Alexanr the Gay and the Gloryhole That Was Greece (Chapter 19) - A History of Alexanr the Great World Culture

Contents:

• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• BREAKG GROUND WH A GAY MOVIE HERO
• ZACK SNYR'S 300 SEQUEL WAS A GAY LOVE STORY FEATURG ALEXANR THE GREAT, BUT WB WANTED NO PART OF IT
• 19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
• ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• GAY SEX SCENE AXED FROM ALEXANR OCTOBER 3, 2004 RODNEY 135 COMMENTSTHERE’S BEEN A BUNCH OF DISCSN ON THE MOVIE BLOG ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATN OF ALEXANR THE GREAT, NONE OF WHICH I WILL GO TO NOW. BUT LOOKS LIKE THE BIG WIGS OVER AT WARNER BROS. HAVE ALSO BEEN HAVG SOME HEATED TALKS ABOUT AS WELL. DIGAL SPY GIV THIS:EXECS AT MOVIE STUD WARNER BROS. APPARENTLY BELIEVE THAT THE SCENE, WHICH SE FARRELL – WHO PLAYS BISEXUAL WARRR ALEXANR THE GREAT – ROMPG WH FRANCIS BOSCH (BAGOAS, A PERSIAN NUCH) WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO TAKE.“ALEXANR WAS ALMOST CERTALY BISEXUAL, AND OLIVER STONE WANTED TO PORTRAY THAT,” A SOURCE TOLD THE NEWS . “SO THERE ARE SCEN BETWEEN COL AND WOMEN, BUT THERE’S ALSO SOME PASSNATE SCEN BETWEEN COL AND FRANCIS BOSCH. “SOME OF THE SUS AT WARNER BROS. THK THAT THE MOVIE-GOG PUBLIC JT ISN’T READY TO SEE THAT. THERE’S SOME PRETTY HEATED ARGUMENTS GOG ON OVER .”OK, AS MUCH AS I’D HATE TO ADM , I THK THE EXEC’S AT WARNER PROBABLY MA THE RIGHT CHOICE AXG THE SCENE. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE GENERAL MOVIE GOG DIENCE JT ISN’T READY FOR THAT KD OF THG A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD RELEASE, AND AFTER ALL, THIS IS A BS. THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY FOR THEIR PANY, AND THEY WILL MAKE CISNS BASED ON WHAT WILL HELP THEM MAKE THE MOST MONEY… WHO WOULDN’T? THIS ISN’T A MORAL ISSUE. THE MOMENT MOVIE EXECUTIV BELIEVE GAY SCEN FILMS WILL CREASE BOX OFFICE RETURNS YOU N BET THERE WILL BE A WHOLE LOT OF . FOR NOW, THEY PROBABLY MA THE RIGHT CHOICE. FEEL EE TO LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS THE MENTS SECTN. COMMENT WH FACEBOOK POSTED UNRNEWS CHATSHARE ON FACEBOOKTWEET ON TWTER ABOUT RODNEY VIEW ALL POSTS BY RODNEY → POST NAVIGATN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.

But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.

” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”. ) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver.

Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns.

While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

BREAKG GROUND WH A GAY MOVIE HERO

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

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ZACK SNYR'S 300 SEQUEL WAS A GAY LOVE STORY FEATURG ALEXANR THE GREAT, BUT WB WANTED NO PART OF IT

In the film, which st about $155 ln to produce, Alexanr is also married to Roxane, played by Rosar Dawson, but the marriage tak a back seat to his passn for his boyhood s past, Hollywood hted at classil homosexualy major films like 1960's "Spartac. " But the film dtry has never risked que so much on a blockbter film that picts a leadg man as gay or breakg wh that historil reticence, "Alexanr, " set for release by Time Warner Inc. 's Warner Brothers stud next Wednday, may refe what is acceptable to mass dienc when to heroic portrayals on the silver, which fanced "Alexanr" wh the German pany Intermedia, has taken pas to -emphasize the film's gay aspect s advertisg mpaign -- the trailer clar Alexanr's "passn" while showg a love scene between Mr.

Stone, who had fal say over the film, sled back some of the gay love scen after Warner objected to them and to some of the movie's vlence. Stone refers to is that the wake of the printial electn and the passage of prohibns on gay marriage a number of stat, homosexualy has rurfaced as a foc of bate and ntroversy among cultural are already takg aim at Mr. "But historians of cema said the pictn of a gay or bisexual leadg man a major Hollywood film had ltle precent.

Hollywood's willgns to pict gay culture openly has gone cycl, generally followg society's reigng mor. Today gay characters are mon throughout seri mastream cema me much closer to acceptg homosexualy the last , ually chose to do so edi like "The Birdge, " which took $124 ln at the domtic box office for MGM s 1996 release, or "In & Out, " which had $64 ln domtic ticket sal a year Stone's films have often weathered cricism for takg extreme polil or social posns, and "Alexanr" he has hardly shied away om ntroversy.

19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE

The picture has no homosexual sex scene but shows many close-ups of Alexanr and Hephaistn (both wearg eye makp) nfsg their ep affectn. Lane Fox, the historian, said the director may have overemphasized homosexualy somewhat his pictn of the Alexanr-Hephaistn relatnship. But some weled the portrayal of Alexanr as reprentg progrs toward the acceptance of homosexualy to mastream culture.

