The Gay Divorcee

Despite their largely growing success, Fred hit a roadblock when Adele announced that she would be marrying Lord Charles Cavendish. She never planned on basing a career on dance as much as Fred did so the pair inevitably split, leaving Fred alone to navigate a solo career (Carrick 41). His hard work and determination landed him highly successful roles in broadway shows such as The Gay Divorcee. However, Fred was looking to showcase his talent through a new medium. Therefore, he set after a career in film and almost immediately signed a contract with the highly reputable RKO film. While working on the film Flying Down to Rio, he was paired with none other than Ginger Rogers, ultimately beginning the partnership of the century. They went on to achieve world renown for their perfect combination of chemistry, star quality, and dance technique, dancing together in ten films and popularizing the growing style of tap. Ginger’s work ethic wonderfully complimented Fred’s desire for perfection in his work, and that is why they worked so well together because they knew exactly what it took to produce a respectable act. Allegedly, Fred…

Hollywood scene, the society already knows the concept of labels—of who is gay and who is not. However, the stereotyping of every character in the film as a gay person or not during the early times is very much boxed within the limited knowledge about gender and identity. Film critiques or even audiences were not as knowledgeable and critical at that time as compared to the modern critiques and audiences who observe film in almost all of the possible angles or lenses. With thorough analyzation…

Being a homosexual in the 21st century can be an emotional experience due to the lies that are said about them. By using satire, LZ Granderson in the TED Talk, “The Myth of the Gay Agenda,” presents humor, personal journey, and emotional connections, which creates a convincing argument towards the audience about love and respect. First of all, Granderson is a humorous person throughout his speech. LZ Granderson uses verbal irony to be humorous and stir up the audience in a positive and funny…

They then introduce four competing perspectives that they will test their data against (p. 1260-1262). The first perspective is that rural settings are harmful to gay and lesbian people compared to urban environments. The second perspective posits that rural settings are more beneficial. “According to this perspective,” they write, “rural residents are thought to be in better mental shape than their urban peers because they are less likely to be exposed to the stresses and strains of modern…

countless hate targeted towards this subject. In the 1990’s researchers at the University of Chicago established three criteria’s to be homosexual: 1. Sexual attraction to the same sex. 2. Sexual activity with one or more of the same sex 3. Identifying oneself as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Homophobia is the hatred or fear towards homosexual people. This global epidemic has impacted the lives of men all over the world. Heterosexual men wisely choose the jobs they do, the sports they play, the…

Alfred Hitchcock is well known for bringing queer characters into his films. He’s also well known for exposing those queer characters in a negative light, making them murderers, or simply reinforcing the thought of the time that gay persons had mental illnesses. Due to the laws at the time concerning cinema, directly having queer characters in your film was hard to do. Yet, Hitchcock made it possible by implying, through the use and manipulation of technical elements of cinematography, that the…

motivated by prejudice or intolerance towards an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. It has exacerbated in the past few years. Nevertheless, a person’s sexual orientation can contribute to a person being a target of brutality based upon lifestyle and choices. There are different types of savagery employed against a LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) individual or groups. Furthermore, it can have a huge…

(with exceptions, like any other law, of course), there rose a sentiment in families that a traditional heterosexual relationship must be had in order to continue to family line. And so, rose the idea of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, where instead of disclosing one’s true sexual orientation, in lieu of the legal and societal consequences for doing so, that person would instead not come out of the closet. Indeed, for millions of LGBT people, living a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” life is considered more…

Bersani focuses his essay to confront and “account for the murderous representations of homosexuals unleashed and ‘legitimized’ by AIDS,” resulting in him writing directly to the public to displace these false accounts (Bersani 221). This misrepresentation in the media brings a portrayal of the gay community as sexually deviant (Bersani 199). Seen in the exaggerated portrayal of promiscuity in gay bathhouses where gay men would participate in “the orgiastic behaviour of multiple partners, one…

Page 153 in Fun Home, Alison illustrates the situation that almost threw him out of the closet. Being caught with a young man and beer in his car. Now, that situation is not something you’d want to have over you. Bad enough that men of the gay community in the 1960’s were portrayed as older men who prey on young boys or pedophiles. In a 1960 propaganda titled “Boys Beware” produced by Sid Davis Production for the Inglewood Police Department, it was used to inform the public about these mentally…