My flight was beg served by an obvly gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone a good mood as he served food and drks.
Contents:
- HILAR FLIGHT ATTENDANT GAYS IT UP FOR PRE-FLIGHT SAFETY SPEECH
- HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
- THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
HILAR FLIGHT ATTENDANT GAYS IT UP FOR PRE-FLIGHT SAFETY SPEECH
Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s... * gay flight attendant safety speech *
Passengers flyg om Chigo to San Francis were then treated to four very gay, very hilar mut of remrs about how to buckle their seat belts, where to lote their life prervers, and what to do the event of a prsn that clud lots of attu, as well as referenc to Gone Wh The Wd and Bye Bye Birdie.
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HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype?
Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time.
THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News. In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts.
” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight. Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay. For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work.
As Tiemeyer wr, “the aisl and galleys of airplan, as well as crew hotels and crash pads, served the same role that other gays and lbians found bars: a place where they uld meet others like themselv and even embrace their same-sex sir for the first time.