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Securitate's Cruel and Unusual executions in Ottawa
Since participating at UC, ATS and Godlike, I am being murdered. At least black listed
by the surgical assault team, designed to control the flow of information.
"Skinned and mutilated" and told, to be torture murdered,
for hospitalizing a hostile hostage paranoid schizophrenic 25 yrs old
Garnished wage epitaph from the Securitate in Ottawa
paying no longer for parental enforcement
only paying for Abusive ex husband witch burning torture sessions.
Ceausescu's bro is a slave trader, and he himself
is a fake heart miracle.
My ex husband's brother sells slaves through Sgro in immigration,
my ex husband is a fake doctored Masters PhD, with which he calls himself doctor.
But I am being murdered because there is big $$$ in Ottawa, supporting Ceausescu's slave trade
and fake heart miracles. I have been dogpiled, mutilated and threatened, my children threatened,
and we wait to be murdered, and swallowed by WS's "snake that conceals the great mystery."
Media Moguls
Slave traders with whore/Madonna complex. "Retarded" graffiti intelligentsia, retarded to profiting on non negotiable familial shock zones
with coathanger revolutionary firewater colonization fervor.
*Retarded* Graffiti Fatwa
Anonymous Coward 517576 wrote:
Re: A STRONG WARNING TO Women, stay away from Ceausescu's "retarded" intelligentsia's new misogynist genocide in Ottawa.
Bring it on lil Illums...
Daddy gotta something for you.
11th. Son of Gaia.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 576727/pg3
Ceausescu's malepractice costa nostra, climaxing on killing some more Sgro bro C'ho tomorrow.
http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/bf/cod/ ... 8_kbr.html
Sgro bro from Cranzilla, Calaghan's dead peasant clause is
Cruel and Unusual Execution
Isn't it nice to know, Ceausescu's "retarded" intelligentsia, is selling
Visas and Passports, in Six Farsi names, to slave owners,
not only kidnapping and perjuring, while "retarded" Romanian Solomon urinates in court.
Hard to replicate Borat's miraculous kardiognoste, logical deduction, he makes them up.
The Securitate Detach of birth bond inflating, exterminating, Sgro bro "retarded whore"
kill climax club.
More complaints about Canada, than any other country...Of course, it is not every country which climbs into bed with organized crime as a human resource partner."
A candid canon connexxxion.
Monarch are Png's "retarded whores."
"The goal of the New World Order: "Normalize" Massive Child Trafficking through Psychological Warfare making it invisible"
http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2008_0 ... chive.html
Sgro bro's got the slaves and flurry of cowudder's idol, Png,
the psychological warfare.
Elevating Kanada to Png's Kanaanemi.
They put a hit on a female senator, to send the message out, of where to go
for a merciful execution. Stay Away From
Png's Kanaanemi slave traded torture, Kapital
markusmaximus wrote:It IS scientifically proven that deer DO communicate. Maybe they'd learn to stop eating the oats once a few are processed.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 623463/pg1
Png admires Ceausescu's Genocidal numbers. Global birth bond Epsilon, treasury.
Flurry of Cowudder is such a happy Neo Fascist devoted to his cause
of administering Ceausescu's pro pedophilia slave traded birth bond treasury,
That he is climaxing on killamanjaro, while conducting his genocidal inquiry
for the kleptocrat's mass media mind control interest. Cowudder's malepractice costa nostra are profiting.
Flurry of malepractice climaxing on killing some of Ceausescu's fiscal fatwa, is catapulting Cowudder's"Hicks in Hoboken" costa nostra of surgical rape and murder to
Ceausescu's Romania.
Daddy's got something for Securitate detach mercenaries. Flack jackets while trading pious slaves in Kanaanemi.
Daddy is cutting disability costs with mutilation. MK Ultra secret gardens, never compensated, like residential schoolyards.
Sgro allows "Criminal Reign of Terror", not only KBR.
Ceausescu's new "retarded" intelligentsia of "retarded graffiti vandals"
Martinette Canon's connection to Thinking XXX dogpile
circle of misogynist genocidal cannibalization.
Idi Amin dining with Hollandaise.
Ceausescu's lawyer has spawned another epidemic.
"Securitate ...wooden language the {Kanadian} regimes used to give a veneer of legitimacy to their most atrocious human rights violations."
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?t ... _id=109979
Ceausescu in Kwanada.
Ceausescu is Strughold's quickest death logos, heart miracle
hard to replicate Borat's results because he makes them up,
like his "retardation" contagions,
and social misogynist genocide divorce court
supplying Callaghan, with endless child women, dead peasants
to "skin and mutilate". X'mas all years in Ceausescpngu's Kanada, for
slave trading torture doctards.
Double bound thefts in slave traded security. Dieback Executioners, for a silent genocide. Silence will not "save the doomed poet."
"KBR allowed criminal reign of terror."
Volk witch brigade has the torture doctards in their pockets for Halliburton's slave trade through Sgro allies.
Broken LP's graffiti made png snort pinnacle forty years ago, still raping with clubfoot's MK Ultra vineyards,
while complete strangers point Freudian less fingers. Ceausescu hasn't lived in the same city for 25 years, since he fled his joint custody with no obligation to support when his only child was an infant
and polished his dramatized kapo halo 2000 miles away, from his Turkish refugee kamp closet, at his only child's expense.
Securitate's doctard death logos kapo's
hostile hostage psychotic paranoid schizophrenic hospital
hurting her on purpose - fees for the corporate Volk witch brigade
missing allen's train ride for "knuckle dragging maternal pedantry"
who needs oat eating infringements on copyrighting Ceausescu?!?!
markusmaximus wrote:It IS scientifically proven that deer DO communicate. Maybe they'd learn to stop eating the oats once a few are processed.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 623463/pg1
Rapeman is easy to offend, when the treasury needs over the counter date rape cocktail, birth bond inflating and exterminating.
Png's flurry of Freudian fingerless fingers, point at
banal hysteria, strangely queasy and violent.
Cowudderice's immodest proposals.
Sol Injun Invictus of MK Ultra's secret garden.
Logic and deconstruction escapes a kapo's oven,
As it does a witch's pyre.
Trial by Fire
God's holy fire, releases the millstone, when Grandfather calls the cows home.
"Retarded" Romanian Solomon, need only throw the right insults, or doctor some evidence, or C'avlovian titling, and the mothers of the infants they kidnap become "child molesters", for
every rapist, the child bride fistula, is a "whore."
80% of Sgro bro's kidnapped slaves, are kidnapped by someone they know.
missingallen wrote:And it deals with a more universal topic: How well do we really know those who are close to us, can we really understand what is going on in those who we seem to know so well?
