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Flashback Friday: Harvey Fierstein Explains Homosexuality to Barbara Walters
And boy, did she have a lot to learn.
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|New York City|October 20,
"What's it like to be a homosexual?" Barbara Walters asked year-old Harvey Fierstein more than three decades ago. The question came during a 20/20 interview conducted in , the year Fierstein had two hit shows on Broadway: La Cage aux Folles and Torch Song Trilogy. Now, with Torch Song playing again in Recent York City after 34 years, Walters's questions look like relics of another era. Fierstein, for his part, responds to her stunners with patience and wit. So what is it like to be a homosexual? Check out the video below to find out how Fierstein responded.
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Barbara Walters was an star, a legend and a trailblazer. As a news writer she literally shattered the glass ceiling for women in the field. She never flinched when interviewing the most powerful people in the world, and she made news with her interviews. I’m humbled to say that she and I made news and LGBT history together back in
Up until that year, the pos Gay was never used on network TV. The word that was used was homosexual. We were not allowed self identify; we had to approve the terms given to us. The very rare times LGBT people were discussed on TV it wasn’t us, but psychiatrists, police, or religious leaders talking about us. If we were asked to be present it was only to defend what they said, not to speak for ourselves. On situation comedies we were mocked and stereotyped. We activists decided to clash back.
The number one morning show in (there were no cable TV networks) was The Today Business, and its news co-anchor was Barbara Walters. It was October 26th, I went to their studio. Here’s how I set it in my memoirs “And Then I Danced: Traveling the road to LGBT Equality”:
Today, we look at the unfortunate Barbara Walters/Ricky Martin interview where Walters pushed the singer too much to obtain him to own up publicly that he was gay.
Things That Turned Out Awful is a highlight where I spotlight ideas by writers that probably weren&#;t a good thought at the age and have only become more problematic in retrospect.
It&#;s funny, we praise journalists for asking hard-hitting questions, so I think it is reasonable enough that they sometimes get so caught up in that they don&#;t recognize that they&#;re hitting hard on questions they SHOULDN&#;T be hitting hard on.
The perfect example of that is the infamous interview by Barbara Walters with Ricky Martin where she asks him to dispel up the rumors out there that he was homosexual. He gave her a non-committal respond, and she didn&#;t stop there, choosing to go endorse in there and press him on it, essentially saying, &#;Clear up the rumors, just tell yes or no,&#; and he obviously wouldn&#;t, which, adequately, I mean, approach on, is a pretty big &#;Yes, I&#;m gay,&#; which was not something that you should feel pushed on revealing on
In actor Harvey Fierstein bravely shared what it means to be gay in prime-time TV interview
Generation X, those born between and , hold a unique place between Baby Boomers and Millennials. But its a previous generation that many are claiming to relate to even more: the Silent Generation.
In an online community of Gen Xers, a member named @bravenewwhorl joint with fellow Gen Xers about the similarities they share with the Silent Generation, those born between and "My parents were born before World War Two and my older siblings are younger boomers. Let’s hear it for the Silent Generation who were very much like us; went through the Depression, the war, took care of themselves and knew how to conserve resources," they wrote.
The user when on to add, "For example my mom scraped ALL the butter off the foil wrapper, and used every frying pan and leftover chicken bone as an opportunity to make soup."
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The post seemed to resonate with many Gen Xers, who also shared their thoughts and experiences that connect them to the Silent Genera