soooo hot. Great actor, too
by Anonymous | reply 246 | April 25, 2024 2:46 AM |
R242, Sherman was 21 years younger than Isabel Sanford.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 248 | April 25, 2024 3:43 PM |
Alan Bates had a hot furry chest
by Anonymous | reply 249 | April 25, 2024 3:58 PM |
I love the happy photo at r248!
by Anonymous | reply 250 | April 25, 2024 4:21 PM |
To R167...Loved James Mitchell, he played the "most Evil soap opera male actor" on AMC......Palmer Cortlandt of Cortlandt Manor.
My favorite Evil Character. When he released the Dobermans on Daisy & destroyed Adam Chandler at his own victory party.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | April 25, 2024 5:12 PM |
Whatever. The age difference between Sherman and Isabel was not at all apparent. They played so well off of each other.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | April 25, 2024 5:59 PM |
Clift was supposedly repelled by Wayne and his old fashioned macho views, and Wayne thought Clift was an arrogant little prick. However, Wayne was prepared to work with him again in Rio Bravo, which Clift was offered, but turned down.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | April 25, 2024 7:55 PM |
R253 I recall I was surprised back when Sherman died that he was 20 plus years younger than Isabel. The casting worked on The Jeffersons because she looked 10 years younger than her age and he looked 10 years older than his.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | April 25, 2024 8:41 PM |
^ He was a handsome guy.
Seems so strange now to look at some of these actors’ death dates and instantly know it was AIDS - and then suddenly remember the constant grind of death that lasted at least 15 years.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 257 | April 25, 2024 10:05 PM |
Denholm Elliott, another AIDS victim
by Anonymous | reply 258 | April 25, 2024 10:18 PM |
Awwww, I went to college with Irving Lee. He lived in my dorm and he was such a sweet guy.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | April 25, 2024 10:33 PM |
R258 he died of HIV-related TB. No one dies of “AIDS”—are you typing from 40 years ago?
by Anonymous | reply 260 | April 25, 2024 10:48 PM |
Where does r258 state that, r260?
by Anonymous | reply 261 | April 25, 2024 10:50 PM |
Where he says “AIDS victim” —that’s where
by Anonymous | reply 262 | April 25, 2024 10:55 PM |
R262 Um, yeah - Denholm Elliot was an AIDS victim.
Let me help you here - People who die of HIV (aka AIDS)-related complications can be classified as AIDS victims.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | April 25, 2024 11:03 PM |
No- “aka AIDS” is absolutely meaningless …stop with the bullshit. There are no AIDS victims. They didn’t die of a syndrome, and they weren’t victims. Your entire mindset is mistaken. You type like a 20th century frau. Try typing like a 21st century gay man with a basic understanding of related medical issues.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | April 25, 2024 11:34 PM |
R264, your ignorance is appalling.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | April 25, 2024 11:36 PM |
r264 is proudly retarted.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | April 25, 2024 11:40 PM |
265 please provide a citation to anything, much less any medical source, regarding “aka AIDS.” We can wait.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | April 25, 2024 11:46 PM |
R257 Yeah, sadly most of the actors who died young from 1984 -1996, can be presumed to be AIDS related.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | April 26, 2024 1:46 AM |
Either that or that damned watermelon diet.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | April 26, 2024 2:23 AM |
They died from liver cancer!
by Anonymous | reply 271 | April 26, 2024 2:43 AM |
Move on people; the thread is about gay actors from the past.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | April 26, 2024 4:23 AM |
Character actor John Hoyt
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 273 | April 26, 2024 7:18 AM |
R264 I don't need a lecture from some social justice warrior.
I lived through the worst of the AIDS era. Yes, AIDS was - and still is - very real. And people did - and still do - die from it.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | April 26, 2024 10:26 AM |
John Hoyt was outed by his widow!
by Anonymous | reply 275 | April 26, 2024 6:35 PM |
Has Peter Wyngarde been mentioned?
by Anonymous | reply 276 | April 26, 2024 10:49 PM |
Peter Wyngarde was busted for "cottaging"
by Anonymous | reply 277 | April 26, 2024 10:56 PM |
Yes r277 but before that my sisters, aunts, mother, even my Gran were soaking their panties over him. But my fledgling gaydar and sore cock, told me otherwise.
