[Sca-cooks] Re: Hollywood gays (was movie night at the rock)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Randy Goldberg MD:
>  > I assumed the theme would have had them revoking your card if you
>>  didn't watch it the first day you had it. McKellan plays the great
>>  director James Whale, who tried to live openly as a homosexual in a
>>  fairly intolerant Hollywood, right around the time Somerset Maugham
>>  was having the same problem as a writer in England, and ultimately,
>>  effectively exiled. In Whale's case, it appears to have contributed
>>  to his death, one way or another.
>
>About the same time as Billy Haines, too, wasn't it? He managed to live
>openly, but had to give up acting to do it.

Maybe just a tad earlier. 1936 or 37, give or take. It's amazing when
you consider the number of prominent and successful gays and
bisexuals who simply remained under cover, but otherwise behaved in
ways that would have been considered far more scandalous than
anything Whale ever did.

Adamantius