Women, stay away from Kanada, the neo fascist kleptocracy has embraced
flurry of png idolatry wrote: Put as much effort into killing yourself, as you do, your literary malformations, so Ceausescu's costa nostra can climax.
Ceausescu's slave trading, pro pedophilia birth bond treasury's misogynist genocide's,
"retarded" intelligentsia's *Retarded* Graffiti.
Listen, even if Frankl had been a whore, and the Thinking XXX hyperbole wasn't only a ghost trophy
for Ceausescu's rapeman that didn't turn into full fledged psychosis
or dissociated suicidal shock zones,
Filthy *retard* dispensing psychopathic genocidal, slave trading, mass murderers
As Ceausescu's lawyers are in Isreal, receiving and extending generous social stipends.
or now that her children are grown, and she was almost murdered ten years ago
for being vulnerable with over the counter, date laced cocktail
so she never gets laid anymore without a pimp outside the door -
Mothers of "retarded" Romanian Solomon's kidnapped babies are the perjurer's "child molesters."
Which isn't true, but Ceausescu's Securitate can doctor that too.
Logical crime scenes don't make sense to birth bond inflation and expiration.
How would that justify the Cruel and Unusual Execution by Fatwa
to please a raging kapo?
A raping rapeman's echo?
Or genocidal slave trader?
Ceausescu's refugee "retarded" intelligentsia, engineered a misogynist mass murder.
Certainly it is an abuse of power - the execution that ignores
due process in favor
of perverted Munchausen's tortures.
Cowudder's choice of projecting the shame of mutilation
onto C'avlovian caged scapegoated child women.
Ceausescu's coat hanger revolution doctards only torture the army and the tax burdens.
Until they come for Pastor Neimholler's proletariat.
Or are they only murdering alcoholics? Broken LP's embarrassing knuckle dragging maternal pedantry.
Sewers filled with starving "Vagabond Gypsies"
Railroad baron firewater and opium colonization, amenities. Hitler's "Quickest Death Logos"
Not an *Irish Nigga*, *raped pious child bride*, *passportless filthy Sgro C'ho in a cage*, or *Injun* alive, hasn't internalized the shame of *Vagabond Gypsy* firewater colonization. Only Vlad the Impaler's best kapos thrived as Hitler's quickest @#%@ death logos.
Vlad the Impaler's demoralized social Darwinism. Collective kapo and slave double bind consensual psychosis.
Principle is a ditch digging drudgery in Ceausescu's sewer.
personanongrata wrote:
Borat wears a halo as the "retarded" survivor of the sewers his mother engineered for Ceausescu,
in Israel.
jrzygrl wrote: What is wrong with you? You look like an elf.
Those Sami are worse than *Injuns.*
They look about 12 yrs old.
Return them to Ceausescu's securitate for disposal, like those racist png did
that hysterical Stockholm syndrome, to Jeffrey Dahmer,
*naughty child*, over mature controller.
The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers report.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33588569/ns ... vironment/
The collective negative intent, the psy ops agents send is powerful beyond their wildest imaginations.
Not only thousands of generations of slaves who live lives more degraded than dogs, projected onto the graves of their collective shock zones.
Not only the Eastern bloc tyranny of paramilitary malepractice, that horrifies the Taliban.
Not only being shot in the head, by Sierra Leone's slave trader, allied with bro in Sgro.
"No great loss" Volk entitles corporate peacock. It's not like steroid addiction almost killed a rapist.
A malignant narcissistic celebrity, rewarded for his malevolent profits on illegal drug use by malepractice's idolatry of misogynist privilege.
Earnest Hemmingway didn't die on Killamanjaro, but that melting snow will kill a few climbers,
tomorrow, or next X'mas.
Don't Taze Me , Bro wrote:the sad poet is here, waiting for the "crazy chola".
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 576727/pg7
X'ed out for X'mas The "retarded" graffiti vandal's graffiti is reminiscent of grandfather's Noaddje inheritance.
Making multiples was not easy for Project Paperclip
but psychosis was as easy as a double bind theft in security for St Ch'atty's Angela's Ashes catharsis.
Personanongrata wrote: "Women are psychotic, men are ***holes." Groucho Marx
Climaxing on killing an alcoholic who committed suicide
with waves for Ceausescu's nefarious birth bond treasury.
Pious slave owners not in danger of mutilation, only oat eating raped teenagers.
Kleptocrat's Jihad of Ceausescu's birth bond global degradation.
killing Prince Uranus' child bride fistula, too graffiti vandalized
by familiarity's contempt to be in MK Ultra's Canon
of Sodom and Gomorrah, "excavated and disgorged" only mutilated and dispensed.
Racked for slummie's weekend.
How many women, has Ottawa's slurry of cowudderly torture doctards,
climaxed on killing with missing allen?
For Ceausescu's slave trading fake heart miracle?
This destruction of children and families makes perfect sense under Nazi Mind Control as those now in power were nearly all raised sexually repressed at childhood. Such is the Pandora's Box for which we are finding more and more institutional child abuse on a massive scale all leading to the top of government. With massive media control, this scheme becomes invisible to the rational minds of most Americans, though they are aware of its violation to them at the subconscious level.
http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... shing.html
Climax killing for X'mas Killamanjaro Fatwa
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/sto ... 33c9c67196
http://www.thinkingxxx.com/writers.php? ... eystrieber
http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/s ... tsd302.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNe ... 4N20090505
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waitin ... nnSTCVideo
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles ... nd-suicide
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/sto ... 33c9c67196
http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/bf/cod/ ... 8_kbr.html
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 623463/pg5
Blowing up a hospital might release some Black Tiger Gulch clones
but schizotypal dramatizations would require some actual dough.
Blowed up good, like that Buddha. Who the heck blows up sick people?
Cowudder's "congenitally vicious" mirrors? Slave traders obfuscating their sales of family?
Attempted murder of the infirm? A helot who needs chemo, ignored in Smith's jail cell?
Met his mother at the Irish Nigga's Slaughter house, twenty five years ago? Makes Lepine howl.
His mother was impressed with Arduous' hated feminists,
that is why Martinette Kanon says choswald must die a slow torturous death of mutilation
not indentured slavery imagination. "Progressive school girls are dangerous"
Not as salacious as broken LP's graffiti -- to go to school or be a phone jockey.
Detective Maxwell had asked, "What is with all the graffiti? An educated and employed alcoholic amenity for Hitler's quickest death logos?"
