As the Supreme Court nsirs the nstutnal se for gay marriage, we look back at the role Vermont played jt 13 years ago the historic metamorphosis of the issue. The state's ernor, who wore a bulletproof vt that year, lled "the least civil public bate the state over a century."
Contents:
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
- MOVG TO GAY VERMONT? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
- HOW VERMONT'S 'CIVIL' WAR FUELED THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
- WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- GAY DATG VERMONT
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Huw Lemmey, a novelist and host of the Bad Gays podst, has ma the trigug spy film Ungentle * vermont gay culture *
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"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns.
There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.
A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
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”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. Sce 2019 the wrer, artist and historian Huw Lemmey has curated and prented a cheeky alt-LGBTQ history wh the podst Bad Gays. The seri, which last year was distilled to the thrillg book Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, apprais a sometim roguish gallery that clus the Roman emperor Hadrian, Lawrence of Arabia, Lord Castlereagh, Morrissey, Roger Casement, Freddie Mercury and Francis date, Lemmey and his -prenter Ben Miller are the only historians to properly evaluate the “evil twk energy” of Bosie, aka Lord Aled Douglas, the thor of Osr Wil’s downfall.
MOVG TO GAY VERMONT? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
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“The fil started to e out my teens, and to see that English relatnship wh sexualy om 20 years ago, and this sire to look for a figure who rencil the story of homosexual inty England to the Brish state such a way that acknowledg what the Brish state did to a certa extent – but then also valoris the Brish state by sayg he was a hero for Bra and this is how we treated him and, actually, now he’s on the £50 note. Ungentle, which he has directed wh Onyeka Igwe, explor the plited relatnship between Brish pnage and male homosexualy.
HOW VERMONT'S 'CIVIL' WAR FUELED THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
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As Lemmey has noted Utopian Drivel, “the skill-set of homosexuals and spi mid-20th-century Bra had a signifint gree of overlap” Whishaw. Of the known members – Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgs, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross – Burgs and Blunt were gay, while Maclean was bisexual. “So was an tertg realisatn for me that my grandparents, who I thought of as an olr, nservative generatn, had a lot of gay male iends the 1940s.
WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’
”FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who was himself moured to be gay, directed the agency to vtigate and monor numero gays workg wh the ernmentThat tolerance is amplified by transatlantic parisons. In 1953 US print Dwight D Eisenhower signed executive orr 10450, iatg the vtigatn, terrogatn and systematic removal of gay men and lbians om the US feral ernment.
The policy, which beme known as the Lavenr Sre, was predited on the fear that gay men and lbians “posed a threat to natnal secury bee they were vulnerable to blackmail. FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who was himself moured to be gay, directed the agency to vtigate and monor numero gays workg wh the ernment. “The relatnship between secury servic and homosexualy the UK is unique, ” Lemmey says, “bee the US was que clear: the people are perverts; get them out.
One of the early gay-rights groups wrote to every ernment partment askg if they would sack someone for beg gay. So the first rponse was: of urse if we found a homosexual the foreign-office they would be expelled.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
And, fally, a higher-up asks: are we discsg people who are homosexual now or at school?
It’s no accint that the film is narrated by Whishaw, the 007 veteran and London Spy gay subtexts of John le Carré’s ld-war-era spy fictns The Spy Who Came om the Cold and Tker Tailor Soldier Spy have been ma more explic recent adaptatns.
GAY DATG VERMONT
Photograph: Jack English/StudCanal “The creatn of the gay inty, the creatn of homosexualy as a polil subject, is based on his history and historgraphy.
About 7% of adults said they nsired themselv to be lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg “other than heterosexual” 2021, pared to 3.