For starters, says one expert, “A gay in is somebody who reprents the termatn to be who they are — and [is] unapologetic for ."
Contents:
- BARBRA STREISAND’S ONLY SON FELT UNFORTABLE AFTER HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY TO HIS MOM
- HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
- THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
- WHAT MAK JUDY GARLAND A GAY IN? EXPERTS EXPLA WHAT SHE AND OTHERS, OM DIANA ROSS TO MADONNA, HAVE MON
- STREISAND 'KNEW' SON WAS GAY
- HOW THAT BARBRA STREISAND ‘YENTL’ JOKE WOUND UP THE YEAR’S BIGGT GAY ROM
BARBRA STREISAND’S ONLY SON FELT UNFORTABLE AFTER HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY TO HIS MOM
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As the MoMA crowd learned that summer on Quoque, Lrents was gay but his lover was a very bisexual man. As the first few hntg not of the tle song sound and the unmistakable voice of Barbra Streisand ton “mem’ri, ” most of n’t help but settle for yet another viewg of The Way We Were, even though we know how the turbulent romance of Katie Morosky and Hubbell Garder turns few of know about the beloved 1973 film’s behd-the-scen drama or s gay origs.
HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
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He had reason to make this statement; the 1960s and ’70s, gay wrers were often cricized for turng their experienc to fictnal heterosexual romanc.
THE WAY WE WERE'S SECRET GAY BACKSTORY
So he set out to thoroughly explore the gay angle of The Way We Were. “There always has to be a gay angle, or I’m not terted, ” says Hofler, a gay don’t thk Hubbell is a directly fictnalized versn of any of the men Lrents loved, but he do thk the character was fluenced by the wrer’s relatnships wh some of them, cludg his longtime partner, Tom Hatcher, and actor Farley Granger. Gould me out to his parents as gay the 1980s.
He add, "I never was hidg the fact that I was gay. From her official Twter acunt, Streisand blasted the out, gay, newly-elected Reprentative for New York’s third district.
He has prevly said he me out as gay a ago. Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene fends Gee Santos, says lefti hate him as he’s gay.
WHAT MAK JUDY GARLAND A GAY IN? EXPERTS EXPLA WHAT SHE AND OTHERS, OM DIANA ROSS TO MADONNA, HAVE MON
Gay ins through the ag, clockwise om top left: Madonna, Liza Mnelli, RuPl, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Judy Garland. (Photos: Getty Imag; llage by Nathalie Cz for Yahoo Life)Throughout the s, LGBTQ people have ed the term “gay in” to scribe a specific kd of public figure: typilly a larger-than-life diva whose life, work and allyship has ma a signifint impact on queer culture and s voted what mak a gay in, well, inic?
“A gay in is somebody who reprents the termatn to be who they are — and [is] unapologetic for , ” Bce Vilanch, the legendary Hollywood wrer and culture cric, tells Yahoo Life. They're all gay ins bee they reprent part of our stggle — and they acknowledge . ” (Learn more about some of the most well-known gay ins the teractive AR, below.
STREISAND 'KNEW' SON WAS GAY
Goln Age stars like Joan Crawford, who was reportedly bisexual, and Bette Davis were revered by queer fans not jt for their mpy performanc, but also bee they were surround by gay people their personal ’s easy to e blanket terms like “mp, ” “diva” or “glamor” when attemptg to scribe such ins, the gay-culture cric Michael Mto explas that not all of them explicly fall to the tegori — jt as all are not pop sgers or movie stars. The two women suffered those thgs … but they endured, they survived, " and wh humor, which Wilson lled "the life-rilient force of the gay muny.
") Or they n be royalty, like Prcs Diana, whose mix of glamour and activism has ma for an endurg reputatn as a gay in.
“Queer people are opprsed, by nature, so we rely oftentim on gay ins to lift up, to elevate , to te and spire , ” explas Mto, who creds such ins for providg queer people tharsis tim of trma — whether durg the height of the AIDS crisis or amid the anti-trans culture war to fully grasp the ncept of the gay in, 's important to go back a b, to the mother of all gay ins: Judy Garland. Friends of DorothyAs Vilanch explas, the morn archetype of a gay in is monly unrstood to be the legendary Garland, who would have turned 100 this year (promptg celebratns cludg -theater Wizard of Oz screengs and a perfume lnch).
HOW THAT BARBRA STREISAND ‘YENTL’ JOKE WOUND UP THE YEAR’S BIGGT GAY ROM
The star’s image, as a tortured soul who suffered for her art, layered wh credible talent and unwaverg loyalty to her gay fanbase, stck a chord wh the long-opprsed LGBTQ muny — and still do a time when beg out was dangero, Garland’s ncerts were well-attend by out gay men, lbians and trans people alike.
“There was much ment at the time about her gay fanbase, and was never pleasant, ” Vilanch explas. ”Judy Garland, seen here performg at Carnegie Hall 1961 to an array of adorg male fans, is the morn archetype of a "gay in.
" (Photo: Frank Rso/NY Daily News via Getty Imag)She's even thought to be nnected, at least tangentially, to the phrase "iend of Dorothy, " d slang, and the way gay men sometim referred to each other as far back as World War II. The term probably refers to the misf pals of Dorothy The Wizard of Oz, as portrayed on screen by Garland (although the term has also been associated wh the Amerin satirist of the 1920s Dorothy Parker) any event, Vilanch says of Garland, “There was a tremendo amount of simpati, a back-and-forth, between her gay fans and herself.