Boze Hadleigh#Disputable claims

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 and contributions to entertainment.

Some of Hadleigh's books are quote collections, some are histories and overviews, and some are interviews with movie personalities. Several of these interviews, as with Rock Hudson, were published in periodicals before the subjects died.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

Boze Hadleigh was born on May 15, 1954, in Syria. He holds a master's degree in journalism.{{Cite web|last=Robinson|first=Charlotte|date=2017-04-25|title=Boze Hadleigh Talks Hollywood Lesbians From Garbo To Foster & More (AUDIO)|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boze-hadleigh-talks-hollywood-lesbians-from-garbo-to_us_58ff3b42e4b06c83622e702d|access-date=2018-01-31|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US}} Hadleigh is gay.{{citation |first=Boze |last=Hadleigh |publisher=Citadel Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-8065-2199-6 |page=11 |title=The lavender screen : the gay and lesbian films : their stars, makers, characters, and critics }}

• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=The Films of Jane Fonda |url=https://archive.org/details/wholeworldinhish00susa |date=1981 |isbn=080-650-7543 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title= Conversations with My Elders|date=1986 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=031-200-1150 }}{{cite news|date=July 2, 1988|title=Homosexual celebrities reveal their own stories—after dying|page=29|work=Austin American-Statesman|agency=Knight Ridder|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88197783/homosexual-celebrities-reveal-their-own/|via=Newspapers.com}} (also published as Celluloid Gaze)

::Conversations with My Elders (republished as Celluloid Gaze) includes interviews with actors Sal Mineo and Rock Hudson; directors George Cukor, Luchino Visconti, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder; and designer, photographer, and author Cecil Beaton. Their conversations with the author reveal much about the lives and careers of these celebrities and how their homosexuality affected both.

• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Hispanic Hollywood |date=1990 |publisher=Carol Publishing |isbn=080-651-1850 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=The Vinyl Closet:Gays and Lesbians in the Music World |date=1991 |publisher=Los Hombres Press |isbn=096-234-9798 }} (also published as Sing Out!){{cite journal|last1=Salvadori|first1=T.R.|title=The Vinyl Closet|journal=GLBT Reviews|date=Winter 1991|volume=3|issue=4|url=http://www.glbtrt.ala.org/reviews/the-vinyl-closet/}}{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Bob|date=August 18, 1991|title=Gay in Music Land|work=San Francisco Examiner|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88198187/gay-in-music-land/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Leading Ladies |date=1992 |publisher=Robson |isbn=086-051-8086 }} (UK only)
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=The Lavender Screen |url=https://archive.org/details/lavenderscreenga00hadl |date=1993 |publisher=Carol Publishing |isbn=080-651-3411 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Hollywood Babble On |date=1994 |publisher=Carol Pub. |isbn= 155-972-2193}}{{cite news|last=Osborne|first=Robert|date=August 20, 1994|title=Stars' wars: Slightly suspect 'Babble On' is a gold mine of gossip|page=24|work=Detroit Free Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88197968/stars-wars-slightly-suspect-babble/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Hollywood Lesbians |date=1994 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=156-980-0146 }}

::Hollywood Lesbians is a collection of interviews with 10 lesbians in the entertainment industry. Publishers Weekly wrote: "Fans of Hollywood's golden age will find this collection of interviews conducted over many years revealing, though hampered. The subjects - director Dorothy Arzner, designer Edith Head, actresses Judith Anderson, Marjorie Main, Barbara Stanwyck, Nancy Kulp, Capucine, Patsy Kelly, Agnes Moorehead and Sandy Dennis — were raised in a generation terrified of voicing support for fellow homosexuals, let alone daring to come out of the closet to acknowledge their own sexuality... Still, with carefully couched questions from Hadleigh (Conversations with My Elders), though some of the respondents dance around the subjects of sex and sexuality. Still, an enlightening picture emerges of Tinseltown, different from that presented in the fanzines."[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56980-014-0 Nonfiction Book Review - Hollywood Lesbians]

• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Hollywood Gays |date=1996 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=156-980-0839 }}

::Hollywood Gays is a collection of interviews with prominent film personalities, such as Liberace, Anthony Perkins, Randolph Scott, and several others, most of them widely known as homosexual. Publishers Weekly said about the book: "Hadleigh (is) evidently taking up where the great gossip columnists of yesteryear left off." The book includes an interview with producer David Lewis, who talks freely about his longtime companion James Whale, as well as a conversation with William Haines, whose career was destroyed by Louis B. Mayer after Haines refused to marry a woman, and was later caught with another man in his cot at a YMCA.[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56980-083-6 Nonfiction Book Review - Hollywood Gays]

• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Bette Davis Speaks |url=https://archive.org/details/bettedavisspeaks00hadl |date=1996 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=156-980-0669 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Hollywood and Whine |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodwhinesn00hadl |date=1998 |publisher=Carol Publ. |isbn=155-972-4730 }}{{cite news|last=Marymont|first=Mark|date=January 3, 1999|title=Hollywood quips entertaining|work=Springfield News-Leader|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88198242/hollywood-quips-entertaining/|via=Newspapers.com}} (published in the UK as Hollywood Bitch)
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Celebrity Feuds! |url=https://archive.org/details/celebrityfeudsca00hadl |date=1999 |publisher=Taylor Trade |isbn=087-833-2448 }}{{cite news|last=Riley|first=Michael|date=January 9, 2000|title=Inside stargazing at some juicy feuds|page=42|work=Asbury Park Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88198056/inside-stargazing-at-some-juicy-feuds/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=In or Out |url=https://archive.org/details/inorout00boze |date=2000 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=978-1569801567 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Celebrity Lies! |date=2003 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=156-980-2459 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Holy Matrimony! |url=https://archive.org/details/holymatrimonybet0000unse |date=2003 |publisher=Andrews McMeel |isbn=074-073-3257 |url-access=registration }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Celebrity Diss and Tell |date=2005 |publisher=Andrews McMeel |isbn=978-074-075-4739 }}{{cite news|last=Harmon|first=Rick|date=May 21, 2006|title=Read all about it in 'Diss & Tell'|page=74|work=Montgomery Advertiser|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88198126/read-all-about-it-in-diss-tell/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Mexico's Most Wanted |date=2007 |publisher=Potomac Books |isbn=978-159-797-1492 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Broadway Babylon |date=2007 |publisher=Back Stage Books |isbn=978-082-308-8300 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=An Actor Succeeds |date=2014 |publisher=Hal Leonard |isbn=978-087-910-8885 }}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=Holy Cow! |date=2015 |publisher=Skyhorse Publishing |isbn=978-163-220-5575 }}{{cite news|last=Schlichenmeyer|first=Terri|date=July 26, 2015|title=If you're curious about language, this book won't get your goat|page=29|work=Kenosha News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88197883/if-youre-curious-about-language-this/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite book |last=Hadleigh |first=Boze |title=492 Great Things About Being Italian|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|date= 2015|isbn=978-1634505345}}
• In or Out: Gay & Straight Celebs Talk About Themselves & Each Other is a compilation of celebrity quotes from stars who comment on themselves, their sexuality, on others, on the closet, and on society's homophobia, as well as that of show business.
• The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films — Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics is an illustrated overview of LGBT-themed films, most of them starring heterosexual actors in the lead gay, lesbian or bisexual roles, such as Robin Williams in The Birdcage. It was updated and re-released in 2001.
• The Vinyl Closet: Gays and Lesbians in the Music World focuses on present and past gay, lesbian and bisexual singers, composers, musicians and dancers in North America and Britain, with a foreword by Leonard Bernstein, and is one of the first books that document their artistic contributions. According to Madonna, it "cuts through the role-playing crap and shows the music world as it really ... is! It's camp with a High-C!" {{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093740/http://www.salmineo.com/news/inter_hadleigh.html The Boze Hadleigh interview of Sal Mineo].
• {{IMDb name|1854755|Boze Hadleigh}}

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