Arts Theatre, London: "I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out," Rupert Everett famously said in a Guardian interview just three years ago. The fear of discrimination that leads to the maintenance of what has been dubbed the celluloid closet was brilliantly demonstrated 80 years ago by the story of William 'Billy' Haines, who became a movie st…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:53AM on February 22, 2013