And I was right.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | April 26, 2024 11:17 PM |
Loved Peter Wyngarde as Klytus in Flash Gordon.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 279 | April 27, 2024 12:13 AM |
R79 Farley looks a lot like David Muir in that photo.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | April 27, 2024 12:31 AM |
R281 David looks like Farley.
How old is she, anyway?
Her REAL AGE?
by Anonymous | reply 282 | April 27, 2024 12:46 AM |
Alan Bates dated Peter Wyngarde for years
by Anonymous | reply 283 | April 27, 2024 1:04 AM |
Alan Bates was also involved with the great skater, John Curry. What a beautiful pairing, they both were said to be prickly and reckless.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | April 27, 2024 7:09 AM |
Does JM J Bullock count as vintage/yore in 2024?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 285 | April 27, 2024 8:50 PM |
I can't believe Grandpa Kaniski was gay!
by Anonymous | reply 286 | April 27, 2024 9:00 PM |
More about John Hoyt. He certainly had a colorful life!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 287 | April 27, 2024 11:14 PM |
R285 Bullock is still alive, and because OP wrote "gay actors of the past" I got the idea he was asking for ones who are DEAD TO ME. - jmho
I recall an interview Bullock did not that long ago where he said he's not retired, but he doesn't actively seek roles either. A couple of summers ago, he appeared in the "Kinky Boots" production at the Hollywood Bowl. You can see him in this promo video for the show around the 2:50 mark.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 289 | April 28, 2024 12:26 AM |
R288, that movie is a camp hoot
by Anonymous | reply 290 | April 28, 2024 1:18 AM |
I like this woman's description of it, r290...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 291 | April 28, 2024 1:27 AM |
Peter Wyngarde was mad as fuck.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 292 | April 28, 2024 2:11 AM |
Actor turned novelist, Tom Tryon.
Still from "I Married A Monster from Outer Space."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 293 | April 28, 2024 6:43 AM |
R292
"mad as fuck" as in crazy mad, or angry mad? And is there a story with or about that?
Or both, since he looks like he could throw a "mad fuck" either way.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | April 28, 2024 12:45 PM |
Ancient Live Journal discussing Tom Tryon.
I’d forgotten he was with porn star Casey Donovan for years.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 295 | April 28, 2024 12:45 PM |
Here’s an ancient livejournal on Tom Tryon. I’d forgotten he was with sexy mess Casey Donovan for years.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 296 | April 28, 2024 12:46 PM |
R295
“During the 1970s, he was in a romantic relationship with Clive Clerk, one of the original cast members of A Chorus Line and an interior designer who decorated Tryon's apartment on Central Park West in New York City, which was featured in Architectural Digest. From 1973 to 1977, Tryon was in a relationship with porn actor Casey Donovan.“
by Anonymous | reply 297 | April 28, 2024 12:49 PM |
Casey Donovan is fun in Ramsey Metzger’s softcore smut Score.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 298 | April 28, 2024 12:52 PM |
Casey Donovan came on to me when I was 15.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | April 28, 2024 12:54 PM |
IIRC Stackpole & Tryon was the name of the spiffy men's clothier owned by Tom Tryon's family, very much still in business in the 1980s when I worked in Hartford, and boosted by the preppie craze and Hartford downtown renaissance of that decade. But I don't think the shop lasted through the 1990s. I have no idea if Tom or his family actually owned it in those final years. Nevertheless, I always I hoped for a sighting of Tom, whenever I went in there. No go, lol.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | April 28, 2024 12:58 PM |
Let’s get some true thespians in here.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 303 | April 28, 2024 3:18 PM |
Tom Tryon was a very handsome man
by Anonymous | reply 304 | April 28, 2024 3:54 PM |
R304, Otto Preminger treated him abysmally during the filming of "The Cardinal" which probably played a part in his turning to writing rather than acting.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | April 28, 2024 4:16 PM |
Are we adding James Garner and Robert Mitchum?
by Anonymous | reply 308 | April 28, 2024 4:39 PM |
What is the gay gossip about Lawrence Tierney and Tom Neal?
by Anonymous | reply 309 | April 28, 2024 4:41 PM |
[quote]Tom Tryon was a very handsome man
He got his start with Disney, first with "Texas John Slaughter" on television and later with a Disney live-action feature called "Moon Pilot."
by Anonymous | reply 310 | April 28, 2024 6:56 PM |
R310, He was “Adam” to Marilyn Monroe’s “Eve” in the unfinished “Something’s Got to Give”.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | April 28, 2024 8:01 PM |
R311 Right. One can see Tryon in this segment of the film, when the husband (Dean Martin) goes looking for him and finds him in playboy mode poolside -- featuring Tryon in a swimsuit.
