WAS IT REALLY SUCH A SECRET
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metalman091 — 18 years ago(April 04, 2008 09:22 PM)
I would say it was a secret and it also wasn't. For example when Hudson worked with John Wayne the subject of Hudson's sexuality came up and Wayne supposedly said "I don't care what he does in the bedroom, he is a good chess player and a good actor". The same with Susan Saint James who heard rumours but never believed them.
So it would have been in three parts, those who knew, those who heard about it and those who didn't know. -
GoodSOVeryVeryGood — 11 years ago(January 30, 2015 06:55 AM)
Nope - it wasn't a "secret" at all. Everyone knew (my mother told me in the 60s when I got into the 50s romcoms he made with Doris Day). But he was discreet and as long as he was it was an "open secret". Hypocrisy at it's best
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gshows-1 — 10 years ago(April 12, 2015 05:03 PM)
My grandfather told me Rock was gay in the early seventies when he was making a movie in rural South Loui5b4siana. He had been seen at a bar frequented by homosexual men. I didn't believe him at the time, but when Rock died of AIDS I did believe him. Certainly Hollywood people knew and kept his secret.
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Elliot1976 — 10 years ago(October 04, 2015 08:50 AM)
My father told me in the Seventies as well and I always just accepted it as a fact w/o judging because my father wasn't judgmental about it either.
That's why I was surprised that much later it was like the "big surprose". -
metalman091 — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 12:23 AM)
Rock Hudson never openly admitted to being gay and there was an interesting mix of people who knew, didn't know, were aware of rumors but were not certain, or heard the rumors and didn't believe them.
We have enough confirmation from others who knew Hudson to know that he was gay. -
denis-38 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 10:23 AM)
It was not. I'm well into my 60s, and Rock's name was always a byword for what we now called "closeted" behavior. Audiences looked the other way. Hell, Liberace's audiences looked the other way! Along with being sad because of his terrible death, I can also say I was grimly amused by the "shock" expressed by the press. The same press that had printed he and Jim Nabors had "married" a few years previously. Everybody knew, really. Another exampleJohnny Mathis. And anotherTab Hunter.