Marlene Dietrich – A Gay Icon Worth Remembering

(GayWebSource.com – Gay News & Press Network) – Posted by Jake Simpson – TheGayUK.com
From the very beginning of her career as a chorus girl in theatres and cabarets of 1920s Weimar Berlin Marlene Dietrich boasted a gay following. In one of her early revues she sang a duet with co-star Margot Lion called “My Best Girlfriend” in which both sported a corsage of violets– the signal in those days for lesbianism.

By Terry Sanderson | 16th September 2014

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