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Article: Hollywood, j'accuse!(hypocrisy of closeted gay celebrities)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2001
- Author:
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Wealth and fame have always had their privileges, like, for example, misbehaving with impunity. Perhaps nowhere has this been truer than in the gay demimonde. Historically, the gilded enclave of Hollywood has always been rife with homosexuals. Icons such as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson all lived double lives, trysting secretly with each other or with handpicked groupies, all the while hiding their sexual proclivities behind their blinding public image.
Meanwhile, less fortunate gays, who were forced to frequent dive bars just to escape crushing ostracism, incurred the wrath of phobic hoodlums and the indignities of police ...