Boze Hadleigh


Boze Hadleigh is the author of several books that cover LGBT culture, popular culture, and show business. His 22 books have been translated into 14 languages.
He holds a master's degree in journalism.

Writings

Several of his books deal with pop culture and/or entertainment history and how the media and status quo shape and manipulate audiences' perceptions and opinions. Some of his books are exclusively about the LGBT presence in and contributions to entertainment.
Some of Hadleigh's books are quotes collections, some are histories and overviews, and some are interview books with movie personalities. Several of these interviews, as with Rock Hudson, were published in periodicals before the subjects died.

Personal life

Hadleigh is gay.

Disputable claims

In Hadleigh's book Broadway Babylon, Madeline Kahn is quoted as saying: "Nathan Lane has a wonderful sensibility for comedy...It does rather surprise me that as a gay man he participates in that degree of homophobic humor in The Producers." Madeline Kahn died in 1999. Nathan Lane only was signed to appear in The Producers in October 2000.
In the book Leading Ladies, referring to the film Brief Encounter, Hadleigh writes: "Sir Nöel did not believe any of the remakes worked nearly as well, including the highly publicised 1975 British telefilm starring Sophia Loren and Richard Burton." However, Noël Coward died in March 1973.
Among other claims Hadleigh has made is that Rock Hudson had an affair with Liberace. In a filmed interview, journalist Woody McBreairty confronted Hadleigh with the information that Tom Clark, publicist and former lover of Hudson, had said of the claim: "Nonsense. It never happened. I knew Rock for thirty years...Rock did not know this writer and never spoke to him. The way Rock is quoted is just not the way he talked". In response, Hadleigh stated that he had interviewed Hudson twice, in 1977 and 1982.