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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?
GAY OLD TIME
We should all be strivg for more acceptance and sensivy, and stead The Fltston are sptg the llective homosexual face. 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.
YOU'LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
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. Intolerant homophob?
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HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
Alice Wonrland ed this "The Cc-Race, " where everybody feels "fancy-ee and gay.