Why Beg “Gay the ’70s New York and L.A. Was Magic” (Gut Column) – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
• GAY SEX THE '70S
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)

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Gay USA (1978). The Homosexual Century (1979). I was the luckit gay Jew the world.

The most wonrful thg about those days was that the gay folks power lent a hand to young gay people tryg to get a foothold the bs. There was a powerful work of olr succsful gay men like theatril agent Milton Goldman and entertament attorney Arnold Weissberger who troduced younger gay men to succsful showbiz typ at their betiful apartment on Sutton Place overlookg the East River.

GAY SEX THE '70S

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The bar epted a gigantic brawl … the begng of the Gay Revolutn. Gays were leadg the edge of the culture om 1969 to about 1983, when AIDS stopped all. To be gay the ’70s New York and L.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

There was rampant homophobia by stud and work executiv and by some olr agents, notorly at CAA (though not Ron Meyer nor the Young Turks, several of whom were known to be gay). Stan Kamen, then the most important agent at William Morris, was out and gay but very private. ” The homophobia, though, was pervasive.

There emerged a whole layer of gay work executiv, wrers, stud executiv and agents, cludg Warner Bros.