How a Gay Romance Inspired Streisand and Redford's The Way We Were

Contents:

• THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
• THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
• BILLIE EILISH EXPLAS MEANG BEHD NEW SGLE ‘WISH YOU WERE GAY’
• HOW QUEER AS FOLK BEME THE DEFG GAY TV SHOW OF A GENERATN—TWICE
• WE'VE BEEN HERE ALL ALONG: EARLY GAY HISTORY WISNS | WISNS HISTORIL SOCIETY

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

As the first few hntg not of the tle song sound and the unmistakable voice of Barbra Streisand ton “mem’ri, ” most of n’t help but settle for yet another viewg of The Way We Were, even though we know how the turbulent romance of Katie Morosky and Hubbell Garder turns few of know about the beloved 1973 film’s behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs.

In other rearch, he terviewed s two still-livg, inic stars, Streisand and Robert rult is a tale of clash between Lrents, Pollack, and producer Ray Stark, the differg styl of Streisand and Redford, and how a gay Jewish man, Lrents, channeled his love of betiful Gentile men to the years, Lrents said the character of Katie, a polilly radil Jew who falls love wh and marri apolil Gentile Hubbell, was based on a woman he knew llege. He had reason to make this statement; the 1960s and ’70s, gay wrers were often cricized for turng their experienc to fictnal heterosexual romanc. So he set out to thoroughly explore the gay angle of The Way We Were.

“There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay don’t thk Hubbell is a directly fictnalized versn of any of the men Lrents loved, but he do thk the character was fluenced by the wrer’s relatnships wh some of them, cludg his longtime partner, Tom Hatcher, and actor Farley Granger.

HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)

Gore Vidal was yet another famo homosexual bedazzled by Hatcher’s looks, and knowg Lrents’s taste handsome Gentile men, the novelist remend that his fellow wrer iend pay a vis to William B. As the MoMA crowd learned that summer on Quoque, Lrents was gay but his lover was a very bisexual man.

THE WAY WE WERE’S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

But few of know about the beloved 1973 film’s behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs.

THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY

The rult is a tale of clash between Lrents, Pollack, and producer Ray Stark, the differg styl of Streisand and Redford, and how a gay Jewish man, Lrents, channeled his love of betiful Gentile men to the story. “There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay man. The Way We Were's Secret Gay Backstory.

The two had met 1980 and grew close 1995, when both were volved addrsg a divisive Smhsonian exhib of the Enola Gay, the plane that released Oppenheimer’s bomb over Hiroshima Augt of 1945. She fds refuge only her iendship wh another young misf, a gay classmate she nicknam Legs. And I’m really sorry if I’m havg movie spoilers my answers would happen if “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ” two of the vampir met high school and had a gay romance?

Billie Eilish‘s new sgle ‘Wish You Were Gay‘ might prompt some qutns about the story behd the track’s strikg tle and lyrics, but the risg star has already spoken about the eper meang behd the track.

BILLIE EILISH EXPLAS MEANG BEHD NEW SGLE ‘WISH YOU WERE GAY’

“I wrote this song about a guy that really was not terted me and ma me feel horrible, so the song is lled ‘Wish You Were Gay’, ” she says the vio. It don’t mean that I wish he was like… lerally means I wish he was gay so that he didn’t like me for an actual reason, stead of the fact that he didn’t like me. Eilish ntu to say that the boy qutn did fact e out as gay.

The fished versn of ‘Wish You Were Gay’ was released today (March 4). In an era of creasgly equent—if often imperfect—queer reprentatn media, might be difficult for the young target dience of Peack’s new reboot of the classic Queer as Folk to image that a show followg a group of gay men Ptsburgh livg relatively average liv uld have created a new paradigm for how gay and lbian stori would be told on televisn. So often lled “ground-breakg” that the scriptn might start to sound tre if weren’t also te, Queer as Folk put gay people and queer storyl ont and center a way that even other media of the time promently featurg gay characters, like Will & Grace, had yet to do.

K., and provid many young queer people’s first exposure to gayns not amed as eher a dly tertg sishow attractn alongsi a straight person’s “real story, ” or an abject tragedy. Davi was chg to wre somethg he felt accurately ptured not only the reali of beg a gay man Manchter, but also the broar experience of growg up and disverg who you are. The show premiered 1999 on Channel 4, and followed three men and their iends Manchter’s Canal street area, known as the Gay Village.

HOW QUEER AS FOLK BEME THE DEFG GAY TV SHOW OF A GENERATN—TWICE

Both versns of Queer as Folk followed homogeno ma sts of whe, cisgenr people, most of whom were their 20s and 30s.

WE'VE BEEN HERE ALL ALONG: EARLY GAY HISTORY WISNS | WISNS HISTORIL SOCIETY

Though each versn provid unprecented gay reprentatn, the lack of diversy race and genr exprsn the show leav out any reprentatn of trans people and people of lor the queer muny.