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Tommy Kirk, whose career as a young leading man in Disney films like Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog and Son of Flubber came to an end, he said, after the studio discovered he was gay, has died. He was 79.

That was the old Disney. If they had discovered he was a homo in the current environment, his career would have taken off.

[kiryandil]

Walt Disney personally fired him, but they kept it quiet so he could keep working.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There were other gay/bi during that period who didn’t get fired, Rock Hudson, Anthony Perkins, Tab Hunter, Vincent Price, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Greta Garbo, Cesar Romero, Montgomery Clift, Tyrone Power, Raymond Burr (many were secretly or not so secretly gay or bi).

[mware]

Sorry to hear about his death. Moochy died not that many years ago.