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LGBT History Month profile: Billy Haines, popular 1930s film star
William “Billy” Haines was one of the most popular silent and talking film stars of the 1930’s. He left show business when he refused to deny his homosexuality.
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LGBT History Month profile: Celebrated actor, director, producer Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is a celebrated actor, director and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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LGBT History Month profile: Movie star and cabaret singer, Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a movie star and cabaret singer who appeared in dozens of films during Hollywood’s Golden Age. She was one of the highest paid actresses of her time.
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LGBT History Month profile: Chris Colfer, actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter
Chris Colfer is an actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Kurt on “Glee.” He is one of the first openly gay teen actors to portray an out character on primetime television.
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Gay actor Rupert Everett: Nothing worse ‘than being brought up by two gay dads’
In a new interview, openly gay British actor Rupert Everett stunned the LGBT community by telling London’s Sunday Times that he “can’t think of anything worse” for children than being raised by two gay fathers.
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Actor, artist Ron Palillo of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ fame dead at 63
Ron Palillo, the actor who played Arnold Horshack on the 1970’s sitcome “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died Tuesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., from an apparent heart attack. He was 63.
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Kristy McNichol comes out as lesbian ‘to be open about who I am’
Kristy McNichol, the 1970’s child actress who won two Emmy Awards for her role as the tom-boyish Buddy Lawrence in the acclaimed ABC television drama “Family,” and who later starred in NBC’s “Empty Nest,” has come out as lesbian. McNichol, 49, who has lived with her partner Martie Allen, also 49, for the past two […]
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Zachary Quinto: ‘Living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it … is simply not enough’
Actor Zachary Quinto, best known for his roles as Sylar on NBC’s “Heroes,” and as Spock in the 2009 film version of Star Trek, has publicly announced that he is gay.