<p>Jam Dean was the embodiment of young male vulnerabily, heroism and torment. Who would have gused he was gay? Fifty years after his ath, 's all too obv, argu Germae Greer</p>
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IS GERMAE GREER GAY?
* germaine greer gay *
"In the 1950s homosexualy was so far off the suburban radar that Jimmy Dean uld give all the visual clu, and we would see nothg. There was no gay tablishment; young men growg up "different" had no easy way of intifyg what was that troubled them or why was that they uldn't f wh teen culture of datg and neckg and boastg.
Bee here Greer is g ‘phobia’ the proper way — not to pathologise moral viewpots, as the PC do when they brand cricism of gay marriage as ‘homophobia’ or ridicule of Islam as ‘Islamophobia’, but rather to scribe an irratnal fear, this se of spirs. John Lrsen, should be remembered, is the gay rights activist who has been fightg a lonely battle agast the monly accepted notn that HIV is what Aids. It is his belief that the real e of the occurrence of Kaposi's sara among gay men is not a retrovis, but their equent reurse to amyl nre halants (poppers).