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- 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 * gay deceiver magic box *
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.
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.
1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA
1950's Vtage 'THE GAY DECEIVER' Wizard Of Variety MAGIC BOX(Set) England By METRA,cir 1950. Box measur 33cm x 25cm x que sure if is all origal to the box but has lots * gay deceiver magic box *
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? As I rell, Clifford Davi, magician, journalist and judge on TV talent show, “New Fac, ” billed himself as the Gay Deceiver.
1930S/40S GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX NO.4 + FOUR MAGIC RG CONJOURG TRICKS
1930s/40s Gay Deceiver Magic Box No.4 + Four Magic Rg Conjourg TricksAs shown the photo the box is worn and don't look to be 4 magic rg njourg tricks box do clu 1076357954 * gay deceiver magic box *
It was the vague language that prompted me to wonr if was tentnal "gay" thg...
A 1950S METRA PRODUCT THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX NO 4
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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.
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.
A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
Auctn, Uned Kgdom: A llectn of toys, cludg The Gay Deceiver Magic Box, a Disneyland projector, slis, a Pelham Puppet... * gay deceiver magic box *
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.
A MID-20TH CENTURY BOX OF MAGIC TRICKS, TLED `THE GAY DECEIVER, WIZARD OF VARIETY, MAGIC BOX`.
The Gay Deceivers was homophobic, juvenile, and, somehow, ahead of s time. * gay deceiver magic box *
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.
GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950
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 . * gay deceiver magic box *
1930s/40s Gay Deceiver Magic Box No.
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A MID-20THC MAGIC SQUARE CLUB GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX SET NO. 4, RD PACKAGG NTAG VAR
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 . * gay deceiver magic box *
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
Auctn, Uned Kgdom: A llectn of toys, cludg The Gay Deceiver Magic Box, a Disneyland projector, slis, a Pelham Puppet... * gay deceiver magic box *
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
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 GAY DECEIVERS
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.
A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
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.
THE GAY DECEIVERS
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.
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).
A LLECTN OF TOYS, CLUDG THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC BOX, A DISNEYLAND PROJECTOR, SLIS, A PELHAM
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.
GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950
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 .
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. 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….