Edward Albee — bt known for Who's Aaid of Virgia Woolf — was cricized for his acceptance speech at the 23rd annual Lambda Lerary Awards. "A wrer who happens to be gay or lbian mt be able to transcend self," he said May 26. "I am not a gay wrer. I am a wrer who happens to be gay."
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- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- PLAYWRIGHT ALBEE DEFENDS 'GAY WRER' REMARKS
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
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Instead of lbian, gay or bisexual, the term most monly ed by Va and Virgia to scribe their "proclivi" is "Sapphist": a phemism after Sappho, an ancient poet of sensual verse about women, who lived on the Greek island of Lbos (spirg, too, the word ‘lbian’).
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Was still a crimal offense at the time, there was no equivalent legislatn that targeted gay women. However, 1921, some lawmakers voted to crimalize “sexual acts of gross cency” between women, although the law was never passed bee policians feared would enurage women to explore homosexualy. Dorothy Goldman says, “Mornist wrg suggts a cultural crisis:language awry, cultural hn lost, perceptn agmented and multiplied”Virgia Woolf gay is a charmg topic on the famo novelists.
PLAYWRIGHT ALBEE DEFENDS 'GAY WRER' REMARKS
Born 1895, Virgia Woolf grew up as part of a fay practicg strong Victorian valu, a time where the exprsn of beg LGBT+ was largely supprsed and uld be extremely dangero (Only In 1861 was the ath penalty abolished for gay relatnships).