The closet has fally outlived s efulns. So why do gay celebri sist on stayg ? And why do journalists guard the door?
Contents:
- GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR IS A REALY TV STAR DENMARK
- ANDREW GARFIELD SAID HE'S "A GAY MAN RIGHT NOW, JT WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT" AND PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHTS
- CONGRSMAN GIV 'FRANK' ACUNT OF BEG GAY THE 1980S
GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR IS A REALY TV STAR DENMARK
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But New York, as I learned when I settled here llege, the gay world was anythg but margal. Even then, the cy’s astcture was full of powerful gays and lbians – bankers and lawyers and archects and actors. But given the stigma attached to homosexualy, was a subject emed unf for public nsumptn.
Everyone adhered to an unspoken venant: As long as gay people didn’t make too much noise, straight people would look the other way.
ANDREW GARFIELD SAID HE'S "A GAY MAN RIGHT NOW, JT WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT" AND PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHTS
It wasn’t until the AIDS epimic that this refully stctured agreement was abrogated – by gay people. In the eighti, as bodi piled up whout anyone seemg to notice, a new generatn of activists and wrers like Michelangelo Signorile began potg out the price of our enforced visibily pal letters the gay prs, as fuck you, david geffen. But righteo as the e seemed to many, there was somethg gome about the spectacle of gay celebri dragged kickg and screamg to the light.
The prs, for the most part, still observed the old barga, even as gay life ched closer and closer to the mastream. For gay people, the past has been one of unparalleled progrs. So seemed like an opportune moment to celebrate how much, and what diverse ways, gays and lbians have ntributed to the cy – a chance to display, a major magaze, gay power whout apology.
I wrote to 40 proment gay New Yorkers – om Michael Kors to Edward Albee, Fran Lebowz to Stephen Sondheim, Ingrid Sischy to Philip Johnson – and asked them to pose for our ver. But the hostily wh which many greeted the vatn poted to a more disturbg tth: Even as homophobia is full retreat, gay public figur rema fortably closeted – no longer as a matter of survival but now as a matter of merce. Back the fifti – when exposg people as homosexual would subject them not only to ostracism but also to vlence and even jail – the gay ver-up ma sense.
CONGRSMAN GIV 'FRANK' ACUNT OF BEG GAY THE 1980S
The closet I remember was a dark, lonely place, but the one gay celebri now occupy is of the giant, walk- variety, wh ample room for iends and lovers, acquatanc, even journalists – as long as we’re discreet. The people enjoy all the benefs of an openly gay life – they go to diss and clubs, take their lovers to public events, ntribute to gay chari.
Journalists play along the scere belief that they are protectg gay people, but dog so they serve the terts of a few dividuals at the expense of the larger muny.
By dancg around the sexualy of gay public figur, they rce them to oddly ntered figur: Like Mart Crowley’s boys, they seem to live not only whout sex but whout love. The recent weddg of Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg epomiz the media’s nvoluted approach to verg gay celebri.