I remember at boarding school my headmaster encouraged me to watch ballet on the television, to get more cultured and (he hoped) win a scholarship to Oxford.
But he opined that it was male ballet-dancers who spoilt the whole thing, and if he had his way they would be banned.
it`s funny to think that people we saw as eccentric, odd and somehow flamboyant were, in actual fact, gay.
i saw the rock band queen many times in the seventies and it never once dawned on me to make judgement on freddie mercury`s sexual orientation. it is only since lisa minelli and the l.a. crowd have made a martyr of the man that it has made a difference.
nowadays the gays make a big deal of thier choice and demand that we applaud and consume thier lewdness as entertainment.
recently sean penn made a film about the first gay politician in america....a guess he saw it as the royal road to the academy awards.
i think two men skating around together trying to win an olympic medal is precisely what the p.c. crowd deserve.
Pish Alistair, you've started something here!
ReplyDeleteI remember at boarding school my headmaster encouraged me to watch ballet on the television, to get more cultured and (he hoped) win a scholarship to Oxford.
But he opined that it was male ballet-dancers who spoilt the whole thing, and if he had his way they would be banned.
He had a point.
why do you suppose he felt that way?
ReplyDeleteI expect he thought the male ones were all gay, but he wasn't prepared to admit such a thing existed.
ReplyDeleteThings were different before the Wolfenden Report & the change in the law. They were all in the closet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenden_report
ReplyDeleteit`s funny to think that people we saw as eccentric, odd and somehow flamboyant were, in actual fact, gay.
i saw the rock band queen many times in the seventies and it never once dawned on me to make judgement on freddie mercury`s sexual orientation. it is only since lisa minelli and the l.a. crowd have made a martyr of the man that it has made a difference.
nowadays the gays make a big deal of thier choice and demand that we applaud and consume thier lewdness as entertainment.
recently sean penn made a film about the first gay politician in america....a guess he saw it as the royal road to the academy awards.
i think two men skating around together trying to win an olympic medal is precisely what the p.c. crowd deserve.