25. Studios could force LGBTQ actors into heterosexual marriages
In 1955 screen heartthrob Rock Hudson married Phyllis Gates, who was his agent Harry Wilson’s secretary. They would divorce after only three years; it would later come to light that Wilson had arranged the marriage to disguise the fact that Hudson was a homosexual. It wouldn’t be until 1985, when he was diagnosed with AIDS, that Hudson bravely revealed his homosexuality to the world.
Page 17 of 41
