<![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> @TiffanySkital?:

"When AIDS came along, it was the valiant and honest gay people who fought the stigma and cared for the dying, not the delusional disco vampires of 54..."

We must not be remembering the same AIDS epidemic.

During the one with which I'm familiar, there were no dependable predictors for who would or wouldn't behave valiantly or honestly.

I saw scared, closeted people who overcame or overlooked their fear and self-disgust in order to engage in public activism and care for complete strangers through illness and death.

I also saw strident advocates for gay rights who, when confronted with the realities of HIV/AIDS and unable to handle the messiness and sorrow, just sort of disappeared.

It was like any other war-type situation. Weak and brave people rose to the challenges. Weak and brave people went AWOL. Normally nice people proved utterly useless. Normally selfish and despicable people proved utterly selfless.

Some of those "delusional disco vampires of 54," by the way, discreetly wrote hefty checks when many people who had a lot more money than the delusional vampires ever had never bothered to contribute a dime.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> but who had a bike seat shoved comfortably up his anus?

ellagood

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> @TiffanySkital?: Yeowch. Word.

Lucia Toledo

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> @TiffanySkital?: He was (still is?) Republican. How much can you expect.

Gayyker

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> "Caaaaaaatra"--ohmyGod, memories ...

WackoJacko

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> Musto and Colacello are Banksy.

Don Is

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> Oh dear God, Bob Colacello's had more experience with pricks than a porcupine. Delightful that he's still playing coy and "contrarian" all these years- keep the ladies guessing! He's very symptomatic of the Warhol gays in the disco era- they considered being honest about being gay declassè, though many were champion cock-gobblers. When AIDS came along, it was the valiant and honest gay people who fought the stigma and cared for the dying, not the delusional disco vampires of 54. I'm actually way too young to have been at 54, but am an avid reader of social history. I've met Bob Colacello many times in the Hamptons (always at a gay party or event) and I can actually say he's a friendly and likeable guy, and I appreciate his story-telling of his Warhol years. I just find his coynesss about being gay at this point comical and sad. -Belvoir (auditioning)

TiffanySkital?

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> Both of them, too, like Janice, have an amusingly "former" vibe about them...

Lucia Toledo

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> @BeRightBack: Right? 'Cause she's an Aquarius. Richard never fact-checks.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> I knew this was Richard at "leonine." I promise never to confuse you with that "LOLCait" phony again.

BeRightBack

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> Was Janice Dickinson really the first supermodel? I mean I know she thinks she was. Maybe we need a reality show to decide this once and for all.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> Understandable. I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference either unless he had actually ridden his bicycle into Hiro Ballroom.

HeyThatsMyBike

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> This isn't appropos the post, but I just love it still:

[www.slate.com]

That said, I was a She-ra kind of boy. My dad? very proud.

MattGaymon

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> It doesn't surprise me that Janice is a member of the Evil Whored.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> "Hello, do you have Michael Musto in the can?"

Lizawithazee

]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Gayed]]> Haaaaa!

Gayyker

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