Out Spotlight XVII

Today is the anti-Out Spotlight, actually. I wanted to find a list of folks who were gay but remained closeted their entire lives. First of all, it was really hard to find such a list. I had to Google it in many different ways before I found this source. And this source is not actually a list of famous closeted gays who never came out, but a slideshow of folks who were gay before out was in. It's really interesting! From the slideshow, I culled the names of those folks who never came out before they died and were outed posthumously. I left off people who did not really try and hide their sexuality or who I wasn't sure if they might have come out very late in life. These names are in no particular order.

Thornton Wilder- playwright
E. M. Forster- author
Will Geer- actor (Grandpa Walton)
George Grizzard- actor
Lorenz Hart- lyricist
Frankie Howerd- comedian
Paul Lynde- actor
Sal Mineo- actor
Robert Reed- actor (Mr. Brady)
Clay Shaw- businessman
James Whale- director
Raymond Burr- actor
Alvin Ailey- dancer
Peter Allen- Broadway star
Glenn Burke- Major League Baseball player
Ian Charleson- actor
Montgomery Clift- actor
Rock Hudson- actor
Langston Hughes- author
William Inge- screenwriter
Charles Laughton- actor
Liberace- entertainer
Roy Cohn- lawyer
Noel Coward- playwright
George Cukor- director
Richard Deacon- actor
Brian Epstein- Beatles' manager

There are no women on this list. I could not find women who went to great lengths to hide. I found that interesting. Why did these men never come out? Did they really have to hide? Could they have come out and had careers? Was it the times or something else? Has anything changed?

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