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TAIWANE HEARTTHROB TSENG JG-HUA IS NO STRANGER TO TAIPEI’S GAY BAR SCENE
LGBTQ sex lumnist Dan Savage noted that Earrg Magic Ken’s wardrobe rembled outfs seen at gay rav a few years prr (leave to Ken to be jt behd the tim). And to many who’d seen the doll, the rg around his neck rembled a certa sex toy popular among straight and gay men alike.
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They were ready to go for — and queer artists, embolned by the growg gay rights movement — were ready to ph the envelope even farther. In October of 1971, artist Rand Holm tackled the homophobia the book Everythg You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Aaid to Ask) — which we will some day talk about greater tail some day when I tackle the sordid history of nversn therapy — statg that sets psychiatry back by 50 years, and gog so far as to have the lead character of his “The Contug Adventur of Harold Hedd” engage explic oral sex wh another man before blatantly llg out the book’s thor David Rben M. It managed to eke out a Co seal by never really gog farther than referrg to the character as a “fairy” a way that might have implied that he was magic rather than gay.
Though 1975 was somethg of a quiet year — wh the exceptn of a lbian beg troduced the send issue of Further Fatteng Adventur of Pudge, Girl Blimp by Lee Marrs, and the character Pudge gettg almost arrted at a gay rights rally. Howver, 1976 was a banner year for gay ics.