This documentary shows clips om Rock Hudson’s movi that uld be terpreted as gay nuendos. Eric Farr speaks to the mera as if speakg Rock Hudson’s words om a posthumo diary. Film clips om more than 30 films illtrate ways which his sexual orientatn played out on screen.
Contents:
- I SHOULDN’T WONR: GAY MEN AND INNUENDO
- THE DARK HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY INNUENDO
- YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
- STALAG 17 : GAY NUENDO THE FILM
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- GAY INNUENDO T-SHIRTS & SHIRTS
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM
I SHOULDN’T WONR: GAY MEN AND INNUENDO
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Most of the signifint figur the history of gay men edy are renowned for their e of double entendr to nvey humour; Kenny Everett, Kenh Williams, Julian Clary are all acts that rely on this type of joke. Firstly, is gay men that have a more proment associatn wh nuendo, and sendly, I am one, and my motivatn is largely of the challeng that queer ics face at most gigs they perform at is prentg their queer inty a room that isn’t a queer space.
That is to say, whilst there has been a dramatic rctn homophobia recent years, there are still many people who thk gay men shouldn’t talk about sex the same way as heterosexual people might. Lookg back at the roots of the associatn between gay men and nuendo, seems to have begun wh Polari, the gay vernacular ed to mask the te subject of nversatn om pryg ears when homosexualy was is my personal view that nowadays, the e of nuendo by gay male ics is an act of markg their sexualy as the other, and tablishg as a taboo subject what is tantamount to an act of self-censorship. I thk that gay male edians intified as part of the ‘alternative edy movement’, which is self another argument for another day, succeed makg sex funny the same way as heterosexual alternative ics often do; ankly talkg about the mdfuck that everyone’s sexual inty evably is.
The e of nuendo shows like Round the Horne gave gay men a visibily that would otherwise have been nied them by censors. It mtn’t be fotten that Julian Clary did ph the boundari of not only reprentatns of gay sexualy, but sex general on televisn.
THE DARK HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY INNUENDO
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Stereotyp of gay men are still rife edy, and while we’re makg the transn between “don’t drop the soap” and “How to Look Good Naked”, the reprentatns of queer inty aren’t gog away. I don’t wish to ll anyone out and say that what someone do to get a lgh is actively harmg the gay rights movement, bee that isn’t what I feel, but ’s certaly the se that the once ntroversial and groundbreakg image of ‘gay edy’ has bee tame and almost twee. I thk that subversive reprentatns of gay men, and for that matter sex posivy general is sorely lackg the world of stand up edy.
Bohlen’s volvement at Yalta ma him spect the ey of some Republins, led by Senator Joe McCarthy, who tried to pat him as not only soft on the Soviets but also gay.
YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
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“I don’t say every homosexual is a subversive and I don’t say every subversive is a homosexual, ” Nebraska Senator Kenh Wherry had warned 1950.
” While another source admted to havg no relatnship wh Bohlen, he nohels volunteered to the FBI that, “Bohlen walks, acts and talks like a homosexual. Moral disgt was not the only nsiratn that ma beg gay a disqualifyg tra for ernment service at the time; gays, was wily believed, were also uniquely vulnerable to blackmail. So reprehensible was beg gay, the thkg went, that a gay person would rather betray his untry than risk exposure of his shameful secret.
STALAG 17 : GAY NUENDO THE FILM
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The month after Hoover posed his report on Bohlen, Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which permted the feral ernment to fire those spected of “sexual perversn, ” a phemism for beg gay.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
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Over the ensug s, far more people (timat range to the thoands) would lose their jobs over (real or alleged) homosexualy than spected munist sympathi; many thoands more were nied jobs the first place.
GAY INNUENDO T-SHIRTS & SHIRTS
Fast-forward over six s to the prent, and the same smear tactics are beg employed, aga service of a dub narrative volvg supposed rptn of prumed gay people by a hostile foreign power.
Even if he secretly were, the accatn that he is therefore sceptible to blackmail is historilly groundls, predited upon the same flawed assumptn most people held about gays at the height of the Cold War: that they would m treason orr to avoid beg outed.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
But of all the Amerins who did betray their untry by mtg pnage for a foreign power, there is not a sgle example of a gay person blackmailed to dog so.
THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM
A 1991 study found that the 117 spy s disvered sce World War II, only six volved gays, and none of the was sexual orientatn a cidg factor. That same year, asked about the impendg outg of his spokman, then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney referred to the blackmail ratnale as “an old chtnut” ed to bar gay people unfairly om servg sensive ernment posns.
To claim today, baselsly, that a closeted gay person is beg blackmailed to workg agast his untry, retroactively validat the Cold War persecutn of gays, who uld be nied secury clearanc until a 1995 Executive Orr by Bill Clton reversed Eisenhower’s mandate. The sad irony is that the only rmg some gay men and women did durg this time was unr durs om their own ernment, which prsured them to intifyg fellow gay people so that they, too, uld be purged.
One of the sourc Hoover’s secret report on Bohlen was a gay man who, thanks to a “sixth sense, ” claimed he uld “separate the ‘queer’ om the men. ” Another such rmant, a former Department of Commerce employee named Thomas Tattersall, intified dozens of men and women as “homosexuals” to feral vtigators.