Lrel and Hardy were they gay and satanists? Straight 4 J! (Back Door Christians)
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HOW GAY WERE LREL AND HARDY?
Given that Lrel & Hardy weren't meant to be a gay uple, and both even had wiv some episos, why is that they 'slept together' ? * was laurel and hardy gay *
The aternal lodge as an aggrsively mascule performance space was challenged both by the velopment of a clearer heterosexual/homosexual cultural bary and by the stabily of patriarchal stctur durg the first half of the twentieth century. how gay were lrel and hardy? Part of London Gay Pri Week.
Back the no-homo early 1990s me and my pal Nick Haeffner wrote a newspaper feature on the ‘queer’ appeal of their on-screen relatnship that was celly spiked. Stan: Well, if you had a baby would keep your wife’s md occupied; you uld go out nights wh me and she’d thk nothg of First Mistake, 1932SUGGESTING THAT CINEMA’S most cherished edy duo might be homosexual is not somethg you are likely to be thanked for. Boldly claimg Lrel and Hardy for the history of gay cema, Rso pots out that films like Their First Mistake (1932), the fat man and the th man exemplified the ‘perfect sissy-buddy relatnship, which had a sweet and very real lovg dimensn’ wh ‘unmistakably gay overton.
Or is this rather the rult of over-heated analysis, the product of the perverse imagatn of gay crics?