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Bearding is Still a Thing in Hollywood

Beards are women who marry gay men to make the gays fit into heterosexual society.  They are paid to make appearances and to masquerade as they gay man’s wife.  Hollywood is full of gays and beards.  Gays want to come out and to not have to pay a beard cuz they are expensive.  Many beards are given Roles in movies and music to make a lot of money.  That is how they are paid.  Phyllis Gates, Rock Hudson’s wife was a beard.  According to a documentary director named Stephen Kijak, Rock Hudson never came out as gay because of the privilege that he had. He was a Hollywood legend who was best known for starring roles in Giant with Elizabeth Taylor, Pillow Talk with Doris Day, dozens of other hit films of the ’50s and ’60s and TV’s McMillan & Wife ¹². He was married to Phyllis Gates, his agent’s secretary, for only three years before they divorced ³. After his death, it was revealed that he had multiple gay lovers ¹.