It was like when I told my Mom that I was shocked that Rock Hudson was gay, my Mom said, “Oh, I knew that for years.”
yeah, I had no idea Rock Hudson was gay until it came out in the news to be honest.
I also thought the Liberace thing was all an act, until after he died, I would have bet $10 he was just flamboyant
Charles Nelson Riley I figured for sure, and for some reason I thought Benny Hill was gay and he over-compensated, but I guess not.
I have bad gay-dar it seems.
My Dad watched McMillen & Wife while I was growing up. I’ve heard him call Rock Hudson a queer but I had no idea what he meant by that word at the time, I was so young. But I realized it when he died of AIDS.
John Wayne called him a queer in an interview way back. Everybody knew, but no one talked about it. That was a very different generation.