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.
BETTE MIDLER ON HER GAY FANS AND HER ADVICE FOR DRAG QUEENS LOOKG TO PAY TRIBUTE
The Dive Miss M ma her name a gay bathhoe.
BETTE MIDLER Q&A: THE GAY INTERVIEW
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 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 ON GAY CULTURE: 'IT'S SORT OF ORDARY NOW'
"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.
PHOTO: BETTE MIDLER AND BARRY MANILOW – GAY PRI 1973
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. 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.
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. ” 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.
#BORNTHISDAY: GAY IN, BETTE MIDLER
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. I jt thk ’s jt fantastic for the gay muny.
Where do you stand on the new wave of gay ins?