For most of s history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguy or gay-ns were subjects of risn.
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JAZZ: GAY MEN JAZZ
* chet baker gay *
As the rerr ran, my host—known for his fierce telligence and for the refement of his playg—kept referrg to “that faggot” who had produced a somewhat homoerotic documentary of the once-betiful tmpeter and sger.