A Glimpse of Gay Pri the 1950s

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• A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S

A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S

Bravo's origal Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was a groundbreakg realy seri for Amerin first eratn of Queer Eye premiered July 2003 and featured five gay men who were experts their given fields. The origal st nsisted of Carson Krsley (the "fashn savant"), Jai Rodriguez (the "culture vulture"), Kyan Douglas (the "the groomg gu"), Ted Allen (the "food and we nnoissr"), and Thom Filicia (the "sign doctor") many ways, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was one of the first popular realy seri to troduce several different typ of gay men to mastream dienc. For a untry that still wrtled wh acceptg LGBTQ+ people, the OG Queer Eye for the Straight Guy show proved that hetero guys had no reason to feel threatened if they hung out wh gay men — and they may even be able to learn a thg or two om 2018, Netflix rebooted the show wh a slightly tweaked tle, Queer Eye.

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The five guys who do the "make-overs" should prove to the rt of Ameri (the right-wgers, relig-right-ers, ex-gays', et al) that we're not perverts and bchy queens--well, maybe some of are queens, but we're not all 5 show great re and affectn for their "victims, " and I don't mean that they want to take them to bed. List of characters who intify as gay or lbian (attracted to someone of the same genr). ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the Universy of Southern California Librari, the largt reposory of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer materials the world, shared a heartwarmg uple of photos wh Time of two gay men showg affectn a photo booth durg the early 1950s honor of LGBT Pri public displays of affectn by same-sex upl are monplace today, the fact that this picture was taken 1953 - a time when LGBT people uld be arrted for simply holdg hands wh someone of the same sex - mak a powerful and betiful image monstratg the spir of LGBT Pri.

The sgle father of two is the founr of the HIV awarens anizatn 610; was the first openly gay black man on MTV's The Real World seri; hosted a seri for Oprah Wey; and engaged policy discsns about LGBTQ issu durg the Obama era. Jonathan Van Ns, GroomgAfter trag at the Aveda Instute of Mneapolis, he moved to Los Angel and worked at the renowned Sally Hershberger salon before fdg an entirely new dience on the web seri Gay of Thron, which went on to get nomated for an Emmy Porowski, Food & WeThis nnoissr has served as the personal chef for origal Queer Eye star Ted Allen, but he's ready to take the apron and serve up a new selectn of dish on the reboot.

Wh the premise of five openly gay style experts hijackg a schlubby straight du to give his liftyle a reboot, the show was as entertag as was helpful. So, when the Fab Five s down wh Bravo's Andy Cohen for the show's 10-year rnn tonight,  addn to celebratg the fabulons of Queer Eye, 's also a chance to exame how this ltle makeover show end up makg over the mastream media's reprentatn of gay men. I thk I was nervo about how this show would be received bee we had five openly gay st members that were not playg characters — that were beg themselv.

This is a markedly different take pared to most prr reprentatns of gays on TV that featured LGBT people livg solely isolated gay worlds. " "[Queer Eye] fely had a very strong impact terms of visibily of queer people on the TV screen, " said Jim Wilson, executive director of CUNY's Center for Lbian and Gay Studi (CLAGS).

"I thk that showed gay people as smart and funny and silly and that's not gog to necsarily be a bad thg. "It was still a ltle b taboo to be gay, " said Douglas. "If you don't know gay people, if you're not around them.

If you don't have gay people as iends, 's so easy, pecially 10 years ago, to [say] 'Oh, gay people are this way or that. "For many people that watched the show, we may have been the first gay people that they actually got to know. " Queer Eye tapulted s five gay stars to the foreont of the pop culture nversatn 2003, ridg the wave of zegeist juggernts: It won an Emmy for Outstandg Realy Program 2004, the guys ma the rounds on the late-night circu, appearg on Ellen, Leno, Oprah, and booked major magaze vers (cludg ours).

" They were spoofed on South Park an episo lled "South Park is Gay"; even Print Bh gave them a Whe Hoe shout out wh his joke about havg the Fab Five make over his bet. There was cricism that the st's rpective areas of expertise perpetuated the worst of gay stereotyp. Though the show's tagle — Five gay men.