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- QUEERG JOHN WAYNEWAS HE ‘MASCULE’—OR ACTG?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·10 M READ·JUL 6, 2021--9SHAREWHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY THE WORD “MASCULE” — AND WHY IS JOHN WAYNE IS SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH THIS TRA? THE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WASN’T EVEN NAMED ‘JOHN WAYNE’.HE WAS MARN MORRISON, LLED ‘DE’. HE WAS A CHS-PLAYER, A DANCER, A B FEMME HIS BEARG. HE WAS AN ACTOR WHO PLAYED A PART OF A WBOY LARGELY CREATED BY JOHN FORD, A CLOSETED GAY DIRECTOR OM MAE.HE’S KNOWN AS AN IN OF “MASCULY.”MANY SEEM NOT TO KNOW WAS AN ILLN, MERE MOVIEMAKG. WE N FOLLOW A YOUNG ‘DE’ WHO GREW UP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—AN ATHLETE, PLAYG FOOTBALL, SURFG.IS HE ULTRA-MASCULE?HIS LOOKS N CHANGE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY.THIS SEEMS TO BE A MAN WHO SANK TO THE ROL HE PLAYED, A SHAPE-SHIFTG BEG, A CHAMELEON. AN ACTOR.DE MORRISON WAS A DANCER.IN A 1997 STUDY, JOHN WAYNE’S AMERI, GARRY WILLS LGERS ON THIS POT, AND C A FEW UNEXPECTED FACTS. NOTG HIS SMALL FEET, KATHARE HEPBURN SPOKE OF THE “DANCER’S STEPS HE TOOK WH THEM.” A WOMAN WHO KNEW WAYNE PARED HIM TO NUREYEV, THE GREAT (GAY) BALLET DANCER.RICHARD WIDMARK RELLED THE ACTOR JOHN WAYNE TELLG HIM ON THE SET OF THE ALAMO: “GODDAMM, BE GRACEFUL — LIKE ME!”IT MIGHT NOT BE AN EFFECT THE DIENCE WOULD PROCS. BUT AS MUCH AS NUREYEV ON STAGE, ‘JOHN WAYNE’ WAS A LEAPG FIGURE OUT OF A DREAM.RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS RUDOLF NUREYEV 1961; JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMIC (FEBARY 1952)THE MERA WAS EVER WORKG TO BUTCH HIM UP.
- I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
- NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
- JOHN GAY
- JOHN GAY QUOT
- GAY
QUEERG JOHN WAYNEWAS HE ‘MASCULE’—OR ACTG?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·10 M READ·JUL 6, 2021--9SHAREWHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY THE WORD “MASCULE” — AND WHY IS JOHN WAYNE IS SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH THIS TRA? THE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WASN’T EVEN NAMED ‘JOHN WAYNE’.HE WAS MARN MORRISON, LLED ‘DE’. HE WAS A CHS-PLAYER, A DANCER, A B FEMME HIS BEARG. HE WAS AN ACTOR WHO PLAYED A PART OF A WBOY LARGELY CREATED BY JOHN FORD, A CLOSETED GAY DIRECTOR OM MAE.HE’S KNOWN AS AN IN OF “MASCULY.”MANY SEEM NOT TO KNOW WAS AN ILLN, MERE MOVIEMAKG. WE N FOLLOW A YOUNG ‘DE’ WHO GREW UP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—AN ATHLETE, PLAYG FOOTBALL, SURFG.IS HE ULTRA-MASCULE?HIS LOOKS N CHANGE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY.THIS SEEMS TO BE A MAN WHO SANK TO THE ROL HE PLAYED, A SHAPE-SHIFTG BEG, A CHAMELEON. AN ACTOR.DE MORRISON WAS A DANCER.IN A 1997 STUDY, JOHN WAYNE’S AMERI, GARRY WILLS LGERS ON THIS POT, AND C A FEW UNEXPECTED FACTS. NOTG HIS SMALL FEET, KATHARE HEPBURN SPOKE OF THE “DANCER’S STEPS HE TOOK WH THEM.” A WOMAN WHO KNEW WAYNE PARED HIM TO NUREYEV, THE GREAT (GAY) BALLET DANCER.RICHARD WIDMARK RELLED THE ACTOR JOHN WAYNE TELLG HIM ON THE SET OF THE ALAMO: “GODDAMM, BE GRACEFUL — LIKE ME!”IT MIGHT NOT BE AN EFFECT THE DIENCE WOULD PROCS. BUT AS MUCH AS NUREYEV ON STAGE, ‘JOHN WAYNE’ WAS A LEAPG FIGURE OUT OF A DREAM.RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS RUDOLF NUREYEV 1961; JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMIC (FEBARY 1952)THE MERA WAS EVER WORKG TO BUTCH HIM UP.
