Ameri Se Shas of Gay: A Once-Invisible Group Fds the Spotlight
Contents:
- THE GAY '90S
- THE GAY 90S
- GAY 90S
- THE GAY 90S: MICHAEL LIEBERMAN ON QUEER CEMA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
- SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAY 90'S
- 27 THGS YOU'LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU GREW UP GAY IN THE '90S
THE GAY '90S
An x page listg Gay '90s ntent. No, not the "gay" you were thkg of, nor The '90s you were thkg of, for that matter. This trope vers … * gay 90s cheviot *
It was where what we now regnize as " nostalgia" was born, and The Gay Neti beme a popular settg for films of the 1930s, the 1940s and, to a lser gree, the 1950s and 1960s, by which time was seen as that nocent age before World Wars and atomic bombs. In fact, the "everybody's rich" stereotype stems om a nflatn of this perd wh "The Gild Age" (1876-1896), as the Gay Neti were also marked by enomic prsn and much labor agatn (see Panic of 1893 on The Other Wiki), not to mentn the Spanish-Amerin War.
THE GAY 90S
The natn’s first gay and lbian talk rad show, The Gay 90s, aired om downtown Cleveland, Oh and started off wh a bang. Not lerally, but given the bomb threat lled before the show’s premier broadst on WHK 1420 AM was a possibily. Dpe the potential danger, The Gay 90s aired as schled on March 26, 1993, and beme the untry’s first mercial live, “ll ” rad program by, for, and about the gay and lbian muny. Given Cleveland’s history of settlg... * gay 90s cheviot *
Even then, the term "Gild Age" (as , "ated gold") was specifilly meant to dite that the good tim were only a surface veneer, wh ser problems lurkg jt beneath (as the Gay Neti themselv later monstrated). " Also, a French aristocrat by the name of Pierre Coubert would revive the Olympic Gam for the Gay Neti, which would be hosted Greece (the se of the origal Olympics).
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GAY 90S
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Ironilly, real life, the Gay Neti were the perd where the world began to move beyond tradnal steampunk/gaslamp fantasy athetics bee of new technologi and movements such as Art Nouve. One Goln Age Batman story (wrten the 1940s) featured Batman and Rob visg an island where all morn technology was banned and the populatn lived like was The Gay Neti.
THE GAY 90S: MICHAEL LIEBERMAN ON QUEER CEMA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
To Hartley's story: An Archie Comics om the eighti has Betty pg for The Gay Neti and fallg asleep, only to learn her dream that wasn't such a great time after all. Whilst Jeev and Wooster is set The Roarg '20s (or perhaps more accurately, Genteel Interbellum Settg), one story revolv around Sir Watks Basset's Compromisg Memoirs (and the multu of parti who sire the stctn thereof) of the var thgs he and other proment personag did durg The Gay Neti. Jack Fney's Time and Aga (1970) is set 1882, which is technilly outsi the time perd, but seems to f the ia of The Gay Neti almost perfectly anyway.
SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAY 90'S
The openg for Cheers starts off showsg the Gay Neti and then gradually go through the s — and one episo, Rebec disvers that the bar, which opened 1889, will soon have s 100 year anniversary.
27 THGS YOU'LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU GREW UP GAY IN THE '90S
Though Disney lived there the early 20th century, the athetic of Ma Street is very remiscent of the Gay Neti, plete wh ice cream parlor, horse drawn and horsels rriag, and a barbershop quartet. The game also nstcts the ncept, as featur some of the ls pleasant parts of the Gay Neti, like blatant racism and thls robber barons nng Company Towns that keep people cshg poverty.
Is set the Prent Day, still borrows que a b of Gay Neti athetic, notably crowd scen, where the background extras are often gsied up top hats and dner jackets (for the men) and illy hats and long drs (for the women).