Transforming a Gay Truck Driver into the Biggest Star in Hollywood: Rock Hudson's Rise & Fall

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  @i_luv_hecklefish · 2 years ago

  When you got to the part about how Elizabeth Taylor crawled into Rocks hospital bed to hold him, when he was near death, I broke down in tears. 😢 I'm so glad he was loved.

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  @robotdeer · 2 years ago

  As a 40 year old gay, it is important to really understand just how much of an impact Elizabeth Taylor had in helping get AIDS research funding. We've come a long way in 40 years.

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  @QueenMegaera · 2 years ago

  Armisted made me laugh out loud so hard with the "If I was f*ing Rock Hudson, I'd want my mother to know immediately" -line. 😂😂😂

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  @midniteauthor · 2 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s funny how all the &quot;anti-woke&quot; crew complain about everything being gay now when in actuality the creators have always been gay they can just openly portray it now.<br><br>Anyway, seeing Rock receive an outpouring of support before he died brought tears to my eyes. He got the acceptance he always feared he wouldn&apos;t, many get that support after they pass. I&apos;m glad he got to experience that while still alive.<br><br>Amazing work as always Matt.

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  @chaosdestructionlove · 2 years ago

  Breaks my heart hearing his costar describe how she knew something was wrong and that he was protecting her as they kissed on set.

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  @Gr95dc · 2 years ago

  Mark and George sound like amazing friends and people all around. I mean, getting angry on how Rock had treated Phyllis is not something all loyal friends are capable of some times.

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  @mrluckyuncle · 2 years ago

  It’s terrible to think of all the blackmail that went on — and must still go on to a lesser extent.

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  @markmanning8832 · 2 years ago

  I just finished watching. I have known gay men and am bisexual myself. Married for 26 years to a woman. I just want to say two names of gay men I have known as friends who both passed away from AIDS. Charlie Miller and John Elliot. Charlie Miller worked at Unisys down at the Johnson Space Center area. He was brash, very out spoken, and always seemed to yell. The way I met him was he was talking to a couple of managers on the other side of a wall (we worked in cubicles) and his voice was so loud I finally just stood up and yelled at him &quot;Could you please go yell at each other some place else?&quot; He looked at me. I am 6&apos;5&quot; tall and he was 5&apos;10&quot; tall but he said &quot;Why? Why can&apos;t we yell here?&quot; I look at him and said &quot;Because I&apos;m trying to work and all I can hear is you yelling&quot;. So he said &quot;Well! How about we go to lunch?&quot; and I said &quot;Sure! As soon as you are through talking to these guys&quot;. We became best friends. AIDS gave him stomach cancer. I cried like I&apos;m crying now remembering him. He is buried in St. Louis next to his mom and dad. He said he wanted to do that because he hated both of them and that way he could haunt them forever...... I met John Elliot way back in the 1980s. He was a salesman at Computer Craft where I had bought my Apple ][+. He was in the resale part of the business. We hit it off immediately and we began going to restaurants for dinner. I had no idea he was even gay and really could care less that he was. In the middle of the 1980s, he had to go in for surgery. They had to take a part of his colon and gave him a coloscopy bag. Unfortunately, the surgery also gave him AIDS. The doctors had not tested the blood for AIDS. John weighed over 300 lbs and was around 5&apos;6&quot; tall (so very overweight). I went into the hospital to see him. The nurse gasped when I shook his hand so I asked her what was wrong. She said I was very brave shaking his hand. I said &quot;Don&apos;t be foolish. If this were air borne you&apos;d be infected and you are not. If it were transmitted by touching his skin - then we all would already be dead because I&apos;ve shaken his hand numerous times. The nurse just kind-of stared at me. I ignored her. John, after only six months, died. He weighed around 50lbs. He lived in a small house behind another house. The main house was owned by gay men, John was the person who told me he was gay while in the hospital. I said I could care less that he was gay or not. I just wanted him to get better and promised I&apos;d come and see him as much as I could. I&apos;d come once a week or even two or three times as my work schedule permitted. John was cremated and the two friends who owned the main house put his ashes in the flower bed that John loved to work in. I stopped going over to see them after a while. It was too painful.

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  @dieucondorimperial2509 · 2 years ago

  Henry Wilson is the most cartoonishly mustache-twirling joyless gay monster and I’m here for it

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  @cocazade7703 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Recently divorced from her ex husband, a no talent hack named Ronald Reagan.&quot; hahahahaa

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  @QueenMegaera · 2 years ago

  Mark and George are the effing heroes of this story. ❤ What a power couple.

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  @richarddoran3031 · 10 months ago

  I am now 63. &nbsp;In the seventies I was a young teenager coming of age. &nbsp;Although Rock was of an earlier generation, &nbsp;I had a crush for him by watching him on McMillan and wife. &nbsp;I only came out of the closet 4 years ago. &nbsp;I too lived a life of two personas for all those years. &nbsp;This story brought tears flowing down my cheeks 😢. &nbsp;I wish I had lived an authentic life during my younger years. &nbsp;Nevertheless, I am fulfilled and enjoying my new experiences. &nbsp;I do feel reborn. &nbsp;Rock Hudson will always be remembered and loved ❤ by me.

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