Contents:
- WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
- BRGG UP BABY (1938) - (MOVIE CLIP) I JT WENT GAY!
WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
The term Gay had fely bee a sexualized term by the 17th century to mean "unhibed by moral nstrats" and was then attached to homosexualy by the early 1900s.
BRGG UP BABY (1938) - (MOVIE CLIP) I JT WENT GAY!
Grant's explanatn for wearg women's cloth the film, "I jt went gay all of a sudn, " was improvised on set, which may expla how slipped by the Productn Co Admistratn (PCA), Hollywood's self-censorship group. Between 1934, when the PCA began strict Co enforcement, and 1961, when the Co was amend, any mentn of homosexualy was strictly forbidn on screen. This marks the only e of "gay" to mean "homosexual" a Hollywood film of that era.
Some historians have suggted that 's the screen's first e of "gay" a sexual ntext. Sce this was a mastream movie at a time when the e of the word to mean homosexual would be unfaiar to most film-goers, the le uld also be terpreted to mean, “I jt cid to do somethg ivolo. [As a pot of tert, a reliance on lgual obscury helped wrers slip another gay term past censors The Malte Faln 3 years later by scribg Wilmer, a character nsired by many to be gay, as a 'gunsel', a Yiddish word for a young homosexual pann:].
It is while wearg this particular outf that Cary Grant ad-libbed the now famo le “I jt went GAY all of a sudn! The origal script even had a far more suggtive le for Applegate, which was cut likely to appease the Hays Co regulatns (a that prohibed any sex “perversn”, which that time of urse meant anythg remotely gay).