June 4, 2009

Wesley Eure, Welcome to the Family!

Wesley Eure: The one in the tight pants. No, the other one. No, the— yes, that’s right, in the denim shirt showing off his pecs.

Sometime, remind me to dig out the photos I took of Wesley Eure when I met him in ninety-eighty-something.

And remind me to tell you what a charming young man he was — very relaxed, very mellow.

Oh, but you won’t have to remind me to tell you:

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!

EXCLUSIVE!
Wesley Eure of TV’s “Land of the Lost” Comes Out

For many gay and bisexual men of a certain age, the first inkling that they weren’t like other boys came on Saturday mornings from 1974 to 1976, in the form of a television show called The Land of the Lost. The show, about a father and his two children who were stranded in a mysterious land of dinosaurs, also featured vicious, but curiously slow-moving reptilian humanoids called Sleestak. Now the classic kids’ program by Sid and Marty Krofft, the producers of H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, has even been made into a feature film starring Will Ferrell, opening this Friday.

But it wasn’t just the gloriously campy-even-at-the-time nature of the show itself that appealed to gay boys. It was also the fact that it featured the role of Will, the Marshall’s handsome teenage son, played by an actor billed only as “Wesley,” but whose full name is Wesley Eure. …

The story of Eure’s life – being cast to replace David Cassidy on The Partridge Family right before the show was canceled, for example — has always been interesting. But now that he’s opening up about being gay, his story also includes the stuff of even the richest of memoirs: his 70s love affair with Richard Chamberlain, his behind-the-scenes firing from Days of Our Lives, his relationship with some of the most famous closeted gay men in the Hollywood, and his touching thoughts on being a closeted teen heartthrob. …

Read the interview at the link!

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