Gay male flight attendants I’m So Exced: The history of the gay steward stereotype.

Contents:

• HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
• THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
• WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA
• THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE

HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE

Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s sassy male flight attendants, who are all gay. When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype? Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time.

This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News.

THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts.

” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay.

THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work. As Tiemeyer wr, “the aisl and galleys of airplan, as well as crew hotels and crash pads, served the same role that other gays and lbians found bars: a place where they uld meet others like themselv and even embrace their same-sex sir for the first time.

And I’d walk through termals, and I knew if there were gay men, they’d be lookg at me. So how many flight attendants were and are gay? They timated that “between 30 and 50 percent of male flight attendants were gay the 1950s, and between 50 and 90 percent the 1970s.

WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA

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THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE

In June 2018 on a Delta flight om CDG to JFK asked the beard, gay male flight attendant (NY-based, no ls) if he uld make a fe la and he said "What's that? As the orr of genr of WWII elevated the “stewarss” as the dtry standard, men a newly women’s profsn durg the homophobic panic of post-war Ameri, was an creasg impossibily after the generalized simultaneo upheaval social and genr relatns. However, men eventually won the right to accs the profsn, even if was done on the legal fense of straight men, and gay men of the 1970s took to the ski, but not whout a great al of ristance.

In many ways, the labor of gay men was somethg preferable, as was a long-term plement to a mon gay liftyle: transient, able to adjt to change, and ed to leadg a double life. 37 In 1982, another unn, IUFA (Internatnal Unn of Flight Attendants) won a victory seemgly for s gay rank-and-file: the extensn of the spoal disunts on flights for hbands and wiv of flight attendants to that of “buddy pass” for the unmarried.

This is somethg that gay men need, but the workers the whole dtry were also able to benef om.