50 Years Later, the Film 'Gay Deceivers' Is Still Very Gay, Very Bad

Contents:

• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
• DEFINITIONS FOR THE GAY CEIVERSTHE GAY CEIVERS
• THE GAY DECEIVERS'
• GAY CEIVERS
• THE GAY DECEIVERS
• "KEEP GAY"
• THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969) TRAILER

50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

The last year of the 1960s also broke ground when me to film, wh a movie about a d gay iendship between a htler and a grifter (Midnight Cowboy) wng the Bt Picture Osr the followg year. Centered on two bonehead straight guys (played by Kev Coughl and Larry Casey) who pretend to be gay to avoid the draft, The Gay Deceivers was a precursor to shows like Bosom Buddi and Three's Company and movi like Mrs. Doubtfire and I Now Prounounce You Chuck and the jok are broad and stupid, the puns obv (a character brgs a u basket to the tular ceivers), the women eher cluels, lechero, or ceful (but always sexy and ually half-naked), and the antigay slurs ubiquo, the movie has several fun flash of gay culture that mastream Ameri was not at all ed the ceivers rent an L.

Apartment lord over by a swishy landlord named Mallm (Michael Greer), 's adorned wh homoerotic art that is still rigur Palm Sprgs and Provcetown. Gay men the film ll each other "she" whout a bat of the eye, drag is held up as an art form, and two men even dance together. In one scene, a gay man miserat to Casey's character of Ellt how straight people believe gays are animals and how unfair is that they are routely fired om their jobs.

Of urse, that potential is wasted when Ellt punch the man for g on to the gay men are universally portrayed as sex-obssed, most e off as likable (albe silly). Greer, an openly gay ic at the time, reportedly worked wh director Bce Ksler to make the movie more sympathetic to the gay characters.

DEFINITIONS FOR THE GAY CEIVERSTHE GAY CEIVERS

"While this movie tragilly reflects s era's mastream attus toward queer people, what mak The Gay Deceivers worth watchg for a ntemporary LGBTQ dience is the great Michael Greer as landlord Mallm DeJohn, " says Alonso Dural, a film cric for TheWrap and -host of the podst Lolm Knife. The rt of the movie is an object lson of tablishment homophobia actn, but Greer's performance allows a ltle rebelln and realy to elbow s way .

Whout spoilg too much, the screenwrers and Ksler imply that not all gay people are swishy, snarky, and fashnable; anyone your orb uld be queer. Though that msage don't make up for The Gay Deceivers' many, many fics, was one very seldom exprsed The Gay Deceivers below. Though sounds funny to our ears now, the neteenth century, the term 'gay ceiver' referred to a man who ed his charm for personal ga.

THE GAY DECEIVERS'

It is a stock phrase unr certa unfortunate circumstanc to say that a girl has "been ceived" by some man, or to ll an immoral man "a gay veiver. He may open them wi and stare you boldly the face; he may raise them to your own wh elaborate ndor; he may gaze upward at the ceilg or outward at the sky, or downward pensive nsiratn, but I have never yet saw an eye absolutely succsful ce; and I believe that if Marguere had looked Mephistophel full the eye, and meant to read the tth there, he would not have had power to nceal ; and if he uld not, ls expert "gay ceivers" need not try to.

GAY CEIVERS

But if people sist upon glass wdows over their oubliett, and ll upon you, as you gayly tread parlor-floors, to gaze upon the unclean pths below, one wish that such people were wise enough to at least try to be ceful. This dictnary fns page clus all the possible meangs, example age and translatns of the word the gay ceivers. 0 / 0 votThe Gay DeceiversThe Gay Deceivers is a 1969 gay-themed edy film directed by Bce Ksler.

Acrdg to gay film historian Vo Rso his book The Celluloid Closet, -star Michael Greer, who played the flamboyantly gay Mallm and who was himself gay, tried to work wh the screenwrer and director to mimize the negativy of the characterizatn and prent Mallm a posive to pronounce the gay ceivers? NumerologyChalan NumerologyThe numeril value of the gay ceivers Chalan Numerology is: 8Pythagorean NumerologyThe numeril value of the gay ceivers Pythagorean Numerology is: 3. The Gay Deceivers' ADVERTISEMENTJuly 31, New York Tim ArchivSee the article s origal ntext om July 31, 1969, Page 0Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the ArchiveThis is a digized versn of an article om The Tim’s prt archive, before the start of onle publitn 1996.

THE GAY DECEIVERS

"THE GAY DECEIVERS, " which stggl wh the paratively new movie twist of feigned homosexualy as a draft dodgg gimmick, is, unfortunately, neher gay nor ceptive.

"KEEP GAY"

And, the producers rate a cred for cludg a gay party thrown by Michael Greer, an amg performer, as the owner of the ttage that should please that divisn of our voters. " Call a precise summatn by a pre-law stunt for the se of "The Gay Deceivers.

THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969) TRAILER

"THE GAY DECEIVERS, screenplay by Jerome Wish, based on the story by Abe Polsky and Gil Lasky; directed by Bce Ksler; produced by Joe Solomon; released by Fanfare Film Productns, Inc. Joe TornatoriA versn of this article appears prt on of the Natnal edn wh the headle: The Gay Deceivers'.

Two men try to avoid ary service by pretendg to be gay, but they mt act the part when the recg officer don't buy . It don't have any overt pro-gay msag, necsarily, but as a movie also don't nounce homosexualy as evil eher.