Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robin is rather special himself. He is a cheerful, buttery fellow who is a hairdresser and, sure enough, a homosexual. He has his own problem: Should he come all the way out of the closet and parade at his favorite gay bar as Tallulah? Or Carol Channing? Or (sigh) Bette Davis? He is a dumpy man trying absurdly and wistfully to turn himself into a dumpy woman. Will thousands sneer...
When Anita Bryant's forces won in Dade County, Fla., downcast gays publicly fretted that violence would soon be coming. Violence seems to be coming, all right, but not from straights. Last month some 100 gay activists converged on a Manhattan bar where an ax was suspended from the wall with a wooden plaque beneath it labeled FAIRY SWATTER. The gays demanded that the plaque be axed-or else. It was. The next target was Attorney Adam Walinsky, a former aide to Robert Kennedy. Walinsky had written an article questioning a special law to protect homosexuals. About 50 gays...
...July 25]! Using such trivial examples to deal with a most important issue: equal rights. I suspect that the editors of TIME are simply uncomfortable with social changes already accomplished -especially those that are a result of affirmative action programs and the push for women's rights and gay rights...
...House of Dior chose his motifs from a nearer era-France's Belle Epoque. Inspired by the writings of Colette, his clothes are flirtatious and feminine. Here there are no robes that conceal the figure, no heavy padding-only effervescent clothes that capture the spirit of Gigi, the gay gamine immortalized by Maurice Chevalier's Thank Heaven for Little Girls...
...habit of employing pen, camera and oils to attract young men. The results could be artful sublimations-poems or paintings exalting saintly martyrs. But when he was candid, as in his "Ballade of Boys Bathing" ("Wondrous limbs ... lithe round arms"), the poet made his role as a gay Humbert Humbert painfully obvious...