‎The Gay Deceivers (1969) directed by Bce Ksler • Reviews, film + st • Letterboxd

Contents:

• THE GAY DECEIVER – 1940S/50S MAGIC BOX – SPARES/REPAIR
• 1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA
• 1930S/40S GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX NO.4 + FOUR MAGIC RG CONJOURG TRICKS
• A 1950S METRA PRODUCT THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX NO 4
• A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
• A MID-20TH CENTURY BOX OF MAGIC TRICKS, TLED `THE GAY DECEIVER, WIZARD OF VARIETY, MAGIC BOX`.
• GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950
• A MID-20THC MAGIC SQUARE CLUB GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX SET NO. 4, RD PACKAGG NTAG VAR
• A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
• THE GAY DECEIVERS
• A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
• THE GAY DECEIVERS
• A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
• GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950

THE GAY DECEIVER – 1940S/50S MAGIC BOX – SPARES/REPAIR

THISIS A BOXED GAME ENTITLED THEGAY DECEIVER (WIZARD OF VARIETY) MAGIC BOX AS CAN BE SEEN FROM THE ATTACHED PICTURE – THIS ITEM IS NOT COMPLETE AND THE GAME AND BOX ARE VERY MUCH IN NEED OF ATTENTION – SO IS THEREFORE BEING LISTED AS SPARES OR REPAIR.

1950's Vtage 'THE GAY DECEIVER' Wizard Of Variety MAGIC BOX(Set) England By METRA, cir 1950. The Gay Deceiver - How the tim have changed.

1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA

Re: The Gay Deceiver - How the tim have changed. Jon, The Gay Deceiver was a character a Hele novel, I read as a kid. NtertaerIs a lk, to whom, I believe is the te "Gay Deceiver".

Back the day, the word 'gay' meant 'happy' and was ed movie tl such as "The Gay Divorcee" so 's not surprisg that they ed the word to name a magic set. Magician wrote:Back the day, the word 'gay' meant 'happy' and was ed movie tl such as "The Gay Divorcee" so 's not surprisg that they ed the word to name a magic do but has, of urse, been siled mon age. Do The Platters still sg “happy and gay like a clown, ” I wonr?

1930S/40S GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX NO.4 + FOUR MAGIC RG CONJOURG TRICKS

As I rell, Clifford Davi, magician, journalist and judge on TV talent show, “New Fac, ” billed himself as the Gay Deceiver. It was the vague language that prompted me to wonr if was tentnal "gay" thg...

It was meangful a social way back when artists were posg as fashnably gay...

"Gay Deceiver" Get the whole rabow to work wh rather than pick between pk and purple.

A 1950S METRA PRODUCT THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX NO 4

I suppose should be noted that the mid-1900s the word "gay" was also ed to note promiscuy eher genr. In that book he refers to the female "gay nurs" who had sex wh male patients. If you have read an above referenc and enuntered the scriptn of the gay ceiver as a man who ce to sce women, then the prr fn mak sense.

Into the 1960s the term "gay" beme lked exclively to s current don't often hear anyone sgg "Now we don our gay apparel" the days. Pretend to be a flamboyant homosexual as a character? I have no rellectn of The Gay Deceiver set, but I did have a luxe David Nixon effort.

1930s/40s Gay Deceiver Magic Box No. Avslutad ktnAvslutad ktn2023-06-26Wdsor, GBGBUtrop-Till webbsidanOm föremåletA 1950s Metra Product The Gay Deceiver Magic Box No 4, wh selectn of magic tricks, origal box —10. A mid-20th Century box of magic tricks, tled 'The Gay Deceiver, Wizard of Variety, Magic Box'.

A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM

A llectn of toys, cludg The Gay Deceiver Magic Box, a Disneyland projector, slis, a Pelham. A llectn of toys, cludg The Gay Deceiver Magic Box, a Disneyland projector, slis, a Pelham Puppet and four 8mm films (playwear and flts).

The last year of the 1960s also broke ground when me to film, wh a movie about a d gay iendship between a htler and a grifter (Midnight Cowboy) wng the Bt Picture Osr the followg year. When me to paradigm-shiftg films of 1969, The Gay Deceivers do not qualify.

Centered on two bonehead straight guys (played by Kev Coughl and Larry Casey) who pretend to be gay to avoid the draft, The Gay Deceivers was a precursor to shows like Bosom Buddi and Three's Company and movi like Mrs. Doubtfire and I Now Prounounce You Chuck and the jok are broad and stupid, the puns obv (a character brgs a u basket to the tular ceivers), the women eher cluels, lechero, or ceful (but always sexy and ually half-naked), and the antigay slurs ubiquo, the movie has several fun flash of gay culture that mastream Ameri was not at all ed the ceivers rent an L.

