Synonyms for GAY: animated, active, energetic, animate, lively, brisk, enthiastic, bouncg; Antonyms of GAY: ad, limp, active, animate, lifels, languid, lazy, listls
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* gay brick meaning *
How the Memory of Stonewall Liv On a MemeThe qutn “Who threw the first brick?” has bee a way to celebrate gay ins and to ject joy to a soberg historil moment.Nicki Maj, Marsha P. (Lucy Jon)Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg.One of the most endurg qutns about the Stonewall rts is, Who threw the first brick? Acrdg to what has bee a sort of orig myth, someone flung a chunk of masonry at police officers as they hled revelers away durg a route raid of the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, the early-morng hours of June 28, 1969.
Fifty years after the Stonewall rts, if you sn certa quarters of the ter—Gay Twter, Redd threads—you might see that the brick-thrower qutn has taken on a fascatg life. So did Nicki Maj, the st of Glee, Nile Kidman’s wig the 2018 film Boy Erased, and Lady Gaga’s wail the chart-toppg A Star Is Born sgle “Shallow.” (You might see someone say that Kylie Mogue threw the first wboy hat or that Stevie Nicks threw the first curse.) While this meme might jt seem like an anachronistic gag, also functns as a meangful way to celebrate a variety of gay ins and the distct ronance they have for their queer fans.Mem are a kd of map to ter culture bee they crystallize what certa onle muni fd important, as Carole Kchener noted for The Atlantic.
BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
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Paraphrasg Kenyatta Chee, an expert on meme culture, Kchener wrote that mem n “offer particularly ep sight to human behavr,” bee “the versns that go viral reveal what exactly strik a chord wh .” So is wh the brick-throwg joke: For many queer people, transpos a key historil event to the prent, and s playful tone jects joy to a soberg historil moment.While the meme n center a range of figur, cludg LGBTQ-rights pneers, mak sense that gay ins are most often featured. Known for her towerg performanc films cludg 1939’s The Wizard of Oz and 1954’s A Star Is Born, as well as for the heartrendg trajectory of her personal life, Garland has, for generatns, been a high prits of sorts for many gay men.
As the scholar Richard Dyer wr “Judy Garland and Gay Men,” a chapter om his 1986 book, Heavenly Bodi: Film Stars and Society, “Garland works an emotnal register of great tensy which seems to bpeak equally sufferg and survival, vulnerabily and strength, theatrily and thenticy, passn and irony.” When Garland died, the aforementned legend go, those at the Stonewall Inn were no mood to put up wh more police abe. And they didn’t.The brick-throwg meme pays tribute to the sgular nnectn between many gay ins and their admirers.
The joke is a clear example of mp—that queer sensibily that fixat on exaggeratn and mgl serns and unserns—and as Ge-Cl Guilbert wr his 2018 book, Gay Ins: The (Mostly) Female Entertaers Gay Men Love, “pure mp has ltle e for historil accuracy.” The meme also driv home, a fun and over-the-top fashn, the sheer bety of the song. Like most of Aly & AJ’s recent mic, echo the hazy synth-pop of the ’80s—a famoly queer mic genre—and exus torch-song sentimentaly.Consir, too, the add valence that Aly & AJ, while relatively new to the pantheon of gay ins, are beloved by many queer mic-listeners. Rell the protters who formed kick-l and tnted the police outsi the Stonewall Inn, sgg, “We are the Stonewall girls / We wear our hair curls / We wear no unrwear / We show our pubic hair.” Or reflect on the words of the wrer Edmund Whe, who explas his 2009 memoir, Cy Boy: My Life New York Durg the 1960s and ’70s, that “GLBT lears like to cricize young gays for not takg the movement serly, but don’t listen to them.