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Contents:

• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY INGAY IN
• WHAT IS A GAY IN?
• WHY IS JUDY GARLAND THE ULTIMATE GAY IN?
• THE BABADOOK: HOW THE HORROR MOVIE MONSTER BEME A GAY IN
• GAY INS
• GAY IN

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY INGAY IN

Other ins, such as German actrs Marlene Dietrich achieved gay in stat due to their own sexualy (Dietrich was a bisexual), but also their sense of style – Dietrich was a pneer breakg genr norms wh her prentatn: one of Dietrich’s most famo and celebrated looks is her a tuxedo and top-hat, which was revolutnary at the time. For hundreds of years gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not fact wasn't until 1967, that two men were able to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.

Sometim appears wh Q, meang queer and +, which is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all history month tak place Febary each year, to help te people on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, as well as the history of the gay and civil rights out more about some of those who have ma an impact both om the past and prent. Alan TurgAlan Turg was not a well known figure durg his lifetime, but today he is famo and celebrated for the ccial part he played the victory over Nazi Germany was a mathematician who cracked somethg lled the Enigma , which is thought to have shortened the war by several was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this 2013 he was pardoned for this 'crime', and 2017 the ernment agreed to officially pardon men acced of 'crim' like this, meang they will no longer have a crimal pardong has e to be known as the Alan Turg 2019 Turg was named the most "inic" figure of the 20th Century and his face now appears on the £50 note. Osr WilImage source, Napoleon Sarony/Universal History ArchiveOsr Wil is one of the famo playwrights of all time, fact, you might even have studied 'The Importance of Beg Earnt' - one of his most famo plays - at was married to a woman and had two sons, but was later acced of beg homosexual.

Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anisatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s 's role the removal of the stigma of crimaly om homosexualy remaed his crowng achievement.

WHAT IS A GAY IN?

He began his reer as a journalist before workg for MI6, and beg prcipal of Aberystwyth was asked to jo the ernment's mtee lookg to homosexual offenc which led to the Wolfenn Report, which remend that havg a homosexual relatnship should no longer be a crimal laid the foundatns for a later law which partially crimalised male homosexualy for the first time England and Wal. Jt FashanuImage source, Getty ImagJt Fashanu was Bra's first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top reer was gog well, havg risen through Norwich Cy's youth ranks and 1981 he beme the untry's most expensive black player wh his £1m move to Nottgham stunned the football world 1990 by when he told a newspaper he was gay. But after this he didn't receive much support and suffered homophobic bullyg, as well as harassment om the tabloid died 1998 and was ducted to the Natnal Football Mm's Hall of Fame Feb 2020, wh his niece Amal Fashanu llg him "one of the bravt men I've ever e across".

In 2019 he received France's hight civilian award, the Legn d'honnr, by Print Emmanuel Macron, who lled him one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT me out as bisexual a 1976 terview wh mic magaze Rollg Stone, and 1992 said he was and his partner David Furnish were among the first upl the UK to get a civil partnership 2005, when the law was changed to allow gay relatnships to be legally 2014, after gay marriage beme legal the UK the pair got married and have two sons born via on this story.

Many gay ins also have a mp athetic style, which has been scribed as part of their appeal to LGBT most wily regnized gay ins are often actrs and sgers who garnered large LGBT fanbas, such as Judy Garland, Madonna, Kylie Mogue, Diana Ross, Brney Spears, Kate Bh, Ja Jackson, Beyoncé, Cher, and Lady Gaga. Spottg a gay in is like beg double-joted or ridg a unicycle: to laymen is imperceptible, but to gay men 's like, well, 's actually pretty simple: gay men of a certa age have an affy to people who, like them, have faced adversy, and who, like them, have had to fight to bee the person they want to be.

WHY IS JUDY GARLAND THE ULTIMATE GAY IN?

If there is a smugns, an excln the anotg of gay ins while others may not even gus that they ronate wh , perhaps 's bee for so long we have been acctomed to secrets, s and a need to feel that there is somethg we have that is special and here's my beef: isn't the slavish votn to certa figur by a whole muny slightly menacg and spooky, even fascistic? And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals. At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag.

