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Gay served as the dean of Social Sciences at Harvard from to , as the dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences from to , and as the 30th of Harvard University from July to January For decades, there have been rumors that James Dean was gay, but now we're finally getting more inside details about his secret long-term relationship with a man, and we are SEATED. To date, James Dean’s sexuality remains a subject of debate.

The icon publicly dated several women, including actresses Barbara Glenn, Pier Angeli, and Ursula Andress.

However, it is acknowledged that he was also secretly involved with men. Rumours about Dean’s sexuality have persisted for years. The book Surviving James Dean by William Bast, a close friend and former roommate, provides the strongest evidence of Dean’s romantic history with men. Bast met Dean at UCLA, and they shared a close bond that allegedly turned romantic.

Filmmaker Guy Guido is adapting author and screenwriter William Bast's memoir 'Surviving James Dean,' which details his five-year-long friendship and a purported romance between the two in. Late in the evening on September 30, , screenwriter William Bast sat at his typewriter in his cramped L. The next morning, he planned to carry those suitcases out to Sherman Oaks, where James Dean, his best friend and onetime lover, had invited him to move in together in a large rented house.

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As Bast told the story decades later, after a long, confusing courtship, full of starts and stops, denials and doubts, Dean wanted them to live together as partners and lovers, not just as friends. Around sunset, the phone rang with the news that Dean, just 24, was dead—killed when his Porsche collided with another car in the California desert. Bast dropped the phone and fell out of his chair, blacking out at the news.

In death, Dean would become the perfect celebrity—a silent one—onto whom generations could project their fantasies and themselves. Death delivered Dean the fame, the love, and the acclaim he struggled to achieve in life. So famous is the photo of him leaning against a wall in blue jeans that he is credited with making jeans the American uniform. More than 65 years later, he remains omnipresent in pop culture.

His face sells everything from blue jeans to cars to luxury watches. A star even borrowed his moniker. His last movie, Giant , hit theaters sixty-five years ago this fall. Pop culture has endlessly reimagined James Dean from the moment he died—he is straight, bisexual, and gay; sensitive and aggressive; misunderstood and manipulative; victim and predator; the best of us and the worst. Only now, with a new generation rejecting old assumptions about gender roles and sexuality—one in six members of Gen Z self-identify as queer, according to a recent Gallup survey —is it possible to see James Dean as he really was.

We can see just how much he, more than any other star of the twentieth century, pointed the way toward modern masculinity. And we can see how heavily previous generations censored and censured his legacy to try to tame its radical potential. To write about him now is to describe Gen Z seventy years early. A recent study by the ad firm Bigeye found 50 percent of Gen Z describe traditional gender binaries as outdated, and James Dean had already blurred that line in the oppressive heart of the s.

He loved both sports and theater, motorcycles and making art. He was self-centered and narcissistic but befriended marginalized people. He was arrogant but wracked with self-doubt. He took countless selfies in the mirror and performed outrageous stunts for the midcentury version of likes. On screen, he could convey thunderous emotion with a glance, his performances erupting with tears and screams and howls, a raw vulnerability few young men had ever seen someone their age express.

To his teenage admirers, he represented freedom. To his adult detractors, he was ornery, unpleasant, and effeminate. Unconsciously, she intuited something hidden and recoiled. In the summer of , Dean, just 20, met and moved in with a much older man, Rogers Brackett, whose bed he shared. He lied and told friends and his agent that they had separate beds.

Powerful people made their assumptions. After Dean acted in a live TV broadcast in , the director told him there might be more parts for him if Dean would let him suck his cock. He knew a refusal might end his career, so Dean focused all his attention on a fly crossing the ceiling until it was over. He later said these acts—and there were several, with different powerful men—made him feel like a whore.