But frankl's hyperbole ghost trophy was the only way she was told, of broken LP's cottage industry,on clubfoot's childhood abuse issues.
That is because when a child is abused by by the eldest brother, who is then favored by their mother's denial of non negotiable shock zones. They take gender warfare hostile kapos hostage as does Ceausescu.
When a child is scapegoated by a relatively successful projection of internalized shame, the villagers are taught to tabula raza, same.
Png is a tabula raza kind of death kamp tunnel vision celebrated hostile hostage taking, victim. Poooor png, always snorted at by the Sgro Ch'os, Caeusescu's royalty fled.
Alcoholic dysfunction that is a climactic pinnacle to abuse addicted biological slavery, masquerading as moral.
Some golden cow, led them all astray, favoring clubfoot's MK Ultra vineyard. Non negotiable for an incorruptible first born.
More capable of making money, than a shock disordered scapegoated lost child, full of false bravada.
Kapo's don't need treatment for their scapegoat's hyperbole.
Useful to scattin Tom, or Lepine's median age disposal of trick or treat bad lieutenant party favors. Slummie's hidden coffee weekend.
Friends don't drink with friends, when they know it will kill them. Unless it firewater median age birth bond treasury colonization.
That cesspool is Laguz man's quickest death logos to firewater rape colonization. Birth bond inflation and hostile hostage witch burnings.
Recreational, Kanaanemi. No the degree was wasted on a child woman, the size of a 12 yrs old, broken LP's graffiti had already given her work.
A shock disorder from the time clubfoot transferred his MK ultra vineyard laced residential schoolyard, at 5 yrs old. Always the last to know. Ceausescu's "stew pot town idiot."
Arduous favored denial in dysfunction, projecting the internalized shame of Cowudder's rape surgery, like one of Lepine's habilitated kapos, demoralized by imparting Aristotelian matter to graffiti.
Arduous hated the feminists in the same way, message boards lit up with derision for the child that died of cyber psychosis.
Broken LP had already given her work with graffiti, raging misplaced identification with aggressors due to overheard remarks in Milton Friedman blurry shock zone of "retarded" vandals.
Barged in the door, overheard a tard talk asparagus to her mother, shocked with projections of Angela's Ashes internalized shame.
Scapegoated familial firewall, easier to gourm8ate than the mercurial displeasure that "anethiculled" the railroad baron's "knuckle dragging maternal pedantry."
Misogynist firewater colonization is Kanada's Martinette Canon.
Nations allergic to over the counter date rape cocktail, internalized shame of small pox blankets, vulnerable scapegoats.
Barged in the door and raged at her own mother no more, png offered a pinnacle from which to snort
at the replacement cadaver.
Forty years, they might have called, they prefer Ceausescu. Rabid graffiti vandals. Graffiti that paid better than ever entertaining amends, or an explanation.
Png strummed snorting puppetry at the graffiti vandalized 11 yrs old trying to learn some sport. Too clumsy, skin disordered, graffiti vandalized stew pot idiot, to be a team mascot. Most diligent survival of png snort.
People would rather rape Prince Uranus' child bride fistula, than stem the erroneous "retarded" graffiti, that makes it all possible.
Have a drink, so they can rape Pocahantas, and then come for "missing allen."
Now, broken LP wants two more for her garnished wage epitaph. Png snort is offering another snorting pinnacle pay off.
Profits must be large slave trading 11 yrs old replacements, to be broken LP's replacement graffiti vandalized scapegoats. Walt Disney is MK Utlra's playground.
Arduous had wanted a replacement hero, reminded her of Pity poop party goer, who never needed treatment for being degraded while "psycho."
paranoid schizophrenia must be the fault of one of Strughold's "refrigerators."
Garnished Wage Fatwa Epitaph
Because broken LP's of "retarded" graffiti's slummie amenity is an aging redundancy in
birth bond treasury. Ten years expired.
"Paranoid schizophrenia" is Ceausescu's "conspiracy c'ho"
Can never push Borat's cart, like the kidnapped infant who became a "juvenile delinquent" born of a "child molester."
Youthful Sami inheritance is Borat's "retardo".
Call for help 15 X's while psychotic, and even the handy man gets to climax
on killing some more sami child like Ch'o for Borat's Sgro bro, tomorrow.
Strange Png Idolatry in Kanaanemi.
The amoral Stallo delights in macabre acts of genital mutilation of his innocent victims. He pokes his staff up the skirts of young girls. On Christmas Eve, he rides around in his sleigh looking for something to drink.
Traditionally, the Saami drive a stake into the ground near a fresh water supply so Stallo can tie up his sled while having a refreshing gulp of water. If Stallo cannot find anything to drink, he will bash in a child's skull, sucking out the brains and blood to satiate his ravenous thirst.
Stallo's sleigh is not pulled by reindeer but by a pack of lemmings. Arctic lemmings (Lemmus lemmus) are common in Lapland and are detested by the Lapps, as they are known to have a nasty bite. In 1555, Olaus Magnus, the last Catholic Primate of Sweden (who was in the north selling indulgences to the sinful Swedes) recorded reports of lemmings raining from the sky over Lapland. He believed that the lemmings spontaneously generated in the clouds over Lapland as a punishment from God for the people's idolatrous ways.
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/ar ... _gods.html
#@#%$^&$#@# Superstitious peasants.
Ceausescu's new Securitate in Ottawa, is a neo fascist monstrosity.
Png wants to firewall raze Glebe's bastion of good and sandwiches, and good sandwiches, as well as the projects housing the poor, as he did Nicaragua's slum dwellers.
"The Panama Deception: Exposing the cover up."
Now realize, summa was correct, the reptilian infestation only tortures at the monster bins.
She needn't negotiate Pan's labyrinth, it's the end of the world for Kronos
a pity poop party that engulfs hell itself.
Ending in their climactic killamanjaro, suicidal impulse is behind every alcoholic relapse,
as was Ceausescu's fiscal policy,
Dead peasant clause
So as to protect the sanctity of invisible heart murmurs
as they never appear in "skinned and mutilated" "non disabled" MK Ultra vineyard throwaways.
The "disgorged solutions" of Martin's Canon.
Oat eating genocidal markers.
Ceausescu in Kwanada.
While the reptilians are climaxing on killing oat eaters for Ceausescu,
Lavinia will be white knuckling cowudder's turnpike
accused of Ceausescu's divorce court policy with
Canon's connection to Thinking XXX dogpile gobswaddle
post scrpts by graffiti vandals, "retarded" to tabula raza profits on the abuse addiction of biological slavery.
