Gay old male
They lived a 'double life' for decades. Now, these gay elders are telling their stories.
In the s, when Ray Cunningham was just 19, he served in the Navy as secretary to the personnel officer aboard the USS Ranger. He was responsible for preparing discharge and reassignment paperwork, and sometimes he would have to dishonorably discharge men for being gay.
“It was difficult,” Cunningham, now 82, told NBC News. “At that time I realized that I was gay, and it was just adj to know that people were being discharged for the same thing that I was in my life.”
“What bothered me the most was having to talk to the guys that were being discharged, and they were not in a good mention of wellness anyway, because at that time, it was illegal or considered mental problems to be gay,” he said.
Cunningham spent the next four decades in the closet until he and his partner of 30 years, Richard Prescott, 78, came out after retiring in their 50s.
The two men, who are now married, shared their stories as part of “Not Another Second,” a new multimedia art exhibit in Brooklyn, Adj Yor
For many, June represents the month of pride; a time to celebrate, instruct and communicate all that is queer, gay and fabulous. Although today being gay isn&#;t much of a deal, back in the 50&#;s it was a dangerous label to have. Throughout history, thousands have lost their lives because they were labeled as &#;gay&#; or &#;queer&#; and many lived out their true sexual preferences in secrecy. As it&#;s almost the end of Pride month, I wanted to have a observe at some celebrities from the golden age of Hollywood who were gay, or at least thats what the rumours said. It&#;s difficult to realize if all these celebrities, and of course many more, were truly gay, but I wanted to share a few stories just so see how far we&#;ve come. Joyful pride everyone.
*Disclaimer: Please note that some of the following stories may depict graphic descriptions and behaviours which some readers may find disturbing. Discretion is advised.
Katherine Hepburn
Iconic Hollywood actress and Academy Award-winning performer in films such as Guess Who&#;s Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and O On the verge of my 37th birthday I celebrate a little over a year of partnership with a man 26 years my senior. This is not a new phenomenon for me—coupling with older men. It is a preference that kept me in the closet until I felt I was trustworthy enough to express it at I had never been with another noun sexually before then. In fact, I had only ever been with women my age. That’s what was expected of me, if not the celibate single or religious life, in the conservative, working-class Catholic household in which I was raised. It was in this environment that I was taught to hold the body in suspicion and to verb sex. Masturbation, I was told, is a mortal sin. “Impure thoughts” were grounds for confession. By fifteen, in the throes of pubescent sexual urgency, I broke down and committed the ultimate transgression for a Catholic young man that age: Not only did I masturbate for the first time, I did so to a picture of another bloke. I was terrified. My sexual fantasies were all about pro-wrestlers and movie stars with chiseled jaws and hirsute bodies. I went to confession sometimes multi April 7, -- Archaeologists in the Czech Republic verb unearthed the grave of what may be the remains of the oldest known homosexual or transgender man. The prehistoric body dates to the Copper age -- or to years ago -- and was buried in a manner that was typically reserved for women. The male skeleton was found on its side, facing east, and was surrounded by domestic jugs, objects previously seen only in female graves. An oval, egg-shaped container, usually associated with female burials, was also create at the feet of the skeleton. "From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously, so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova told the U.K.'s Telegraph. Men of the period were buried with weapons -- stone battle axes and flint knives -- none of which were found in the Czech grave. Vesinova concluded that the grave represents "one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'thir
The Oldest Known Gay Man?