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At the end of the day, 'Hollywood' doesn't care about telling a compelling story about interesting people, but is intent on demonstrating the importance of representation in media. There are two excellent stories at the center of “Hollywood,” Ryan Murphy’s alt-history saga of old Hollywood. An intrepid group of friends attempt to make a big studio romance starring a talented black actress in 1947. An aspiring actor must negotiate his desire for fame with his morals, in the backdrop of a sexually exploitive agent and the omnipresent risk of his homosexuality becoming discovered.Both of these stories are technically covered in...

After making its way through the state Senate's Judiciary and Education Committees over the last month, a bill that would require schools to incorporate information on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Americans into their curricula passed by 23-14 on the Senate floor Thursday. The measure, which goes to the Assembly next, addresses high bullying rates of LGBT youth and the absence of LGBT Americans from official accounts of history in school curricula. It would expand on existing laws that require instructional materials to include accurate portrayals of the role and contribution of culturally and racially diverse groups. That list,...

He won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 1991 from the actor's estate after convincing a jury that Hudson had knowingly exposed him to AIDS. Marc Christian MacGinnis, who won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 1991 from the estate of his ex-lover, actor Rock Hudson, after convincing a jury Hudson had knowingly exposed him to AIDS, has died. He was 56. Known as Marc Christian, he died of pulmonary problems June 2 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. The details were confirmed Friday by his sister, Susan Dahl, who said she did not publicly announce his death earlier because of...

Phyllis Gates, the onetime talent agency secretary who married Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson in the 1950s and later insisted she married him out of love and not to cover up his homosexuality, has died. She was 80. Gates, who had a career as an interior designer after her brief marriage to Hudson, died of complications of lung cancer Jan. 4 at her home in Marina del Rey, said Mark Waldman, her attorney. "She was a lovely, very dignified woman," Waldman said today. Born in Dawson, Minn. in 1925 and reared on a 600-acre farm, Gates had worked as a salesclerk,...

Schools will be encouraged to hold lessons exploring the achievements of gay men and women throughout history as part of the first gay history month. The project, to be held in February, will highlight the hidden history of household names who would probably today identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, such as William Shakespeare, who was rumoured to be bisexual, and Florence Nightingale, who few people know was a lesbian. Other events covered during the month will include talks on the early years of gays and lesbians in British television and discussions of the history of the British LGBT...

I do not think Barack Ombams is gay. He was raised a Muslim and had an African Muslim father and step-father. He was raised a muslim until the age of 10 when his mother's family put him into a private Hawaian school where he was ministered to by the United Church of Christ. He went to colege at Yale and was able to kick a coke habbit. He has two young children. Not much is said about his life before he was 40.

Rock Hudson’s Gay Lover Confirms Ronald Reagan Was Not Homophobe – Was “Kind and Considerate” As Hudson Approached Death From AIDS. On Hannity, about 3:40 EST this date, Hannity quoted from a letter from Marc Christian, the former lover of gay movie actor Rock Hudson, to CBS President Leslie Moonves. In the letter, Christian dispels the malignant liberal myth that Reagan was anti-gay. Christian was incensed that that false claim was a major part of the anti-Reagan movie CBS planned to air. In the letter, Christian says the Reagans were life long friends of Hudson, knew his sexual orientation, and...

CBS's decision to pull the plug on its mini-series "The Reagans" came on the heels of a letter to the network from Rock Hudson's ex-lover, who complained that the portrayal of the 40th president as a virulent homophobe was provably false. "The notion that President Reagan was a homophobe strikes me as silly beyond belief," wrote Marc Christian, in a letter to CBS entertainment chief Les Moonves made public Tuesday by her friend, conservative commentator Tammy Bruce. "Not only did he have several gay men on his staff when he was Governor of California," said Christian, "he called my lover,...