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Contents:
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
- THE VELVET RAGE BY ALAN DOWNS | SIX LSONS ABOUT GAY NARCISSISM | PART 01
- PRI AND PREJUDICE FOR GAY MEN
THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
Gay narcissism as a ncept is explored by Steven Surman this analysis of the Velvet Rage by Alan Downs. Part one of two. * velvet gay *
Based on the trailer, this is eher a twisted psychologil thriller or a straight up horror movie wh an art-hoe vibe, emphasis on the film, which will premiere at Sundance later this month, is obvly not the first time Gyllenhaal played gay: his Brokeback Mounta sex scene remas one of Out's all time favor. Of urse, the gays are also very exced to see Toni Collette another horror role after her nscent performance 2018's Heredary, for which she was robbed of any awards season Buzzsaw drops on Netflix and select theaters Febary 1.
But I took a step further last month when I tried the anime-visual ge that is Tal of Berseria thanks to Gaymg Magaze’s own Aimee Hart, and let me tell you somethg: ’s a queer game. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis). A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood.
”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK. ”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle. Still, ’s clear to any stunt of the era that the edgy liv of gay men at the time fascated the straight artists they worked wh.
THE VELVET RAGE BY ALAN DOWNS | SIX LSONS ABOUT GAY NARCISSISM | PART 01
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”In some ways, managers like Epste and other others uld sulate themselv om the everyday life of gay men at the time – throwg their own exclive parti and circulatg elevated circl where they uld do as they pleased.
Ironilly, after the law agast homosexual acts changed Bra 1967 – crimalizg them certa circumstanc and for those of a certa age – the harassment of LGBTQ people actually tensified. “But post-67, and wh the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970 Bra and wh gay people beg more outspoken, the raids and the psdo-polil attacks started to happen more. When I was a kid Florida there was this notor spot near where I grew up that was like “don’t go there at night bee a bunch of gay dus have sex the bathroom and on the beach.
PRI AND PREJUDICE FOR GAY MEN
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Hollywood's "gay mafia" or "velvet mafia" or "lavenr mob" has long been the subject of gossip, wh ocsnal blips to the mastream prs. More than half of the leadg power brokers Hollywood are Jewish, and about a third of the powerful are homosexual, cludg David Geffen, Ray Stark, Calv Kle, Aaron Spellg, Steve Tisch, Barry Diller and agent Sandy Gall.
To be blunt, the Asi regard Barry Diller and many of his young male executiv to be gay, and the Asi referred to gays as "poofters. From Taki's lumn the 3/7/00 I’m not at all surprised to read that Hollywood is domated by a Velvet Mafia of rich homosexuals who mand sexual favors return for work the movi. (Geffen, as mor has , is supposed to have been thrilled that the movie a homophobe father beats up his son when he spects him to have had a gay affair wh Kev Spacey’s character, and even more thrilled when is later revealed that the homophobe was actually a reprsed gay.