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Scotty Bowers, who is bi, did sex work for both male and female celebrities.

Scotty Bowers kept his mouth shut for nearly half a century, but now that he's past 90 and most of the people he blew are dead, Scotty wants you to know that he made people happy. A lot.

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Matt Tyrnauer's new documentary, retells the Hollywood gossip Bowers revealed in his popular memoir from 2012, Full Service. In case you missed it: The Golden Age of Hollywood was really fucking gay.

After surviving some of the toughest battles of WWII, Bowers landed in Los Angeles. While he was pumping gas (not a euphemism), Scotty claims the actor Walter Pidgeon offered him $20 to pump his gas (a euphemism). A smart businessman, Scotty turned the gas station into a spot that served and serviced a large swath of gay Hollywood elites.

I had a friend who was a die-hard Madonna loyalist. Whatever Madge put out or starred in, my friend was 100 percent on board with it, and she often took me along for the ride. Which means I saw a lot of Madonna films, from the wretched (like Body of Evidence, which I am pretty sure Willem Dafoe wants to forget as much as I do), to the almost good (Evita).

But 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan was, by far, the best of the lot. It’s an entertaining comedy of errors that follows a bored New Jersey suburban housewife (played by Rosanna Arquette) who gets caught up in the life of an exciting stranger (Madonna) she discovers via the personals, and amid a series of events that involve a case of mistaken identities, amnesia, and a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings, experiences a finding-herself moment. But the film is so good because it serves as a nostalgic snapshot of a Madonna that many of us have forgotten existed: youthful, fresh, on the come-up (the film dropped less than five months after Like a Virgin), and confident without that overinflated sense of self-importance that came with her superstardom. It also marks the debut of “Into the Groove,” arguably one of the sexiest dance songs of the era.