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THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT was published in 1968---a year that is, rightly or wrongly, conventionally considered part of the 1960s.
....and nine years after BRIDES OF DRACULA was made, a long enough gap that I don't think BRIDES can be described as being in anything like a "Quentin Crisp era." One of the main points of Crisp's book is how DIFFICULT it was for him to be openly gay.

As for careers being derailed by the actor/actress turning out to be gay--well, it derailed Ellen DeGeneres' career for a couple of years. And when CONFIDENTIAL outed George Nader (?) rather than Rock Hudson, HIS career faded swiftly. The people most vulnerable were those who were not major stars, but weren't also perceived by the public as being probably gay, anyway. (Like say Roddy McDowall.) If the star was big enough, like Hudson, the secret was kept by the liberal application of cash; medium-sized stars were considered disposable. I understand Lizabeth Scott's career was undermined by CONFIDENTIAL's "Liz is a Lez" expose.

But it is true that it's hard to find someone whose career was actually DESTROYED by being revealed as homosexual. The blacklist hurt more careers than being revealed as gay did.