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BARBARA STANWYCK: HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, GAY IN, AND TOUGH-AS-NAILS SUPERSTAR
And even if she weren't a lbian, her brassy and butch nature, both onscreen and off, garnered her a loyal followg om lbians and gays, for today's Today Gay History, we celebrate Stanwyck's July 16, 1907 birth wh seven bs of trivia that, when taken together, pat a pretty good picture of Stanwyck's life, reer, and legacy. Durg the late-1920s, Brooklyn-native Stanwyck tght dance at a gay and lbian speakeasy owned by Texas Guan, a butch imprar scribed as a lbian. In the book Encyclopedia of Gay and Lbian Popular Culture, Lu Prono not that the 1960s, 1970s and even to the 1980s, Stanwyck was seen as a cultural and personal template for lbians.
If lbians appreciated Stanwyck's pennt nature, gays loved the glamor the actrs brought to the tough-as-nails rol. And if her Hollywood pedigree weren't enough, Stanwyck cemented her gay in stat the 1980s, when she signed onto Dynasty sp-off The may have played Constance Colby Patterson for one season, but Stanwyck played wh the same ball-btg fortu that had ma her a star the first place.
Durg the next more than thirty years, she played movi like Baby Face, A Lost Lady, Flh and Fantasy, The Gay Sisters and Stella Dallas. The inic actrs was exposed to the gay muny at the age of 16 when she ocsnally worked as a dance teacher a gay and lbian bar. She also tght dance at a gay and lbian speakeasy Brooklyn n by the lively and notor lbian owner, Texas Guan.