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Contents:
- THE GAY 90S
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- WHY DO THEY LL THE GAY 90’S?
- THE GAY NETI
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
THE GAY 90S
The natn’s first gay and lbian talk rad show, The Gay 90s, aired om downtown Cleveland, Oh and started off wh a bang. Not lerally, but given the bomb threat lled before the show’s premier broadst on WHK 1420 AM was a possibily. Dpe the potential danger, The Gay 90s aired as schled on March 26, 1993, and beme the untry’s first mercial live, “ll ” rad program by, for, and about the gay and lbian muny. Given Cleveland’s history of settlg... * gay 90s era *
Those days were gay days when Grandma was a girl. Come take a look our picture book of the Gay Neti."No, not the "gay" you were thkg of, nor The '90s you were thkg of, for that matter.
It was where what we now regnize as " nostalgia" was born, and The Gay Neti beme a popular settg for films of the 1930s, the 1940s and, to a lser gree, the 1950s and 1960s, by which time was seen as that nocent age before World Wars and atomic bombs. In fact, the "everybody's rich" stereotype stems om a nflatn of this perd wh "The Gild Age" (1876-1896), as the Gay Neti were also marked by enomic prsn and much labor agatn (see Panic of 1893 on The Other Wiki), not to mentn the Spanish-Amerin War.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * gay 90s era *
Even then, the term "Gild Age" (as , "ated gold") was specifilly meant to dite that the good tim were only a surface veneer, wh ser problems lurkg jt beneath (as the Gay Neti themselv later monstrated). The horror..." Also, a French aristocrat by the name of Pierre Coubert would revive the Olympic Gam for the Gay Neti, which would be hosted Greece (the se of the origal Olympics).
It should also be noted that the term "Gay Neti" for this era, like the "Edwardian Era" that followed , is primarily Brish. This wasn't ually done whout at least a b of irony (ually only satiril or Cloudcuckoolanr works), but wrers and artists returned to the Gay Neti well so often that s nventns beme even more stereotypil. This is a Fotten Trope and the fact that the name "Gay Neti" was never changed should give you an ia how long 's been ad.
However, today's general unfaiary wh the perd works set the 1880s or 1900s may make their settg distguishable om the stereotypil Gay Neti. However, kooky Gay Neti stuff still pops up ocsnally, most often works directed at preteen children, or surreal edy seri such as The Simpsons or Fay Guy. Ironilly, real life, the Gay Neti were the perd where the world began to move beyond tradnal steampunk/gaslamp fantasy athetics bee of new technologi and movements such as Art Nouve.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
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If a story set durg the Gay Neti tak place the wtern part of the Uned Stat or Canada, the Twilight of the Old Wt trope often to play. The Gay Neti Nightmare!, om Plastic Man #2 (Augt 1944), featur a town stuck the Gay Neti. One Goln Age Batman story (wrten the 1940s) featured Batman and Rob visg an island where all morn technology was banned and the populatn lived like was The Gay Neti.
Archie Comics did a few stori that featured Archie and the gang livg The Gay Neti.
To Hartley's story: An Archie Comics om the eighti has Betty pg for The Gay Neti and fallg asleep, only to learn her dream that wasn't such a great time after all. There were two films (one 1933, the other 1942) tled The Gay Neti.
WHY DO THEY LL THE GAY 90’S?
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * gay 90s era *
Gigi (1958) is set at the "turn of the century," but the feelg of the book, play, and film is fely Gay Neti. Gay Purr-ee is set Paris durg the 1890s, wh one scene Alaska where the male protagonist untentnally strik gold.
Whilst Jeev and Wooster is set The Roarg '20s (or perhaps more accurately, Genteel Interbellum Settg), one story revolv around Sir Watks Basset's Compromisg Memoirs (and the multu of parti who sire the stctn thereof) of the var thgs he and other proment personag did durg The Gay Neti. And Bertie Wooster's Uncle Willoughby wrote and published a siar book, aga alg wh his disgraceful explos The Gay Neti.
THE GAY NETI
The Gay Neti: Directed by Larry Ceballos. Wh Johnny Downs, San Miller, Cly Cook, Yvonne Davis. Songs popular the "Gay Neti" era are played and sung this two-reel mil and some are acted out by the st; Cly Cook, Yvonne Davis and Sandra Gould "The Gay Neti" number; Chter and Hienie Conkl and Snub Pollard and director Earle C. Fox a "Keystone Kops" segment. One of the prcipal numbers, "The Man on the Flyg Trapeze" featur The Rhythm Rasls." data-id="ma * gay 90s era *
Jack Fney's Time and Aga (1970) is set 1882, which is technilly outsi the time perd, but seems to f the ia of The Gay Neti almost perfectly anyway. The openg for Cheers starts off showsg the Gay Neti and then gradually go through the s — and one episo, Rebec disvers that the bar, which opened 1889, will soon have s 100 year anniversary. In the I Love Lucy episo "Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song", Ricky puts on a "Gay Neti revue" at his club.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
The 1929 mil Sweet Ale was billed as "A Mil Romance of the Gay Neti.". The 1953 mil Can-Can, set the artists' quarter of Gay Paree durg la Belle Époque. Though Disney lived there the early 20th century, the athetic of Ma Street is very remiscent of the Gay Neti, plete wh ice cream parlor, horse drawn and horsels rriag, and a barbershop quartet.
BShock Infe: spe the ma game takg place 1912, Columbia was found the Gay Neti, and shows. There's even a sgg troupe lled "The Bee Sharps"note whose tagle is "Columbia's Gayt Quartet". The game also nstcts the ncept, as featur some of the ls pleasant parts of the Gay Neti, like blatant racism and thls robber barons nng Company Towns that keep people cshg poverty.