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I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
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WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
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GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
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(Image cred: Alamy)The actor Sam Elltt's ntroversial recent ments cricised The Power of the Dog's 'allns to homosexualy', but queer readgs of wterns stretch back s, and Zachariah is a prime example, wr Sean the ialistic 1960s gave way to the cynil 1970s, US cema began servg up creasgly nihilistic and psychologilly plex stori, all wh sour endgs to match. Zachariah ptur the overlap between anti-Vietnam War, rock mic, sexual liberatn, femism, the emergence of gay rights, civil rights, environmentalism – they're all alcg – Gary NeedhamZachariah's screenplay was rewrten many tim.
NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
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In all s Firign-fuelled youth-culture provotn, Needham tells BBC Culture, the film "ptur the overlap between anti-Vietnam War, rock mic, sexual liberatn, femism, the emergence of gay rights, civil rights, environmentalism – they're all alcg" wtern was a predomant mo through which mascule performance was tght, pecially to young whe Amerin menThe boys' embrace at the end of Zachariah, then, is an earnt rebuttal of the toxic, vlent mascule mor on which the wtern genre was built.
So is Zachariah a gay wtern?
JOHN GAY
<i>Rocketman</i>, though at least acknowledg the queer nuanc of Elton John’s life, shows how limed Hollywood’s approach to gay celebry stori still is. * john gay man now *
The gay prs asked the same qutn.
Wh Don Johnson gracg s ver, the March 1971 edn of The Advote, the US's olst LGBT publitn, featured a review wh the headle "Are they gay?
JOHN GAY QUOT
As the character actor thriv his 50s, he's playg a type of character we've rarely seen: a gay man who survived long enough to enjoy gettg olr. * john gay man now *
On the homosexual implitns of the iendship, he wrote, "I'm aaid that's all is – iendship, " addg that the film's script leads to the brk of homosexualy only to back away before be explic.
" Gay people will be posive that the boys were lovers, and the straights will be left wh only spicns. The New York Tim' Roger Greenspun looked closer (too close, perhaps), ncludg that the film "propagandised homosexual love".
In his book Idol Worship: A Shamels Celebratn of Male Bety the Movi (2003), Michael Fergon refers to Johnson at this stage of his reer as "an stant h wh gay dienc", and "sold as chicken feed and pecked at wh light". Nu stills om his works were regularly prted gay magaz, and Johnson was, says Fergon, "extremely gay-iendly and gay-thankful".
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When Zach first approach Matthew, he’s shirtls and sweaty, wearg ltle but a blacksmh's smock, Fergon wrote: "the homoerotic possibili of this exchange [might] turn to the first gay wtern sce Andy Warhol's Lonome Cowboys (1969)". But the sequence speaks to the experienc of many gay men too.
Red River (1948), a film laced wh nuendo which John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, a closeted gay man, admire each other's firearms, was labelled a queer touchstone – alongsi Calamy Jane (1953) and Johnny Guar (1954), which also upend genr rol – Vo Rso's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, and the documentary of the same name (1995).
Andy Warhol's Horse (1965) and Lonome Cowboys (1969) make clear the nnectns between stume, Amerin male inty and homosexualy.
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"The wboy has always had a lot of currency gay eroti and eventual pornography, " says Needham, who pots also to gay-liberatn films such as Song of the Loon (1970), and gay porn featur such as The Savag (1971), as exampl. Zachariah picts men, even if they're not terpreted as gay, as unbound by the mascule paranoia that surrounds touch, feelgs and emotnsIn 1969, Midnight Cowboy would repackage the them and athetics to ask qutns about Ameri's mols of masculy.
Needham wr his say Hollywood Tra: Midnight Cowboy and Unrground Cema, the film "'outs' post-war gay culture's cultural productn and erotic fascatn wh wboys". That, says Needham, might be part of Zachariah's appeal to gay dienc: bee picts men, even if they're not terpreted as gay, as unbound by the mascule paranoia that surrounds touch, feelgs and emotns. There was clearly a precent for gay wboys by 1971, even if was mostly unknown to Zachariah's makers.