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Contents:

• WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
• BEE I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN CROSSWORD CLUE
• I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN!
• BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• BEE I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN...
• BRGG UP BABY AND INHERENT VICE: DID JOAQU PHOENIX GO ‘GAY ALL OF A SUDN’?
• HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN: CARY GRANT AND THE SCREWBALL COMEDY
• GAY
• HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN.
• THIS IS SO GAY!

WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?

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. 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:].

While gay characters were equently ed for lghs or not explicly stated to be queer most early mastream Hollywood films, a brief relaxatn Germany's film productn the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like Anrs als die Anren and Mädchen Hollywood, the strict Hays Co forba explic pictns of homosexualy on film for three s, durg which there were a slew of queer-d villas. The film, which featur an all-Black st, was one big step toward makg gay cema that isn't whewashed, featur a range of inti, and don't make s queer characters one-note or vehicl of sufferg. The history starts 1894, wh the very first gay film, and ends 2021 wh a mastream children's movie featurg a ma character who is may also like: Bt Emmy-nomated shows of all time1894: 'The Dickson Experimental Sound Film' as first gay filmAlso known as "The Gay Brothers, " this short film showed two men dancg together.

1919: 'Anrs als die Anren' advot for LGBTQ acceptanceAnrs als die Anren (a German film whose tle translat to Different om the Others) is one of the olst survivg movi wh a gay protagonist and was ma durg a rare perd where German film censorship was relaxed after World War I. 1922: Gay llaboratn durg the filmg of 'Salome'Charl Bryant's adaptatn of gay wrer Osr Wil's play of the same name reportedly featured several queer llaborators—namely, bisexual lead actrs Alla Nazimova and set signer Natacha Rambova (her mored lover).

BEE I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN CROSSWORD CLUE

"]1938: 'Brgg Up Baby' 'gay' a queer ntextIn one scene om the 1938 screwball edy Brgg Up Baby, the word "gay" was ed a queer ntext for likely the first time (possibly thanks to queer performers' e of "gay" as a slang term). "1941: A newly queer-d villa 'The Malte Faln'"For all s efforts, the Productn Co didn't erase homosexuals om the screen; jt ma them harr to fd, " The Celluloid Closet stat.

1948: Gayns and murr lli Hchock's 'Rope'Loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murr se, Aled Hchck's Rope tells the story of two heavily d gay men who murr one of their classmat for the sheer thrill of . 1955: 'Rebel Whout a Cse' featur the 'first onscreen gay teenager'The well-known drama clus clear, d gay subtext between troublemakg teen protagonist Jim Stark (supposedly queer actor Jam Dean) and his new classmate, Plato (Sal Meo). 1961: 'Victim' criciz Brish homophobiaVictim opens 1960s London, where a man's ath leads the film's gay ma character (played by proment actor Dirk Bogar) to disver a blackmail scheme agast several gay men.

I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN!

While The Children's Hour is notable for prentg a sympathetic queer ma character a time when that was rare, has also been cricized for rercg the "tragic gay endg" stereotype.

1967: 'Portra of Jason' explor '60s Black gay intyPortra of Jason was shot over 12 hours, as experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke terviewed Jason Holliday—a Black gay sex worker and aspirg baret dancer. Although one uld argue that such a gelg terview procs was exploative, Holliday's mgs about his life, dreams, and art the face of societal anti-Blackns and homophobia provi the kd of tersectnal look at LGBTQ+ inty that '60s media sorely may also like: 30 Stunng Photos From the Goln Age of Jazz1968: 'The Killg of Sister Gee'Produced durg the fal months of the Hays Co, Robert Aldrich's film about the breakdown of an agg lbian TV actrs clud a lbian sex scene that broke down a major taboo associated wh the Co's erasure of gay characters onscreen.

]1969: 'Funeral Para of Ros' explor Tokyo's gay sceneFuneral Para of Ros retells the "Oedip Rex" myth wh Tokyo's unrground gay scene of the 1960s, followg a young trans woman named Eddie. 1970: 'The Boys the Band' centers on a gay iend groupOrigally an Off-Broadway play by Mart Crowley, the film explor the unrlyg tensns that surface when a iend group of gay New Yorkers gather for a birthday party.

BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN

"1975: 'Dog Day Afternoon' brgs a real-life gay crime to the OsrsSidney Lumet's award-wng crime drama Dog Day Afternoon is based on a real bank robbery by a man attemptg to pay for his partner's genr affirmatn surgery. 1978: 'Word is Out' highlights 26 queer documentary subjectsWord Is Out: Stori of Some of Our Liv prised terviews wh 26 lbians and gay men who spoke about their liv and experienc as part of the LGBTQ+ muny. "1982: 'Makg Love' sets out to produce gay role molsGay screenwrer Barry Sandler cid to wre a script about a married man who realiz he's gay and falls love wh another man, an effort to make up for the many negative gay film stereotyp om prev s.

The film beme 1982's Makg Love, and acrdg to Sandler, was meant to be "the first mastream Hollywood film to al wh the subject of homosexualy a posive way, offerg posive role mols. 1986: 'Partg Glanc' als wh the AIDS crisisGay first-time director Bill Sherwood's Partg Glanc is regard as the first film to al wh the AIDS crisis, which had a vastatg impact on gay and bisexual men particular the late 1980s and early 1990s.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Ruby Rich s 'New Queer Cema'In the early 1990s, several openly gay directors beme volved pennt cema, creatg a crop of queer movi that treated sexualy as fluid—exampl clu Orlando, My Own Private Idaho, Poison, and many more. ' mak drag mastreamStarrg major Hollywood actors like Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wley Snip as drag queens, To Wong Foo was the rare explicly gay stud film that rose to the top of the box office durg s first two weeks theaters. After years of tellg bold stori that featured gay and trans characters, his film All About My Mother, which follows a woman who rennects wh her ex-partner—a trans woman—won Bt Foreign Language Film at the 2000 Amy Awards.

