Early Jefey, the big-screen versn of Pl Rudnick's funny-sad off-Broadway play about a gay man wrtlg wh love and timacy the Neti, there's a hilar scene that neatly and astutely anticipat the film's mercial dilemma. Two male characters share a sloppy kiss. The mera cuts away to an...
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OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
A page for scribg HaveAGayOldTime: Film. The tle song of 42nd Street refers to girls om "the fifti" and "the eighti" — as the streets of … * you'll have a gay old time *
This week, public outcry reached afeng levels as the classic ABC animated s The Fltston was lambasted for s perceived tolerance and sensivy towards homosexuals and their liftyl. “For over a half century now, The Fltston theme song has valierly touted that when you’re wh them you will have a ‘gay old time, '” CNN anchor Anrson Cooper said on the air Tuday. “This sort of flip treatment of the homosexual liftyle, and that uld possibly apply to a fay the stone age, is offensive and outrageo.
What are they tryg to say about the homosexual muny? Wh the recent surge of suicis among gay teenagers, where might they turn for guidance and unrstandg, for sympathy and rmatn?
We should all be strivg for more acceptance and sensivy, and stead The Fltston are sptg the llective homosexual face.
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The flamboyant Snaggleps was cricized for beg “the worst sort of of gay pk mounta ln stereotype, ” while The Fltston sister show The Jetsons also me unr scty primarily for what was emed “a sad and disturbg portrayal of a 24th Century butch robot maid. This is why we now ver the reports of gay suici every chance we get, stead of jt ignorg and buryg news reports of as we have for time immemorial. And I for one will not let this stance jt sli to that massive pile of gay tolerance that has been allowed to build Hollywood.
YOU'LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
Intolerant homophob? Tagged as Anrson Cooper, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, CNN, Fred Fltstone, Gay Teens, Homosexuals, tolerance, Judy Jetson, Penelope Pstop, Snaggleps, suici, The Fltston, The Jetsons, Wilma Fltstone, Yabba Dabba Doo. Alice Wonrland ed this "The Cc-Race, " where everybody feels "fancy-ee and gay.
Bambi: Let's Sg A Gay Ltle Sprg Song. In the 1953 Dean Mart-Jerry Lewis edy The Caddy, Jerry crash a party where he intifi himself song as "The Gay Contental". Be gay!
A Southern Pacific Railroad 1937 documentary "Daylightg the Padr'" about s luxury passenger ler rolls around California, n be viewed here and has a part at 17:36 the vio where the announcer says, "Y, all this is San Francis, a gay metropolis of fashnable shops, fe hotels. In Dodsworth (1936), one European says "I'm makg love to you" to Fran; another v the Dodsworths to "a very gay rtrant". I love you gayly!
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" Giselle the "happy" fn of "gay" Enchanted's "Happy Workg Song. This is tertg, bee at another pot the movie a joke is ma about a character beg Mistaken for Gay.
Disney's Fun and Fancy Free wh l like Jimy Cricket's "Life is a song - happy, gay" and the lyrics "What a very merry day/All the world is gay.
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