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==Dean's iconic appeal== Many American teens at the time of Dean's major movies identified with Dean and the roles he played, especially in ''[http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/rebel-without-a-cause Rebel Without A Cause]'': the typical teenager, caught where no one, not even his peers, can understand him. Joe Hyams says that Dean was "one of the rare stars, like [[Rock Hudson]] and [[Montgomery Clift]], who both men and women find sexy." According to Marjorie Garber, this quality is "the undefinable extra something that makes a star."(Marjorie B. Garber, ''Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'' (2000), p.140. See also "Bisexuality and Celebrity." In Rhiel and Suchoff, ''The Seductions of Biography'', p.18.) Dean's iconic appeal has been attributed to the public's need for someone to stand up for the disenfranchised young of the era (Perry, G., ''James Dean'', p. 204, New York, DK Publishing, Inc., 2005), and to the air of androgyny (David Burner, ''Making Peace with the 60s'' (Princeton University Press, 1997), p.244.) that he projected onscreen. Dean's "loving tenderness towards the besotted [[Sal Mineo]] in ''[http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/rebel-without-a-cause Rebel Without a Cause]'' continues to touch and excite gay audiences by its honesty. The ''Gay Times'' Readers' Awards cited him as the male gay icon of all time."(Garry Wotherspoon and Robert F. Aldrich, ''Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: from Antiquity to World War II'' (Routledge, 2001), p.105.)
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