We've tried to ignore it but The NY Times keeps doing it over and over. It's advertising its own electronic edition with an award-winning ( well, it should get one ) homoerotic picture: a bare-chested man sitting cross-legged with his laptop at the end of a pier in the North Woods. If this pic couldn't drag every closet case we know out, then George could divorce Laura and run off with his VP.
Have you noticed how gay roles are beginning be both starting and finishing jobs for actors? USA Weekend Magazine ( 4-29/5-1 ) reminds us Orlando Bloom's first movie part was as a 'rent-boy' ( prostitute ) in an Oscar Wilde bio ( didn't Russell Crowe do something like this? ) . At the other end of the line we have the 71-year-old Robert Goulet being the less frenetic half of the gay couple in the Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles. The NY Times ( 5/6 ) says he does a dignified job in the part. ( One could really be tacky and say Goulet started as Lancelot in Camelot in love with a queen and he's still in love with a queen in La Cage. )
Only slightly tongue-in-cheek, The NY Times ( 4/26 ) compared the Liberace Museum-in-a-shopping-mall to the King George III Museum in a clasical hall. Both collections were the property of men aware of the benefits of public display, both invoked past authorities to affirm them ( the King used Greek mythology and Liberace used 18th century royal costumes ) , both collections were into self celebration. ( Liberace of his self-invented vulgarity and George III celebrating 'his' British Empire. )
A letter to The NY Times ( 4/17 ) re its previous articles on 'Mandates', two straight men going out together: 'What do you call two straight men having dinner who worry so much about what they do, where they sit and what they order? Closet cases.'
OK—High Culcha! The NY Times Book Review ( 5/11 ) highlights: Quick Sands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford. A writer on food, wine and foreign travel, she also covered famous trials ( including Jack Ruby's ) . She had many woman lovers ( un-named in this review ) , escaped from the Nazis and knew so many languages that she basically picked English at random to write in. The book is supposed to be quite funny.
Those cultural wedding fantasies of 'tiered cakes and lilies' that inspire 6-year-old girls apparently gets to little lesbians too. The NY Times ( 5/8 ) has a long article on the whys and wherefores ( and 'I do's' ) of the many more lesbian couples who get married than gay male couples, even though male couples reportedly considerably out number female couples.