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Contents:
- A LOOK AT JOAN CRAWFORD AND THE GAY IN PHENOMENON
- HOW HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST OUT GAY STAR CHOSE LOVE OVER REER
- GAY INS: BETTE DAVIS AND JOAN CRAWFORD
- JOAN GAY CROFT
A LOOK AT JOAN CRAWFORD AND THE GAY IN PHENOMENON
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This say was origally published by Much Ado About Cema on May 10, adoptn of female stars as ins by gay men isn’t a new phenomenon.
HOW HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST OUT GAY STAR CHOSE LOVE OVER REER
Tony Guadagno's newt lumn foc on gay ins Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who were and still are Hollywood legends. * was joan crawford gay *
But what’s the reason for their gay in stat? Why is Joan Crawford, like so many others, emed a gay in and why, the AlterHéros “100 Bt Thgs about Beg Gay? ” list, do she s at №46 bee gay men “viscerally unrstand” her?
GAY INS: BETTE DAVIS AND JOAN CRAWFORD
In The Death of Camp: Gay Men and Hollywood Diva Worship, om Reverence to Ridicule thor Daniel Harris wr that “film provid a vehicle for exprsg alienatn om our surroundgs and lkg up wh the utopic homosexual muny of our dreams, a sophistited ‘artistic’ society habed by Norma Dmonds and Holly Golightli who, while breakfastg at Tiffany’s, spoke a type of English heard only the back lots of MGM and Twentieth-Century Fox.
”And was film that solidified Crawford’s gay in stat; nothg more so than the cult classic Mommie Deart ( which she was portrayed by Faye Dunaway). What stuck gay men’s mds wasn’t the abe, was the image of Dunaway, drsed black, ld cream on her face, wh a slash of red lipstick as she held a wire at hanger the air.
JOAN GAY CROFT
This imagery solidified the film’s stat as one of the mpit movi of all time and a pnacle of drag-queen is a popular term gay male culture, and synonymo wh flamboyant exaggeratn.
), or placed rol f for someone younger than themselv, like 60-year-old Crawford wearg fish tights, fishg for a younger man than half the gay men Crawford’s fan club will tell you that the aforementned films were their troductn to the star, wh Mommie Deart beg mentned most equently. And ’s no surprise that bee of the film her populary began to rise once more, as she began to be referenced gay pop culture; televisn shows like Will & Grace and Fd: Bette and Joan (about the actors’ hostile relatnship), and films like Heathers (where the murr of two football jocks is disguised as a gay double homici wh the e of such “homosexual artifacts” as a Joan Crawford postrd).