Gay Influence

  Paul Jabara and Donna Summer You might not know the name, but you know the music. Songwriter, producer, singer and actor Paul Jab...

Multi-talented Roger Edens (1905-1970) was a key player in the creation of classic MGM musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Edens was ...

Republican politician, LGBT activist, philanthropist, business executive and film producer Michael Huffington (b. 1947 in Dallas, Texas) ...

Openly gay film director, actor, producer and screenwriter Colin Higgins (1941-1988) was born in New Caledonia, a French island nation ea...

Note to readers: This is my 400th post! Unbelievable. Art director, set designer and film producer Jacque* Mapes (1914-2002) and Ross H...

American playwright and theatre director/producer Moss Hart (1904-1961) considered George S. Kaufman his greatest collaborator. Among the...

38-year-old Shane McAnally is a Nashville anomaly – an openly gay country songwriter, singer and producer. Writing scores of songs a yea...

You have likely never heard of Frank McCarthy or Rupert Allan . Both were WW II military leaders who became movers and shakers among th...

American screenwriter, producer and film director Ron Nyswaner (b. 1956 in Pennsylvania) has often worked on film projects having to do w...

In his just published memoir, music industry executive and record producer Clive Davis (b. 1932) states that he is bisexual. He is curren...

Openly gay actor/producer Robert Gant has a role as a film director in Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of James Dean which screened at L.A....

Here’s a gay movie plot that sounds intriguing: Doug (Eric Dean at top) is dating two very different men – 50-year-old Jacob (Michael Nic...

California-born film director James Ivory (b. 1928, shown at left) and Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant’s collaboration with Merchant...

He describes his own sound as "smooth, soulful, jazzy and funky." Born and raised in the Bronx by parents who were Orthodox Jews, ...

When the big-band era singer Margaret Whiting died at the age of 86 last January, I remember reading a few salacious details in her obituar...