Garry, executive director of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. "In nservative circl, some, at least, say they believe is high time for Hollywood to strive for historil accuracy s filmmakg, even if that means pictg homosexualy. "It seems to me if you n ever make the se, and I thk you n, that gay sex scen are appropriate, would be this kd of movie.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 9 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Breakg Ground Wh a Gay Movie Hero. ‘In From the Si’ is a gay gby drama film starrg Alexanr Lln and Alexanr Kg, and the two of them showed an tense chemistry the recently released trailer.

ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS

The movie is Director and -wrer Matt Carter’s but film, and tells the story of Mark (Lln) and Warren (Kg) who are members of a fictnal gay gby club South London.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Durg an terview wh Attu, director Carter talked about the lack of homophobia and focg on “eper tths” about gay relatnships the film.

“Once we eed ourselv of that we uld explore the terpersonal relatnships between this group of gay men and ’s a more tertg more ep way to explore thgs. I thk ’s very easy to wre about g out or homophobia bee ’s an obv thg and n be so trmatic.

GAY SEX SCENE AXED FROM ALEXANR OCTOBER 3, 2004 RODNEY 135 COMMENTSTHERE’S BEEN A BUNCH OF DISCSN ON THE MOVIE BLOG ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATN OF ALEXANR THE GREAT, NONE OF WHICH I WILL GO TO NOW. BUT LOOKS LIKE THE BIG WIGS OVER AT WARNER BROS. HAVE ALSO BEEN HAVG SOME HEATED TALKS ABOUT AS WELL. DIGAL SPY GIV THIS:EXECS AT MOVIE STUD WARNER BROS. APPARENTLY BELIEVE THAT THE SCENE, WHICH SE FARRELL – WHO PLAYS BISEXUAL WARRR ALEXANR THE GREAT – ROMPG WH FRANCIS BOSCH (BAGOAS, A PERSIAN NUCH) WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO TAKE.“ALEXANR WAS ALMOST CERTALY BISEXUAL, AND OLIVER STONE WANTED TO PORTRAY THAT,” A SOURCE TOLD THE NEWS . “SO THERE ARE SCEN BETWEEN COL AND WOMEN, BUT THERE’S ALSO SOME PASSNATE SCEN BETWEEN COL AND FRANCIS BOSCH. “SOME OF THE SUS AT WARNER BROS. THK THAT THE MOVIE-GOG PUBLIC JT ISN’T READY TO SEE THAT. THERE’S SOME PRETTY HEATED ARGUMENTS GOG ON OVER .”OK, AS MUCH AS I’D HATE TO ADM , I THK THE EXEC’S AT WARNER PROBABLY MA THE RIGHT CHOICE AXG THE SCENE. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE GENERAL MOVIE GOG DIENCE JT ISN’T READY FOR THAT KD OF THG A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD RELEASE, AND AFTER ALL, THIS IS A BS. THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY FOR THEIR PANY, AND THEY WILL MAKE CISNS BASED ON WHAT WILL HELP THEM MAKE THE MOST MONEY… WHO WOULDN’T? THIS ISN’T A MORAL ISSUE. THE MOMENT MOVIE EXECUTIV BELIEVE GAY SCEN FILMS WILL CREASE BOX OFFICE RETURNS YOU N BET THERE WILL BE A WHOLE LOT OF . FOR NOW, THEY PROBABLY MA THE RIGHT CHOICE. FEEL EE TO LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS THE MENTS SECTN. COMMENT WH FACEBOOK POSTED UNRNEWS CHATSHARE ON FACEBOOKTWEET ON TWTER ABOUT RODNEY VIEW ALL POSTS BY RODNEY → POST NAVIGATN

"The LGBTQI+ aspect of is there, but isn't: 'Oh wow, they're gay and they play gby. "It jt so happens that one of the relatnships is between two gay men, " he add.

Read allSee productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview thk of as a follow-up to "The Boys the Band"Mart Crowley's 1968 play "The Boys the Band" foc on a group of gay iends gettg together a New York apartment. It addrsed the ternalized homophobia of the precedg s. This one picts eight gay men gettg together at a untry tate.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

The characters me on the issu affectg their liv, as well as the popular culture om which they've taken spiratn (wh one man posg that the US produced as many gays 250 years as England did 2, 000) all, the movie has s flaws, but the assets outweigh those. Unfortunately, you won’t be seeg that movie anytime soon, bee when the Army of the Dead -wrer/director tried to wre a 300 sequel, he end up penng a gay love story featurg Alexanr the Great; which Warner Bros wants no part there was the entire bacle over Jtice League and the planned Snyrverse, Zack Snyr and Warner Bros.

Summary Wh ntemporary Wtern gay muni, Alexanr the Great is often champned as a hero and an spiratnal figure – the ultimate high-stat homosexual. This chapter explor the var ways which he has been visualised wh the gay muny and s wir – more closeted – muny.

The darker, anti-gay, readg of Alexanr is also explored the ntext of right-wg natnalism and the ary. (1999) Somethg for the Boys: Mil Theater and Gay Culture.