That scene starts around the 28:15 minute mark.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 312 | April 28, 2024 8:41 PM |
Even with that clip it's hard to imagine Tom Tryon succeeding in that role in Something's Gotta Give. Handsome though he was, he had no sense of comedy or the dopey bravura to carry it off. Did he ever play sexy in anything? I can see why Chuck Connors replaced him when the film really got going with a mostly different cast.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | April 28, 2024 9:07 PM |
R313, George Cukor was probably hoping to get into that bathing suit.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | April 28, 2024 9:24 PM |
I remember when I was a kid, being in a bookstore once and there was a display featuring one or more of Tyron's novels, with a larger poster of the author. Perhaps he was on a book tour and was going to appear at the store. Anyway, his sexy gorgeousness just stopped me in my tracks.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 315 | April 28, 2024 9:50 PM |
[quote] During the 1970s, he was in a romantic relationship with Clive Clerk, one of the original cast members of A Chorus Line ....
It sounds like Clive Clerk's relationship or at least friendship with Tyron lasted up until he died (1991), because in this lengthy retrospective of Tom's career published by the Hartford Courant newspaper in 1992, one of people they interview is "Clive Wilson," which is the name Clive Clerk went by when he switched careers to become a designer and painter.
In the article, Wilson is described as "a longtime West Coast friend and Tryon’s literary executor" and someone "who worked closely with Tryon on several of his books."
There's also a lot within the article from Tyron's younger brother, Bill, as well as discussion about Tyron's ordeal with Otto Preminger mentioned by R306.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 316 | April 29, 2024 1:01 AM |
Clive Clerk can also be added to thread. Besides Broadway, appeared in some TV and films, most notably the Rock Hudson/Doris Day rom-com, "Send Me Know Flowers."
In it, Clerk plays the flirty "Vito" the dry cleaning delivery boy. whom Rock's character, "George," doesn't like very much. When "George," begins to worry about who his wife "Judy" might hook up with after he kicks the bucket, he has a dream about it, and the guy in his dream turns out to be young Vito.
That segment leading into the dream starts around the 31:00 minute mark in this link at Dailymotion:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 317 | April 29, 2024 1:24 AM |
Howard Rollins was a very gifted actor and a very tragic story.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 318 | April 29, 2024 1:36 AM |
Eric Portman was a wonderfully dark and creepy presence in a host of British noirs from the 1940s. Indeed, he became so identified with the genre that one critic referred to him as "a one-man crime wave."
Corridor of Mirrors is my favorite Portman film but his other noirs like Dear Murderer, Daybreak, and Wanted for Murder are also excellent.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 319 | April 29, 2024 1:42 AM |
[quote]"Send Me Know Flowers."
Oh, dear.
But seriously -- how gay is that cast? Rock, Paul Lynde, gay-adjacent Tony Randall, and now Clive Clerk too?
by Anonymous | reply 320 | April 29, 2024 1:45 AM |
Eric Portman was also the original narrator of The World at War tv series before Larry Olivier did the highlights version.
by Anonymous | reply 321 | April 29, 2024 1:47 AM |
r316, I would love to read the article, especially the parts concerning Tom’s experience with Otto Preminger but I don’t do paywalls honey.
by Anonymous | reply 322 | April 29, 2024 1:53 AM |
Tom, as a good Catholic gay ;)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 323 | April 29, 2024 1:59 AM |
Tom talks about horror Otto in the Otto documentary.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 324 | April 29, 2024 2:11 AM |
Tryon appears shirtless in the movie Three Violent People (where he co-starred with Chuckles Heston). He looked super hot. Great body.
by Anonymous | reply 325 | April 29, 2024 2:41 AM |
R325, His character was missing an arm in the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 326 | April 29, 2024 2:50 AM |
R325, Elaine Stritch has a supporting role as someone who is aware of Anne Baxter’s shady call girl past that she has been hiding from husband Chuck Heston.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | April 29, 2024 2:53 AM |
R311, the role was originally offered to Gardner McKay, who was on a weekly series called "Adventures in Paradise," in which he played Adam Troy, the skipper of a schooner called Tiki III that sailed the South Pacific. It would've been a hilarious meta in-joke had he agreed to play "Adam" to Marilyn's "Eve," and had the film been completed and released. But, alas, it just wasn't meant to be.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | April 29, 2024 6:13 AM |
Wasn’t Otto Preminger a asshole on the set to everyone?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 330 | April 29, 2024 11:10 AM |
John Mahoney isn’t from the golden age, but he died five years ago, and he’d be as old as some of the other offerings on this thread.
