Believe your assessment is right. During the autumn of 2005, in a small local owned bookshop, i saw Tab Hunter. It was quite a time before the book signing was due to start. There was Tab preparing the table and bringing out the supply of his books.

He was stunning.

well said Jorge hugs to you,,

Sweet

Sick..

@@pdailey1950 why

Awesome

Lucky!!

Thank you.

Our culture didnt have as mych homophobia as the USA, but we were careful to announce that we were admirers of Hollywood male heartthrobs.

And if that day arrives, society will then be deprived of much creative works. Nothing creates the passion and charisma like inner torment. We have already, in my opinion, endured a famine of rich, original movies, books, songs, etc., (they’ve even resorted to making remakes of remakes) because of the creature comforts afforded to us by discoveries in science and inventions of household appliances that have enabled such comfortable lives, comforts our ancestors could never imagine; again, in my opinion.

@@orlandodiola7076 EVERY culture has homophobia.

@@thomastoler2397 Thanks for seemingly voting for my feeling tortured so I can create great works for you to enjoy.

wow that must have been fun

@@stephenfermoyle4578 they like to party

Hard to imagine Tab at a party with Richard Deacon

@@jv-ep2tc parties then were word of mouth at bars and you never knew who might show, I met many that way and as a three piece suit banker many were customers at the branch I managed in Beverly Hills

That's awesome. Sounds like Mad Men the series from a few years back.

Jim S.: “Is that as gun in your pocket or are you just happy to meet me?” Not embarrassing at all.

"Lust in the Dust" was not a John Waters film, of course, but had the same type of humor and Divine! And it was truly hysterical!

They also were in Polyester together. Divine and Tab made such a great couple. Too bad it didn't last.

Heartfully agree

He had a fascinating life throughout, and a wonderful life at the end. His agent, the one who threw him under the bus, died broke and alone. So there you go.

@@jv-ep2tc Most likely because the creepy agent was always after him to have sex. Tab knew better.

Promiscuous people can know real love too - and be good people. Nixon and Stalin were faithful to their wives but cheated on the rest of the world. I'd much prefer Hudson.

@@ixlnxs Very true! ♥️

It's terrific you have such cherished memories--memories not of made-up stories but real ones.

He is played by Jim Parsons in the Netflix limited series ‘Hollywood.’

Sometimes the universe can surprise us with what you put in our path. Keep an open mind. Keep your vision of Tab in your mind as well and then see what happens.

@@jv-ep2tc You are so right! ♥️

Mary Hartman Mary Hartman was one of the best things ever on tv.

And Divine in a John Waters movie.

poetcomic1: They had GWEN VERDON dancing in the locker room in fish net stockings and lace bustier. Watch the scene, no one would miss Tab Hunter. But he was a lot of fun on the screen and got first star billing in DAMN YANKEES.

Ray Walston was the best part of Damn Yankees!

@@johnpickford4222 And Tab was so at the top of the game doing the 'Two Lost Souls" number!

Don't forget the chemistry between Lainie Kazan who played Marguerita Ventura and Tab Hunter in Lust In the Dust. Those three really tore up the scenery in the movie Lust In The Dust, Divine, Lainie Kazan and Tab Hunter.

He was extremely handsome I go to the gym ,I don't believe I'll ever be that handsome never he was for me a blonde god ,but he was somebody I could look up to an inspiration we all need that thanks tab ,for woman look to Audrey Hepburn beautiful classy and brave, she lived through the nazi occupation of Holland 🇳🇱

WOW! How do you rate? How does a man receive a kiss from the handsome Tab Hunter. He was a good looking man to the end.

We met at a charity event in Palm Springs I went up and told he I’m he was every young gay mans fantasy growing up and that’s when he said I’ll give you something to remember me by and that’s when he kissed me! OMG. I didn’t want to wash my lips ever again!

@@brucetominello325 damn....those are the better memories dude!

@@andyroo9381 absolutely disgusting!

