# All About...gay-iconic divas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-about-gay-iconic-divas/338152 "2006-01-03T00:05:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-about-gay-iconic-divas/338152/21 "2006-01-05T06:38:05Z")
Is Dusty Springfield still hip with the gay crowd? Because if she isn’t I have some friends who are seriously behind the times. mm ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-about-gay-iconic-divas/338152/22 "2006-01-05T06:43:04Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > The closest thing I see to something that almost all gay-icon divas have in common is a winkingly exaggerated femininity I’ll split off from your opinion at this point, with which I agree, but change what follows to this: gay-iconic divas’ exaggerated femininity changes them from regular people into characters who are way larger than life, into which someone who has damn few real role models in the world can immerse himself with abandon. It’s a way of throwing off the limitations of a life that may be less than fulfilling by becoming part of something else, something which has an essential \*fabulosity \* that won’t let you down. I hadn’t thought about it, but I haven’t felt inspired by any divas since I came out. I wonder if there’s a connection… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-about-gay-iconic-divas/338152.md?page=1)