WAS IT REALLY SUCH A SECRET
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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.
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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.
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metalman091 — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 04:00 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.
Then how do we explain comments such as these made by Robert Stack when questioned by Larry King?:
KING: Did you, as a coworker, did you know he was gay?
STACK: Well, we had all kind of heard that. I'm I'm close to the police department, and we heard that he one time had picked up a young boy or something, but you know, I always figured in this profession, with this Ingrid Bergman with Rosselini, is none of my damn business, you know.
KING: You could always stay removed from stuff like that.
STACK: Yeah. He never impinged himself upon me either.
And this one when Angie Dickinson was questioned by King:
KING: Did you know that he was gay?
DICKINSON: No, I didn't. First of all, well, I did at a certain point but not most of his life. And that was never important to me. And, I don't even know when I knew or when I suspected or when I I tell you one little story, may I?
We also have denials from Doris Day, Tony Randall, and Susan Saint James. Hudson's close friends at school never saw and signs. Hudson's navy buddies were shocked to hear he was homosexual and were of the opinion that Hollywood had made him that way.