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Contents:
- HOW BEA ARTHUR GAVE BACK TO THE GAYS WHO LOVED HER
- GAY HOMELS YOUTH AND THEIR LIV ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CY
HOW BEA ARTHUR GAVE BACK TO THE GAYS WHO LOVED HER
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“They were always exced to e to her hoe, ” says Matthew, now 55, of his mother’s many gay nfidant. Arthur, who died of ncer 2009 at age 86, occupi a sgular space amid the pantheon of gay ins: Neher preeng show diva nor pill-poppg wreck, she was stead a pillar of liberal-md fortu, always at the ready to do battle wh the Archie Bunkers of the world.
All of this held nsirable sway over the emergg gay-rights movement.
Fully aware of the appeal she held over her gay fans, Arthur cid to give somethg back, and left an endowment to the Ali Forney Center, an anizatn for homels LGBT youth New York Cy. The mostly-gay crowd very nearly flew to a enzy, “phg toward her, grabbg at her, eager for face time wh the great legend.
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) “It seemed like all her chari were mostly about nocents — eher kids or animals or gay or lbian teens, who have a bigger fight than anybody n image, ” Saks says. Don’t let the gff fa fool you: Arthur was a softy through and through, as evinced by the Bea Arthur Rince for LGBT Youth — an honor, among gay ins, sure, but Saks puts thgs perspective. Absolutely the bt gay themed movie I've seen sce Brokeback Mounta and some ways surpass that movie.
How rehg to see a film that als wh gay characters and none of them have a disease or are all about sex.
Not that there's anythg wrong wh that but 's about time we see more movi that reprent the ENTIRE spectm of the gay muny.