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Contents:
- BEA ARTHUR, BELOVED GAY IN, 1922-2009
- HOW BEA ARTHUR GAVE BACK TO THE GAYS WHO LOVED HER
- WAS BEA ARTHUR GAY? HER NET WORTH AND CSE OF DEATH
- WAS BEA ARTHUR GAY? WHAT WAS HER NET WORTH AND CSE OF DEATH?
- WHY DO GAYS LOVE THE GOLN GIRLS?
BEA ARTHUR, BELOVED GAY IN, 1922-2009
Goln Girls star Bea Arthur, née Bernice Frankel, died at home Los Angel at the age of 86 today. She passed away surround by fay members. She will be loudly mourned by the gays. * was bea arthur gay *
" Her rol as Yente Fiddler on the Roof, the outspoken M Fley of All the Fay and M, and most famoly, the tic Dorothy Zbornak of Goln Girls, gaed her an avid gay dience. Gays are postg this blasphemo Virg Dorothy mashup her holy memory:(Photo by AP/Wally Fong).
HOW BEA ARTHUR GAVE BACK TO THE GAYS WHO LOVED HER
The guts were by and large gay men — closeted, as most were back then — who were drawn to Arthur, like moths to a porch light.
“They were always exced to e to her hoe, ” says Matthew, now 55, of his mother’s many gay nfidant. Arthur, who died of ncer 2009 at age 86, occupi a sgular space amid the pantheon of gay ins: Neher preeng show diva nor pill-poppg wreck, she was stead a pillar of liberal-md fortu, always at the ready to do battle wh the Archie Bunkers of the world.
WAS BEA ARTHUR GAY? HER NET WORTH AND CSE OF DEATH
All of this held nsirable sway over the emergg gay-rights movement.
WAS BEA ARTHUR GAY? WHAT WAS HER NET WORTH AND CSE OF DEATH?
Fully aware of the appeal she held over her gay fans, Arthur cid to give somethg back, and left an endowment to the Ali Forney Center, an anizatn for homels LGBT youth New York Cy. The mostly-gay crowd very nearly flew to a enzy, “phg toward her, grabbg at her, eager for face time wh the great legend.
WHY DO GAYS LOVE THE GOLN GIRLS?
) “It seemed like all her chari were mostly about nocents — eher kids or animals or gay or lbian teens, who have a bigger fight than anybody n image, ” Saks says.
Don’t let the gff fa fool you: Arthur was a softy through and through, as evinced by the Bea Arthur Rince for LGBT Youth — an honor, among gay ins, sure, but Saks puts thgs perspective.