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has this meme made it to tumblr yet

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our enhanced photo of James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) on House

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our enhanced and colorized photo of Loretta Swit and a muddy Mike Farrell on the set of M*A*S*H

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our enhanced photo of Alex Horne, cohost of Taskmaster UK

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our enhanced photo of House (Hugh Laurie) smiling after catching Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) in a net trap

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our enhanced promo photo of Robert Sean Leonard in Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

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our enhanced cover of the TV Guide from the week of February 24, 1973, featuring the original cast of M*A*S*H

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let's all kill ourselves

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our enhanced photo of Loretta Swit on the cover of People Magazine in 1979

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30 Days of Classic Queer Hollywood

Day 14: Anthony "Tony" Perkins (1932 - 1992)

"This was the fifties, a public person could not go public, even if he wanted to. And Tony didn’t want to." - Past lover of Perkins

Anthony Perkins is one of the most recognizable stars from the 20th century, specifically for his performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Perkins was a gay man who had relationships with men such as actor Tab Hunter, artist Christopher Makos, dancer/choreographer Grover Dale, and French songwriter Patrick Loiseau.

Rumors about Perkins's sexuality started at the beginning of his career, as he made his Broadway debut in Tea and Sympathy playing a gay character.

He was aware of, and unhappy with, his homosexuality from a young age. In 1971, he broke up with long-term boyfriend Grover Dale and started conversion therapy with controversial psychoanalyst Mildred Newman. (Perkins's friend Stephen Sondheim later described Newman and her practices "completely unethical and a danger to humanity.")

At age 39, Perkins began experimenting with heterosexuality, and had soon impregnated Berry Berenson, who was engaged to someone else at the time. Berenson's fiancé left her, so Perkins married her, shocking his friends.

"It was a big shock when I heard he got married. I went, 'Not Tony.' He was very gay, totally gay." - Venetia Stevenson on Tony Perkins's marriage

Perkins and Berenson stayed together until Perkins died from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992.

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happy pride month to HIM

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our enhanced and upscaled version of this headshot of Taskmaster's Little Alex Horne

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our upscale photo of the cast of M*A*S*H in the operating room

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happy pride month, everyone :)

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our enhanced photo of Trapper (Wayne Rogers), Colonel Blake (McLean Stevenson), and Hawkeye (Alan Alda) in M*A*S*H

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our enhanced photo of a young Allelon Ruggiero with Peter Weir, the director of Dead Poets Society (1989)

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our enhanced photo of the original cast of M*A*S*H