Photo by navarrennewspaper.comAs documented by journalist Jake Nevens and TheGuardian.com, Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter, who died in 2018, struggled with several intimate issues behind the scenes. Born in 1931 as Arthur Gelien, Hunter, as Nevens documented it, "was gay but kept his sexuality a secret for the bulk of his career, until coming out in his 2005 autobiography Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star. "Ultimately," Nevens concluded, "Hunter would end up with producer Allan Glaser, his partner of 36 years. The article, Hunter felt, insinuated he’d been party to a 'gay orgy,' a rumor that might have torpedoed his career given the contemporaneous moral panic around homosexuality and the 'lavender scare' that led to mass firings." “When the Confidential article came out,” Hunter recalled, “I thought my career was over.”To read more about Tab Hunter, click here.

Source: The Guardian February 10, 2023 23:04 UTC