Ben-Hur's Gay Subtext Is Needed Now More Than Ever

Ben-Hur's Gay Subtext Is Needed Now More Than Ever
 - Gore Vidal is turning over in his grave. The late, great man of letters caused a firestorm when he revealed in the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet that he had added a gay subtext between the lead characters in the Ben-Hur screenplay, to which he was a contributor.


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