Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO FROM CLASSIC TV WAS GAY?
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- GAY RIGHTS
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO FROM CLASSIC TV WAS GAY?
* griffith era gay *
Most queer film historians ce the 1919 German movie Different From the Others (Anrs als die Anrn) as the first gay cematic landmark, but released that same year was an Amerin movie, Broken Blossoms, by the legendary D. Griffh, that ptured a gay sence.
That's what enabl our morn sophistitn to regnize the s that make Cheng Huan a gay paradigm. The man and girl's idyll is cshed ("The spir of bety breaks her blossoms all about his chamber"), and no ntemporary gay-bashg would be more heartrendg. Griffh is nfirmed gay.
Every old televisn show was about gays, and I n prove .
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * griffith era gay *
Now, if you want an example of Gay Ricky and And They Were Roommat Lethel (terrible ship name, Siri please revise) you n watch S1 Ep18 “Vatn From Marriage”. And a good thg too, I served to see Don Knotts play a homo.
Every person who participated was eher a gay clockg on the low sgle digs of the Valid Sle, or a terrifyg heterosexual.
I jt googled the actor, Raymond Burr, and apparently he was humongoly gay!
GAY RIGHTS
Now M*A*S*H is possibly too recent to clu, but ’s a firmly gay tv show so legally I mt. Who’s gay?
Fd the gays you wish to see your oldi tv. By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike.