Sex and olr gay men (Chapter 6) - Sex and Diversy Later Life

Contents:

• OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
• I HAD A GAY OLD TIME
• WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?
• GAY OLD TIME
• GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
• THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
• 6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
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• GAY MEN AND AGG
• THE OLST GAYS HISTORY

OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”

This week, public outcry reached afeng levels as the classic ABC animated s The Fltston was lambasted for s perceived tolerance and sensivy towards homosexuals and their liftyl. “For over a half century now, The Fltston theme song has valierly touted that when you’re wh them you will have a ‘gay old time, '” CNN anchor Anrson Cooper said on the air Tuday. The flamboyant Snaggleps was cricized for beg “the worst sort of of gay pk mounta ln stereotype, ” while The Fltston sister show The Jetsons also me unr scty primarily for what was emed “a sad and disturbg portrayal of a 24th Century butch robot maid.

This is why we now ver the reports of gay suici every chance we get, stead of jt ignorg and buryg news reports of as we have for time immemorial. Tagged as Anrson Cooper, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, CNN, Fred Fltstone, Gay Teens, Homosexuals, tolerance, Judy Jetson, Penelope Pstop, Snaggleps, suici, The Fltston, The Jetsons, Wilma Fltstone, Yabba Dabba Doo.

I HAD A GAY OLD TIME

Moby-Dick: Some s may be tentnal, given the high gre of genue unadulterated homoeroti between Ishmael and Queequeg, and the fact that the sperm whale is so named bee s skull is full of a creamy whe substance and sailors are immature. In Alexanr Pope's translatn of The Iliad, Ven scrib Paris as lookg "Not like a warrr parted om the foe / But some gay dancer the public show. " In this se, the meang is neher the tradnal one (odd, strange) nor the morn one (homosexual) — "down Queer Street" was an exprsn meang "heavily bt".

) Unfished Tal of Númenor and Middle-earth has this doozy of a paragraph, which seems both to suggt that Bilbo is gay and to create some ncerng implitns ncerng Gandalf's motivatns:[Gandalf:] 'Somehow I had been attracted by Bilbo long before, as a child, and a young hobb: he had not que e of age when I had last seen him. The Raffl stori nta enough Homoerotic Subtext on their own, but the imprsn is fely furthered by Bunny's repeated referenc to himself as beg Raffl' "fag" while they were at school together.

This happens about 3 tim the urse of two pag the Mary Shelley novel Frankenste: We returned to our llege on Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancg, and every one we met appeared to be gay Alphonse Frankenste: What would be your surprise, my son, when you expect a happy and gay wele, to behold, on the ntrary, tears and wretchedns? Where a scholarship boy is forced to adm that, beg om a non-public school background he knows nothg of faggg (and is much rid for his ignorance), a teacher "kept cmplg the letters up and sendg them to the wastepaper basket, acpanied by many gnts, groans and ejaculatns" and, most perplexgly, a character is left far more 'light hearted and gay' after beg 'smacked the googli' wh a towel by another boy. ") A b the very first page mak Mary's mother sound like a Yaoi Fangirl or slash mother had been a great bety who red only to go to parti and ame herself wh gay people.

WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?

Atlas Shgged: The term gay is ed equently, cludg Hank Rearn proclaimg that “he liked to see people beg gay, even if he didn't unrstand this kd of enjoyment”.

GAY OLD TIME

" Ernt Hemgway's For Whom the Bell Tolls featur this ltle gem:Golz was gay and he had wanted him to be gay too before he left, but he hadn't the bt on, when you thought over, were gay.

" The 1933 novel Better Angel is about a young man g to terms wh his homosexualy — which if anythg mak funnier when you have thgs like Kurt's mother beg grateful that her son is "straight" (i.

" While obvly means that he's happy and a b shocked at his own luck, to a morn ear sounds like he's not sure how he feels bee he jt realized he's homosexual. On the other hand, the story was published 2012 — and today's average tween and young teen readg this book aimed for her mographic will likely be more faiar wh a different meang for the word "gay". Many exampl Letters to His Son (om the 18th century): "queer fellow"; "make love to the most impertent bety of ndn that you meet wh"; "gay nversatns", "timate nnectns" (as "Though the young Frenchmen of fashn may not be worth formg timate nnectns wh...

GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG

"), "be gay wh the gay", "You mt be gay wh all the bounds of cency and rpect", "he is one of the prettit fellows I have seen", "the fag end of a life", note "among the gay, I was the gayt" etc. "a promise that she had done gay excg thgs jt a while sce and that there were gay excg thgs hoverg the next hour" Jordan tells the story of how the young Daisy had her ltle love affair wh Gatsby and then missed her chance to say goodbye to him when he was shipped out. " Even better, the first time this is mentned volv s fashn district, the Flower had the Flowered Path, fashn center of the gayt world Space.

I turn and retrace my steps and e back to the wdg road past the hospal, where at night certa wards the gay stunt nurs dispensed a far more prec thg than pills to lucky boys the know...

Nowadays, of urse, "Leather Men" has a very different meang, which uld lead to people who jt read the blurb thkg that the book is homophobic.

THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN

Beez and Ramona (1955) scrib the girls' Aunt Beatrice as "so gay and unrstandg"; Ey's Runaway Imagatn (1961), Mama always says that yellow is her favore lor bee 's "so gay". Jam Thompson's lengthy pastoral poem "The Seasons", wrten 1726, ntas the followg le (a paraphrase of which also ma to Joseph Haydn's orator "The Seasons"):The sset hayck ris thick behd, orr gay.

Intentnal: Taken to extrem as a gag the Doctor Who novel Human Nature, which the Doctor's 26th century pann has a nversatn wh a woman om the 1910s who talks about her "g-out party", then "cisg" wh her mother who's "very gay". It is set 1895 but was wrten 2010, so when the thor has one character say to another "Y, this will be a much gayer hoe now you're on the mend", she knows exactly what she's dog... He particularly rents the implitn that the faculty are "sad old dus" who don't unrstand morn slang: "Far om beg unhappy, as you suggt, we are equently rather gay".

6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN

This kd of age is parodied Mabel Maney's Nancy Clue/Hardly Boys trilogy—all the ma characters will e the word "gay" to mean "happy", but they're all same-sex relatnships. The Onn: Our Dumb Century has a page of this scribg the 1906 San Francis fire: "EARTH-QUAKE MARKS LEAST GAY DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY — 'Queen cy on the Pacific' li s.

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) has a chapter on Homosexuals where Stephen Colbert explas that he's sayg "gay as happy" before he march to "gay as homosexual" terrory.

Referenced The Meang of Liff, wh "Arby Quernhow" beg fed as a person who is nstantly plag about the "loss" of the word "gay" om the English language, but who never actually ed the word the first place, except for makg this plat. A Southern Pacific Railroad 1937 documentary "Daylightg the Padr'" about s luxury passenger ler rolls around California, n be viewed here and has a part at 17:36 the vio where the announcer says, "Y, all this is San Francis, a gay metropolis of fashnable shops, fe hotels. Disney's Fun and Fancy Free wh l like Jimy Cricket's "Life is a song - happy, gay" and the lyrics "What a very merry day/All the world is gay.

" Fun Balloon Land: The narrator durg the 1965 Philalphia Thanksgivg Day Para the word "gay" to mean happy, and apparently has no other synonyms for bee she about 7 tim the 35 mute segment.

GAY MEN AND AGG

In Charlie Chapl's Morn Tim (1936) Tramp's girliend wr on his sleeve the lyrics of a song he's supposed to sg and starts as "A pretty girl and a gay old man flirted on the boulevard.

When the archaeologists fd that Imhotep went unwillgly to his ath and speculate he may have been executed for treason, one of them says "Maybe he got too gay wh the vtal virgs the temple. ") In the Danish film Operatn Lovebirds, Fre lls the gun Schmidt giv him a "bøsse", a Danish term for gun that is today almost exclively ed s other meang, a gay man. " This one is pecially amg once you know that the e of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual" origated theatril slang well before migrated to the mastream vernacular.

THE OLST GAYS HISTORY

Used The Nice Guys to unrsre Healy's view that kids know too much the days: a class of children watch a vio that scrib a towel as havg 'gay lors' and they all burst out lghg.

Your Highns vok this liberately after playg up a good b of Ho Yay between brothers Fab and Thao, when Fab asks his brother to "Stay here and be gay wh father and me!

So on a recent trip to New York, I jumped at the chance to stay at the Out NYC, Manhattan's new gay hotel, sce I realized might be my only opportuny to try out beg homosexual whout tryg the only part of the liftyle I'm not to, which is the sex part. I looked at the ad on the sk for the gay club attached to the hotel and asked exactly what was that mol Janice Dickson would be "performg" that night.