Was grandpa walton gay

&#;The Waltons&#;: Married TV Couple Grandma &#; Grandpa Were Both Actually Gay

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Ellen Corby and Will Geer brought veteran acting skills as Grandma and Grandpa Walton respectively. Indeed, The Waltons never even considered recasting the elderly couple when each fell on hard times with their health. They became an inseparable unit on screen. However, in their private lives, each was actually gay and in homosexual relationships of sorts.

Both also maintained a front. They may have fallen elsewhere along the spectrum of who they felt attracted to, but it&#;s actually widely believed both their marriages acted as safeguards against harassment and damage to their careers. Learn more about the other life lived between the two iconic grandparents.

Grandma Walton the sailor-mouthed lesbian

As a married couple on TV, Grandma and Grandpa Walton represented the build of the Walton family tree, armed with wisdom and traditions. Ellen Corby as herself, however, swore like a sailor. Additionally, the actress behind god-fearing Esther Walt

Will Geer: Queer, Communist, and American as Apple Pie

What a feast of riches it is acquainting oneself with the animation and career of Will Geer (William Aughe Ghere, ): actor, folksinger, political activist, and &#; remain for it &#; horticulturist. Like most Americans, I adored him during his late career Renaissance when he played Grandpa on The Waltons () and appeared in movies appreciate Jeremiah Johnson (). He seemed the very mind of rural America, in particular the good parts. He was kindly, tender, wise, funny. And he was eccentric: with his long white hair, droopy mustache and penchant for wearing his overalls with only one strap buttoned. Onstage he had played Walt Whitman and Notice Twain; he clearly channeled those guys into his late career persona. What was not much publicized at the time (even though it was the hippy-dippy s) was that he was bisexual and, for a time, a communist. I reiterate, because this is important and it needs to be heard and digested: Will Geer was simultaneously lgbtq+, communist and as American as apple pie.

I&#;ve been intrigued by his ance

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Harry Hay

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Harry Hay had a vision, and that vision led to the founding, in , of the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States—the Mattachine Society. Mattachine (and Harry’s) first task: establishing a male lover identity.

Episode first published November 1,

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Harry Hay was precocious. He knew from an early age that he was attracted to men, had his first same-sex attracted sexual experience when he was nine, and developed an interest in union organizing in his early teens while working on an uncle’s farm in Nevada. Born to an upper middle-class family and raised in California, Hay was sent to the farm by his father to toughen up, but what he learned working side by side with migrant laborers was first and foremost ideological, as many of his fellow workers were “Wobblies,” members of the International Workers of the World (IWW).

By the early s, Hay was out, had dropped out of Stanford University, and had moved to Los Angeles to work in th