On Grease's 40th Anniversary, Don't Fet the Gay Man Who Ma It

Contents:

• ON GREASE'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY, DON'T FET THE GAY MAN WHO MA IT
• OPENLY GAY ALAN CARR MARRIED PARTNER IN WEDDG PAID BY TOP SGER
• ALAN CARR ‘WAS OUTED AS GAY BY A GHOST’ TO HIS MUM EAKY OUIJA BOARD READG
• WHAT ALAN CARR TGHT ME ABOUT GAY MEN'S HOMOPHOBIA
• ALAN CARR: ‘THE WHOLE GAY SCENE SR ME’

ON GREASE'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY, DON'T FET THE GAY MAN WHO MA IT

From what I have seen ’s sweet and nostalgic, a sort of gay Wonr Years. We meet him jt as his bt iend, Charlie, has been banned om hangg out wh him bee his parents thk he’s “mp” tensn is watchg a child wh Carr’s flamboyance unknowgly navigate the rampant homophobia of the 80s while his mother, Christe, fiercely beats away sneerg neighbours. “He’s a proper old gay, got a cigarette holr and a trilby, and he’s stg on this bench.

The two geo gay dads e along and they’re pickg up their dghter and he go, ‘God, I don’t even know how to be gay any more. “Maybe he don’t even intify as gay, what do I know?

OPENLY GAY ALAN CARR MARRIED PARTNER IN WEDDG PAID BY TOP SGER

Alan Carr has told a chaotic anecdote about how he got outed to his mother by a Ouija edian, whose TV show Changg Ends is about growg up as the gay son of a fourth divisn football manager the 1980s, told the story durg an appearance on Kathy Burke’s Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake podst. “It went to spell homosexual ont of my mum and I went goodbye and I pulled the glass. “So was gog ‘H, O, M, O’ and my mum went ‘homo?

ALAN CARR ‘WAS OUTED AS GAY BY A GHOST’ TO HIS MUM EAKY OUIJA BOARD READG

"That's a long time, " Lorrae quipped while Alan joked: "Which gay years, is 207 years!

I was obssed wh , like we all were back the day, " relled Schwarz, the years, several of the producer's other projects ught Schwarz's attentn -- Can't Stop the Mic, the 1979 mil film starrg the Village People and Bce (now Calyn) Jenner; the 61st Annual Amy Awards, where Rob Lowe famoly sang a parody of "Proud Mary" wh Snow Whe; the 1983 productn of La Cage x Foll, which brought gay liv to Broadway the midst of the AIDS Schwarz had not "nnected all the dots" of Carr and his reer until he read Party Animals. Carr also threw extravagant (and substance-fueled) parti at his home, where celebri mgled wh betiful gay readg Party Animals, Schwarz knew he wanted to make a documentary about Carr.

The gay filmmaker is known for chroniclg queer liv films like Vo and I Am Dive, and Carr's story -- of a closeted, ftan-wearg producer whose flamboyance shook up Hollywood -- was right up his alley. "That was a lot of fun to do bee Allan Carr is a rtoon character a lot of ways, " said was not out as a gay man durg his lifetime. Born 1937, he was part of what Bce Vilanch, a talkg head the film and a wrer of the famo Osrs show, lled a "gentleman's agreement, " where a person's gay inty might be known Hollywood but is never spoken about public.

WHAT ALAN CARR TGHT ME ABOUT GAY MEN'S HOMOPHOBIA

"Grease has a gay sensibily, there's no doubt about . In addn to Carr, Grease had a gay director, Randal Kleiser, and many gay productn members behd the scen who helped make the mpy classic what is today.

"I thk [for] most people who see Grease, would never dawn on them that there's anythg gay about . There's this homoerotic nature.

I wouldn't ll him an activist at all, but through his work he sublimally ma beg gay more acceptable. Schwarz se homophobia as part of the backlash to the show.

ALAN CARR: ‘THE WHOLE GAY SCENE SR ME’

And I wonr if 's not a given that a lot of gay kids are gog to love Judy Garland mils the way was a given of gay people of Allan Carr's generatn. As fans celebrate the mpy classic, Schwarz hop that they remember the gay man who helped make . Which gay years, is 207 years!

But openly gay Brish edian, Alan Carr had his weddg idyllilly the prence of jt four guts.

The openly gay man found another proud gay man, Pl Drayton as his partner.