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Contents:
- HOW LEIGH BOWERY DEFED THE LOOK OF GAY CULTURE 1980S LONDON
- AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
- THE 13 GAYT MIC VIOS OF THE '80S
- HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
HOW LEIGH BOWERY DEFED THE LOOK OF GAY CULTURE 1980S LONDON
Queer artist Leigh Bowery fed New Romanticism and the look of gay culture 1980s London. * 1980s gay face *
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AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
* 1980s gay face *
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Duplechan is a novelist bt known for "Blackbird" which was adapted 2014 as a film starrg Mo'Nique and Isiah Washgton, and "Got 'til It's Gone", which won the gay romance tegory at the Lambda Lerary Awards. Stambolian was a key figure the gay lerary movement New York durg the 1960s and 1970s. He was bt known as the edor of the "Men on Men" anthologi of gay fictn.
He is the founr of Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement, an anizatn whose goal was to prerve, prent and cubate black gay artistic exprsns. ”), Bowery fied the reigng fashns of both New Romantic pretts and the macho clone look of the gay scene. Beg gay the 80s meant beg isolated om an inty.
THE 13 GAYT MIC VIOS OF THE '80S
LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached. * 1980s gay face *
There was no discsn of homosexualy school… not even our year long “Health and Sexualy” class, even though we were the middle of the AIDS crisis. There was no acknowledgement that Alexanr the Great, Leonardo da Vci, and Michelangelo, were among the many posive gay historil role mols. On TV each night, there were no gay characters except for the ocsnal flamboyant game show regular on Hollywood Squar.
TV ss were even worse, wh the “we’re straight guys playg gay” characters sashayg across the screen.
Yet, as long as the gay was treated as a stereotypil joke, no one red.
HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
It was okay to make fun and lgh at their yet, the 80’s no one talked about actually beg gay. One was picked on relentlsly for his “gay-soundg” voice, lack of sports abili, and unwillgns to stand up to his bulli.
Another was a Greek God of virily that ed his powers of bety and mcle to enchant both the guys and the girls… safely leveragg the nvenient tth that most of his peers wouldn’t be able to associate masculy wh homosexualy. “I ternalized the teachgs of the 80s… the stereotyp of who is gay and what that meant.