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Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s...

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HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE

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The historic flight took off on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn raids, which are nsired one of the first major events of the gay rights and liberatn movement the flight parted Philalphia Internatnal Airport (PHL) for New York-LaGuardia (LGA) and was operated wh an Embraer E-190.

Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s sassy male flight attendants, who are all gay. When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype?

Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time. This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News. In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts.

HISTORY WAS MA TODAY WH THE FIRST EVER ALL GAY U.S. NAVY HELIPTER CREW

” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight. Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay.

MA NAVAL HISTORY TODAY WH THE EVER ALL GAY HELIPTER FLIGHT CREW! RERSRS JAM CAREY AND 7 OTHERS 2 COMMENTS LIKE COMMENT SEND JAM CAREY YEAH SURE THAT'S THE FIRST ALL GAY FLIGHT CREW THE US NAVY. IF YOU SAY SO PAL.

For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work. As Tiemeyer wr, “the aisl and galleys of airplan, as well as crew hotels and crash pads, served the same role that other gays and lbians found bars: a place where they uld meet others like themselv and even embrace their same-sex sir for the first time.

U.S. NAVY’S FIRST “ALL GAY” HELIPTER CREW TAK FLIGHT ON MAIN VOYAGE

And I’d walk through termals, and I knew if there were gay men, they’d be lookg at me.

US ARY GO FULL SPEED AHEAD TOWARD MAX LGBT CLN WH ‘DIVERSY’ PANELS, ALL-GAY HELIPTER CREW

So how many flight attendants were and are gay? They timated that “between 30 and 50 percent of male flight attendants were gay the 1950s, and between 50 and 90 percent the 1970s.

So the manr or whoever is charge of assigng squadrons said “alright, and let’s make this one all gay”?

CopperRunner wrote:So the manr or whoever is charge of assigng squadrons said “alright, and let’s make this one all gay”? But do seem odd (and probably not good) that the ary spends any time thkg about the sexualy of the only way that this story would make sense to me, terms of how the ary works logistilly, would be if by cince all of the crew members jt happened to be gay.

U.S. NAVY’S FIRST “ALL GAY” HELIPTER CREW TAK FLIGHT ON MAIN VOYAGE

This is not the first all gay Navy helipter crew. Whiskers wrote:The only way that this story would make sense to me, terms of how the ary works logistilly, would be if by cince all of the crew members jt happened to be gay.

Whiskers wrote:CopperRunner wrote:So the manr or whoever is charge of assigng squadrons said “alright, and let’s make this one all gay”? A gay soldier shouldn’t be nied a rank bee he is gay, and he shouldn’t be given a rank bee he is gay, he should be given a rank due to his skill and experience. fellas, 's not gay if you're mocratic party platform is lerally jt u.

Ttg on the rt of the world, but, like, gay this time.

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