PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS

Contents:

• WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?
• PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
• SPECIAL REPORT: WAS LEWIS CARROLL A GAY MORMON AND WERE THE ALICE BOOKS WRTEN BY J.D. SALGER?
• EULOGY FOR C.S. LEWIS’ GAY ASSISTANTON THE LIFE OF WALTER HOOPERJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·12 M READ·DEC 9, 2020--4SHAREWALTER MCGEHEE HOOPER, LONGTIME REPRENTATIVE OF THE TATE OF C.S. LEWIS, HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 89. HE WAS AMONG THE LAST LIVG LKS TO A HERO OF THE FAH.I REFLECT ON HIS STORY, WHICH ISN’T FOUND THE OBUARI CHRISTIANY TODAY OR NATNAL REVIEW. HE WAS GAY, AND HIS STORI ABOUT LEWIS WERE—PUZZLG?WALTER HOOPER BY WILL VS (2016)HOOPER NEVER EXACTLY ‘ OUT’, BUT DROPS THE QUEER TAILS.
• IS CARL LEWIS GAY? DETAILS ON THE SEXUALY OF THE ATHLETE
• IS CARL LEWIS GAY? ADDRSG THE ATHLETE’S SEXUALY
• TOP POSTS & PAGC. S. LEWIS ON HOMOSEXUALY & DISGT“CHASTE, GAY COUPL” AND THE CHURCHINTRSIC EVIL AND DISORR: HOW TO MISUNRSTAND THE CATHOLIC CATECHISMPERASTY AND ARSENOKOAIMART LUTHER KG, JR: INTEGRATED B SUGGTNSA RPONSE TO ROSARIA BUTTERFIELDSOULS KN TOGETHERCATEGORI
• IS JERRY LEWIS GAY?
• BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY
• IS LEWIS COLLS GAY?
• SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS

WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?

But if you don’t thk ’s absurd for one (historilly important) man to sire another, ’s jt a very tired anti-gay joke. Last summer, We Proceed On, the scholarly journal of the Lewis and Clark Trail Herage Foundatn me unr signifint fire after historian and archivist William Benemann published two says that speculated on the homo-erotic nature of the bond between the two Mr. Many letter wrers cried the cln, llg gay “propaganda” and an “abomatn, ” — that “disparaged” our “Amerin hero” by suggtg anythg other than heterosexualy when speakg of the two men: “I am takg this opportuny to exprs my outrage and disappotment about the article that bmirched the good character of Captas Lewis and Clark.

A classic profile, Bremer wr, of “probable homosexual clatns. A rear might not make a nnectn: Lewis’ warm, nversatnal wrg voice was veloped for his iend who was, turned out, homosexual.

Arthur was readg Edward Carpenter, the Christian advote for homosexual acceptance — a startlg reference to fd Lewis’ early spirual bgraphy. Wilson later noted: “Arthur Greev was homosexual.

PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS

He produced a few “new” texts om Lewis’ archive that seemed to many rears very unlike Lewis, pecially the half-formed, strange novella, The Dark Tower, which had oddly sexual, even homoerotic featur.

No one mentned that he was gay. Lewis Really Thk About Homosexualy? There has been a stir recent days around the Prbyterian Church Ameri’s latt General Assembly, where two new overtur were passed to addrs the ght issue of homosexualy and the pastorate.

Overture 23 amends the nstutn to state that addn to practicg homosexualy, the e of “inty language” such as “gay Christian, ” “homosexual Christian, ” or “same-sex attracted Christian” n bar a man om mistry. Louis, argued that this was unacceptable and “hostile” to “gay people who want to follow J celibacy.

SPECIAL REPORT: WAS LEWIS CARROLL A GAY MORMON AND WERE THE ALICE BOOKS WRTEN BY J.D. SALGER?

For several years, Johnson’s church has hosted the ntroversial “Revoice” nference, pched as a “safe space” for self-intified “gay Christians. ” While speakers haven’t affirmed gay sex acts, some of them affirm virtually everythg else about gay inty short of the actual sex acts. (See for stance, Grant Hartley’s 2018 and 2019 prentatns on the “queer treasure” to be found gay subculture.

EULOGY FOR C.S. LEWIS’ GAY ASSISTANTON THE LIFE OF WALTER HOOPERJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·12 M READ·DEC 9, 2020--4SHAREWALTER MCGEHEE HOOPER, LONGTIME REPRENTATIVE OF THE TATE OF C.S. LEWIS, HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 89. HE WAS AMONG THE LAST LIVG LKS TO A HERO OF THE FAH.I REFLECT ON HIS STORY, WHICH ISN’T FOUND THE OBUARI CHRISTIANY TODAY OR NATNAL REVIEW. HE WAS GAY, AND HIS STORI ABOUT LEWIS WERE—PUZZLG?WALTER HOOPER BY WILL VS (2016)HOOPER NEVER EXACTLY ‘ OUT’, BUT DROPS THE QUEER TAILS.

Further, as Johnson explas a recent podst wh Prton Sprkle, pluggg a forthg book, they see themselv not as upstarts but as throwbacks to Christian voic who “got right” the past before the rise of the ex-gay movement. Rears passgly faiar wh Lewis’s work might be stg about right now for what they uld possibly be referrg to, sce homosexualy was hardly a subject he treated equently. Lewis really thk about homosexualy?

IS CARL LEWIS GAY? DETAILS ON THE SEXUALY OF THE ATHLETE

We don’t have Van’s ial letter, but Lewis summariz that Van and Davy have beiend a uple of self-intified gay stunts seekg advice om Van, who turn is seekg advice om Lewis. ” This is notable for certa voic the mp tryg to leverage this text who have openly entertaed the ia of vowed “gay, chaste unns” of the kd here endorsed at the Spirual Friendship blog by Aaron Taylor. Even wh the provisn that one partner was gay and the other straight a “vowed iendship, ” Lewis clearly would have seen this as a eply unhealthy way of tryg to satisfy a privatn.

The homo.

IS CARL LEWIS GAY? ADDRSG THE ATHLETE’S SEXUALY

The posive life of the homo. A p male homo., now ad, once wrote to me—but of urse was the sort of letter one tak re to stroy. Lewis’s “p male homosexual” acquatance seems to have anticipated a le the Revoice playbook, namely that same-sex orientatn may not be an absolute ill but uld even be uniquely good, a thg to be channeled for unique social benefs.

But shouldn’t be mistaken for a fully worked-out theology of homosexualy.

TOP POSTS & PAGC. S. LEWIS ON HOMOSEXUALY & DISGT“CHASTE, GAY COUPL” AND THE CHURCHINTRSIC EVIL AND DISORR: HOW TO MISUNRSTAND THE CATHOLIC CATECHISMPERASTY AND ARSENOKOAIMART LUTHER KG, JR: INTEGRATED B SUGGTNSA RPONSE TO ROSARIA BUTTERFIELDSOULS KN TOGETHERCATEGORI

I have mentned huy bee male homos. This nails homosexual psychology general, and particular tak a p to the balloon of Revoice’s self-styled “prophetic wns” to the church.

Revoice founrs like Nate Colls will claim that by virtue of their disorred sexualy (which, note, Lewis ntrasts wh “the normal type, ” implyg homosexualy is abnormal), they are able to stand apart om and above their “straight brothers and sisters” to issue a urse rrectn on “idolatry of the nuclear fay, ” etc. There’s nothg of any signifince to be gleaned om when we e to evaluate his opns on homosexualy as a mature Christian.

He might not have had Greev md when he referred to the “male homo.

IS JERRY LEWIS GAY?

In ntemporary gay culture, he might have been scribed by a different t-word. ” He famoly says one reason for this is that homosexualy is one of only two ss he’s never personally been tempted by (the other beg gamblg). ” Unfortunately, as this passage stands, ’s been quoted by those who want to sist that there n be somethg good even active gay relatnships, and fairns Lewis leav himself open to that appropriatn.

Lewis’s lead- to this unpackg further lends self to people who want to supprs a natural aversn to homosexual acts:. (And, too, anyone faiar wh lerature on promiscuy “bona fi gay” ntexts, which perhaps Lewis would have argued “the Coll” wasn’t, strictly, will unrstand how celty and lt n be extribly tertwed. ” In other words, they were the classic gay-actg boys who sist they’re “not gay.

In the UK far more than the US, there’s always been a strange notn of gay dallianc as a form of “sexual g-of-age” for young men before they evably grow to straightns and assume their rightful posn society.

BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY

Forster’s bad novel Mrice is all about this, though Forster, himself gay, tends to suggt this “outgrowg” might be easier said than done. I’ll quote one fal passage, this om a letter to a school iend who nverted to Catholicism, rpondg to somethg the iend had wrten about “two perverts” (we prume homosexual):.

Wh this year’s Gay Pri Month markg the fiftieth anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, the acplishments of LGBT hero of the past fifty years have been wily celebrated. But along wh polil activists and social revolutnari, there were a number of entertaers who, the s surroundg the rebelln, brought a clear, if often exaggerated, gay prence to Amerin hom. He was a gay man.

In Hollywood the 1960s, life was played out the shadows for Dean and other gay actors who often played heterosexual hbands and fathers on televisn and movi. “I’m nearly the oppose of Pl Lyn, ” Dean told Boze Hadleigh that terview the late 1970s for the book, Hollywood Gays.

IS LEWIS COLLS GAY?

When Hadleigh asked if he thought any of the public assumed he was gay, Dean shook his head.

“Not even gays. Only bee what you see on TV — a ser guy a su, unsg– isn’t how anyone thks of gay mal. “Have you ever been st as gay?

“Do you thk wh the dtry ’s known you’re gay? Carmel also was gay.

SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS

“Dickie Dean” uld be seen at gay bars Wt Hollywood wh iends like Pl Lyn and Nancy Walker, and at parti at ho like Rock Hudson’s. Dean had perhaps first seen Feste perform at Stud One’s Backlot, a gay nightclub Wt Hollywood, when Feste was acpanyg the female impersonator Charl Pierce. In the Pierce bgraphy, From Drags to Rich, John Wallraff wr that Dean was among the celebri who me out to watch Pierce perform at the Gild Cage gay nightclub on Ellis Street San Francis.