“Her reputation all but synonymous with intolerance, her show business career evaporated”
I gotta ask, how does this happen? Especially when this was during the 1970s and 80s when Homosexuality was not only nowhere near as revered today but the total opposite?
True. But the sexual alphabet soup mafia has run the media/entertainment industry for decades and they totally blacklisted her.
She was the first high-profile victim of what later became known as cancel culture.