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"The gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowl­ at the movi, very ltle has changed."

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STONEWALL 1979: GAYS HOLLYWOOD

Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'.

WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE

Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'. In January 1969, Variety screeched: HOMO N’ LESBO FILMS AT PEAK — DEVIATE THEME NOW BOX OFFICE. It was the year of The Boys the Band, the culmatn of a which Hollywood seized upon homosexualy as a seamier si of the Amerin dream.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

In one year, 1968, there were more films alg wh homosexualy than the three s sce the g of sound.

Lbians and gay men the movi were pathologil, predatory, and dangero; we were villas and fools, but never hero. Homosexuals were prime spects The Boston Strangler, rapists Rt, and hairdrsers or queens No Way to Treat a Lady and Valley of the Dolls. Homosexualy was the dirty secret the last real.

” The ethic of the closet is also advanced The Boys the Band, which cid neatly wh the birth of the activist gay movement Ameri. Ten years later, the gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowledged.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Plays, books, magaz, and even televisn shows have prented a steady stream of real and fictnal gay suatns.

Durg the ’70s, gays died vlent aths Diamonds Are Forever, The Day of the Jackal, Freebie and the Bean, The Eiger Sanctn, Swashbuckler and even Tfft’s Day for Night.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

In Jackson’s novel the hero’s alholism is the rult of a father fixatn aggravated by false accatn of homosexualy.

The nsummatn of a homosexual affair which Hay scrib his book is halted the film by a gentle but manly rejectn. “I ma that cisn, ” says Parker, “bee I uldn’t afford to have my dience thk my hero was a homosexual. Gay fictn is big bs, but not one homosexual hero has reached the screen.

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