The Short But Fascatg History of "Be Gay, Do Crim" - INTO

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• BE GAY DO CRIME
• THE SHORT BUT FASCATG HISTORY OF “BE GAY, DO CRIM”
• BE GAY DO CRIME
• BE GAY DO CRIME
• BE GAY DO CRIME: ON LGBT REPRENTATN DOG DAY AFTERNOON AND THE NEW HOLLYWOOD ERA

BE GAY DO CRIME

Ah, y: “Be Gay, Do Crim, ” the rallyg cry of a generatn.

This is the first stance of “Be Gay, Do Crim” beg tied to a specific iology. Soon after, another Twter er (@isislovecft) told a story about two kids jumpg the BART turnstyle and shoutg “be gay, do crim.

THE SHORT BUT FASCATG HISTORY OF “BE GAY, DO CRIM”

jt saw two teenage girls hop the bart turnstile and n up the stairs and start makg out and i uldn’t rist the urge to shout BE GAY DO CRIMES and they raised their fists and shouted back STONEWALL WAS A RIOT so i am rmg you that the kids are fact alright.

While 2016’s “be gay, do crim” was enough of a statement and of self to ri on shock value, 2018’s “Stonewall was a rt” reprents a new sire to reclaim queer narrativ.

BE GAY DO CRIME

Be Gay.

BE GAY DO CRIME

#Dive #JohnWaters #Gay #BabsJohnson #PkFlamgos #EatSh #CondoneFirstDegreeMurr #FilthAreMyPolics #FilthIsMyLife #Crime.

It was as if the entire culture was uned: gay is good, and crime is part of that. Beg gay has always volved dog crim: ’s a sad, but ccial part of our history.

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BE GAY DO CRIME: ON LGBT REPRENTATN DOG DAY AFTERNOON AND THE NEW HOLLYWOOD ERA

Content warng: this article ntas brief mentns of suicidal iatn and attempts, historil homophobia and racism. To go back to where this all started, 1971, Wojtowicz would meet Liz En, a trans woman, after gettg volved wh New York Cy’s risg gay liberatn movement. Filmmakg at the time was no doubt fluenced by thgs like the Vietnam War, ee love and hippie unterculture, the send-wave femist movement, the sexual revolutn, and the begngs of the gay rights movement, which was beg too loud to ignore, as well as Watergate and the Civil Rights Movement, which was also beg que powerful.

It would be adapted to a feature length film 1970 and nsired groundbreakg for the fact that nearly all the ma characters were eher gay or bisexual men. The way this film gave dienc a glimpse of actual gay culture and iend groups, however dramatized may be, still had an thenticy and unabashedns to that trigued a large dience.

Another new element this film was the way that the characters are not jt the same flat stereotype for gay/bisexual men, but rather all have dividual personali. No, but at a time when thgs like homosexualy and beg transgenr were still largely nsired forms of mental illns, showg dienc that people the LGBT muny were jt human begs like everyone else was pretty radil for s time, and perhaps helped even a small way to further evolve LGBT reprentatn on the screen for the future.