{"id":90151,"date":"2022-02-20T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90151"},"modified":"2022-02-20T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:13:10","slug":"gay-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/02\/20\/gay-in-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay in Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of these boys owe a debt of gratitude to the hunky <strong>Harry Hamlin<\/strong>, who made headlines playing gay 40 years ago in <strong><em>Making Love<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all seen the recent headlines \u2013 which claim that Harry all but lost his career by playing a gay character.&nbsp; That isn\u2019t actually what he said.&nbsp; The part that\u2019s gotten all the attention is this: \u201cFor years, I\u2019d think was that the reason why I stopped getting calls?&nbsp; And finally realized that was the last time I ever did a movie for a studio\u2026Even though I was straight, I think the perception at the time was that anybody who could play gay must be gay.\u201d&nbsp; However, he goes on to say this: \u201cRegardless of the effect it has on my film career, I went on to have a great career \u2013 and I still do.&nbsp; I\u2019m very proud of having done that movie.&nbsp; Now a gay love story can be told freely.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s interesting to note that he did <em>Making Love<\/em> shortly after fathering a child with <strong>Ursula Andress<\/strong>.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t get more heterosexual than that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these boys owe a debt of gratitude to the hunky Harry Hamlin, who made headlines playing gay 40 years ago in Making Love.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all seen the recent headlines \u2013 which claim that Harry all but lost his career by playing a gay character.&nbsp; That isn\u2019t actually what he said.&nbsp; The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90152,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151\/revisions\/90152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}