A MID-20TH CENTURY BOX OF MAGIC TRICKS, TLED `THE GAY DECEIVER, WIZARD OF VARIETY, MAGIC BOX`.

Apartment lord over by a swishy landlord named Mallm (Michael Greer), 's adorned wh homoerotic art that is still rigur Palm Sprgs and Provcetown. Gay men the film ll each other "she" whout a bat of the eye, drag is held up as an art form, and two men even dance together. In one scene, a gay man miserat to Casey's character of Ellt how straight people believe gays are animals and how unfair is that they are routely fired om their jobs.

GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950

Of urse, that potential is wasted when Ellt punch the man for g on to the gay men are universally portrayed as sex-obssed, most e off as likable (albe silly). Greer, an openly gay ic at the time, reportedly worked wh director Bce Ksler to make the movie more sympathetic to the gay characters. "While this movie tragilly reflects s era's mastream attus toward queer people, what mak The Gay Deceivers worth watchg for a ntemporary LGBTQ dience is the great Michael Greer as landlord Mallm DeJohn, " says Alonso Dural, a film cric for TheWrap and -host of the podst Lolm Knife.

The rt of the movie is an object lson of tablishment homophobia actn, but Greer's performance allows a ltle rebelln and realy to elbow s way .

Whout spoilg too much, the screenwrers and Ksler imply that not all gay people are swishy, snarky, and fashnable; anyone your orb uld be queer. Though that msage don't make up for The Gay Deceivers' many, many fics, was one very seldom exprsed The Gay Deceivers below. Two men try to avoid ary service by pretendg to be gay, but they mt act the part when the recg officer don't buy .

A MID-20THC MAGIC SQUARE CLUB GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX SET NO. 4, RD PACKAGG NTAG VAR

What if we pretend to be a gay uple to eva the draft... And we nvced everyone our liv that we were gay... It don't have any overt pro-gay msag, necsarily, but as a movie also don't nounce homosexualy as evil eher.

A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM

Sure, a bunch of the characters do but the movie do we have here is a edy about two (very handsome) guys who pretend to be boyiends to dodge the draft and end up havg to move together and actually live like gays so that Uncle Sam don't fd out their dirty ltle secret (the dirty ltle secret beg that they're borg straight people) the entire urse of the movie I was tryg really hard to figure out what the pot of the….

50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

Succeeds not bee of s silly storyle or eher of s two leads, but bee of the openly gay Michael Greer's hand rhapg the script and givg a performance that's illy swishy, yet not gradg. Try to work posive and polil msag to what otherwise uld've been a gross, homophobic ms. I’ll still take his ultra-homoerotic Simon, Kg of the Wch over this, though.

THE GAY DECEIVERS

Ok but they were actually gay, right? Be gay, do crim, avoid the draft.

Dad I swear I'm not gay 's jt a prank to avoid the draft! Obvly the gays were waaay over the top (everyone say thank you michael greer) but was surprisg to see that they weren’t portrayed as evil or bad this one, but warm and iendly (md you ’s the 60’s and homosexualy was still seen as a mental illns). I thought I was gonna hate-watch this bee would be super homophobic and I'd have to wre a big thg about how straight ppl suck but like damn this movie is a good time, like the openg creds of them answerg qutns back and forth was hysteril nglThis is the sort of movie that was probably ma for straighti but is absolutely the sort of ntent that gay bch would love bc I know I doLike yeah 's obvly not tellectual cema but sometim you jt have to be a dramatic gay man the 1960's and scream 'LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MY PEONIES' bee be gay do crim y'know??

A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM

Hele's Gay Deciever - In LEGO®. The Ford qutn (or, slightly more rectly: The puter/to-pilot who ns the Ford qutn) is named "Gay Deceiver" - and 's que a ship.

I like to visualize what I'm readg - and there was no scriptn of what Gay looked like. Although there were hts here and there of how Hele envisned Gay, he avoid lockg any of the major tails.

The book vers were a possible source of relief - the three versns I owned each had an "artist's renrg" of Gay. "Perhaps I uld make my own versn of Gay Deceiver and fally get over this stupid need to figure out what she looks like.

THE GAY DECEIVERS

The Gay Deceivers.

A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM

Gay Neighbor Datg Army Officer.

GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950