'Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood' spills the tea on sexuality and movie stars, like it or not

Though Hollywood is now seen (sometimes unfavorably) as a liberal bastion, it wasn't always that way. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, life in Hollywood up until the early 1990s - and perhaps, in some ways, still today - was a game of smoke and mirrors, hiding parts of themselves in public for fear of losing their jobs, being harassed by the police or worse. It's a time period that Scotty Bowers remembers quite vividly.

"I never did think it was a good thing," the 95-year-old said about people being forced to hide their sexuality. "But people had to do it. It was dangerous not to."