Danny Lockin

Danny Lockin was born in Hawaii in 1943,Not for any glamorous reasons but because that’s where dad Joseph was an operations manager for Dole Pineapple well anyway the family didn’t stay there long and fairly soon relocated to Omaha, Nebraska. Mom also known as Jean, who had been a dancer in the last raspy gasps of The vaudeville circuit , opened up a successful dance studio. From an early age Danny excelled at dancing. He obviously wowed his mom because well come on it’s mom but other people noticed also. So from an early age he performed. Professionally from the age of 9. In a kind of modern day vaudevillian act with an African American partner named Neal Reynolds. They would do the fair circuit, and by all accounts, it was successful, let’s keep in mind, queers and weirdos, we are talking about, the mid-west and like a 3 month time frame but a success All the same. In, what to me, seems like a terrible time to do this, but none of us know what was going on in the Lockin family, they moved to Anaheim, California, Danny’s junior year of high school. During this time he got leading juvenile roles is several regional productions of Gypsy, The Music Man and Time for Everything (a show I have never heard of). Once graduating he almost immediately got a small, let me restate that by saying, more like glorified extra part in the filmed version of Gypsy in 1962 as one of Dainty June’s farm boys, truly a blink and you’ll miss it part but it was a working part of the film industry. I’m sure he was hooked. Next in 1963 he was cast in the play Morning Sun with Bert Convy and Patricia Neway…. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forgotten-queers--6719466/support. Please follow me on Facebook, BlueSky,TikToc,Twitter at Gary Thoren. We must never forget our Forgotten Queers