It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when
Joined: 12/31/69
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#1
Posted: 11/8/13 at 4:06pm
So says a "straight" conservative columnist in the Daily Caller:
Gays have become totally boring, this reporter has learned.
Although gay Americans were for decades popularly identified as daring, transgressive, flamboyant, colorful and sometimes menacing (though also intriguing) mavericks, self-styled advocates have managed to rebrand the gay community as a bland, tedious, grievance group eagerly seeking government approval....
Gayness used to be pretty awesome, according to alternative literature from the period 1954-78. Back in the day, gays were subversive adventurers, trolling the city streets at night on a lustful quest for experience and with an outlaw mentality not seen since the days of the Wild West. They were decadently-dressed sexual superheroes, daring Middle America to condemn them as they pranced their corseted, high-heeled bodies around to midnight screenings of great American movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Pink Flamingoes,” and “Mommy Dearest.” They had an ingrained creativity, a patented sense of irony. They had a brand. They had an identity....
The progressives hosed all of that activity down. The progressives have filled the back-alley glory holes with MoveOn.org petitions. They have condemned clubs named “The Toilet” and erected phone-banking operations for Media Matters. They have taken away your leather costumes and dressed you in Obama-Biden T-shirts. They have taken away your poppers and your molly and handed you $14 apple martinis."
I wonder what "alternative literature" He's been reading!
Patrick Howley
Updated On: 11/8/13 at 04:06 PM
Joined: 12/31/69
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#2
Posted: 11/8/13 at 4:09pm
And the new defense of sh!t-for-brains conservatives to say really really stupid things about gays? It USED to be "my best friend is gay!" but now it's "everyone THINKS I'm Gay":
" In fact, many people even assume that I am gay. Particularly women I’ve slept with.
Also old men. A lot of old men. I mean, seriously, if balding, beady-eyed middle-aged men in sweaters were hot chicks, I’d be Ashton Kutcher. I’m practically on the cover of their magazines. I can’t even walk around DuPont Circle on early autumn evenings or interact with male bank tellers without getting eyed down like a side of ribs. It’s not even flattering. I know why it happens. I only get it because I’m skinny and I look like I’d be a bottom. It’s demeaning, really."
Oh BITE me- back alley or main street you ignorant conservative ass.
Updated On: 11/8/13 at 04:09 PM
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#2
Posted: 11/8/13 at 4:31pmI don't understand his point about male bank tellers and bottoms?
Joined: 12/31/69
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#3
Posted: 11/8/13 at 5:07pmI've known clueless straight guys to assume that any guy in his right mind would be a top.
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#4
Posted: 11/8/13 at 5:53pm
I wish that were a piece for The Onion -- then it would be kinda brilliant. But from checking it out and his other pieces, it actually seems sincere. Wow.
But his rant did have a link to this commercial for Man's Country Baths which IS kinda awesome.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#5
Posted: 11/8/13 at 6:33pmShe ain't been to some of the parties I been to lately.
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#6
Posted: 11/8/13 at 6:51pm
I remember Man's Country.
Ah, yes, I remember it well...
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#7
Posted: 11/8/13 at 6:54pmI was going to say, I'm surprised you're not in the commercial!
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#8
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:11pm
"They have taken away your poppers and your molly"
What's molly?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#9
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:14pmStreet slang for LSD
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#10
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:17pm
Thanks. I was hoping it wasn't drug slang using the orphan names in Annie.
Gimme three Mollys, two Peppers, a Duffy and a July.
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#11
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:18pm
"Although gay Americans were for decades popularly identified as .....colorful and sometimes menacing (though also intriguing) mavericks"
I'm starting to think Sarah Palin may have been misunderstood all this time. She may have at least 2 dimensions after all.
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#12
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:24pmNot that it matters, but Molly is not street slang for LSD. It actually is the slang for pure MDMA but as of late it's pretty much been slang for all ecstasy and not just it's purest form.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#13
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:27pmYou're right. Not sure why I wrote LSD. I meant ecstasy.
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#14
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:41pmI was just about to write that. But people do combine "molly' with lsd for a bigger high
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#15
Posted: 11/8/13 at 7:51pmI have to be Rainbow High...
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#16
Posted: 11/8/13 at 8:37pmI'm waiting for the followup about how much more exciting blacks were during segregation.
Joined: 12/31/69
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#17
Posted: 11/9/13 at 11:04am
Exactly Eric. If I had to sum up this column the message was "I liked when gays were closeted, powerless and mostly a figure of fun. I hate now that they are visible and powerful."
It was much better to be gay in the alley way back when#18
Posted: 11/9/13 at 4:02pm
The issue isn't exclusive to gay men. Every minority group struggles with how much of its unique identity it will sacrifice in return for assimilation. (See all the Chicano literature of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly the plays of Luis Valdez. Very ambivalent about what is sacrificed when "Chicanos" become "Mexican-Americans" (terms from the literature of the period).)
I remember clearly that when I moved to NYC in 1977, many if not most gays took pride in challenging social norms, including marriage and especially monogamy. My partner (now husband) and I were told by more than a few friends that we "weren't really gay" because we have a monogamous relationship. (We figured that was our own business. We don't demand that anyone follow suit.)
AIDS may have had something to do with making promiscuity less attractive to some.
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