@@FlattieDaddy Why don't you stop trolling me and these gay oriented vlogs. Are you trying to figure yourself out? Are you aimless in your own life? Are you one of those self-deprecating homosexuals who, so very badly, wish he were straight? Get a life and find your own purpose. I am happy to say, I know who I am.

@violamateo Yes, in the Tab Hunter Amazon documentary, the way Wilson is mentioned comes across as him being kind of a predator by taking advantage of young good-looking men looking to become actors. He must've come across as creepy but many young actors were pretty desperate..sad and so typical of Hollywood especially in those days.

You have a good point read in the paper about arrests in Germany and Austria about a planned take over of the reichstag like the attempt in Washington, we all have to be on the watch these people mean business, I'm glad that the UK came out of the e u there's a lot of right wing groups Poland Hungary etc but of one thing I'm certain of is they'll never beat Britain they haven't in the past they won't in the future

He wrote a best-selling memoir which became an award-winning documentary so it's possible there are more details available. But, yes, I think the all-male pajama parties may have had a few of the pajamas tossed on the floor.

@@thorr18BEMI know from reading histories of that era, police would raid gatherings of men or women - even if all were decently dressed. So some parties would included gay men and lesbians together to be able to defend against those raids.

It is astonishing to me that the police would come to a private home. It’s like a dictatorship. I wonder if anyone ever sued.

@@jv-ep2tc I don't see what police enforcing laws in private homes has to do with dictatorship. They go into private homes for murders too, even in a democracy, do they not? The stupid laws were created by a stupid legislature which was democraticly elected by a stupid populace.

@@jv-ep2tc It was the 1950s. I am sure the police were allowed to get away with that kind of thing back then.

Jon Hamm, Clooney, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Brad Pitt, Leo, Depp, for starters...but yeah, I hear ya...

@@anthonydabiere1865 Those you named are to me more pretty. Tab was handsome.

dennis williams: He ‘made you breakfast’? At 15!?!? I’m almost afraid to ask what he fed you! One big sausage and two hard eggs?? Ok, ok, I apologize.

Thank you so much Ruth! 🙂

@@AgeOfVintage Thankyou so much for your lovely reply cheers Ruth 💛💜💚💙💖💋💋💋💋🎬📽

Thank you Ms.Lawrence for this wonderful narrative

@@orlandodiola7076 Hi Orlando, thankyou so much for you're lovely reply. I'm so sorry I missed seeing it when you originally sent it. Love Ruth from Australia 🇭🇲💖💚💛💙💕❤😊😊💋

The studios back then were completely homophobic.

@@martijnspruit Only as to the public finding out. There were marriages of convenience and other illusions which the studios handled, to protect the box office value of their gay "properties."

🎶"If Troy Donahue can be a movie star, then I can be a movie star!"🎶

Yeah Tab was on another level. With that perfect square jawline, pretty features, and beautiful tan skin. He looked like a living Ken doll.

I saw both Lust in the Dust & Polyester in a theater in SF & I enjoyed it immensely.I still thought that time he was FAB.

Dexter echivrrri: We’ll, from the video he had a lot contend with and so he was very serious and not happy or gay.

Wow. Do you think perhaps he was afraid the horse would have turned on you? You know....They never really gave a damn about kid's feelings in them days. So he probably screamed at you also because, not only was he a turd, but he probably also was having one of them days. Unfortunately you got the brunt of it.

Sonia R don't be ridiculous . He was an ahol. PERIOD.

Well he was a flaming homosexual and young pretty girls were the last thing he cared about. Not to say a straight guy can't be an idiot as well. Altho if that had been Elvis' horse Elvis would've gave it to you as a gift.

@@panteraxenos4789 Ok calm down.

I'm sorry he was a jerk to you. It left a lifetime impression.

MJ Belle, one of the two, can't remember which now, told on a talk show how they ran across each other in a European airport while both were going to work in two separate foreign produced movies After conversing a while they discussed how so many people got them confused. So they decided to do the other's acting role and not tell the movie companies. Supposedly they pulled it off without those firms ever knowing.

