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.
I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN!
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.
BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
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.
HE JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN: CARY GRANT AND THE SCREWBALL COMEDY
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. [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.
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!