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Turner Classic Movies Spotlights Gay Hollywood History For Pride

Coming out of the celluloid closet.

Turner Classic Movies is celebrating Pride Month with a slate of movies that reveal the hidden history of gay Hollywood.

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Each Thursday evening in June, TCM is airing programming and movies spotlighting LGBT celebrities, like Clifton Web, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift and Anthony Perkins. The series starts tonight with 1931's Just A Gigolo, starring William Haines, considered the first "out" actor in Hollywood. Other films include the Cole Porter biopic Night and Day, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Psycho, and All That Heaven Allows, which starred Hudson and Jane Wyman.

Film adaptations of works by gay playwrights like Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Gypsy Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) and Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) will also be screened.

Sadly, gay film historian Robert Osborne, the face of TCM for over 20 years, passed away in January. Entertainment journalist Dave Karger will take over hosting duties for Pride month. A former columnist for Entertainment Weekly, Karger will discuss queer Hollywood with William J. Mann, author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, and Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood.

On June 29 TCM will air The Loved One a comedy Karger calls "totally bonkers" and "the gayest movie of all time."

Visit TCM's website for a full schedule of Pride programming.

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