Bette Midler has for a long-time been a gay in, but you probably haven't seen this performance she did 1971.
Contents:
- WATCH RARE FOOTAGE OF BETTE MIDLER PERFORMG A GAY BATHHOE
- BETTE MIDLER ON HER GAY FANS AND HER ADVICE FOR DRAG QUEENS LOOKG TO PAY TRIBUTE
- BETTE MIDLER Q&A: THE GAY INTERVIEW
- BETTE MIDLER ON GAY CULTURE: 'IT'S SORT OF ORDARY NOW'
- PHOTO: BETTE MIDLER AND BARRY MANILOW – GAY PRI 1973
- #BORNTHISDAY: GAY IN, BETTE MIDLER
WATCH RARE FOOTAGE OF BETTE MIDLER PERFORMG A GAY BATHHOE
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Bette Midler has for a long-time been a gay in, but you probably haven’t seen this performance she did 1971. Appearg at New York’s Contental Baths, a gay bathhoe, Midler jok: “This is my 800th farewell appearance here at the Contental. The Dive Miss M ma her name a gay bathhoe.
This is the moniker she first ed while workg at a gay bathhoe Manhattan lled the Contental Baths — where, F.
As the "world's most fluential gay club" (via The Guardian), the "nt" bathhoe was often equented by stars like Aled Hchck, Mick Jagger, and Andy Warhol.
BETTE MIDLER ON HER GAY FANS AND HER ADVICE FOR DRAG QUEENS LOOKG TO PAY TRIBUTE
Bette Midler has enjoyed a sizable gay fan base sce the early years of her legendary reer, and now, the Dive Miss M says "never occurred" to her not to stand up on behalf of the muny.
BETTE MIDLER Q&A: THE GAY INTERVIEW
"I had been the theater for a long time, om the time I was a young person, and I'd always known gay people -- and they were jt, like, gay people! "You didn't thk of them as beg different, although lookg back on my high school years, I thk there were a lot of people my high school -- this is so many years ago; this is 50 years ago -- who probably were gay and didn't ever talk about . Before You GoGay Ins: 25 Divas Embraced By Gay CulturePopular the CommunyYou May Like.
The film, 1979’s “The Rose, ” turned the Hawaii native’s dreams, and her nights performg for half-naked gay men at a New York Cy bathhoe, to a legendary and unniably fluential reer mic – the tle song is one of her biggt hs – and film.
BETTE MIDLER ON GAY CULTURE: 'IT'S SORT OF ORDARY NOW'
Later rol would clu parts “Beach, ” “Hoc Poc” and “The First Wiv Club, ” all of which go down as gay cult classics. That you’re a gay in.
PHOTO: BETTE MIDLER AND BARRY MANILOW – GAY PRI 1973
I remember that I had a lot of iends the gay world.
You mentn havg lots of gay iends then, but I’m sure there’s no shortage of them your life now. Of urse I have a lot of gay iends. I will say that the old days when all of this was all so unrground, the excement the gay muny now about gay marriage and g above the ground, olr people (mt) thk, “Wow, look how far the gay muny has e by stickg together and toughg out.
#BORNTHISDAY: GAY IN, BETTE MIDLER
” You know, gay marriage, beg able to adopt children, beg part of the mastream as opposed to always beg sub rosa – mt be so fascatg and such a strong validatn. You’ve really seen the evolutn of the gay rights movement.
You were at the foreont of when you got your start, so where do you thk – or where do you hope – the gay movement is head? I’m not gay so ’s kd of hard for me to answer that qutn.