@@rharvey2124 Omgoodness really that’s so funny

Tab was far better looking. He had that perfect jawline and such pretty features and beautiful tan skin.

@@rharvey2124 That was Tab Hunter and Jeffrey Hunter and they did switch roles.

FAR from it actually! Troy was an alcoholic who reputedly treated everyone badly, including his ex wife, Suzanne Pleshette, who caught him in bed with a man on their honeymoon!

The permanent way out . . . Is through most careful observance of Nature and ALL of what She requires and then, implementing such found results, as well as intelligence and good-will might allow. The mystics (religion as organized) reject that Natural Man is viable, and so must be (even against his will -- the evidence standing for this being the RCC horrors visited against any possible dissenters of tymes-antient) BE converted to the ONE acceptable in their VIEW, this in order to become perfected and thus suitable to God the Creator, if to ever be in His presence. I say that the Natural Man is just fine as-is, the Golden Rule being inserted by Her only to be extinguished or perverted (as speaking of it) by ill-intenders, to their questionable gain. Our animal co-inhabitants have also their own Golden Rule version, with which they are endowed. The sad and mislead Mysticalites would and do bust their asses as-taught to deny this but, the tangible exemplary trumps mere flimsy belief, before even blinded and blinding faith might be established by it's means. What is to be seen of such an assertion, that animals too enjoy morality of a kind? All kind-hearted lovers and tenders of their animal friends K-N-O-W! Only recently it was found that wild crows, having been treated with kindness and help from humans, had REWARDED this by leaving of an assembled gift delivered to the good human. These were delivered as two items subsequently; each being a crow feather inserted into the rings of SHINY pop-tops! They were left on the man's doorstep twice. (Crows LOVE shiny things! The know!) What more evidence than that could there be as to their true heart status? Common to Natural Man left as undestroyed by intending destroyers, is an equal-opportunity love for whatever is lovable truy, and with ALL that that implies. For various of reasons this condition is necessary for proper balance of Nature in Man, and likewise too within our co-inhabitants the animals. As to this, there can BE NO question. It being solely a matter of more evidence as observed and then, implemented by intelligence to tangible productivity. The most ugly era of Human males being taught hatred for fully HALF of their own inner loving selves MUST BE BROUGHT TO AN END! 'Hope that helps some, @ROCHE D.

They weren't. It was when boys in their 20s had them, and didn't wear pajamas, that things got a tad dicy.

@@davidh9844 Thanks for clearing that up! Was a little confused, there :)

Ah, I too wondered why a 'pyjama party' was a scandal. Didn't realise that there was a more 'adult' connotation to it. Ho hum, every day is a school day. 😁

@@davidh9844 David have you seen the pictures of gay male couples were one wears the pajama bottoms and their partner wears the top? There is one taken at a party by a famous 1930s Paris photographer, and it is always featured in books about his work. Brassier, or some such name. I was surprised to see a similar American photo just the other week.

@@davidh9844 Well, if they weren’t wearing any, Why did the call them “pajama parties”? I mean what was wrong?

Godfather II.

@@donna25871 Yeah, that was a career booster.

G spot?

He made it perfectly clear that he didn’t like labels. And he’s right.

Peter He's talking about the narrator who never said "Gay" in this video. Very strange.

But he couldn't sing. Sonny James' version of the song is better, only made #2 on the pop charts, but #1 on the country chart.

@@MetFan37 In 1957 both versions went #1 on Billboard's Pop Charts, Sonny for only one week. However in the Country Arena Sonny had over 20 #1 singles. Tab could sing to a likeable degree, but did not have Sonny's chops. BTW, I'm a big fan of the late Sonny James (Country Gentleman). R.I.P. to both.

I bristle when someone calls it a "sexual PREFERENCE". It is NOT a preference. It is how we were born.

There was no waste for females. You all have plenty of straight men. Besides gay men have always been around.

It should. Not be like that but it is. If we don’t like it, we should not follow their careers with any scrutiny.

YES, he did.

james lewis II: Ronnie used protection after lube, what do you mean?