MonarchSmile wrote:It is called Greed..............there tell a joke a sick english one
Project Monarch was the torture of children. Strughold's "refrigerators", when they grow out of them.

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The classy and calm courtyard of the Regent Berlin´s device is all about the "orange" this year. Come in, relax and enjoy, escape from the hustle and bustle of Berlin´s busy streets. Orange trees line the courtyard and offer the right atmosphere for chilled champagne cocktails and light dishes. Strength and joie de vivre are synonymous with the color orange as are coziness and warmth. Inspired by the color orange our head Barkeeper has designed hot and cold specialties around the orange such as homemade orange-lemonade, orange-iced tea, or our summer drink "Long Basil Orange". For particularly hot days we highly recommend the punch "Alte Witwe Cliquot" with fresh berries, Île Four Yuzu and Champagne.
Refreshing, light and inspired by the orange are also the dishes and delights from our kitchen: delicacies like the homemade Saffron Salmon with orange vinaigrette, Veloute from Carrots with Orange-Sage-Croutons or Satay from Spring chicken with melted leek and orange sauce are being served. For the dessert and ice cream lovers our homemade specialties will sweeten any sunny afternoon.
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This recipe came to me from my cousin in Missouri. She calls it strawberry bread, but I prefer raspberry jam. I'm sure your favorite jam would do just as well.
1 cup margarine 1-1/2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon lemon extract 4 eggs 3 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup strawberry preserves 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Cream margarine, sugar and extracts. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Thoroughly blend dry ingredients in another bowl. Stir into egg mixture, alternately, with the preserves and sour cream. Fold in the pecans. Butter two 9x5-inch loaf pans, line with waxed paper, and butter again. Divide the batter between the two pans and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 50-60 minutes. Let cool in pan 10 minutes. Turn onto wire rack, remove paper, and cool completely.
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Gay icon
A gay icon is a public figure (historical or present) who is embraced by many within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Dykon, a portmanteau of the words "dyke" and "icon", has recently entered common lexicon to describe figures particularly iconic to lesbian people.
Some of the main qualities of a gay icon often include glamour, flamboyance, strength through adversity, and androgyny in presentation. Such icons can be of any sexual orientation or gender; if LGBT, they can be out or not. Although most gay icons have given their support to LGBT social movements, some have expressed opposition, advocating against a perceived "homosexual agenda".
Historical icons are typically elevated to such status because their sexual orientation remains a topic of debate among historians. Modern gay icons, who are predominantly female entertainers, commonly garner a large following within LGBT communities over the course of their careers. The majority of gay icons fall into one of two categories: they are either tragic, sometimes martyred figures, or prominent pop culture idols.
Historical examples[edit]
The earliest gay icon may have been Saint Sebastian,[1] a Christian saint and martyr, whose combination of strong and shirtless physique, symbolic arrow-pierced flesh and rapturous look of pain have intrigued artists, both gay and straight, for centuries and began the first explicitly gay cult in the nineteenth century.[1] Journalist Richard A. Kaye wrote, "Contemporary gay men have seen in Sebastian at once a stunning advertisement for homosexual desire (indeed, a homoerotic ideal), and a prototypical portrait of tortured closet case."[2]
Due to Saint Sebastian's status as gay icon, Tennessee Williams chose to use the saint's name for the martyred character Sebastian in his play, Suddenly, Last Summer.[3] The name was also used by Oscar Wilde–as Sebastian Melmoth–when in exile after his release from prison. Wilde, an Irish writer and poet, was about as "out of the closet" as was possible for the late 19th century, and is himself considered to be a gay icon.[4]
Marie Antoinette was an early lesbian icon. Rumors about her relationships with women circulated in pornographic detail by anti-royalist pamphlets before the French Revolution. In Victorian England, biographers who idealized the Ancien Régime made a point of denying the rumours, but at the same time romanticised Marie Antoinette's "sisterly" friendship with the Princesse de Lamballe as–in the words of an 1858 biography–one of the "rare and great loves that Providence unites in death."[5] By the end of the 19th century, she was a cult icon of "sapphism." Her execution, seen as tragic martyrdom, may have added to her appeal.[citation needed]
Allusions to her appearance were made in early 20th century lesbian literature–most notably Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness–where the gay playwright Jonathan Brockett describes Marie Antoinette and de Lamballe as "poor souls... sick to death of the subterfuge and pretenses."[6] She had crossover appeal as a gay icon, as well, at least for French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist Jean Genet, who was fascinated by her story. He included a reenactment of her execution in his 1947 play The Maids.[5]
Modern examples[edit]
Modern gay icons in entertainment include both film stars and musicians, most of whom have strong, distinctive personalities, and many of whom died young or under tragic circumstances. For example, Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas–who reached her peak in the 1950s–became a gay icon because the uniquely compelling qualities of her stage performances were allied to a tempestuous private life, a sequence of unhappy love affairs, and a lonely premature death in Paris after her voice had deserted her.
Lesbian icons, sometimes called "dykons" (a portmanteau of the words "dyke" and "icon") are most often powerful women who are, or are rumored to be, lesbian or bisexual.[7][8] However, a few male entertainers have also had iconic status for lesbian people. James Dean was an early lesbian icon who, along with Marlon Brando, influenced the butch look and self-image in the 1950s and after.[9][10][11][12] One critic has argued for Johnny Cash as a minor lesbian icon, attributing his appeal to "lesbian identification with troubled and suffering masculinity."[13] Science fiction author Forrest J Ackerman was dubbed an "honorary lesbian" for his help during the early days of lesbian rights organisation Daughters of Bilitis. He also wrote lesbian-themed fiction under the pseudonym Laurajean Ermayne.
Gay icons may be homosexual or heterosexual, out or in the closet, male or female. The women most commonly portrayed by drag queens are usually gay icons. The definition of what it means to be a "gay icon" has come under criticism in recent years for a lack of substance. Paul Flynn of The Guardian wrote, "The concept of gay icon is a cheap ticket...[and] the idea of gay iconography itself is currently replaceable with the idea of popularity and the ability to carry a strong, identifiable, signature look."[14] Author Michael Thomas Ford depicts a similar attitude in his work of fiction Last Summer.
Other cultures[edit]
Although the term "gay icon" is most commonly used in the United States, the concept is found in other cultures, as well. Dalida, an Egyptian singer of Italian origin, had a career-long gay following that extended out of Paris and well into the Middle East. In the years since her death, her iconic status has not diminished.[15][16] Filipino gay comedian Vice Ganda has also been considered a gay icon.
