Saturday, October 31, 2026

GAY FASHION MISFORTUNE.....OLLY, OLLY, OXEN..... 'GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD' REQUIRED, YOU FUDGE-PACKERS!

Around 1963, the English fashion trends arrived in America....via movies such as this one......Proof that gay men do not all possess 'good taste'......by 1969, dozens of boutiques opened around Atlanta, in the attempt to bring 'Fashion' to the South........This film, is really an homage to 'gay' fashion of this period......I was then working at Saks 5th Avenue, that was having nothing to do with this, although it did sell those hideous, snaggy double-knit polyester bell bottom trousers and Nik-Nikish, skin-tight nylon shirts......I opted for cotton carny clothes in more subdued color pallets, feeling sorta conservative while watching these Carnaby Street Fashion Films of the period.... Well, the gay community ridiculing itself was a step up from dark closets full of folks too terrified to express themselves...in public.....from fear of  torture and death..





HALLOWEEN EVE, 2026....I WATCHED A VINCENT PRICE BIO.... THEN 'THE FLY'....A RATHER INTELLECTUAL MOVIE THAT I FIRST VIEWED, WHEN I WAS 13, AT THE LYRIC.. OR THE GRAND.. THEATER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA

                                            WHICH, ALONG WITH COMICS OF THAT ERA,  INITIALIZED MY INTEREST IN TIME TRAVEL....TELEPORTATION AND 'FAR OUT' CONCEPTUAL SCIENCE.   




                                   

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

GEORGE NADER........FROM THE 'CLOSET FILES'.....WHO WAS 'BUTCHED UP' TO BE A 'REAL MAN' MOVIE STAR......

 

     like so many other gay, closeted actors of his Era......George lived his 'double live' for decades...then, after his 'heyday' as a Hollywooder, he wrote a gaydar-registering  sci-fi book,  CHROME,  in 1978... full of double entendres...a quarter of a century after his "B" movie appearance in the 1953 '3-D' Flick,  ROBOT MONSTER.........


I REMEMBER HIS 1955 MOVIE, 'THE SECOND GREATEST SEX'.... a Hollywood Cowboy Musical take on Aristophanes' play "LYSISTRATA"



EVEN THE TITLE OF THIS MOVIE IS A DOUBLE ENTENDRE, ISN'T IT?  
PULL UP THOSE BAGGY TROUSERS, GEORGIE, AND GET THOSE CHAPS ON!