Billy Crystal may have been the first recurring homosexual character but homosexual activists were being pushed in a number of “heterosexual” roles dating back to the 1960s.
Some well known homosexuals were also being pushed as male romantic leads and male pin-up crooners (both were sold to unknowing women).
It still happens.
Someone’s having a big laugh about it all.
Oh yes. Hollywood was full of them.
A very interesting perspective is given in the movie “Advise and Consent” in which a single incident of perversion in a politician’s dim past comes back to haunt him as he is being considered for a presidential appointment.
It is a very compelling drama, and does not sugar coat the sleazy underworld of homosexuality.
I’m surprised they were even allowed to make that movie.