Joseph Lovett's documentary Gay Sex In The 70s has an tentnally provotive tle, but anyone wh any knowledge of gay history will know what signifi. In 1969, the Stonewall Rts New York effectively beat back the crimalizatn of homosexual acts the cy, and 1981, the first s of AIDS began…
Contents:
- DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
- GAY SEX IN THE 70S
- AH MEN CATALOG VTAGE GAY FASHN BARRESI CORVELLO 70S
DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
The gay men's magaz QQ and Ciao! were unabashedly liberated, but they still tered to an exclive dience. * gay fashion 70s *
But when one particular look cropped up the post-Stonewall gay scene of the 1970s, was so popular—and so distct—that the guys who sported were dismissed as “clon. )And while the nickname was ially pejorative, the clone perd marked perhaps the first time that gay men prented themselv wh a queer-signalg uniform that was a direct rponse to societal stereotyp.
GAY SEX IN THE 70S
* gay fashion 70s *
“The clone was a reactn to thgs you would see movi of gay men beg flty and nelly, ” says John Calendo, a wrer who lived LA and New York Cy throughout the 70s and 80s, and worked as an edor at the clone-cubatg sk mags Blueboy and In Touch for Men. He pots to the gay mstrel stereotyp the 1967 film The Producers, along wh the timid-lookg guys on the illtrated vers of gay pulp books wh nam like All the Sad Young Men. (Not to mentn the 1964 article Life magaze lled “Homosexualy Ameri, ” which scribed a “sad and often sordid world.
AH MEN CATALOG VTAGE GAY FASHN BARRESI CORVELLO 70S
”) “That’s the kd of imagery”—backwards stereotyp that basilly villaized queer people—“that a lot of my generatn who beme the clone people grew up wh the ccible of the 60s, ” Calendo ntu, when the civil rights and gay liberatn movements were expandg ias of equaly and eedom.