European countries[edit]
Similarly, in European countries like the Netherlands, Dutch singer and actress Willeke Alberti is widely embraced as a gay icon, due to a combination of her song repertoire, her durability, and her performances in support of manifold gay causes.[17] Spanish actress Carmen Maura, Italian singer Mina, Scottish pop singer Jimmy Somerville, German singer-songwriter Marianne Rosenberg and English singer Dusty Springfield are also considered gay icons,[18][19][20][21][22] as are French entertainer Mylène Farmer, Ukrainian boy band Kazaky, Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan and Italian actress Isabella Rossellini.[23][24][25][26]
Latin America[edit]
Latin American figures have also gained reputations as gay icons. Pop band Alaska y Dinarama is one example. Their single "¿A quién le importa?" ("Who Cares?"), which was later covered in 2002 by Thalía, was a hit for the 1980s Spanish band, becoming a gay anthem for the Spanish language-speaking LGBT community. Singer Gloria Trevi is considered a gay icon, especially after her release of "Todos Me Miran" ("They All Watch Me") featuring a rejected gay man turned drag queen, but had been popular with the gay and lesbian community in Mexico since the beginning of her career for being a controversial and powerful singer.[27] Mexican singer and actress Paulina Rubio has been a gay icon for Latin America after supporting gay marriage and publicly stating that she wants to have sex with fellow gay icon Madonna.[28]
Other modern Latin American gay icons include singers Alaska, Shakira, Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias.[29][30]
Some Argentine gay icons are actresses Isabel Sarli, Susana Giménez and Moria Casán, the trans woman Florencia de la V, First Lady Eva Perón and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.[31]
The 1930s saw a number of writers, political activists, and celebrities garner reputations as gay icons. Poet and satirical writer Dorothy Parker reportedly had a large gay following. Though the phrase "friend of Dorothy" was made popular in later years by Judy Garland's role in the The Wizard Of Oz (1939), some speculate it originated with Parker.
Actress Bette Davis' performance in Dark Victory (1939), was dubbed by queer theorist Eve Sedgwick as "the epistemology of the closet."[32] Davis' portrayal of the melodramatic Judith Traherne made her talent for playing someone with a secret revered and her "camp-worthy" dialog reflexive of the "flamboyant gay queen of the dramatic arts."[32] Ed Sikov, author of Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, wrote that 20th century gay men developed their own subculture following Davis' example.[32]
In Marcella Althaus-Reid's Liberation Theology and Sexuality, Marlene Dietrich, who is considered to be the first German-born actress to receive critical acclaim in Hollywood, is a model of liberation and subversion, as well as beauty, perfection and sensuality.[33][34] In Rio de Janeiro, Althaus-Reid discovered a statue of Dietrich dressed as Our Lady of Aparecida in a gay bar in Copacabana beach.[34] The image of Dietrich as the black Virgin Mary represents her overcoming duality.[34] According to Althaus-Reid, it is a figure that sanctifies Dietrich while simultaneously liberating Mary.[34]
Other icons from this time period include a string of entertainers including Cary Grant (who endured speculation over his alleged relationships with men), Josephine Baker, Carmen Miranda, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Tallulah Bankhead, Mae West, Édith Piaf, and Noël Coward.[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]
An archetypal gay icon is Judy Garland.[46] Michael Bronski, author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility, describes Garland as "the quintessential pre-Stonewall gay icon."[47] So revered is she as a gay icon that her best known film role, Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, became used as code among homosexuals in the 1950s.[48]
The expression, "Is he a friend of Dorothy?" was slang for, "Is he gay?"[48] The character Dorothy meets an odd group of friends during her journey through Oz—the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow—and so referring to an individual as a "friend of Dorothy" meant that they were "unusual or odd" and, therefore, "queer."[48] Though Garland has been noted for her embodiment of camp in her acting roles, Bronski argues that she was the "antithesis of camp" and "made a legend of her pain and oppression."[47] As Bronski observes, the bleak setting of 1950s Hollywood had replaced the "sauciness of the 30s and the independence of the 40s."[47] Garland, as well as Lana Turner and Susan Hayward, epitomized the idea that "suffering was the price of glamor...[and] the women stars of the 50s reflected the condition of many gay men: they suffered, beautifully".[47]
Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli would later follow in her mother's footsteps as a gay icon, as would fellow musical artist Barbra Streisand.[8][31] Joan Crawford has been described as the "ultimate gay icon — the martyr who suffered for her art and, therefore, enabled herself to bond with this all-important faction of her fanbase."[49] In Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography, author Lawrence J. Quirk explains that Crawford appealed to gay men because they sympathized with her struggle for success, in both the entertainment industry and in her personal life.[50] Though Crawford had been a notable film star during the 1930s and 1940s, according to David Bret, author of Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr, it was not until her 1953 film Torch Song that she was seen as a "complete gay icon, primarily because it was shot in color." Bret explains that seeing the actress' red hair, dark eyes and "Victory Red" lips linked her to "gaydom's other sirens: Dietrich, Garland, Bankhead, Piaf, and new recruits Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas."[49]
Actress Lucille Ball was also a prominent icon from this period. In Lee Tannen's book I Loved Lucy: My Friendship with Lucille Ball, the author describes his experience when he witnessed Lucille Ball being labeled a gay icon for the first time by a mutual friend.[51] Ball was told of the adoration she received from gay men, as a bar in West Hollywood was known for routinely playing episodes of her television series I Love Lucy every weekend.[51] In an interview with Out magazine, Tannen expressed his opinion that Ball's television character Lucy Ricardo was the true gay icon, because "Lucy Ricardo was the underdog who was always trying to prove herself, and I think many gay men can identify with that."[52] Other icons from this time included entertainers Natalie Wood, Liberace, Julie Andrews, Shirley Bassey, Debbie Reynolds, Barbara Cook, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Eartha Kitt, Clara Ward, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eve McVeagh and Edith Bouvier Beale.[8][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64]
During the late 1970s, many comediennes appeared, joining the ranks of what had stereotypically been a male profession, including Joan Rivers, who began appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Rivers gained a strong gay following after performing in Greenwich Village, a notoriously LGBT friendly area of New York, from the early days of her career. Rivers' frank and sharp use of wit and insults (largely turned towards herself) made her an instant gay icon. Rivers remains a gay icon to this day, often cited as "the hardest working woman in comedy" and "the queen of comedy."[65]
The first gay icon of the 1970s underground gay disco scene was the Queen of Disco Donna Summer, whose dance songs became anthems for the clubbing gay community.[35] Her number one single "Love to Love You Baby"—regarded as an "absolute disco epic"—not only became a gay anthem because of its "unabridged sexuality," but it also brought European-oriented disco to the United States and influenced the course the recording industry would take in the following years.[66] However, Summer became immersed in controversy when, after becoming a Born again Christian during the 1980s at the dawn of the HIV/AIDS crisis, she was reported as making homophobic remarks, including that "AIDS was God's punishment to homosexuals."[67] Her publicist later denied such statements. In a 1989 interview with The Advocate, Summer stated, "I don't look at people by their sexual orientation. I don't judge people because they are gay or straight. My love for people is based on my compassion as a person."[68] Fellow disco singer Gloria Gaynor was embraced by the gay community because of her single "I Will Survive", which served as an anthem for both feminists and the Gay Rights movement.[69] The Village People, a pioneering disco group, are also regarded as gay icons for bringing gay disco culture into the mainstream with their popular disco and dance hits.[70]
Actress Lynda Carter became a gay icon after starring as Wonder Woman in the 1975 series of the same name. Her role as the heroine attracted the LGBT community for her onscreen persona of female strength and fashionable outfits.[71] Carter is a vocal supporter of LGBT equality and has participated in the New York City Gay Pride Parade.[72]
Singer Cass Elliot became known as a gay icon, both during her solo career and as a member of The Mamas & the Papas. Her musical impact became known through her camp fashion and lyrics praising individuality (such as "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and "Different") and free love. Her music was later featured in the acclaimed gay film Beautiful Thing (1996), adapted from the play of the same name.
Singer and actress Bette Midler became recognized as a gay icon in the 1970s. After performing on Broadway, Midler began performing at the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in the city, where she became close to her piano accompanist Barry Manilow, who produced her first major album The Divine Miss M (1973)."Despite the way things turned out [with the AIDS crisis], I'm still proud of those days [singing at gay bathhouses]. I feel like I was at the forefront of the gay liberation movement, and I hope I did my part to help it move forward. So, I kind of wear the label of 'Bathhouse Betty' with pride," Middler reminisced in 1998.[73]
Artists particularly embraced by the gay community during the 1980s included Debbie Harry, Yoko Ono, Alaska, Diana Ross, Grace Jones, Charo, Elaine Paige, Amanda Lear, Dolly Parton, Mylène Farmer, Whitney Houston, Olivia Newton-John and Prince.[23][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83] Several Britons were seen as gay icons, including singers Freddie Mercury (of Queen), George Michael, Morrissey and Pet Shop Boys, Kate Bush, David Bowie and writer Quentin Crisp.[31][83] Elton John also became a gay icon during this decade, a status strengthened throughout the years.[53][84][85][86]
Hailed as the Goddess of Pop, Cher became notable in the gay community not only for her music, but for her portrayal of a lesbian in Silkwood (1983), for which she received an Academy Award nomination.[87] In later years, her daughter Chastity Bono came out as gay at the age of 17, much to her mother's initial feelings of "guilt, fear and pain".[87] When Cher was able to accept her daughter's sexual orientation, she realized that Chastity, as well as other LGBT people, "didn't have the same rights as everyone else, [and she] thought that was unfair".[88] Cher emerged not only as an icon among LGBT people, but also as a role model for straight parents who have gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children.[87] She became the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention.[87][88] Cher's longevity in the music industry has often been credited to her gay following.[89] William J. Mann, author of Gay Pride: A Celebration of All Things Gay and Lesbian, comments "[w]e'll be dancing to a 90-year-old Cher when we're 60. Just watch".[89]
"Madonna subverts everything for her own gain. I went to see her London show and it was all so dour and humourless. She surpasses even Joan Crawford in terms of megalomania. Which in itself makes her a kind of dark, gay icon ... I love Kylie, she's the anti-Madonna. Self-knowledge is a truly beautiful thing and Kylie knows herself inside out. She is what she is and there is no attempt to make quasi-intellectual statements to substantiate it. She is the gay shorthand for joy."
Continuing into the 1980s, pop music singer Madonna—dubbed "Queen of Pop" and "Queen of Dance" by the media, and later the "World's Most Successful Female Recording Artist" by Guinness World Records—became the preeminent gay icon of the late 20th century.[91][92][93] The Advocates Steve Gdula commented "[b]ack in the 1980s and even the early 1990s, the release of a new Madonna video or single was akin to a national holiday, at least among her gay fans."[93] Gdula also stated that during this period, concurrent with the rise of the AIDS epidemic, "when other artists tried to distance themselves from the very audience that helped their stars to rise, Madonna only turned the light back on her gay fans and made it burn all the brighter."[93]
Georges Claude Guilbert, author of Madonna As Postmodern Myth: How One Star's Self-Construction Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream, writes that Madonna's reverence as a gay icon is equated with that of Judy Garland, noting similarities between the two popular culture icons.[94] Guilbert writes that gay icons "usually belong to one or the other of two types of female stars: either the very vulnerable or suicidal star, or the strong idol whom nobody or nothing resists, like Madonna."[94] According to Madonna: An Intimate Biography, the pop star has always been aware that her most loyal fans were gay men, has appeared in gay-oriented magazines as an activist for gay rights, and was even named in the book The Gay 100 as one of the most influential gay people in history.[95]
Other superstar recording artists, including Cyndi Lauper, followed.[96] Lauper and Madonna were seen as trailblazers of women's sexual liberation.[97] Lauper's debut album She's So Unusual (1983) generated a large following of fans responding to the "gay-friendly camp and lesbian-friendly womyn power epitomized in [her] femme anthem 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun'."[98] Lauper explained that growing up during the 1960s influenced her dedication to fair and equal treatment of all people, noting that the music of the 1960s "helped to open the world's point of view to change."[99] According to Lauper "It wasn't until my sister came out in the early '70s that I became more aware of the bigoted slurs and the violence against a community of people...who were gay."[99] Lauper has since become an active gay rights activist, often encouraging LGBT people and their allies to vote for equal rights.[99] Political activism for LGBT rights was the theme of Lauper's annual True Colors Tour.
In the mid- to late-1980s, Oprah Winfrey emerged as an icon for the gay community with an intimate confessional communication style that altered the cultural landscape. According to the book Freaks Talk Back by Yale sociologist Joshua Gamson, the tabloid talk show genre popularized by Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue, did more to make gay people mainstream and socially acceptable than any other development of the 20th century by providing decades of high-impact media visibility for sexual nonconformists.[100][101]
Fellow gay icon Ellen DeGeneres cast Winfrey to play the therapist she comes out of the closet to on the controversial episode of her Ellen sitcom. Though Winfrey abandoned her tabloid talk show format in the mid-1990s as the genre became flooded by more extreme clones like Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer, she continued to broadcast shows that were perceived as gay-friendly. Her show Oprah's Big Give was the first reality TV show with an openly gay host Nate Berkus. Her own show has been nominated several times for GLAAD Media Awards, and another in 2010 for an interview with Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi,[102] winning one in 2007[103][104] Oprah Winfrey also co-produced the Oscar-winning film Precious (2009), which was honored by GLAAD for portraying a lesbian couple as heroines.[105] Winfrey's iconic status among gay males has entered the popular culture. One of the stars of the reality TV show The Benefactor was a gay African American man named Kevin who was so obsessed with Winfrey that he would ask "What would Oprah do?" before making any strategic decision. Adam Lambert is another high profile gay man who has described himself as a fan of Winfrey.[106] Other icons from this decade include the cast of The Golden Girls, Joan Collins, Annie Lennox, Siouxsie Sioux, Tori Amos, Tina Arena, Harvey Fierstein and Stevie Nicks.[8][53][107][108][109][110][111][112][113]
Janet Jackson, who twice was established as one of the highest-paid recording artists in the history of contemporary music during the 1990s, became a gay icon after she released her sixth studio album The Velvet Rope (1997).[114][115][116] The album was honored by the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum and received the award for Outstanding Music Album at the 9th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in 1998 for its songs that dealt with sexual orientation and homophobia.[117] On April 26, 2008, she received the Vanguard Award—a media award from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation—to honor her work in the entertainment industry in promoting equality for LGBT people.[117] GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano commented, "Ms. Jackson has a tremendous following inside the LGBT community and out, and having her stand with us against the defamation that LGBT people still face in our country is extremely significant."[117] Her sister, La Toya Jackson, is also regarded as a gay icon.[118]
Kylie Minogue reinvented herself musically in the first decade of the 21st century and found herself faced with a renewed and increasing gay fanbase.[119][120][121] Minogue said, "My gay audience has been with me from the beginning ... they kind of adopted me."[120] Minogue first became aware of her gay audience in 1988, when several drag queens performed to her music at a Sydney pub, and she later saw a similar show in Melbourne. Minogue felt "very touched" to have such an "appreciative crowd," and this encouraged her to perform at gay venues throughout the world, as well as headlining Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the largest gay pride festival in the world. Minogue has one of the largest gay followings in the world.[119] Her sister, Dannii Minogue, also has a large gay following and has been regarded a gay icon.[122]
Irish actress and television presenter Carrie Crowley, best known abroad for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, has also been cited as a gay icon.[123]
As a result of her role playing Karen Walker on Will & Grace, Megan Mullally emerged as a gay icon.[124] One commentator wrote that the show "won the actress an impressive gay following, both with men and women, who want to be her and with her."[124]
The television series Sex and the City was popular among gay men and spawned gay icons Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall.[53][125]
Christina Aguilera is widely regarded a gay icon, a status that came to prominence following the release of the song "Beautiful," which instantly became a gay anthem and was recognized as "the most empowering song for lesbian, gay and bisexual people of the decade."[126] The accompanying video featured people who can feel ostracised from society, including a same-sex couple and a transgender woman. Aguilera also was honored with the very first spot on The Abbey's Gay Walk of Fame for her contributions to gay culture, re-enforcing the title of gay icon she earned a decade ago with her anthem "Beautiful".[127][128][129]
Popular singers including Lady Gaga, Brendon Urie, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Florence Welch, Alison Goldfrapp, Natalie Horler, Marina And The Diamonds, Ayumi Hamasaki, Girls' Generation, Alexandra Stan, Dev, Cher Lloyd, Neon Hitch, Leona Lewis, Ashely Tisdale, Zendaya, Hayley Williams,Eric Haarer, Inna, 4Minute, Kerli, Little Boots, Elly Jackson, Oh Land, Carrie Underwood, Kate Bush, Adele, Beyoncé, Lily Allen, Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Bella Thorne, Janet Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Cheryl Cole, Peaches, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, P!nk, Jennifer Hudson, Róisín Murphy, Sheryl Crow, Amy Winehouse, MIKA, Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Macklemore, Robyn, and many others, are major gay icons of current times.[35][130][131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138][139][140][141][142][143][144][144]
In Brazil, pop singers Kelly Key, Sandy, Lorena Simpson, Preta Gil, and Wanessa are considered gay icons.[145][146][147] In 2012, Key was honored with the "Pink Triangle Award," a Brazilian LGBT award, considered the "Gay Oscar".[148]
Many famous actors have been celebrated as gay icons, including Nicole Kidman, Jessica Alba, Kim Kardashian, Lauren Conrad, Megan Fox, Emily Blunt, Tina Fey, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kathy Griffin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Lucy Lawless, Johnny Knoxville, Ashton Kutcher, Ben Affleck, Sofia Vergara, Chris Evans, Zac Efron, Jessica Lange, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Mo'Nique, Ellen Pompeo, Chloë Sevigny, Mink Stole, Channing Tatum, and many others.[149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164] Meryl Streep became a gay icon after portraying Miranda Priestly in the film The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Glee actors Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss and Naya Rivera are also considered gay icons.[165][166][167] Comedians Howard Stern, Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin also have gay followings.[168]
Various LGBT celebrities have been considered gay icons after becoming open about their sexual orientation as media professionals and public figures, including Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Lance Bass, RuPaul, Adam Lambert, Neil Patrick Harris, Ricky Martin, Portia de Rossi, k.d. lang, Rosie O'Donnell, T.R. Knight, MIKA, Rob Halford, Jessie J, Fergie, Nicki Minaj, Aubrey O'Day, Megan Fox, Nelly Furtado, P!nk, Ladyhawke, Frank Ocean, Diamond Rings, Jeffree Star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, George Takei, and Rufus Wainwright.[8][31][53][86][169][170][171][172][173]
Martina Navratilova,[8] Billie Jean King, Greg Louganis, Ben Cohen,[174][175] David Beckham, Gareth Thomas, Johnny Weir, Cristiano Ronaldo,[176] Robbie Rogers and Jason Collins are considered gay icons within the sports industry.[177]
In the political arena, gay icons are represented by, among others, Princess Diana,[178] Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge,[179] George Moscone,[180] Coretta Scott King,[181] Abraham Lincoln,[182] Winnie Mandela,[183] Hillary Clinton,[184] Eva Perón,[185] Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,[186] Imelda Marcos and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the world's first openly lesbian head of government of the modern era.[187][188] Roger Casement, an Irish civil rights activist, became a gay icon of the early 20th century.[189] Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King was held in high regard among members of the gay community for her involvement in the Gay Rights Movement.[181] During her lifetime, she routinely equated the goals of the Civil Rights Movement, led by her husband Martin Luther King Jr., with the that of LGBT activism.[181]
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice... But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'... I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.[181]
—Coretta Scott King, Metro Weekly
San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to office in the U.S. and spearheaded the defeat of statewide anti-gay ballot measure Proposition 6 in California in 1978. While he and Moscone were assassinated shortly thereafter, both became viewed as martyrs for gay rights. Milk's image as a positive role model led to him becoming the namesake for the first high school designed primarily for gay teenagers, the Harvey Milk High School, in the East Village of New York City.[190] The portrayal of those efforts in the critically acclaimed film Milk earned Sean Penn an Oscar and comparisons to the contemporary battle over the anti-gay ballot initiative Proposition 8 raging in California at the time of the film's release in 2008.[191]
While most of these individuals have been lionized for their strength, style, compassion, and/or work for equal rights, an ironic icon is Anita Bryant, who worked to oppose homosexuality.[192] During the 1970s, Bryant led a national campaign, "Save Our Children", which conflated homosexuality and child molestation and insisted that, because homosexuals cannot reproduce, they must "recruit" or "convert" people to their lifestyle.[193] California State Senator John V. Briggs applauded Bryant's work as a "national, religious crusade [and] courageous stand to protect American children from blatant homosexuality".[193] However, as Bruce C. Steele of The Advocate wrote, Bryant's crusade against the Gay Rights Movement made her synonymous with it.
