The Gay Deceiver - How the tim have changed - The Genii Fom

Contents:

• GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950
• THE GAY DECEIVER – 1940S/50S MAGIC BOX – SPARES/REPAIR
• 1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA
• THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET
• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
• INNISTRAD: CRIMSON VOW IS MAGIC THE GATHERG'S GAYT SET YET
• THE GAY DECEIVERS
• THE GAY DECEIVERS 1969

GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950

The Gay Deceiver - How the tim have changed.

Re: The Gay Deceiver - How the tim have changed. Jon, The Gay Deceiver was a character a Hele novel, I read as a kid. NtertaerIs a lk, to whom, I believe is the te "Gay Deceiver".

Back the day, the word 'gay' meant 'happy' and was ed movie tl such as "The Gay Divorcee" so 's not surprisg that they ed the word to name a magic set. Magician wrote:Back the day, the word 'gay' meant 'happy' and was ed movie tl such as "The Gay Divorcee" so 's not surprisg that they ed the word to name a magic do but has, of urse, been siled mon age. Do The Platters still sg “happy and gay like a clown, ” I wonr?

THE GAY DECEIVER – 1940S/50S MAGIC BOX – SPARES/REPAIR

As I rell, Clifford Davi, magician, journalist and judge on TV talent show, “New Fac, ” billed himself as the Gay Deceiver.

It was the vague language that prompted me to wonr if was tentnal "gay" thg... It was meangful a social way back when artists were posg as fashnably gay... "Gay Deceiver" Get the whole rabow to work wh rather than pick between pk and purple.

I suppose should be noted that the mid-1900s the word "gay" was also ed to note promiscuy eher genr. In that book he refers to the female "gay nurs" who had sex wh male patients. If you have read an above referenc and enuntered the scriptn of the gay ceiver as a man who ce to sce women, then the prr fn mak sense.

1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA

Into the 1960s the term "gay" beme lked exclively to s current don't often hear anyone sgg "Now we don our gay apparel" the days. Pretend to be a flamboyant homosexual as a character?

I have no rellectn of The Gay Deceiver set, but I did have a luxe David Nixon effort. THISIS A BOXED GAME ENTITLED THEGAY DECEIVER (WIZARD OF VARIETY) MAGIC BOX AS CAN BE SEEN FROM THE ATTACHED PICTURE – THIS ITEM IS NOT COMPLETE AND THE GAME AND BOX ARE VERY MUCH IN NEED OF ATTENTION – SO IS THEREFORE BEING LISTED AS SPARES OR REPAIR. 1950's Vtage 'THE GAY DECEIVER' Wizard Of Variety MAGIC BOX(Set) England By METRA, cir 1950.

THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET

Now I've seen 'David Nixon Magic Sets', 'Lance Burton Magic Sets', and even 'Amazg Jonathan Magic Sets', but who was or is this 'Gay Deceiver'?

One night betim he went to bed, for he had ught a fever, Said he, "I am a handsome man, and I'm a gay ceiver. Next, I found a webse wh an image om a silent film om 1925 entled 'The Gay Deceiver'. I me across a New York Tim photo om 1940 tled 'The Gay Deceiver'.

In 1962 an episo of 'The Andy Griffh Show' went to air tled "FLOYD THE GAY DECEIVER".

50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

There was even an episo of 'Get Smart' which featured 'Gay Deceivers'... I'd gus the 'Gay Deceiver Magic Set' had to clu a few of those! The next reference was a Broadway play by John Patrick lled 'Gay Deceiver' wh the followg plot:.

A young man has e to clare his homosexualy to his fay, only to have his rolve erod when he (and his lover) are unexpectedly drawn to his father's mayoral mpaign.

INNISTRAD: CRIMSON VOW IS MAGIC THE GATHERG'S GAYT SET YET

They were suggtg that the Gay Deceiver was "an telligent space r". They are homosexuals...

THE GAY DECEIVERS

The last year of the 1960s also broke ground when me to film, wh a movie about a d gay iendship between a htler and a grifter (Midnight Cowboy) wng the Bt Picture Osr the followg year. When me to paradigm-shiftg films of 1969, The Gay Deceivers do not qualify. Centered on two bonehead straight guys (played by Kev Coughl and Larry Casey) who pretend to be gay to avoid the draft, The Gay Deceivers was a precursor to shows like Bosom Buddi and Three's Company and movi like Mrs.

Doubtfire and I Now Prounounce You Chuck and the jok are broad and stupid, the puns obv (a character brgs a u basket to the tular ceivers), the women eher cluels, lechero, or ceful (but always sexy and ually half-naked), and the antigay slurs ubiquo, the movie has several fun flash of gay culture that mastream Ameri was not at all ed the ceivers rent an L. Apartment lord over by a swishy landlord named Mallm (Michael Greer), 's adorned wh homoerotic art that is still rigur Palm Sprgs and Provcetown.

Gay men the film ll each other "she" whout a bat of the eye, drag is held up as an art form, and two men even dance together. In one scene, a gay man miserat to Casey's character of Ellt how straight people believe gays are animals and how unfair is that they are routely fired om their jobs. Of urse, that potential is wasted when Ellt punch the man for g on to the gay men are universally portrayed as sex-obssed, most e off as likable (albe silly).

THE GAY DECEIVERS 1969

Greer, an openly gay ic at the time, reportedly worked wh director Bce Ksler to make the movie more sympathetic to the gay characters. "While this movie tragilly reflects s era's mastream attus toward queer people, what mak The Gay Deceivers worth watchg for a ntemporary LGBTQ dience is the great Michael Greer as landlord Mallm DeJohn, " says Alonso Dural, a film cric for TheWrap and -host of the podst Lolm Knife. The rt of the movie is an object lson of tablishment homophobia actn, but Greer's performance allows a ltle rebelln and realy to elbow s way .

Whout spoilg too much, the screenwrers and Ksler imply that not all gay people are swishy, snarky, and fashnable; anyone your orb uld be queer. Though that msage don't make up for The Gay Deceivers' many, many fics, was one very seldom exprsed The Gay Deceivers below. Between s characters, tone, and art directn, 's safe to say this is potentially the most licly gay set Wizards of the Coast has ever released.

On a ser note, this year has been good for queer characters like the nonbary Niko Aris Kaldheim and the gay Vadrik Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, but Crimson Vow is noteworthy for havg multiple nonilly queer characters who actually get to do queer thgs.