I have a copy of Newsweek from the '60s somewhere.
Visit Beirut, the gay capital of the sunny Mediterranean.
I have a copy of Newsweek from the '60s somewhere.
Visit Beirut, the gay capital of the sunny Mediterranean.
In the 1980s, that would have been funny for an entirely different reason.
Oh it was, that’s part of the reason I remember it.
Who can forget the classic episode Gutterballs where Fred and Barney’s bowling team decides to throw a BBQ party. Wackiness ensues when the Caterer leaves the BBQ Brontosaurus and accidentally brings a crate of lemons instead. Barney fixes the mix up by saying “Gee, Fred, don’t be so down about the BBQ party. We’ll just have a lemon party. It’ll be an old gay time”
I agree. I feel so bad that “we” claimed the word. Or was it given to us. I have no problem if the meaning goes back to “we’ll have a gay old time.”
But straight people please take back these words when you reclaim the word gay - faggot, sissy, pillow bitter, butt pirate, pervert, fem and every other derogatory term used to decribe homesexuals. I hear it almost every day on TV, the Internet, and people talking in a group the includes gays (most straights have lousy gaydar) and are offending the gay person in the group without knowing it.
I’d post a smily face because this thread was intended to be “in good fun.” But I’ll pick another face to close my post because I am just so sick and tired of heteros having just a (homophobic) little fun. :mad:
My take on the issue, flawed though it may be, is that a certain subset of the same-sex-attracted decided to claim a forgotten era in pop culture for their own because the rest of us, apparently, didn’t want any part of it. ICBW, YMMV, and all standard disclaimers apply, of course.
“What was wrong with pervert?”
Maybe they’re trying to tell us what the world has come to – that almost the only people who are fun, clever, or spread real joy in this work-and-consume world are those who have sworn off any thought of heterosexuality, a way of life that, one might argue, has been so totally co-opted by the market economy that there is no longer any way to find a fulfilling and autonomous life with anyone not a member of your own gender.
N.B. This is just a kind of worst-case scenario musing. I sure as hell hope I’m wrong, or I, too, am going to have to learn to liek teh cawk.
Yeah, like the kids won’t repurpose “blithe” given the chance.
Let’s just stick with “deviant,” okay?