About 10 years ago, I was at an American Booksellers Association convention where Bryant was ... still pissing and moaning about how the homosexuals had destroyed her career as spokesperson for Florida orange juice. The irony is, it wasn't the orange juice boycott that caused her to lose her job; it was the fact that she made herself forever associated with homosexuality. So, in one way, she was a victim of homophobia herself: Folks on the orange board didn't want people to think about queers when they bought orange juice."[192]
—as told to Bruce C. Steele, The Advocate
According to John Coppola, exhibit curator and former head of exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, "In a completely unintended way, Anita Bryant was about the best thing to happen to the gay rights movement ... She and her cohorts were so over the top that it just completely galvanized the gay rights movement".[194] The 30th anniversary of Bryant's campaign against LGBT rights has been commemorated at the Stonewall Library & Archives, with executive director Jack Rutland dubbing her "The Mother of Gay Rights".[194]
Fictional examples[edit]
Various fictional characters have been regarded as gay icons, including cartoon figures. Bugs Bunny, a fictional anthropomorphic rabbit appearing in animation by Warner Bros. Cartoons during the Golden Age of American animation—dubbed the greatest cartoon character of all time by TV Guide—has been declared a "queer cultural icon [and] parodic diva" due to his "cross-dressing antics" and camp appeal.[195][196][197] Cartoon characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star have become gay icons due to their sometimes double entendre dialogues in their TV cartoon show. Winnie the Pooh has affinity in the gay atmosphere and has gained admiration. The most common reason for this affiliation is the almost complete exclusion of female characters (the only female character, Kanga, is a kind, motherly figure on the story), and the male friendships are kind, caring, emotionally deep, tolerant, supportive, and inclusive.[citation needed]
Some comic book characters are considered gay icons. Homosexual interpretations of Batman and the original Robin, Dick Grayson, have been of interest in cultural and academic study, due primarily to psychologist Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent (1954).[198] In the mid-1950s, Wertham led a national campaign against comic books, convincing Americans that they were responsible for corrupting children and encouraging them to engage in acts of sex and violence.[198] In relation to Batman and Robin, Wertham asserted "the Batman type of story helps to fixate homoerotic tendencies by suggesting the form of an adolescent-with-adult or Ganymede-Zeus type of love-relationship".[199]
In Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America, authors Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes point out that homosexual interpretations of Batman and Robin existed prior to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent.[200] Wertham claimed his book was, in fact, prompted by the earlier research of a California psychiatrist.[200] The relationship between Batman and arch villain the Joker has also been interpreted by many as homoerotic. Frank Miller, author of The Dark Knight Returns, has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a "homophobic nightmare," and views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crime fighting, concluding, "He'd be much healthier if he were gay."[201]
One TV series that appeals most to LGBT culture is the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. Aside from the campy characterizations, it contained three gay cast members (Dick Sargent, Paul Lynde and–allegedly–Agnes Morehead). Star Elizabeth Montgomery and Sargent were grand marshals of a Los Angeles gay pride parade in the early 1990s. Other examples of TV series appealing to LGBT culture are the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in which Willow Rosenberg came out and began a lesbian relationship), Xena: Warrior Princess and Bianca Montgomery of All My Children.[202]
Many celebrities have responded positively to being regarded as gay icons, several noting the loyalty of their gay fans. Eartha Kitt and Cher credited gay fans with keeping them going at times when their careers had faltered.[203] Kylie Minogue has acknowledged the perception of herself as a gay icon and has performed at such events as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Asked to explain the reason for her large gay fanbase, Minogue replied, "It's always difficult for me to give the definitive answer because I don't have it. My gay audience has been with me from the beginning ... they kind of adopted me." She noted that she differed from many gay icons who were seen as tragic figures, with the comment, "I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits. I think that makes up for it!"[204]
Tammy Faye Messner (ex-wife of fellow controversial televangelist Jim Bakker and mother of pastor Jay Bakker), who benevolently has been referred to as "the ultimate drag queen,"[205] said in her last interview with Larry King that, "When I went — when we lost everything, it was the gay people that came to my rescue, and I will always love them for that."[206]
Others have been more ambivalent. Mae West, a gay icon from the early days of her career, supported gay rights but bristled when her performance style was referred to as camp.[207]
Madonna has acknowledged and embraced her gay following throughout her career, even making several references to the gay community in her songs or performances, and performed at several gay clubs. She has declared in interviews that some of her best friends are gay and that she adores gay people and refers to herself as "the biggest gay icon of all times."[208] She also has been quoted in television interviews in the early 1990s as declaring the "big problem in America at the time was homophobia."
Turkish electronic pop singer Hande Yener describes her relationship with her gay audience as "there is a strong bond between us."[209] She says that she tries new styles in her career and her stand against prejudice is best understood by gay audiences. She admits that she often goes to gay clubs.[210] Yener starred as herself, a gay icon in a gay-themed movie Kraliçe Fabrikada.[211] She is one of the few Turkish singers who will perform in a gay club,[212] and has participated in the Istanbul Pride march and demonstration in 2009.[213]
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