Word: gay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easier to make it as a singer, however. She joined the chorus of Fiddler on the Roof and eventually moved up to play Tzeitel, Tevye's eldest daughter. When she left Fiddler, she did a cabaret act at the Improvisation club and, a short while later, at the gay Continental Baths. That is where the Divine Miss M, as she called herself, was born; the primarily homosexual audiences encouraged her free-spirited outrageousness. "They gave me the confidence to be tacky, cheesy, to take risks," she says. "They encouraged my spur-of-the-moment improvisations...
...united a diverse city after Moscone's death. But in the end, old-fashioned political organizing and the wooing of minorities turned out to be more important than issues. Feinstein's liberal record won her the support of blacks. She also got the strong backing of the gay community by promising to appoint homosexuals to city boards and commissions in proportion to their share of the population (estimated at about 15%). The tactic succeeded: fully 70% of the gay vote appears to have gone to Feinstein, making the election the first in a major American city...
Bent may be regarded as pro-gay in that it displays no social or moral qualms about anyone's being gay. But Playwright Sherman is not proselytizing. He wants to show us the brute cost of survival, the deep need and sustaining force of human affection in dire adversity and the taxing journey to the root core of one's identity. The play at Manhattan's New Apollo Theater achieves these ends, thanks in part to an arresting performance by Film Actor Gere (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Yanks). Even greater thanks are due David Dukes...
Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...
...film's most effective episodes, Midler draws upon her own experience as an aspiring singer in New York City's gay bars and baths. The rendition of Seger's "The Fire Down Below" with a group of oversized female impersonators shows a rare tolerance and warmth, the same elements so lacking in the lesbian scene...