THE BABADOOK: HOW THE HORROR MOVIE MONSTER BEME A GAY IN

The buzz surroundg the release, partnered wh the 2018 remake of A Star is Born – the inic showbiz drama that earned Garland an Amy Award nomatn 1954 – has brought her distctly gay legacy back to bpic Judy, Renée Zellweger plays Garland – and is a favoure for next year’s Osrs (Cred: David Hdley/ LD Entertament / Roadsi Attractns)To many gay men, Garland is the mother of all ins. Analysg her story, om upbrgg to ath, helps unrstand how and why some gay men look to famo women to help them navigate the town to Tseltown In 1922, Garland was born Franc Ethel Gumm – named after her parents Frank and Ethel – Grand Rapids, Mnota.

He theoris that turng out to be abnormal after beg “saturated wh the valu or ordars” is a pot where Garland and Dorothy’s stori align wh the experience of some gay men, enuragg those who perceive themselv as ‘different’ to gravate towards troubleGarland’s arrival as a major Hollywood star was plited by a seri of disastro personal relatnships, most notably wh herself. ”Gay men often reject gay cultural figur that they perceive as geared towards straight people – such as the st members of Netflix’s Queer EyeBut ntrastgly, the book How to be Gay, queer historian David Halper scrib a tensn wh the “mastream” that leads gay men to be “highly cril, if not ntemptuo, of their own artists, wrers and filmmakers”.

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Instead many embrace subcultural – and their ey, more subversive – female narrativ like Garland’ seen the new film Judy, Garland found a new niche as a live sger towards the end of her life (Cred: David Hdley / LD Entertament/ Roadsi Attractns)So, pendg on which way you look at , “disintifyg” wh Garland is eher gay men’s way of feelg aligned to mastream culture – or, fact, rejectg in athIt is an unavoidable tth that Garland’s tragic and untimely ath has also ntributed to her stat as a gay in, makg her a timels figure. ” But s later, you don’t have to look far to see how Garland was the first a ntug leage of ‘tragic’ female celebri who have acquired the stat of gay would e to a Judy Garland ncert and then scream at her when she was too dnk to fish – Dr Michael BronskiElements of Garland’s story n be found that of Diana, Prcs of Wal, and her mistreatment at the hands of the prs; Prcs Margaret, wh her ongog substance issu, and marriage to an exploative man who was moured to be gay; and Brney Spears, whose child stardom culmated a very public divorce and mental health stggl.

As Dr Michael Bronski, a Harvard Universy profsor and the thor of books on queer history and gay culture, asserts a recent article on the dark si of “stan” (superfan) culture: "There is a long history of gay male fan culture latchg onto famo women and then turng on them. Whether ’s Katy Perry beg, as journalist Brian O’Flynn wr, “gay Twter’s punchg bag”, or gay fans drsg as ‘bald Brney’ for Halloween and turng up to meet-and-greets drsed stume om Spears’s famo 2007 breakdown, gay men n be creasgly fickle towards famo a former child sat who has endured mental health stggl, Brney Spears is one of many female celebri whose experienc rell Garland’s (Cred: Alamy)Idolisg the women is one thg, but we shouldn’t treat them like playthgs for our entertament.

And om the streets of Wisteria Lane to Big Ltle Li and the Real Hoewiv anchise, pop-culture enurag to love female characters when they’re screamg hysterilly, so we n nnse their pa to hilarly mp GIFs and say “yassss kween” as they smash up their is a huge part of what draws gay men towards women like Garland.

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A source told Philalphia Magaze, “Wh all of the Black and Brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny. Gay ins of all orientatns have acknowledged the role that their gay fans have played their succs, cludg Lady Gaga, Bette Midler, Cher, Diana Ross, Madonna, Ja Jackson, Kylie Mogue, Mariah Carey, Spice Girls, Charli XCX, Brney Spears, Cheryl, Mara Diamandis, Christa Aguilera, Lana Del Rey, and Jennifer Lopez.

The earlit gay in may have been Sat Sebastian, [1] a Christian sat and martyr, whose batn of strong and shirtls physique, symbolic arrow-pierced flh and rapturo look of pa have trigued artists, both gay and straight, for centuri and began the first explicly gay cult the neteenth century. Johnson, [11] Sylvia Rivera, [11] Derek Jarman, [11] Amel Robl Ávila, [11] San Sontag, [12] Karl Herich Ulrichs, [13] Barbara Gtgs, [11] Essex Hemphill, [14] Audre Lor, [15] Virgia Woolf, Giao Casanova, Walt Whman, Anaïs N, and Aled Ksey are regard as gay ins.