Jun
11
2021
ABOVE: And just like that, Kim Cattrall who?
7 posts categorized "TAB HUNTER"
Tab liked 'em younger. Everyone else liked 'em Tabber. (GIF via GIPHY)
An actor talks turkey about bedding Tab Hunter, my Q&A with Sharon Gless, a new profile of old favorite Barry Manilow — and more: HERE.
Jul
10
2019
ABOVE: Good sport.
BELOW: Keep reading for Rapinoe rapping Trump, Pride flag burner captured, bare-naked actors and more ...
Jul
11
2018
Above: All the feels, all the feels.
Tab Hunter: July 11, 1931—July 8, 2018
... and just three days before his 87th birthday.
Please check out my full obit at Gr8erDays, and share it.
Jun
07
2018
Above: The above — FOLLOW HERE — made me remember this that '70s or '80s image of the gay clone in jeans sitting on a fire hydrant in the village. Even though no fire hydrant around. For some reason.
Tab is proud of his strength ... of character.
My blog is dangerously close to 10 years old. As this realization has sunk in of late, I've thought long and hard about the variety of opportunities it has brought—and denied—me. Most interesting have been those times when I've been able to meet and sometimes interview gay people with experiences similar to and dissimilar from my own, whose stories have broadened my understanding of who I am.
Hunter claims he never really discussed being gay with beard Natalie Wood.
Meeting Tab Hunter (and his partner Allan Glaser) recently was a bit surreal. To think that someone who at one point was the #1 heartthrob in the country at the same time he was secretly gay was now casually sprawled out before me in a swanky hotel antechamber six decades later was mind-blowing. The fact that he was navigating what it meant to be gay before most of my readers were born, and before the word “gay” was even firmly entrenched, made it extra-special.
Tab—still handsome at 84—and Allan were promoting their joint effort Tab Hunter Confidential, the entertaining and earnest new documentary directed by Jeffrey Schwarz that is in limited release.
The movie, based on Tab's tell-some bio from a few years ago, is perhaps most noteworthy for containing the candid eyewitness account of a gay man who was a major player in the studio system in Hollywood at the end of the industry's Golden Age. We've all heard about who was and who wasn't gay, but how many of those gay actor and actresses—working in the '50s and before—have gone on the record to share a bit about the experience?
It's an oral history that can't be missed, even if—like some jackasses apparently asked when Tab's career was on the skids—you can't help asking, “What's a Tab Hunter?”
The conservative Hunter does FOX News recently.
Tab is happy to tell you what a Tab Hunter is, even if he is still rather reluctant to dish the kind of dirt that we live for these days. He's not into dishing dirt; he prefers his prized horses, telling me, “I'd rather shovel the real stuff.”
Some highlights from our chat:
