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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.
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 *
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.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Ken Felts didn't e out as gay until he was 90. He told his dghter about havg to abandon his first real love the 1950s. His story went global on Facebook. Now, at 93, he's found a hband. * 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).
WHY DO THEY LL THE GAY 90’S?
* gay 90s era *
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.
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 *
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.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
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.