Was Van McCoy gay ?

[remicks]

Originally Posted by hutter

Guys, who cares who was or wasn't gay? I'd rather not know, since it's none of my @#$% business, or anyone elses.

gee, Hutter (and welcome to the board !! :D )
then why in the heck did you voluntarily come to this thread titled "Was Van McCoy gay ?" :-?

:P :P :P

:lol: :lol:

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[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by DISCODISK

ohhhh groan i cant believe youre still on this trip :roll: an old quinny never changes his spots :lol:
now mr quinny i know you are gonna kick off and accuse me of misquoting you,but didnt you once say at one of your spanish hot-spots you had a 60 percent gay audience :o i can remenber at the time thinking how did he work that out [unless you were counting all the fan queens coming through the door :lol: ] so tell us more about it [or kick off one or the other,this forum is not in its best period at the moment so a quinny 'kick off' at this time may do us all good :lol: :lol: ]

Er, you're seriously misquoting. What I possibly wrote was that in Marbella there was supposedly the largest (possibly only one of any size?) Gay community in Spain, that supposedly accounted for something like 5,000 out of a resident population of 35,000. In other words, read "the whole Gay population in Spain (in 1974/5) wasn't much more than a few thousand and they were nearly all in Marbella". To be absolutely honest, I only ever fleetingly came across any of them. They very much kept themselves to themselves.

Spain was still governed by Franco and secret police in 1974/5....very right wing...very anti-Gay. Spaniards themselves were incredibly macho and incredibly homophobic. To be called a maricon (queer) was just about the biggest insult you could call a guy. It would get the accused instantly het up and ready to fight, almost without exception. Faces would instantly go scarlet, drinks would be thrown etc, etc.

Back in the '70s and '80s, I never ever heard anyone called Gay, just because they liked Disco music.....only more recently, after all the Gay influenced stuff that's been written and given to the world as 100% fact (although 95% aspirational fiction). I may have lead a sheltered life, eh, but I don't think so?

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Er, you're seriously misquoting. What I possibly wrote was that in Marbella there was supposedly the largest (possibly only one of any size?) Gay community in Spain, that supposedly accounted for something like 5,000 out of a resident population of 35,000. In other words, read "the whole Gay population in Spain (in 1974/5) wasn't much more than a few thousand .
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oh i get it !:P franco went and millions of gays were born

[Disco Funk]

Did you hear about the recent threat to sue Clay Aiken by some of his fans for misrepresentation because he finally got outed? People have been joking about Aiken's sexuality for years. It's been no secret that most people knew he was gay. But now he was apparently caught in some gay chatroom, and his fans (probably ones with no lives) are claiming fraud. I don't know if its homophobia or just a bunch of shut-ins who thought they had a chance to marry Clay getting all bent out of shape, but it's nonsense like this that keeps gay people in the closet.

Disco Funk

[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by DISCODISK

oh i get it !:P franco went and millions of gays were born

DD: Franco was a fascist and ruled as a dictator. Need I say any more?

[Graham_Start]

I once read somewhere that under Franco's regime, the police went around arresting men who looked "gay". I don't know if that's true or not, but the point remains that it was very, very difficult to be openly gay in Spain during that time.