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Where did it come from? Gay trivia!
TJ:
I have a rainbow striped baseball cap, a lapel pin cross with a rainbow on it and a set of "rooster"drop-style earrings with the feathers in the colors of the rainbow and I bought all of that at Christian Bookstore.
It was related to a "De Colores" program to be used in certain Prostestant churches for use at the elementary school level to teach about accepting people from different ethnic backgrounds and people with different skin colors. I had gone in the bookstore just to see what they had to offer.
Lots of people thought the cap was a "gay" hat. One time I went with my friend, Bill, to a buffet-type Pizza place here in Tulsa and I was wearing the rainbow cap.
The drink refills were self-service all-you-can-drink and because I had to walk a ways around to get there from our table, on the way back to the table, I noticed two teenagers, a boy and a girl were following me. When I turned just before I sat down at the table with Bill, the girl said, "I will give you 5 dollars for that cap!"
I told her that it was not for sale and besides, I gave 12 dollars for it. I did tell them where they could find one just like it though.
kudzudaddy:
As to the term "Gay"... before it attached to homosexuals, it referred to "loose" ladies... or "women of easy virtue." i.e., gay ladies... And since the most visible homosexuals in the early days... (I'm talking late-Victorian here.) were cross-dressers, I think there may have been a simple extrapolation.
As for "Importance of Being Earnest," it is rife with "gay" references. The term "Bunburying" was code for "cruising" One address mentioned in the play was the actual address of his pal Robbie Ross ("the notorious "boy snatcher")... it goes on and on...
BUT... at the same time... it is still one of the funniest plays in the English language. It's success is and has been phenomenal. And there is nothing else quite like it in all of dramatic. Singular and sui generis. It follows no rules of comedy but the ones Wilde invents and tosses aside as he goes.
I'm besotted with Wilde, studied him intensely for 3 years, read every biography, every word he wrote, etc., etc., I tend to go off in a Pavlovian fashion when his name comes up so if I rattle on too much, just nudge me gently.
On the other hand... if there's anything you'd like to know about him and his work, I'm your man.
--Kudz
isabelle:
--- Quote from: kudzudaddy on May 11, 2006, 11:51:49 pm --- if I rattle on too much, just nudge me gently.
--Kudz
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Hi Kudz,
I had great pleasure reading your posts over on IMDb, and very glad to find you here, so welcome (I changed my handle from milena-covic, if that rings any bell) :)
Back to the topic:
Homosexuality was struck off the list of mental illnesses by the World Health Organization only in 1990.
DecaturTxCowboy:
--- Quote from: isabelle on May 12, 2006, 07:16:09 am ---Homosexuality was struck off the list of mental illnesses by the World Health Organization only in 1990.[/color]
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And in 1973 by the American Psychiatric Association.
And in your dreams by the current administration.
isabelle:
--- Quote from: DecaturTxCowboy on May 12, 2006, 11:36:57 am ---And in 1973 by the American Psychiatric Association.
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1992 only, here (France)
As for your (American, I guess?) administration, when's your next election, if you're not ready for a revolution? ;)
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