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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

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.

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 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. Later rol would clu parts “Beach, ” “Hoc Poc” and “The First Wiv Club, ” all of which go down as gay cult classics.

BETTE MIDLER ON GAY CULTURE: 'IT'S SORT OF ORDARY NOW'

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.

PHOTO: BETTE MIDLER AND BARRY MANILOW – GAY PRI 1973

” 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.