Diana Ross did not tend for "I'm Comg Out" to be a gay anthem and she was shocked when people heard and thought is she gay? The post ‘Beg Black: The ’80s’: Diana Ross did not tend for ‘I’m Comg Out’ to be a gay anthem appeared first on TheGr.
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- AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
- ‘BEG BLACK: THE ’80S’: DIANA ROSS DID NOT TEND FOR ‘I’M COMG OUT’ TO BE A GAY ANTHEM
AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
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Beg gay the 80s meant beg isolated om an inty. There was no discsn of homosexualy school… not even our year long “Health and Sexualy” class, even though we were the middle of the AIDS crisis. There was no acknowledgement that Alexanr the Great, Leonardo da Vci, and Michelangelo, were among the many posive gay historil role mols.
On TV each night, there were no gay characters except for the ocsnal flamboyant game show regular on Hollywood Squar. TV ss were even worse, wh the “we’re straight guys playg gay” characters sashayg across the screen. Yet, as long as the gay was treated as a stereotypil joke, no one red.
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‘BEG BLACK: THE ’80S’: DIANA ROSS DID NOT TEND FOR ‘I’M COMG OUT’ TO BE A GAY ANTHEM
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I ternalized the teachgs of the 80s… the stereotyp of who is gay and what that meant… and phed me to that safe closet that numbs you and protects you. I stood at the bottom of the mounta, realizg that I need to throw out everythg that the 80’s tght me about beg gay.