Disverg the "Gay Liftyle" through 1970s Magaz - JSTOR Daily

Contents:

• DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
• #FLASHBACKFRIDAY – THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. [VTAGE VIO CLIPS]

DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ

Today, we remember the creasgly outspoken polil movement for gay and lbian rights. Lnched the sprg of 1969 wh the slogan “For Gay Guys Who Have No Hangups, ” QQ was a glossy nsumer magaze.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

” But unlike gay liberatn magaz and newspapers of the time, voted ltle space to polics or activism. Hilrbrand wr that gay travel guis were not a wholly new ia.

THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY

In the 1950s and ’60s, some gay men turned word-of-mouth scriptns of lol scen to guis nsistg of the nam and addrs of bars, wh d scriptns. “The turn toward liftyle, straight and gay, volved a turn toward nsumptn as a form of self-ventn, yet the gay liftyle media stcted s rearshp not only how to bee ‘themselv, ’ as the straight publitns, but also how to bee gay, ” Hilrbrand wr.

’s photos reflected more racial and ethnic diversy than many other gay publitns of the time, that uld be seen more as a reflectn of fetishizatn than cln. “Although the young studs may do everythg bed, except perhaps kiss, there is still one le a gay mt never fet, ” the thor wr. Embraced a gay inty, if not necsarily one that was particularly polil.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

While the s did not directly prohib the pictn of homosexual characters, they heavily rtricted what those characters uld do and how they uld act. This obvly had the very real impact of nvcg the Amerin public that the LGBT muny only nsisted of child molters and villas while simultaneoly showg the muny that beg gay or trans led to ath. One such stereotype is the pictn of a gay man as feme and “unmanly”.

VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS

For example, Ryan Evans om High School Mil, while not explicly stated as a homosexual, is thought by many to be a “queer d” character (a term I’ll get to later the post). Another mon trope media is the “bury your gays” trope.

In 1997, Ellen was the first ma character of a show to be openly gay.

The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight.

#FLASHBACKFRIDAY – THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. [VTAGE VIO CLIPS]

In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.

Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns, ” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public. No one wanted to believe that Ameri’s goln boy uld be a gay man.

Cor’s mansn, rated by gay former actor William Ha, beme the center of LGBT society Hollywood. It was a well-known fact that Cor was gay, even though he never publicly spoke about . Cor may have never been able to explicly talk about his sexualy, but he helped solidify the gay muny Hollywood.

He also stggled to accept his homosexualy thanks to his strict Roman Catholic upbrgg. Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s. Incintally, the film is noted for s untentnal homoerotic unrton.

Clift never publicly talked about , but close iend Elizabeth Taylor admted he was gay at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards. The two acted three movi together, cludg Sudnly, Last Summer, which had Clift play a gay man. In 1939 he married Osr-wng actrs Ja Gaynor, to whom he remaed wed until his ath 1959.

Rumors about both Adrian and Gaynor’s sexualy have been hard to prove. Their marriage is believed to be a lavenr marriage, which was an arrangement ma to bunk mors that they were both gay.

Diana McLellan mentns this her book The Girls and the uple’s relatnship is heavily analyzed William Mann’s Behd the Screen: How Gays and Lbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969. Actor Bob Cummgs is quoted the book as sayg, “Ja Gaynor’s hband was Adrian, the MGM fashn signer.

Gaynor and Adrian were succsful durg a time when any sort of evince of their homosexualy would have hurt their reers, so ’s not surprisg that there isn’t ncrete evince about the tth of their relatnship. Hudson’s homosexualy was kept a secret for most of his life. Wh same-sex marriage now legal all parts of the UK, n sometime be easy to fet how different attus to homosexualy were the past, and how much change has taken place over the past 50 years.