It is interesting to notice that on the Cast of the movie, “Giant”, Rock Hudson was the lead, both Sal Mineo and James Dean were converted by gay older men.
Probably Rock Hudson and his gang
Sal’s wife (from Exodus ) was shattered when she found out.
Speaking of the movie “Exodus”, the young actress who played the pretty blonde girl Karen was Jill Haworth, who was fifteen during the making of the film and acc. to Wikipedia, at that time she lost her virginity to co-star Sal Mineo in a NY hotel room. Just an example of the abuse of children in the film industry. Jill Haworth later broke up with Mineo when she learned he was having an affair with Bobby Sherman, a teen actor whose records I remember buying at the time and who was on the cover of the teen mags I as a teen female remember buying.