E190 - 190. Scotty Bowers And The Secret Gay History Of The Golden Age Of Hollywood

A gas station attendant with a plan. A hidden network. And the secret desires of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Fresh from the horrors of World War II, a young Marine named Scotty Bowers arrived in Los Angeles looking for work. What he found instead was a city built on illusion, where fame came with morality clauses, careers could be destroyed by a rumor, and countless queer stars were forced to live in the shadows. From an ordinary gas station on Hollywood Boulevard, Scotty would become the keeper of some of Old Hollywood’s most closely guarded secr...