2005: Audienc n't qu 'Brokeback Mounta'Ang Lee's film about the long-term secret romance between two wboys (played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) ma history as one of the first big, mastream movi that centered on a gay love story.

2019: A rerd year for reprentatn, wh notable asterisksGLAAD, the LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, puts out a yearly report on queer reprentatn media, and s report on 2019 showed hopeful signs that media is beg more clive, wh a rerd number of gay characters on-screen. A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali. Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed.

BEE I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN...

In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study. "There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws, " Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics. But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn.

BRGG UP BABY AND INHERENT VICE: DID JOAQU PHOENIX GO ‘GAY ALL OF A SUDN’?

"The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal, " Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay. Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between.

" Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he 's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work. The scene om Brgg Up Baby wh Cary Grant’s ‘I jt went gay all of a sudn’ n be viewed below; while Joaqu Phonix’s scream om Inherent Vice is part of the film’s official trailer:.

HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN: CARY GRANT AND THE SCREWBALL COMEDY

” While those makg films prr to 1934 enjoyed more eedom their abily to pict some obv—and even blatant—homosexual characters, the tablishment of the Productn Co Admistratn (PCA) put an end to such overt thematic elements subsequent movi. Therefore, screwball films, practilly anarchic their general revelg utter chaos and nfn, were able to play wh the nventns of male-female relatnships, often vg qutns of genr reversal through cross-drsg motifs and, by extensn, elicg imprsns of homosexual attractn—all the tert of a few lghs. Rather, through a seri of misunrstandgs, the generally male characters were given some of the distguishg “fey” hallmarks of the stereotypil homosexual person an attempt to both unrme and ridicule the character bee, as we all know, masculy and gayns nnot exist (this sadly speaks volum toward the prevailg public imprsn of homosexualy at the time, as somethg to be mocked and nigrated rather than rpected).

Aunt Elizabeth, shocked to fd a negligee-wearg man her niece’s hoe, mands to know why he’s wearg women’s clothg, and an creasgly trated David fally leaps to the air, shoutg, “Bee I jt went GAY all of a sudn! Acrdg to Gay Histori and Cultur: An Encyclopedia (1999), throughout the early twentieth century, the term “gay” served as a kd of word by which homosexuals secretly intified themselv to one another while hidg their te sexual nature om others. Regardls, the character isn’t really gay, but this brief outburst is the fal blow that knocks David off his dignified pestal and down to San’s own screwy level of behavr.

In the ntext of the film, of urse, we are not meant to read Grant’s character as gay; he is simply spg out the petn to see what kd of man wh whom his wife had spent seven years of solu, and off seemg pletely aquate parison. Perhaps the most monly touted one is that the morn e of gay  om a clippg of gayt, a slang term among hobos and erants meang a boy or young man who acpani an olr, more experienced tramp, wh the implitn of sexual favors beg exchanged for protectn and stctn. The term was often ed disparaggly and dat to at least 1893, when appears the November issue of Century magaze:The gay-ts are men who will work for “very good money, ” and are ually the Wt the tumn to take advantage of the high wag offered to laborers durg the harvt disparagg sense n be seen this catn om the 10 Augt 1895 issue of Harper’s Weekly:The hobo is an exceedgly proud fellow, and if you want to offend him, ll him a “gay t” or a “poke-outer.

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”And om Jack London’s The Road, published 1907, but this passage is a reference to 1892:In a more faiar parlance, gay-ts are short-horns, chechaquos, new chums, or tenrfeet. A gay-t is a newer on The Road who is man-grown, or, at least, send possible explanatn is that the homosexual sense is an outgrowth of an earlier sense of gay meang addicted to pleasure, self-dulgent, or immoral. This sense dat to at least 1597 when appears John Payne’s Royall Exchange:Sum gay profsors (kepge secret mns) do love there wyu […] to avoy the early 20th century, the phrase “to go gay” was e, meang to adopt a hedonistic liftyle.

HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN.

1795:Those bulli who live upon whor of fashn, affect the drs and airs of men of rank and fortune, and by stttg ocsnally by the si of a gay lady, add a nsequence to her and themselv, and duce the ignorant cully to thk that miss nfers her favours on gentlemen om Mary Robson’s 1799 The False Friend:“That’s not my bs, ” replied the bailiff.

The lyrics do not explicly lk the word wh homosexualy, but they n be terpreted that way, pecially if sung by a man drag:It’s about a chap, perhaps you know, I’m told he is ‘Nobody’s be, ’But maybe you all knew that before, He’s a lively clerk a Dry-Goods Store. Augt Dolph is his name, From Skiddy-ma-dk they say he me, He’s a handsome man and he’s proud and poor, This gay young clerk the Dry-Goods ’s easy to dismiss the homosexual implitns the song as a 21st century reterpretatn of a mid-19th century song, but the ia of the effemate store clerk was a popular subject of parody the 1860s. I love to loaf and lie about we nnot say wh certaty that Hays’s e of gay was tend to imply homosexualy, the parodic in of the effemate store clerk and the lk to Whman’s homosexualy is tantalizg.

THIS IS SO GAY!

It is uncerta, however, if Ste’s e of gay  this se is a reference to lbianism or to the nventnal sense of gay meang happy:They, they learned ltle thgs that are thgs beg gay,.. And the 1938 movie Brgg Up Baby, the character played by Cary Grant, when asked why he is wearg women’s clothg repli:Bee I jt went gay all of a that gog gay had an tablished sense of beg hedonistic.