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11, 2013NEW YORK — It was lled “the love that dared not speak s name” when the artistic and flamboyant Osr Wil was vilified for his sexual persuasn at the end of the 19th long before the gay pri march, the pumped-up bodi on the streets of San Francis’s Castro district and same-sex marriage, homosexualy was absorbed to the language of the athetic ills worn to the so-lled “molly” clubs 19th-century London, through the flamboyant silken bathrobe of the playwright and poser Noël Coward to the lilac jacket of the Brish athete Bunny Roger and Liberace’s flamboyant folrals, men of a certa persuasn drsed to also were engaged the same athetic, like those who equented the notor lbian bars Paris the 1920s, or Marlene Dietrich her sexually ambivalent, mascule pantsus. Is a ground-breakg effort, explorg for the first time on mm terrory the fluence and origs of a subculture fed as LGBTQ — Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. “Gays have been hidn om fashn history bee was illegal for so long and stigmatized as a mental illns.
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