Kelly GAY - Poria - NEW ZEALAND

KELLY GAY, PARTG CENTRAL CAMP

Opns about, and disagreements over, genr qutns ran through many aspects of gay male culture, and men revised and modified olr ias about masculy and effemacy durg the 1970s. [2] The Hawk Bay Gay Society Newsletter mentned their mment to ‘the faggot culture and magic liv wh each of ’, notg they ‘serly believe that is time for Gay men to nscly seek their faggot visns and strengths’.

FELIX KELLY, A GAY EXPATRIATE

For nearly a century men who dragged up wove together their own artistry and a real or imaged homoerotic culture, but durg the 1970s the meang of drag changed somewhat. ‘An example of radil drag is a man who wears female cloth but who also wears a beard’, Ldsay Taylor wrote the Christchurch Gay Liberatn Front Newsletter.

Some lobbyists wanted to clu gay men and lbians society’s fns of masculy and femy. They railed agast ‘stereotyp imposed on by sexist society’ and rejected the prumptn that ‘we uldn’t be real men or women bee we’re gay’.

Any one of uld be the girl the office or the boy next door’, and a Duned stunt group mented that gay men ‘look exactly like male human begs and clu All Blacks, policians, clergymen, and ps’.

GEMMAH’S TRANSGENR STORY: FROM CARMEN AND SEX WORK TO THE BIG GAY OUT

In a feature about a male supporter of gay rights, the Sunday Tim wrote: ‘He was young, clean-cut. One of the Gay Lib News’s rrponnts objected to the staffg of Gay Liberatn Front stalls by ‘drag queens out of drag’, and sisted that a ‘straight-actg’ image was preferable to an ‘extravagant’ one.