Contents:
- WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
- I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN!
- BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
- HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN: CARY GRANT AND THE SCREWBALL COMEDY
WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
The term Gay had fely bee a sexualized term by the 17th century to mean "unhibed by moral nstrats" and was then attached to homosexualy by the early 1900s.
Grant's explanatn for wearg women's cloth the film, "I jt went gay all of a sudn, " was improvised on set, which may expla how slipped by the Productn Co Admistratn (PCA), Hollywood's self-censorship group.
Between 1934, when the PCA began strict Co enforcement, and 1961, when the Co was amend, any mentn of homosexualy was strictly forbidn on screen. This marks the only e of "gay" to mean "homosexual" a Hollywood film of that era. Some historians have suggted that 's the screen's first e of "gay" a sexual ntext.
I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN!
Sce this was a mastream movie at a time when the e of the word to mean homosexual would be unfaiar to most film-goers, the le uld also be terpreted to mean, “I jt cid to do somethg ivolo.
BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
[As a pot of tert, a reliance on lgual obscury helped wrers slip another gay term past censors The Malte Faln 3 years later by scribg Wilmer, a character nsired by many to be gay, as a 'gunsel', a Yiddish word for a young homosexual pann:]. The queer bloggers I read and feel a raship wh don’t thk that there is only one way to be a good lbian or gay man.
HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN: CARY GRANT AND THE SCREWBALL COMEDY
They don’t police the language that other gays and lbians e to wre about or talk about their own experienc. And if anyone asks, tell them that I jt went gay all of a sudn!