The Apple TV+ show 'Dickson' is showg the world a queer Ey, but how accurate is ? Was Ey Dickson Gay? Here's what we know.
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- WAS EY DICKSON GAY? HONTLY WE 'HOPE' SO
- WAS EY DICKSON GAY? APPLE TV+ SERI PATS A REVISED PORTRA OF THE AMERIN POET!
WAS EY DICKSON GAY? HONTLY WE 'HOPE' SO
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Was Ey Dickson Gay? Was Ey Dickson gay? She argu that Dickson’s image as a nrotic recle was nstcted and then shored up by general misogyny, plex fay machatns, and even a latter-day effort the 1950s to protect her work om McCarthyism—when homosexualy was regard as ak to munism, and a book was published about another affair Dickson had wh a woman who lived openly as a lbian.
RELATED | Molly Shannon on Settg Ey Dickson's Story Straight (Well, Gay). Though homosexualy and of self has never been “new, ” the word “homosexualy” was not actually ed until 1868. After Kate’s brief affair wh Ey end, she years later end up livg Europe as openly gay.
“Bee I knew that he’s a gay director, ” she says. “And [Davi’s movie] seemed to me kd of homophobic. But you and I both know that a lot of gay people have ternalized homophobia.
WAS EY DICKSON GAY? APPLE TV+ SERI PATS A REVISED PORTRA OF THE AMERIN POET!
“It’s jt good old homophobia. ” She adds that she has old rrponnce of Patterson’s, which Patterson wrote to publishers about a send book focg on the homoerotic, “cloral” imagery Ey’s poems, but the publishers rejected both the book and the notn. ’” But, as Smh explas, by the time this volume was published 1914, homosexualy had been pathologized.
Smh believ Mattie’s iend Aled Hampson (“Who was gay, by the way, ” adds Smh) persuad Mattie to take some of the foc off San and Ey’s relatnship, bee then she’d be able to fd a wir dience for the book.