Late June’s (2019) 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts is makg this Pri month a particularly reflective one. But like a newly mted AARP member flippg through their high school yearbook, the morn gay rights movement’s “Big five-oh” moment brgs, wh s flood of memori, certa hard qutns—not the least of which is: What posssed…
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: AFTER STONEWALL CLON, CLOSETS AND COS
- OP-ED: THE GAY CLON EVERYONE KNOWS
- POLIL-ENOMIC NSTCTN OF GAY MALE CLONE INTY
- ATTACK OF THE CLON: ATHETIC AND POLIL CONFORMY AMONG WHE GAY MEN.
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
GAY HISTORY: AFTER STONEWALL CLON, CLOSETS AND COS
* gay clone culture *
“The clone was a reactn to thgs you would see movi of gay men beg flty and nelly, ” says John Calendo, a wrer who lived LA and New York Cy throughout the 70s and 80s, and worked as an edor at the clone-cubatg sk mags Blueboy and In Touch for Men.
OP-ED: THE GAY CLON EVERYONE KNOWS
Gay men of the '70s are remembered for hirsute fac and sktight jeans; their brothers of the '90s were partial to bangs and stubble. How will the gay "look" of the 2010s be remembered? * gay clone culture *
”) “That’s the kd of imagery”—backwards stereotyp that basilly villaized queer people—“that a lot of my generatn who beme the clone people grew up wh the ccible of the 60s, ” Calendo ntu, when the civil rights and gay liberatn movements were expandg ias of equaly and eedom. Drsg like a clone, he says, was a rejectn of those olr gay ’s not so easy to ppot precisely who origated the clone ial, guys who were alive at the time ually brg up Al Parker, an adult film star turned producer and director who worked om the 70s to the early 90s.
POLIL-ENOMIC NSTCTN OF GAY MALE CLONE INTY
Social Constctn is an ill-fed approach, lackg specificy and poorly sued for solvg problems of the real world. A ncrete analysis of negative aspects of the Gay Clone Liftyle, wh a particular foc upon the premier gay clone dg, "poppers" (or nre halants), is ntraste … * gay clone culture *
“The clone look was certaly about a whe gay man’s rponse and engagement wh those archetyp, ” says Ben Barry, the an of the school of fashn at the New School’s Parsons School of Dign, whose rearch foc on fashn’s relatnship to masculy, sexualy, and the body.
ATTACK OF THE CLON: ATHETIC AND POLIL CONFORMY AMONG WHE GAY MEN.
But like a newly mted AARP member flippg through their high school yearbook, the morn gay rights movement’s “Big five-oh” moment brgs, wh s flood of memori, certa hard qutns—not the least of which is: What posssed you to wear that?
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
“I have, fortunately, no photos publicly available of me durg my ’70s platform sho and glter rock perd, ” says Joseph Hawks, director of the ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Library and Archiv at the USC Librari, who spoke wh the Bla about how the thgs we put our leral closet n liberate om the figurative one (or keep there). “It noted serns of mment to beg gay and beg mascule, as well as beg cisive about what kd of sex you were after, ” Bby noted, of the “alignment of stume and behavr… unmistakable symbols of sexual preference, such as blue or red handkerchiefs left or right rear pockets of jeans, to dite top or bottom.