The gay 90 s
No, not the "gay" you were thinking of , nor The '90s you were thinking of, for that matter. You see, back in the earlier half of the twentieth century, people became enamored with the s. It was where what we now recognize as "decade nostalgia" was born, and The Gay Nineties became a popular setting for films of the s, the s and, to a lesser degree, the s and s, by which time it was seen as that innocent age before World Wars and atomic bombs. If you lived in this time period, you were generally fortunate as long as you lived in wealthier countries of the world, as it was a time of relative peace see below. On the flip side, if you were born in this decade, you would most likely live long enough to see and probably be involved in the First World War , The Spanish Flu , The Great Depression , the rise of totalitarianism, wartime genocides, and the Second World War.




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Gay Nineties - Wikipedia
Maybe it happened aeons ago, when David Bowie ventured out for his very first purchase of eye shadow. Maybe it happened hundreds of times over the last decade, in ways just as important — and just as forgettable. In , the gay stream flows freely into the mainstream. Just look around — look everywhere. Gay characters are multiplying on screens big and small. The old-fashioned gay-baiting humor of Eddie Murphy and Andrew Dice Clay has been rendered obsolete by gay- friendly entertainment. On Frasier , the hero inadvertently asks a guy for a date.



Gay Nineties
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The Gay Nineties is an American nostalgic term and a periodization of the history of the United States referring to the decade of the s. It is known in the United Kingdom as the Naughty Nineties , and refers there to the decade of supposedly decadent art of Aubrey Beardsley , the witty plays and trial of Oscar Wilde , society scandals and the beginning of the suffragette movement. Despite the term, the decade was marked by an economic crisis, which greatly worsened when the Panic of set off a widespread economic depression in the United States that lasted until The term Gay Nineties itself began to be used in the s in the United States and is believed to have been created by the artist Richard V.

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