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Contents:
- HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
- THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
- LARRY GAYE: RENEGA MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
- DON'T ARGUE WH THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
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Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s sassy male flight attendants, who are all gay.
THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
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When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype? Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time. This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News.
LARRY GAYE: RENEGA MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts.
” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight.
DON'T ARGUE WH THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay.
For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work.