A little crowd of around a dozen people collected in the GLBT History Museum within the Castro recently for Hollywood’s Bisexual Closet: Marilyn Monroe and More, a talk provided by freely homosexual Hollywood historian and writer Boze Hadleigh. Hadleigh’s books consist of Conversations With My Elders and Hollywood Lesbians.

Numerous Hollywood movie movie stars associated with the Golden Age had been discovered become homosexual after their amount of time in the limelight had faded. The most known samples of this are William Haines, a premier package workplace celebrity whom threw in the towel their job in 1932 so that you can live together with his partner. Probably the most useful instance is compared to homosexual celeb Rock Hudson, who’s homosexuality had been typical knowledge for many years Hudson had been officially outed by the press briefly before their death from helps with 1985.

Hollywood historian Boze Hadleigh

The topic of bisexuality has often been kept quiet while homosexuality in Hollywood has long been a topic of discussion.

“Indeed bisexuals are mostly ignored in a polarized news and society that imagines everything is either-or instead of and-but,” Hadleigh told BAS following the talk. Continue reading “Hollywood’s Bisexual Closet: Queer Movie Historian Boze Hadleigh Kicks the Door Open” →