NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to 90-year-old Hector Black about his life as a closeted gay man who didn't e out until he was 70 years old.
Contents:
- DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
- THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
- WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
- WHAT GAY MARRIAGE LOOKED LIKE THE ’70S
- HOW TO EMBRACE AGG AS A GAY MAN
- 90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
- I LIVED UNAPOLOGETILLY AS A BLACK GAY MAN THE 70S. NOW I’M AGG WH PRI & DIGNY.
DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
The gay men's magaz QQ and Ciao! were unabashedly liberated, but they still tered to an exclive dience. * gay men 70 *
Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D.
THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
The director of Call Your Father says his attractn to olr guys exposed a rarely discsed universal tth about gay men. * gay men 70 *
-led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972.
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WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
In 1979, soclogist Joseph Harry took a look at what that era's marriage-like relatnships between gay men were like. * gay men 70 *
More than half of gay men and nearly 40% of lbian women surveyed 2013 said they had e out to iends and fay before age cisn isn't easy for everyone, though.
WHAT GAY MARRIAGE LOOKED LIKE THE ’70S
When so many gay men have spent their formative years the closet, ’s difficult to pe the feelg that you need to make up for lost time. * gay men 70 *
I’m a 52-year-old gay man, and last year was the year that I fally chose to be open about who I am. Lnched the sprg of 1969 wh the slogan “For Gay Guys Who Have No Hangups, ” QQ was a glossy nsumer magaze.
HOW TO EMBRACE AGG AS A GAY MAN
” But unlike gay liberatn magaz and newspapers of the time, voted ltle space to polics or activism.
90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
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I LIVED UNAPOLOGETILLY AS A BLACK GAY MAN THE 70S. NOW I’M AGG WH PRI & DIGNY.
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But when one particular look cropped up the post-Stonewall gay scene of the 1970s, was so popular—and so distct—that the guys who sported were dismissed as “clon.