Comments on: How Rudolph Valentino Invented Sex Appeal

By: Kyla

Kyla — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:01:57 +0000

Ugh, why must there always be someone who dusts off the old chestnut of Valentino being secretly gay? Granted, I’ve never seen it brought up in (lame) poem form before but it is still highly annoying.

Look, I have nothing against gay people. I don’t think it’s unnatural or wrong, but I do get tired of everyone in the past, from Lincoln to James Dean, being labeled as closeted. Not everyone that lived in a pre-1960s world was a closeted homosexual, ok? There was never one man who came forward after Valentino died to say the had a romp in the hay. Only disreputable authors (*cough* David Bret *cough*) keep harping on it simply because of Kenneth Anger’s terribly written and lie ridden book, Hollywood Babylon. Find some solid proof and then write a book. Until then, let it go!

And no, I’m not saying this because I think Valentino is a hot little dish and I just can’t deal with someone I think of as being hot as a gay man. He was attractive but I certainly don’t understand the sex symbol thing one bit.

By: wm connor

wm connor — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:00:22 +0000

WELL WAY BACK WHEN IN THE EARLY 1900 THE IRISH WERE LOOKED DOWN UPON. I CAN REMEMBER MY GRAND PARENT’S SAYING THAT MANY AD,S IN THE PAPER ADVERTISING FOR HELP ON THE EAST COAST READ”IRISH NEED NOT APPLY”. I CAN REMEMBER OUR FAMILY BEING THRILLED WHEN JOHN KENNEDY WAS ELECTED. AND NOW A BLACK THE GRAVE YARD’S HAVE A LOT SPINNER’S WELL IT ALL FALL’S UNDER THE HEADING OF PROGRESS.

By: Ima Ryma

Ima Ryma — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:58:07 +0000

What if Rudolph Valentino
In real life turned out to be gay?
Sex symbol to women – oh no!
Hospitalized, he found a way
In pretense death to be rid of
The constant craze of ladies’ lust,
And disappear with his true love,
Old life to new life as he must.
From afar, he did hear the news
Of all his funeral she bang.
He as femme fatale did amuse,
As he transformed from yin to yang.

Valentino made a new start,
Left stardom to follow his heart.