He also played gay a couple times.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 331 | April 29, 2024 11:31 AM |
R328 co-starring Elaine Stritch!
That trailer is a doozy—the ultimate B picture!
by Anonymous | reply 332 | April 29, 2024 11:41 AM |
R329 Gardner McKay is one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen. I first saw him in a Vogue spread with Dovima on Pinterest. What a loss that he drifted away from the screen.
by Anonymous | reply 333 | April 29, 2024 11:50 AM |
R332, Can you not see R327?
by Anonymous | reply 334 | April 29, 2024 11:52 AM |
Gardner McKay was in The Pleasure Seekers with Ann-Margret
Cheesy movie but he was hot in it
by Anonymous | reply 335 | April 29, 2024 6:17 PM |
He sought pleasure…and found it.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | April 29, 2024 7:23 PM |
Gardner McCay is a seriously handsome piece of man. I'm an eldergay so I should know more, but this place, Datalounge, is where I first heard of him.
Thanks DL
by Anonymous | reply 340 | April 29, 2024 8:51 PM |
Gardner McKay looking spectacularly slutty.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 341 | April 29, 2024 8:56 PM |
Gardner McKay was gorgeous but was he EVER cast in a sexual role? Like Tom Tryon, he never seemed to be cast as man with any sexual desires.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | April 29, 2024 9:17 PM |
Gale Gordon was heterosexual, BUTT according to a Reader Blind at Entertainment Lawyer, he enjoyed getting pegged:
[quote] READER BLIND -- OLD HOLLYWOOD: This deceased actor (Gale Gordon) had a long film and TV history but is primarily known for a couple TV shows ("I Love Lucy"/"The Lucy Show"/"Here’s Lucy"/"Life With Lucy") he did with this actress (Lucille Ball) of a certain hair color whose most famous TV show ("I Love Lucy") came first. He played her exasperated foil ("Theodore J. Mooney"). In real life, he was heterosexual and married for many many years but he also enjoyed being pegged and was known among Los Angeles sex workers as someone who would tip generously for a strap-on experience. Gale Gordon/"I Love Lucy"; "The Lucy Show"; "Here’s Lucy"; "Life With Lucy"/Lucille Ball/"I Love Lucy"/"Theodore J. Mooney" -- October 9, 2021
by Anonymous | reply 343 | April 29, 2024 10:02 PM |
[quote]Actor turned novelist, Tom Tryon. Still from "I Married A Monster from Outer Space."
He was gorgeous.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 344 | April 29, 2024 10:14 PM |
More Jonathan Frid, the centerpiece of Dark Shadows - also upthread in the link at r29 with the other gays from the show.
I wonder what the relationships were between all the gay men in that cast were like.
Dark Shadows and Bewitched were chock full.
Witches and vampires, existing under the radar on the outskirts of polite society.
As a kid, I was devoted to both shows. I didn’t get why, but there was unquestionably a niche appeal to a lonely little gayling.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 347 | April 30, 2024 12:16 AM |
George Maharis and his nipples.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 348 | April 30, 2024 12:20 AM |
[quote]George Maharis and his nipples.
He never went anywhere without them.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | April 30, 2024 12:22 AM |
….according to a Reader Blind at Entertainment Lawyer, he enjoyed getting pegged:,,,
💀👽🤖
by Anonymous | reply 350 | April 30, 2024 12:25 AM |
Dirk Bogarde’s ultragay look.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 351 | April 30, 2024 12:25 AM |
Darth Vader was a Dildo-Freak, yea?!
by Anonymous | reply 352 | April 30, 2024 12:27 AM |
Raymond Burr.
Is there a good biography of him? Or maybe an extensive piece online?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 353 | April 30, 2024 12:31 AM |
Laurence Harvey.
Who has not seen Walk in the Wild Side?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 354 | April 30, 2024 1:38 AM |
That was a sad story at. R355.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | April 30, 2024 3:27 AM |
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