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Contents:
- THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY: A CULTURAL-HISTORIL APPROACH TO GAY INTY VELOPMENT
- THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY CULTURE
- THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY CULTURE
THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY: A CULTURAL-HISTORIL APPROACH TO GAY INTY VELOPMENT
Rearch on inty velopment has paid relatively ltle attentn to the velopment of margalised inti such as those of gays and lbians, whose isolatn om the nonil narrative of sexualy may lim the available rourc required for tablishg a herent inty. We exam … * the rise and fall of gay culture *
The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture. Gay Men and Hollywood.
THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY CULTURE
To an secure gay teenager strand the uncivilized hterlands of North Carola, the grac ladi of Park Avenue and Sutton Place embodied a way of life more glamoro and ls provcial than his own. pervasive among young homosexuals that suated self to our voic, weakeng the grip of our regnal accents, which were gradually overridn by the artificial language of this imagary ele. This strange act of ventriloquism reprents the hight form of diva worship and is the direct oute of my perceptn my youth that, as a homosexual, I did not belong the muny which I lived, that I was different, a staway.
show others how out of place I felt, and, moreover, to fight back agast the hostily I sensed om homophobic rednecks by beltlg their cns through unremtg displays of my own polish and sophistitn. to Hollywood stars bee of their femy, nor did my admiratn of them reflect any burng sire to be a woman, as the homosexual's fascatn wh actrs is ually explaed, as if diva worship were simply a ridiculo.
For me and untls other gay men growg up small-town Ameri, film provid a vehicle for exprsg alienatn om our surroundgs and lkg up wh the utopic homosexual muny of our dreams, a sophistited "artistic" mimon.
THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY CULTURE
Homosexuals' volvement wh Hollywood movi was not only more tense but fundamentally different om that of the rt of the Amerin public. At the very heart of gay diva worship is not the diva herself but the almost universal homosexual experience of ostracism and secury, which ultimately led to what might be lled the atheticism of maladjtment,.
the gay man's exploatn of cematic visns of Hollywood granur to elevate himself above his antagonistic surroundgs and simultaneoly exprs membership a secret society of upper-class athet. Richard Friel's novel The Movie Lover (1981) provis a tellg illtratn of how gay men ed cema for the fensive purpos of dramatizg their alienatn.
Burton Rair, s gay protagonist, is such a prec xb that he reads Vogue. In this affectnate riture of the gay. young homosexual who "never que belonged, never que f " wh the other children on his block.