Edited sentence: Sometime in the early 1970's, a group of gay men in southern California, who were known for throwing grand parties with off-the-wall themes, organized a party that supposedly celebrated the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors.Unfortunately, the purely fictional party theme eventually became a low-key national rumor that the two men really were a couple; and homophobia being what it was, the two friends were never able to meet again, for fear they might be "outed" by the tabloids and their careers ruined - which could have happened even if neither were gay