Joan Crawford et al...
Well, not only Ms. Crawford (Bankhead was a bisexual/lesbian)... I actually like anyone who has lesbian tendencies (and to clear things up, I don't like Bette Davis... she's too corny). Furthermore, almost all of the stars of "Old Hollywood" have been one way or another become "gay icons." They didn't ask for it, it just happened (a Crawford remark during the wake of the so-called Gay Liberation Movement: "What? What is it? I don't know, but what I do know is that it has nothing in it for me"). And, I don't really care much if someone makes that association.
However, why didn't you make the association with horror movies (because that's where the whole "camp icon" started, Crawford with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Bankhead with Die! Die! My Darling)? It sure does plain annoy me when people see Crawford's and Bankhead's name and instantly think, ah! Gay icon! In any case, if you want to read up on why they became gay icons, it's easy. Crawford and Bankhead were not your conventionally pretty girls (as in the case of Grace Kelly and her ilk), however, when they came out they always came out on top. And since gay men were oppressed, naturally they related to them (Dario Argento is NOT a gay icon but I like him)... Oh well about the Courtney Love swipe, I bet it bores everyone to death when they hear her name (Oh MY God, not her again. It seems to be that up until now she's riding high on the balls of her dead husband). Anyway... Mabuhay si Ms. Joan Crawford! Mabuhay! Mamatay ang mga ngongo (now, where the hell did that come from? oh, dear me...)! Mamatay! Pakyu, Pakyu, Pakyu (hindi ikaw, Ms. Bernice Carey, sila lang lahat) @*# Pakyu!
Well, not only Ms. Crawford (Bankhead was a bisexual/lesbian)... I actually like anyone who has lesbian tendencies (and to clear things up, I don't like Bette Davis... she's too corny). Furthermore, almost all of the stars of "Old Hollywood" have been one way or another become "gay icons." They didn't ask for it, it just happened (a Crawford remark during the wake of the so-called Gay Liberation Movement: "What? What is it? I don't know, but what I do know is that it has nothing in it for me"). And, I don't really care much if someone makes that association.
However, why didn't you make the association with horror movies (because that's where the whole "camp icon" started, Crawford with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Bankhead with Die! Die! My Darling)? It sure does plain annoy me when people see Crawford's and Bankhead's name and instantly think, ah! Gay icon! In any case, if you want to read up on why they became gay icons, it's easy. Crawford and Bankhead were not your conventionally pretty girls (as in the case of Grace Kelly and her ilk), however, when they came out they always came out on top. And since gay men were oppressed, naturally they related to them (Dario Argento is NOT a gay icon but I like him)... Oh well about the Courtney Love swipe, I bet it bores everyone to death when they hear her name (Oh MY God, not her again. It seems to be that up until now she's riding high on the balls of her dead husband). Anyway... Mabuhay si Ms. Joan Crawford! Mabuhay! Mamatay ang mga ngongo (now, where the hell did that come from? oh, dear me...)! Mamatay! Pakyu, Pakyu, Pakyu (hindi ikaw, Ms. Bernice Carey, sila lang lahat) @*# Pakyu!
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