Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- IS G FRG GAY BREAKG BAD AND BETTER CALL SL?
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
- IS G FRG GAY? BETTER CALL SL FALLY CONFIRMS IT
IS G FRG GAY BREAKG BAD AND BETTER CALL SL?
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"G segura a raiva le, o sejo vgança, e talvez ele segure se romance que ele teve, o namorado Max [parceiro negócs morto Breakg Bad], " afirmou o produtor, nfirmando o o personagem é gay. Why do we need "nfirmatn" that G is gay?
Whenever the qutn aris as to whether G is gay, I see fans of the show and even the creators dherg about how "It's left tentnally ambiguo", "It's neher nfirmed nor nied", etc. I fd the mental gymnastics tratg sce I don't unrstand why we need "nfirmatn" that G is gay.
There is ample reason to believe that G is gay, and ltle to no ntrary evince, and such an terpretatn would seamlsly add pth and logic to the character. Would that "nfirm" that he is gay? I jt feel like I go a ltle sane when people dance around the label and hate to refer to G as gay, jt bee hasn't been "nfirmed".
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
It unnecsarily creat a spl sense of realy and non when some fans take for granted that G is gay, whereas others ntue to argue that " hasn't been nfirmed". This plat uld be leveled agast many ter discsns around "gay-d" characters (lookg at you, Will Byers), but 's been pecially botherg me wh G after the most recent episo (6. 9), sce I'm not sure what sort of addnal "nfirmatn" is need before people n feel fortable assumg that G is gay.
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. Stonewall (1969) is often nsired the begng of forward progrs the gay rights movement. The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.
By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village. Each gay enclave, wrote Gee Chncey his book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, had a different class and ethnic character, cultural style and public reputatn. Gay Life the Jazz AgeAs the Uned Stat entered an era of unprecented enomic growth and prospery the years after World War I, cultural mor loosened and a new spir of sexual eedom reigned.
AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
Though New York Cy may have been the epicenter of the so-lled "Pansy Craze, " gay, lbian and transgenr performers graced the stag of nightspots ci all over the untry. ”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co.
” The sale of liquor was legal aga, but newly enforced laws and regulatns prohibed rtrants and bars om hirg gay employe or even servg gay patrons. In the mid- to late ‘30s, Heap pots out, a wave of sensatnalized sex crim “provoked hysteria about sex crimals, who were often— the md of the public and the md of thori—equated wh gay men. ” This not only disuraged gay men om participatg public life, but also “ma homosexualy seem more dangero to the average Amerin.
IS G FRG GAY? BETTER CALL SL FALLY CONFIRMS IT
” By the post-World War II era, a larger cultural shift toward earlier marriage and suburban livg, the advent of TV and the anti-homosexualy csas champned by Joseph McCarthy would help ph the flowerg of gay culture reprented by the Pansy Craze firmly to the natn’s rear-view mirror.
'The pot, to me, isn’t if G Frg is gay or if he’s straight. The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight.