Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, on HBO now, tells a story that the actor and Americana icon never could.
Kirchick’s book was about people in politics, but his words apply to queer history beyond that realm—and much of what he says perfectly describes the conundrum of Rock Hudson, the Hollywood leading man who defined low-voiced, square-jawed masculinity in the ‘50s and ‘60s, his face a kind of shorthand for mainstream handsomeness.
, who was also gay, was offered in exchange for one on Hudson to spare exposing personal details of Hudson’s life. Hudson’s sexuality was nevertheless loudly whispered about in public, but, as he says in interview footage shown in, he never pursued legal action against the press, because “it calls attention to it and makes it worse.” He was well aware of the Streisand effect years before it had a name.News of Hudson’s AIDS diagnosis rocked the world in 1985, after he collapsed in Paris .
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