Sal Mineo

Sal Mineo was an American actor known for Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Exodus (1960, Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), and as a teenage idol of the 1950s. He was gay and reportedly in a relationship with James Dean during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause; the queer tension between their characters in the film is now widely analyzed as a reflection of their real dynamic. He came out publicly as gay in a 1972 interview with After Dark magazine — one of the earliest Hollywood stars to do so — and was murdered in West Hollywood in 1976.