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. 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.
BRGG UP BABY (1938) - (MOVIE CLIP) I JT WENT GAY!
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.