Urban Dictnary: Gay Alex

Contents:

• NEWS ANCHORS LOS ANGEL WHO ARE GAY...
• ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED
• ROBERT KRAFT SHOWED UP TO BOSTON’S GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S OPENG DAY
• JARED LETO MIGHT BE GAY, HAS A GIANT PENIS, SAYS ALEXIS ARQUETTE
• GAY ALEX
• FOUND 675 RULTS FOR ROBERT GAY
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• RFK JR. GO WHERE FEW TREAD, VDIT THE ALEX JON 'GAY FROGS CONSPIRACY THEORY'

NEWS ANCHORS LOS ANGEL WHO ARE GAY...

Der Gay edn:Hosea Sanrs (now Chigo) had a girliend but was on the down-low when he was at Shuman approached me public once to bum a smoke and was very chatty and tense the way small guys sometim are.

Sir Alec Guns had a homosexual si which remaed publicly unknown his lifetime bee of the flair for evasn and secrecy which was also his tramark as an is to be disclosed three new theatril bgraphi.

ALEC GUNS'S GAY SI REVEALED

They will reveal that Guns, who died last Augt aged 86, was arrted, charged and fed urt Liverpool 1946 for a homosexual act a public the se went unreported bee - unlike the late Sir John Gielgud a siar episo seven years later - he had the quickns of w to give a false name which aroed no spicns. He was quickly mbled and the se ma newspaper headl which shadowed him for their ceptns, both ement actors are thought to have been actg on private advice om sympathetic policemen who were impatient for homosexual law reform. It is also to be disclosed by the novelist Piers Pl Read, Guns's thorised bgrapher, and another Guns bgraphy by Garry O' night Mr Morley - son of the actor Robert Morley, a Gielgud ntemporary - said Guns's gay si had "always been known" to his father and fay iends the theatre such as Dame Gladys Cooper.

The tle of the chapter, “The German Inventn of Homosexualy, ” telegraphs a prcipal argument of the book: although same-sex love is as old as love self, the public disurse around , and the polil movement to w rights for , arose Germany the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri.

ROBERT KRAFT SHOWED UP TO BOSTON’S GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S OPENG DAY

This msage may surprise those who believe that gay inty me of age London and New York, sometime between the Osr Wil trials and the Stonewall rts. Beachy, a historian who teach at Yonsei Universy, Seoul, ends his book by notg that Germans hold gay-pri celebratns each June on what is known as Christopher Street Day, honor of the street where the Stonewall prott unfold.

” In the eighteen-eighti, a Berl police missner gave up prosecutg gay bars and stead stuted a policy of bemed tolerance, gog so far as to lead tours of a growg mimon.

JARED LETO MIGHT BE GAY, HAS A GIANT PENIS, SAYS ALEXIS ARQUETTE

By the begng of the twentieth century, a non of gay lerature had emerged (one early advote ed the phrase “Stayg silent is ath, ” nearly a century before aids activists ed the slogan “Silence = Death”); activists were bemoang negative pictns of homosexualy (Thomas Mann’s “Death Venice” was one target); there were bat over the ethics of outg; and a schism opened between an clive, mastream factn and a more rto, anarchistic wg. In 1929, the Reichstag moved toward the crimalizatn of homosexualy, although the chaos ed by that fall’s stock-market crash prevented a fal did all this happen Germany? The towerg legacy of German ialism and Romanticism, which helps to expla why the gay-rights movement took root Germany, has self bee somewhat obscure, pecially outsi the German school system.

GAY ALEX

The episo suggts the gree to which the German cultural and tellectual tradn, particularly the Romantic age, which stretched om Goethe and Schiller to Schopenher and Wagner, embolned those who me to intify themselv as gay and lbian.

FOUND 675 RULTS FOR ROBERT GAY

Lerary figur pursued a cult of iendship that borred on the homoerotic, although most of the time the fervid talk of embrac and kiss remaed jt talk. ”) Schopenher proceed to expound the dub theory that nature promoted homosexualy olr men as a way of disuragg them om ntug to surprisgly, Karl Herich Ulrichs seized on Schopenher’s cur piece of advocy when he began his mpaign; he quoted the philosopher one of his g-out letters to his relativ.

Ulrichs might also have mentned Wagner, who, “Die Walküre” and “Tristan und Isol, ” picted illic passns that many late-neteenth-century homosexuals saw as allegori for their own experience. Magn Hirschfeld, his 1914 book “The Homosexualy of Men and Women, ” noted that the Wagner ftival Bayrth had bee a “favore meetg place” for homosexuals, and quoted a classified ad, om 1894, which a young man had sought a handsome pann for a Tyrolean bicyclg expedn; was signed “Numa 77, general livery, Bayrth.

The most revelatory chapter of Beachy’s book ncerns Leopold von Meerscheidt-Hüllsem, a Berl police missner the Wilhelme perd, who, perhaps more than any other figure, enabled “gay Berl” to blossom.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

He evintly was not gay, although his superr, Bernhard von Richthofen, the police partment’s print, is said to have had a taste for young soldiers. A week later, a grim irony, this enigmatic protector killed himself—not on acunt of his homosexual associatns but bee he was exposed as havg taken brib om a lnaire banker acced of statutory rape.

) Hirschfeld, who was born 1868, a year after Ulrichs’s speech Munich, began his radil activi 1896, publishg a pamphlet tled “Sappho and Socrat, ” which told of the suici of a gay man who felt erced to marriage.

RFK JR. GO WHERE FEW TREAD, VDIT THE ALEX JON 'GAY FROGS CONSPIRACY THEORY'

Although Frd profsed sympathy for gay people, Amerin psychoanalysts later fostered the stctive notn that homosexualy uld be cured through therapy. His tert effemacy among homosexual men, his attentn to lbianism, and his fascatn wh cross-drsg among both gay and straight populatns (he ed the word “transvtism”) offend men who believed that their lt for fellow-mal, pecially for younger on, ma them more virile than the rt of the populatn.

” There is no mentn, for example, of the theatre and mic cric Theo Anna Sprüngli, who, 1904, spoke to the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee on the subject of “Homosexualy and the Women’s Movement, ” helpg to gurate a parallel movement of lbian activism. Employg the alias Anna Rülg, Sprüngli proposed that the gay-rights and femist movements “aid each other reciprolly”; the prcipl at stake both stggl, she wrote, were eedom, equaly, and “self-termatn.

After Sprüngli gave her historic speech—one that may have exacerbated the spl between the “masculist” and the “sexologil” factns of the gay movement, as Beachy lls them—she said nothg more about lbianism. Yet her sudn silence suggts how quickly gas n slip the goln years of the Weimar Republic, which occupy the last chapters of “Gay Berl, ” gays and lbians achieved an almost dizzyg gree of visibily popular culture. They uld see themselv onscreen films like “Mädchen Uniform” and “Different om the Others”—a tale of a gay vlist driven to suici, wh Hirschfeld featured the supportg role of a wise sexologist.